Dream It, Pitch It, Build It

Share and Mentor This Student Pitch Competition, Free Workshops, Insights (and Vote For Us!)

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Carl Morris
June 04, 2025

We help educators teach, learn and earn.

Share + Win.

Empower Future Founders:

Join Student Pitch Competition

Phase 1 is open until June 30th. Students submit bold ideas to solve real problems.
You can champion them and win prizes and get paid mentorship roles.

Help your students build. Grow your own impact.

  • 🌱 Empower students to grow + showcase ingenuity

  • 🥳 Get paid to mentor

  • ✅ Free workshops + access to tools

  • 🏅 Win prizes and earn £ for referring students

  • 🏦 Earn from startup school referrals

  • 😎 Vote for the best AI/tech solutions for teaching and learning

Students Get:

  • 🎁 Early bird submissions get free 1:1 educator mentor calls

  • 🏆 Funding, scholarships (even 1 year free tuition!), real-world experience & mentorship

  • 🚀 Learn to build and grow at 6-week Summer Startup School

The Journey

  1. Dream It (June 1st - June 30th - OPEN NOW!): Students submit their idea (video, doc, or presentation) to solve a real-world problem.

  2. Pitch It (Starts June 30th): Develop the venture in our Summer Startup School & pitch to investors!

  3. Build It (Starts Sept 30th): Top pitches get funding & support to make their idea a reality!

➡️ More Details & Student Submissions here

Co-Founder Insight:

Master Stakeholder Communication in Education

I wrote this article to help foster understanding in education/edtech as an educator, parent, and edtech founder.

It’s a deep dive into how building effective education companies and tutoring practices means mastering four distinct "languages": the unique communication styles that resonate with students, parents, educators, and investors.

Read the full article for strategies & insights ➡️ here

TLDR: understand the unique needs of parents (trust, reassurance), students (authenticity, agency), and fellow educators (impact, practicality).

Research + Free Stuff

Workshops, Content & Community

For Tutors, By Tutors: TTA’s National Awards

We’re grateful to be shortlisted in the Professional Services for Tuition category at this year’s The Tutors’ Association National Tutoring Awards! TTA are the Non-Profit Professional Body for Tutoring.

If our work helping educators do what they do best resonates with you, give us a vote in the People’s Choice category. It would mean a lot to get a vote or two.

Voting Closes: Sunday, June 15th, 2025!

Want More Students and Less Admin?

To show our appreciation for the nomination and give something back, join FREE online 1:1 workshops with access to grading tools, tutoring roles, resources, and templates to help you enjoy teaching more students and save time doing it. If you’re an educator or agency owner, this is a chance to get expert advice from a team that have been there and done it!

Tuition agency owners, reply AUDIT for a free brand growth audit with actionable insights, templates and systems to help you reach more students, plus save time + £££

Dream It

Get involved with Dream It for chances to win whilst empowering students to apply their knowledge. Love what we're doing? Why not sponsor one of our prize drops, apply to be a mentor or fund the grand prize?

No 4th of July Plans?

Join us at the Royal Lancaster Hotel for The Tutors’ Association’s National Tutoring Awards in London on July 4th. 

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Find students. Save time. Teach more.

Access and build teaching tools that actually help educators and learners.

🏛️ UNICEF on Community-Centred Sandboxes: We’re building a community with this approach and want you to be part of it. Sandboxes are ‘inclusive, accountable spaces where regulators, tech developers, educators, families and children can come together to co-create and test solutions’ as ‘active contributors to the design and governance of tools.’

👀 Cornell University researchers say educators should be more involved in development of AI learning tools. Reply YES to get involved and earn from product development research.

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Until next time,

For Educators. For Learners. For Founders.

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