Education

Quill.org Awarded Google AI Impact Grant to Develop Open-Source Writing Tools for Low-Income Students

Team Member Profiles — Tom Conroy, Software Developer

Tom is a software developer who joined Quill to help struggling student writers. Before joining our team, he studied at the University of Maryland, College Park and worked for several startups.

Quill Team Profiles — Emilia Friedberg, Software Developer

Emilia is a software developer who is passionate about education. Before joining Quill, Emilia taught at an elementary school in Arizona and tutored students at Breakthrough Santa Fe. As a developer, the first program she built…

Team Member Profiles — Maddy Maher, Outreach Associate

Maddy is an Outreach Associate who joined Quill full-time after contributing as an Education Team intern. She is passionate about education and holds an undergraduate degree in Literature from Hamilton College.

Quill at the iLearn NYC Innovation Institute II

by, Maddy Maher | Editorial Intern

How Do The Most Popular EdTech Polling Tools Compare?

Analyzing the Pros and Cons of Kahoot…

What I’ve Learned at Quill

Entering a “reflective mode” of sorts as the end of my internship draws near, I can undoubtedly say that my experience at Quill has been thought-provoking and rewarding. It’s difficult to jot down everything I’ve learned — I’ve soaked in the internship constantly, even…

Quill Product Design Challenge June 2016

Though at first glance sentence combining appears to be based on knowledge of how to manipulate the syntactical structure of a sentence, the linguistic understanding of the elements required for strong sentence combining proves to “help writers who produce…

The Challenges of Creating Combined Activity Packs

Quill has over 20 activity packs and over 200 additional activities available to teachers. The activities range in topic, grade level, and amount of instruction. In the activity packs, the students ideally can practice concepts one by one…