The US Department of Education recently announced the grand-prize winner and runner up of the Future Finder Challenge. The Future Finder challenge is designed to reimagine the future of adult education career navigation.
The grand-prize winner, Gladeo, "empowers educators and workforce to engage and prepare learners for careers in the age of AI with configurable career navigation platforms, inclusive videos, enterprise cloud tools, and research-based, future-ready online career development and readiness courses" (gladeo.org).
The runner up, Workbay, is "an interactive career development platform that links recruitment, skill building and career navigation into one comprehensive system" (workbay.net).
Gladeo received a $500,000 award while Workbay received $250,000. This will help both organizations continue to raise the bar on adult education career navigation.
Please read the full announcement here.