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Trusted by educators nationwide. Kai XR builds the skills needed (#AI Literacy | #CS | #STEM | Career Exploration) for the fastest-growing careers.

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This morning I joined Fredricka Newton, community leaders, and the incredible students of Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary in West Oakland to serve free breakfast in honor of the Black Panther Party’s 60th anniversary.

In January 1969, the Party started the Free Breakfast for School Children Program right here in Oakland to fight childhood hunger and support education and health. Back then, I was a student at Mills College raising my two young sons and volunteering at the Party’s Community Learning Center. That experience taught me what public service really means. You show up, you listen, and you do the work.

To our MLK Jr. elementary students: this rich history belongs to you. You are Oakland's future.

Thank you Principal Dr. Groves, Councilmember Carroll Fife, Superintendent Denise Saddler, Pastor Zach Carey, Muralist Refa one, our Oakland firefighters, and Kai XR for supporting today's free breakfast. And to our Black Panther Party elders: happy 60th anniversary. Thank you for showing us what people can do when they come together to love their community.

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The Joan Ganz Cooney Center is proud to announce that four inspiring partners are joining the Sandbox for Literacy Innovations, bringing together researchers, developers, and families to rethink how literacy tools are designed - with children’s voices and experiences at the center. By fostering these cross-sector partnerships, we’re working to spark real change in early learning. Welcome to the Sandbox, @explorekaixr, @medleylearning, @seesawlearning, and @playtoogs! Meet our new partners and learn about the Sandbox at 🔗 in bio.

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Today, @oaklandtechweek continued as we brought founders, investors, and community members from across The Town together at Raimondi Field, home of the @oakland.ballers, for Founder's Day!

Thank you to our speakers for sharing their perspectives on early-stage investment in Oakland and building #ResponsibleAI:

Paul Freedman, Oakland Ballers
Dr. Freada Kapor Klein, Kapor Center
Councilmember Carroll Fife, City of Oakland
Lyndsey Boucherle, Better Ventures
Cristy Johnston Limon, City of Oakland
Michelle Dhansinghani Limón, VC Unleashed

A special shoutout to the founders who took the field to pitch: PosterChild.ai, Campground, Kai XR, Vori, Voter Match, and Vurvo.

Today reminded us that #Oakland's tech future is built on community. We look forward to continuing to invest in the founders and ideas shaping it.

📸 🎥 @oscardelasol @byfranciscoa @tokuvisuals @rgt.mixtapes @ernzperez

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Oakland Tech Week has been AMAZING to say the least — and the week isn’t even over.

Huge shoutout to Oakland, @oaklandtechweek and everyone creating spaces for founders, creatives, innovators, and businesses to connect, learn, and grow.

Special thanks to @stak.space @kaporfoundation @explorekaixr @oakland.ballers @paulmfreedman @thetownexperience @ica.fund Ms. Idem and Mr. Lewis for all the gems, conversations, and connections throughout the week.

And a huge thank you to Kai 🫶🏾 — definitely one of the highlights for us.

We’re leaving every room with new ideas, new relationships, and even more motivation as we continue building Vital Moss right here in Oakland.

Still more to come.

#OaklandTechWeek #OaklandBusiness #TheVitalMoss #OaklandEntrepreneurs #BuiltInOakland

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What a day. On June 27, more than 20,000 people filled Lake Merritt for the 7th annual LakeFest Oakland, and our young people led Genius City, a hands-on technology space built for the whole community. Families piloted robots, made music, built with AI, competed in youth-made games, and took on real design challenges, all guided by Geniuses who learned this work and are now teaching it.

We design our programs with Black youth at the center, and the whole community benefits. Saturday was proof: kids of every background creating side by side.

Thank you to our sponsors, our partner organizations, and the @lakefestoakland team for trusting us to bring Genius City to life. This one was for the people, by the people.

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The next great EdTech company probably won’t come from a boardroom.

It might come from a teacher who is tired.
A student who feels underestimated.
or even an educator who knows exactly what is missing because they live it every day.

That’s why I built @ExploreKaiXR.

I’m often asked why I gave up everything I owned to build this company.
🏡 My house.
🚙 My car.
🧳 & whatever left I could sell have funding to start building Kai XR.

If you’ve been to my classroom, the answer was obvious.
The EdTech tools that made it to my classroom were rarely built with my students in mind.

My classroom wasn’t well resourced.
We didn’t have great WiFi.
We barely had access to laptops.

But what hurt my heart the most...
The tools weren’t inspiring my students to learn more, read more, explore more, or even think about their futures.

🫤 It kinda feels like we’re right back in that place as my timeline is flooded with EdTech conversations about what isn’t working.

I’ve never been one to sit idle in challenges, so I built.
... & I did so with no tech background. It was clear, no help was coming & I was tired of my students paying the price.

Years later, Kai XR is doing exactly what it set out to do.
🚀 Students are exploring careers they didn’t know existed.
🚀 Classrooms with limited resources are still getting access to future-ready learning.
🚀 And kids are getting to see themselves as builders of what comes next.

