Two Screens for Teachers raises support as founders seek $23M to supply 250,000 pandemic-strained educators; teen Avi Schiffmann built a widely used COVID-19 tracker
A roundup of positive tech, science, and education stories from 2020 highlights initiatives that helped during the pandemic, including Two Screens for Teachers providing monitors to school districts and a high school student, Avi Schiffmann, building a widely used COVID-19 tracker.
Walk Score Cofounders Matt Lerner and Mike Mathieu Launch Two Screens for Teachers to Deliver 250,000 Monitors to K-12 Educators
Seattle startup veterans Matt Lerner and Mike Mathieu launched Two Screens for Teachers to provide K-12 public school instructors with secondary monitors to ease remote teaching strain. The volunteer team built an automated donor-teacher matching site, addresses cable compatibility, and seeks donors to reach a goal of delivering 250,000 monitors.
Seattle 2.0 Names Finalists From Nearly 7,000 Nominations; Public Voting Open Through May 11 — Winners Revealed May 19
Seattle 2.0 announced finalists for its annual Seattle tech startup awards after nearly 7,000 nominations across 11 categories, opening public voting through May 11 and scheduling the awards event for May 19 with keynote Jonathan Sposato.
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Matt Lerner Executive Coaching Executive Coach 2019–present · current
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Front Seat Entrepreneur in Residence 2021–2025 · past
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Two Screens for Teachers Founder 2020–2021, Co-founder 2021 · past
Education
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Brown University Undergraduate / Masters, Computer Science · 1993–1998
