Awards & Recognition
Tech to the Rescue - 2025
AI for Changemakers, Top 30, 2025
Thirty ambitious nonprofits are preparing to transform education through AI. Selected for the AI for Changemakers Education Cohort, these organizations will develop custom AI solutions that could impact millions of learners across five continents.
From literacy platforms in underserved communities to STEM programs empowering young women, each organization brings a unique approach to education's most pressing challenges. Together, they represent a powerful vision: technology that works where it matters most.
MIT Solve - 2025
MIT Solve, Finalist, 2025
The world faces persistent and intersecting gaps in learning and educational opportunities. Globally, 250 million children have no access to formal learning, and too many learners who are in school are not gaining the knowledge and skills needed for their futures. Deploying high-impact educational ideas at scale can also benefit from technology through networks and efficiencies, even as the end goal remains learner success.
TTWF was selected as a finalist amongst 4000 submissions.
EdTech Prize - 2025
EdTech Prize, Global 30, 2025
Founded this year by T4 Education, with the support of Owl Ventures, Digital Promise, Rethink Education, XEdu, Injini, Founders Forum, EdLatam, and IAAE, the Global EdTech Prize recognises trailblazing solutions that are driving change and grappling with the most crucial challenges in today’s classrooms.
Today, they have revealed the Top 30 shortlists for the inaugural Global EdTech Prize! The prize, and these shortlists, are determined directly by educator judges, championing innovative tech solutions that actually work for the people who matter most – educators, their students, and their communities.
TTWF was selected as a finalist amongst 3000 submissions.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Education Equity Initiative
Selected for AWS Education Equity Initiative
AWS launched the Education Equity Initiative as a global effort to boost access to "future skills" for under-served learners. This includes cloud computing, AI, digital literacy, and more—all aimed at fostering educational equity and opportunity. Amazon pledges significant amounts of money in AWS credits and technical support over a period of multiple years to back this effort.
For us, this means the opportunity to accelerate our mission: expanding access to inclusive, high-quality learning opportunities for every student—regardless of background or geography.
MIT Solve - Finalist 2022
MIT Solve, Finalist, 2022
Every year, MIT Solve hosts open innovation Challenges to source tech-based solutions to urgent global problems. The most promising social entrepreneurs from across the world are chosen to join our Solver class in the areas of Economic Prosperity, Sustainability, Learning, and Health.
Solve at MIT brings together these global innovators to build partnerships and tackle global challenges in real-time alongside the Solve community–Solver teams, MIT faculty, and social impact leaders from Solve Member organizations, such as General Motors, The Nature Conservatory, HP, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and many more.
World Bank - Wharton Business School
2020 Ideas for Action - Winner
This annual contest is supported by the World Bank and the Zicklin Center of the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania. It provides a unique platform for young entrepreneurs, fostering innovative ideas to solve the world’s most pressing development challenges. Teach the World's Enhancing Literacy and Numeracy (ELAN) program - which combines innovative technology with simple and cost-effective learning solutions for children - was selected as one of the 7 winners amongst 4000 submissions.
UNESCO - Harvard Publication
2021 Publication - Featured
Teach the World was featured in UNESCO's book, with joint publication by Harvard University, “Learning to Build Back Better Futures for Education: Lessons from educational innovation during the covid-19 pandemic" along with 20+ other leading innovators in education.
MIT Solve - Tiger IT
2019 - Challenge for Bangladesh - Finalist
The Tiger Challenge aims to find and support start-ups that will provide quality education, healthcare, and employment opportunities, and promote Bangladesh as a country that fosters innovation. We were on of the 12 finalists and our Founder and CEO Shafiq Khan physically went to Dhaka to present our solution Enhancing Literacy and Numeracy (ELAN) in Bangladesh.
ASU+GSV and Holon IQ
2021 EdTech Creator Challenge - Winner Top 25
Teach the World was one of the top 25 winners of this challenge, which is sponsored by Unity, Amazon Web Services, ASU+GSV Ventures and Holon-IQ. The EdTech Creator Challenge aims to empower creators to change the landscape of education and support all learners. The jury of the challenge is composed of 60 judges who went through 250 applications and picked us and 24 other digital education pioneers.
ASU-GSV
2020 Elite 200 - Featured
We were one of the Elite 200 organizations selected to present and showcase our work at the online ASU+GSV Conference (the largest digital learning conference in the world) held online in 2020.
Roddenberry Foundation Prize
2020 Prize - Semi-Finalist
This Prize is geared to highlight extraordinary organizations and support their efforts towards greater impact. Criteria for the Prize are innovativeness, potential for impact, vision, and track record. We were one of the semi-finalists that made it to Round 2 for the 2020 Roddenberry prize.
Zurich Innovation Challenge
2020 Challenge - Finalist
This Championship is a worldwide challenge for entrepreneurs. It aims to uncover the best new innovative solutions to meet the changing needs of customers. There are four categories in this Championship: Insurance Reimagined, Simplicity, Prevention & Mitigation, and Sustainability. The winners are selected by senior executives from the Zurich Insurance company. We were one of the finalists for their country round in the 2020 challenge.