I believe in our students & they deserve every opportunity to dream big! ♥️

Teachers, what will you build next?

#teachersofinstagram #teachersofig #EdTech #edtechteachers #startup

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What happens when philanthropic infrastructure and entrepreneurial ingenuity actually find each other? This panel gets into it at Guardian Summit.

Camelback Fellows + CTIA Catalyst Award winners Dr. Tiffany Green (Founder, Uprooted Academy) and Kai Frazier (Founder, Kai XR) join Dori Kreiger (Executive Director, CTIA Wireless Foundation) and Elaine Atherton (Chief Program Officer, Camelback Ventures) for a conversation on building at the intersection of wireless access and educational innovation.

This is the Blueprint in action: fellows who were bet on, funders who made the investment, and the outcomes proving what’s possible.

#CamelbackVentures #GuardianSummit

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Building @ExploreKaiXR has been a labor of love. ❤️

My teachers took a huge chance on me, and everything I do is to pay it forward.

With teachers, we do it all for our students. It’s my greatest hope that students using Kai XR know their ideas are valid, and they will lead the way making their own companies that will change the world.

The future is bright. ✨

#KaiXR #teachersofinstagram #iteach #STEM #spedtribe

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Kai XR is on a mission to prepare students for the world’s fastest-growing careers. 🚀

As a teacher, I noticed many of my students graduated unsure of what came next.
- No clear career direction.
- No digital skills.
- No real roadmap.

That gap stayed with me and eventually, it became @ExploreKaiXR.

Today, Kai XR is an immersive learning platform where students build the skills needed for the fastest-growing careers.

Our platform includes 200+ project-based Learning Adventures where students across the country apply what they’re learning in class to real-world challenges.

Each Learning Adventure includes virtual field trips, 3D makerspaces, discovery games, and more to keep students focused, curious, and engaged while driving academic achievement.

We are so thankful for partners like @bcbsofalabama (Blue Cross Blue Shield) who have helped Kai XR grow into rural communities like Perry County, Alabama.

Teachers like Ms. Lucky at Francis Marion School are creating magical Kai XR moments with their students as they transform their schools into hubs of innovation. 💜

To the Scholars of Perry County:
Your joy, curiosity, and eagerness to learn are the reasons we do what we do.

And to Superintendent Dr. Marcia Smiley:
Thank you for your leadership, vision, and continued commitment to creating an environment where innovation can thrive.

We are blessed to have such an amazing community of educators helping us expand our impact.
Onward. 🚀

#KaiXR #STEM #K12 #TeachersofIG #teachersofinstagram

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As we reflect on last week’s Welcome Week, we’re still sitting with the words of our brilliant founders.

For some, it was a reminder that "vision is a superpower" — that believing the impossible is possible is a radical act of courage.

For others, it was a rare glimpse of “the real real” — who each Fellow is beyond the pitch deck, beyond performance, beyond the expectation to impress.

The Camelback Fellowship isn’t just solving for the critical gap of a friends-and-family round. It’s disrupting what an accelerator can look like.

We invite the whole person to show up — fears, genius, audacity, belief in the impossible, and the superpowers that are shaping the future of education and technology.

Because building what’s next requires more than capital, here's to Cohort 16. Thank you for reminding us what brilliance looks like.

#CamelbackVentures #socialimpactbusiness #accelerator #fellowship

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🚨 Meet Camelback Fellowship — Cohort 16.

These 20 founders are building bold, impactful solutions across education, health, technology, food systems, and justice reform.

From Boston to Los Angeles, Houston to North Carolina, this cohort reflects Camelback’s deepened commitment to investing in under-resourced founders — including a $50,000 investment per Fellow — because when brilliance is resourced, communities thrive.

Not tagged in photo: @justice4blackgirls @nunchihealth @novus_smart_academy_k8 @tms.east.dallas @barrierbreakerslaw

🔗 Tap the link in our bio to read the blog and explore the full makeup of Cohort 16.

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👏🏽 Join me in celebrating our newest #KaiXR Storymakers! 👏🏽

🎬 They researched. They created. They inspired.

With guidance from Civil Rights leaders and XR mentors, Birmingham students co-produced a VR experience honoring the 1963 Children’s Crusade.

They premiered their work at Sloss Tech, one of the Southeast’s largest tech conferences, presenting to a room full of industry leaders, and innovators.

Learn more about their journey ➡️ https://bit.ly/44U75Kf ⬅️

🔄 Share this post to spread the word and amplify the student voices of our young change-makers.

Special thanks to @WeAreAgog & @bhamcivilrights for believing in the power of student storytelling. 🚀

#stem #VR #XR #teachersofinstagram #virtualfieldtrip #tech #storytelling #KaiXR #Birmingham #Alabama #teachers #bhm #education #makerspace #BlackHistory #AfroTech #backtoshool #votd #bcri #blackhistory365 #CivilRights #history #nmaahc

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