Team
Chimdi Chimereze
Design lead
Erika Hairston
CEO
Arnelle Ansong
CTO
Thomas L'anglais
Engineer
The Edlyft story
Edlyft is a platform designed to help CS students excel at their courses by giving them access to mentors, a library of educational resources, live classes, and a community.
Many students joined Edlyft for personalized academic support, but also formed friendships within the community.
On Edlyft, students are able to watch sessions taught by Edlyft mentors. They can join and participate live or watch recordings of these classes whenever it's convenient for them.
Students are also able to schedule time with Edlyft mentors, who walk them through pressing CS issues and help them understand concepts better.
We discovered that beyond understanding CS concepts, many students needed help with exam preparation, so after several conversations with students and within the team, we built Practice Problems. Practice problems simulate exam questions, and help students get in the right frame of mind to solve similar problems when they come up in their exams.there's also a video of a mentor walking students through the process through which the answer was arrived at.
Outcomes
2000+ students are being helped by Edlyft currently.
100+ Edlyft students have graduated successfully.
Edlyft has now become the choice partner for companies like Google, Dropbox, and Airbnb, for training interns.
Edlyft was recently acquired by Google.
