The grant is part of the Small Business Innovation Research, or SBIR, a program from the U.S. Department of Education, which is a highly competitive program that awards grants to domestic small businesses to fund commercial education technology R&D that has the potential for significant societal impact. This grant will support the technological development of our new augmented reality-based STEM education tool NEWTON-AR.

Ames, IA, May 2017 – Parametric Studio Inc. has been awarded a US Department of Education Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) for $900,000 through the Dept. of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES). This prestigious highly competitive (less than 10% of businesses are awarded) grant has been awarded to Parametric Studio Inc. to conduct research and development (R&D) work on engineering-centric and project-based STEM games, software, kits and curricula for elementary and middle school math, science, and integrated STEM classrooms.

We are excited to announce that Parametric Studio Inc. has received a prestigious Phase I SBIR award from the Dept. of Education to develop a game based engineering-centric STEM education environment featuring…