Our courses guide adolescents to create & share meaningful projects — and to prepare for fulfilling careers.
We’re closing the opportunity gap of access to courses that prepare K12 learners for fulfilling 21st century careers.
We partner with schools and learning centers to offer project-based learning experiences that build college and career readiness.
Check out our current course offerings HERE.
MeshEd curriculum fosters authentic research and presentation skills, digital literacy, collaborative problem solving, and robust project management.
Learn more about how our innovative curriculum and professional development services help schools prepare students to thrive in college and beyond.
Together, our team brings over 250 years of successful work in schools and learning design organizations.
Curriculum Demo
All of our courses are designed to be implemented in 10-12 sessions, with 45-90 minutes per session.
Our innovative curriculum for grades 4-12 is designed to connect classroom learning to creative, next-generation careers in digital story telling, community action planning, video game design, sustainable fashion, climate action, and green architecture and urban planning.
View our curriculum demo here.
Student Voice & Projects
Learn about student experience in our Action Lab courses and explore their final projects.
MeshEd News
MeshEd Summer Innovation Lab at CREC
MeshEd is honored to have won a generous summer enrichment grant from the Connecticut State Department of Education to host our middle school Summer Innovation Lab at three learning sites in the greater Hartford area.
Our program is free for middle school students, who engage in culturally responsive academic enrichment in the morning with the Lavinia RISE Summer Learning program and creative career exploration in the afternoon with MeshEd Action Labs. Afternoon programming is enhanced by group social/emotional (SEL) activities such as sports, arts activities, and visits from local guest experts celebrated for their work in entrepreneurship, coding, fashion design, and new media journalism. Each Friday includes special “Fun Friday” activities such as collaborative arts, athletic games, open project work time, chess, and more!
The Summer Innovation Lab runs for four weeks (July 8 to August 2) from 9 am to 3 pm at three Capitol Region Education Council (CREC) schools: CREC Academy of Aerospace and Engineering, the CREC Ana Grace Academy of the Arts, and CREC Academy of Science and Innovation.
AI + Education Symposium
On September 30th, 2023, MeshEd convened an AI + Education symposium with 200 educators, students, ed-tech designers, policy makers, and impact-oriented ed-tech investors. The event featured a series of curated demos of AI learning products spanning early childhood to adult learning. Together, we explored the merits and risks of deploying AI in the classroom.
This event was free and generously supported by our partnerships with Betaworks, the Emerson Collective, and XQ Institute. We gathered this group in order to break down some of the silos between ed-tech product developers, educators, policy makers, and students.
Our goal was to spark curiosity, encourage creative thought, and build an engaged community to positively influence the integration of AI into our educational systems—and then to publish our findings on several open source platforms.
We’re thrilled to announce that the Formal Wiki and Recap is now live and accessible to everyone. Click here to view.
Thought Leadership:
Fall 2023 School Partnerships
MeshEd is happy to announce our Fall 2023 school partnerships! We continue to expand our collaboration with Middletown CT Public Schools with summer and after school programs at Beman Middle School, Middletown High School, and the 21st Century STEAM Camp—all supported by AccelerateCT innovation grants from the CT State Department of Education .
In Brooklyn, we're pleased to continue to pilot new Action Lab courses at Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and the Dock Street School of STEAM Exploration—gathering feedback in realtime on our curriculum and digital learning tools from our middle school students and instructors.
Teamwork makes the dreamwork!
MeshEd Enrichment Programs
Spring Break Climate Action Camp!
MeshEd partners with school and learners centers partners to offer a week of STEAM enrichment exploration with a focus on Climate Action during school spring breaks. Climate change requires global action and local solutions. Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals and current events, this camp will investigate environmental policy history and new trends.
Our Spring Break Climate Action Labs explore sustainable initiatives and case studies. We host visits from climate action experts. For their culminating projects, students design and plan local climate action projects that create measurable change in their communities.
Click on the link below to find out more!
CT Summer 2021 Action Labs
In early August, we offered four in-person Labs for ages 16-18 in Middletown CT:
• Climate Action Lab
• Democracy Action Lab
• Art of the Interview
• Sustainable Fashion Lab
These Labs prepared students for college applications and for dynamic careers in creative, socially just, and environmentally friendly fields of work.
Zoom Webinar: Friday, December 18, 2020
MeshEd partnered with the Charter School Growth Fund to produce the first in a series of Zoom webinars on “New Trends in College Admissions: 2021 & Beyond.”
MeshEd Founder & CEO Betsey Schmidt moderated a panel discussion with college admissions experts and recent first-generation college graduates. We explored recent shifts and disruptions to the college admissions process as a result of the growth of the test-optional movement and the pandemic.
