Chairman Mr. Gary Pickholz Given Prestigious Award for Edutech Endeavours
Oxford (UK), 28 February 2022 – Amity University, India, has awarded Chairman of WSL Gary Pickholz with the prestigious Amity Global Excellence Award for our work in emerging markets STEM EduTech innovation:
‘We acknowledge Mr. Gary Pickholz for creating space for edutech tools aimed to integrate, spread and make education impactful across the borders. We appreciate his efforts for showing a magnanimous way that technology, education, virtue, happiness and meaning in life are related not merely in theory, but is possible also in the practices too within the existing business format. A true leader by heart & an icon for Happiness Edutech-Leaders to learn from, he is a true source of inspiration and we salute his relentless service that is actualizing the Happiness Edutech dream Globally through Weird Science Lab, Oxford which has committed itself to build Well-being for nation, society and all stakeholders.’
About Weird Science Lab
Weird Science Lab (WSL) is a University of Oxford EduTech spinout, with the mandate to free the 21st-century intellectual property of major universities from the 15th-century shackles of the Gutenberg printing press. WSL focuses on providing third-generation Virtual and Augmented Reality tools to revolutionise the traditional STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) curriculum for secondary and higher education in both the developed and emerging regions. To achieve this, WSL partners with businesses, educational institutions, and other stakeholders to adapt existing commercial VR and AR technologies to the educational needs of today’s students. The company also has research and development facilities at Harvard/MIT.
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