Smiling Mind

Smiling Mind is a web and app-based meditation program for young people. It has been developed by a team of psychologists and uses mindfulness to boost calmness, contentment, and clarity. Mindfulness meditation helps manage stress, resilience, anxiety, depression, and improve general health and wellbeing.

Learn about research involving Smiling Mind here.

Khan Academy Kids

Khan Academy Kids

Khan Academy is an educational organization with the goal of creating a set of online tools that help educate students. Khan Academy is on a mission to provide free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Khan Academy Kids is an adaptive educational game for children ages 2-8. Through these fun and interactive games, children can succeed in many educational topics, such as math, reading, and writing, as well as social-emotional learning. Recent research supports that Khan Academy Kids can boost pre-literacy skills.

Joyful learning starts here!

Duolingo

Duolingo is the most popular language-learning platform and the most downloaded education app in the world, with more than 300 million users. The company’s mission is to make education free, fun, and accessible to all. Duolingo is designed like a game and is scientifically proven to be very effective. Learning with Duolingo is fun and addictive.

Accupedo

Your Daily Walking Buddy!

Accupedo is an accurate pedometer app that monitors your daily walking on the home screen of your phone. Intelligent 3D motion recognition algorithms are embedded to track only walking patterns by filtering and ejecting out non-walking activities. Accupedo counts your steps regardless of where you put your phone, like your pocket, waist belt, or bag. Be healthy by setting up your daily goal and accurately monitoring your steps with Accupedo.

Enjoy walking with Accupedo towards a healthier you!

movr

movr

Every body is different, so why treat them all the same? movr focuses on self-assessments to give you a personalized approach to exercise in just a few steps:

1. You do a movement assessment in the movr app.

2. You get daily movements that can be done in just 5 minutes.

3. movr’s science-based exercise prescription helps improve your strength and flexibility.

Feel better in your body, every single day!

Prodigy

Prodigy is a free, adaptive math game that integrates common-core math (grades 1-8) into a fantasy-style game that students love playing. Prodigy is designed to engage students using adaptive technology to cater to each individual. The app’s personalized approach identifies gaps in students’ understanding and works with them by pulling them back to prerequisite skills and then scaffolding them forward through more difficult concepts. And as a web-based game, Prodigy can be accessed at school and at home on virtually any device.

MentorHub is partnering with the Prodigy: Kids Math Game app to provide our mentees with access to grades 1-8 math content through this fun and educational game that is backed by research.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy

Khan Academy is an educational organization with the goal of creating a set of online tools that help educate students. Khan Academy is on a mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Their interactive practice problems, articles, and videos help students succeed in math, biology, chemistry, physics, history, economics, finance, grammar, and many other topics.  It provides teachers with data on how their students are doing so they can identify gaps in learning and provide tailored instruction.

Khan Academy is backed by research.

 

HeadSpace

Headspace is a global leader in mindfulness and meditation through its app and online content offerings. We believe that mindfulness should encompass every aspect of life, not just when you’re sitting to meditate. We offer inspiration, guidance, and support to living a mindful life in the pursuit of improving the health and happiness of the world.

Headspace is backed by research.

SuperBetter

SuperBetter is a scientifically supported app that gamifies life—it’s designed to help users build resilience, strength, and motivation in the context of a variety of challenges (e.g., depression, stress, anxiety, healing from physical injury, recover from post-traumatic stress, finding a new job, grieving a loss, dealing with an academic/job setback, finishing a project, pursuing a goal, adopting a habit, improving a skill, etc.).

SuperBetter is backed by research.