Labster, an educational startup company specializing in experimental laboratory simulations, won a cash prize of 25,000 euros as part of a contest sponsored by Sanoma Ventures. The award was announced today at our TNW Conference Europe 2014 in Amsterdam.
Sanoma invited European digital learning startups to participate in the start Sanoma Challenge 2014, his initiative to support the future of the primary and secondary education.
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Labster was one of five finalists, which included Wewanttoknow DragonBox, a set of multi-platform mathematics; Jumpido, a math game on Kinect Microsoft; The EduKey class graphics, a corner of app database graphic behavior; and Eduvee, a resource for the teaching of science targeted.
3D virtual lab Labster, this molecular 3D animations, quiz questions, and immersive multimedia environments. Virtual labs are drawn from real cases, but are safer and cheaper than traditional labs.
CEO Mads Bonde, who accepted the award, said he was inspired by the concept of flight simulation in formulating the concept Labster.
The company has teamed up with leading universities and professors from Stanford University, the Technical University of Denmark, Novo Nordisk, Boston University, and others to develop laboratories are used by more than 10,000 students worldwide.
specialty laboratories include CSI, animal genetics, medical genetics, enzyme kinetics, chromatography, molecular cloning, and more.