Exponential Destiny is an educational non-profit organization – primarily founded and led by youth entrepreneurs from low-income and marginalized communities – exploring the untapped potential and power of emerging digital innovations and tools (i.e., Virtual Reality, ChatGPT) to deliver transformative educational impact, societal value, and positive change, especially in underserved communities.
Our mission, which we pursue through research-based field projects, case-study pilots, and peer-to-peer mentorship, is focused on three domains:
Reimagining
Education
Building Awareness & Empathy for Social Causes
Upskilling Youth In Low
Income Communities
We are optimistic about the opportunity to drive impact in these domains because of the exponential pace of innovation in “Mixed Reality” (a.k.a., “XR”) technologies – which includes both virtual reality (“VR”) and augmented reality (“AR”) – that is powering the The Next Generation of the Internet, commonly referred to as the “Metaverse”. Integrated with emerging generative A.I. tools such as ChatGPT, we aim to provide access and define pragmatic use-cases to benefit those communities that are typically left behind.
Our three domains of focus and the work we do are inspired and driven by three guiding principles:
Reimagining
Education
Building Awareness & Empathy for Social Causes
Upskilling Youth In Low
Income Communities
Our 3 Areas of Focus
(What We Do)
We partner with public schools and other educational programs, primarily in under-resourced and marginalized communities, to teach students and teachers how to harness the power and potential of XR and tools such as ChatGPT to reimagine new pedagogies for education and learning.
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Through an “innovation sprint” project-based approach, we train the teachers and students how to create their own educational assets and design new curriculum using immersive and experiential teaching methods that incorporate edu-tainment and gamification techniques.
We specialize in leveraging XR innovations to assist social-impact organizations to bring education, awareness, and empathy to their causes in unique and extraordinary new digital simulations.
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We design and build virtual environments for these organizations – their own customized Metaverse - that help them tell stories to engage their stakeholders into life-like 360-degree and 3D immersive experiences
We mentor and train individuals in low-income and marginalized communities on the Metaverse and XR technologies with the goal to upskill them as early-adopters, leveraging their new competency to create sources of personal income as “Metaverse Entrepreneurs”.
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In addition, our goal is to place these individuals into compensated positions on our own projects we do for schools and social-impact organizations. The individuals we mentor and upskill are from the actual communities that we work with, and this creates a highly effective peer-to-peer element to our projects; i.e., a student we upskilled who recently graduated from a low-income school is now working with us as a project lead at that same school to help them use XR to transform education and learning.
Our Guiding Principles
(What Our Research Has Taught Us)
Students learn best by doing… through interactive educational EXPERIENCES. We believe XR introduces unlimited potential to bringing “immersive and experiential” methods of education.
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When these experiences incorporate methods such as “gamification” and “edu-tainment”, the learning curve is further flattened, and the student engagement level increases exponentially.
We believe that the best way to build AWARENESS, ENGAGEMENT, and EMPATHY around a social issue or cause is by IMMERSING people through an emotional EXPERIENCE.
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When these experiences incorporate techniques that enhance sympathy and compassion, such as first-person “walk-in-my-shoes” and “day-in-the-life” scenarios, one’s desire to TAKE ACTION increases exponentially. We believe XR unlocks this potential.
We believe that being an early-adopter of the “next generation of the internet” by learning how to create custom experiences in the Metaverse using virtual and augmented reality is a tangible and employable skillset.
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Individuals in low-income and marginalized communities are often the last to have access and be upskilled, and therefore we believe early introduction and competency development in these communities provides an opportunity for near-term employability, professional relevance, and career growth.
Fun Fact: Did you know that the efficacy data shows that learners are 4x faster to train in Virtual Reality vs. a traditional Classroom environment and 3.75 times more emotionally connected to content?
Reimagining Education
We partner with public schools and other educational programs, primarily in under-resourced and marginalized communities, to teach students and teachers how to harness the power and potential of XR to reimagine new pedagogies for education and learning.
Through an “innovation sprint” project-based approach, we train the teachers and students how to create their own educational assets and design new curriculum using immersive and experiential teaching methods that incorporate edu-tainment and gamification techniques.
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Students learn best by doing… through interactive educational EXPERIENCES. We believe XR introduces unlimited potential to bringing “immersive and experiential” methods of education.
When these experiences incorporate methods such as “gamification” and “edu-tainment”, the learning curve is further flattened, and the student engagement level increases exponentially.
Build Awareness and Empathy to Social Causes
We specialize in leveraging XR innovations to assist social-impact organizations to bring education, awareness, and empathy to their causes in unique and extraordinary new digital simulations.
We design and build virtual environments for these organizations – their own customized Metaverse - that help them tell stories to engage their stakeholders into life-like 360-degree and 3D immersive experiences.
(tap to reveal more)
The best way to build AWARENESS, ENGAGEMENT, and EMPATHY is by IMMERSING people through an emotional EXPERIENCE.
When these experiences incorporate techniques that enhance sympathy and compassion, such as first-person “walk-in-my-shoes” and “day-in-the-life” scenarios, one’s desire to TAKE ACTION increases exponentially. We believe XR unlocks this potential.
Upskilling Youth In Low Income Communities
We mentor and train individuals in low-income and marginalized communities on the Metaverse and XR technologies with the goal to upskill them as early-adopters, leveraging their new competency to create sources of personal income as “Metaverse Entrepreneurs”.
In addition, our goal is to place these individuals into compensated positions on our own projects we do for schools and social-impact organizations. The individuals we mentor and upskill are from the actual communities that that we work with, and this creates a highly effective peer-to-peer element to our projects.
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Learning how to create custom experiences in the Metaverse using virtual and augmented reality is a tangible and employable skillset.
Individuals in low-income and marginalized communities are often the last to have access and be upskilled, and therefore we believe early introduction and competency development in these communities provides an opportunity for near-term employability, professional relevance, and career growth.
Fun Fact: Did you know that the efficacy data shows that learners are 4x faster to train in Virtual Reality vs. a traditional Classroom environment and 3.75 times more emotionally connected to content?
For details and case-studies describing each of our three domains of focus listed above, view “OUR PROJECTS & APPROACH”.
A good overview is also provided in this video of the Exponential Destiny team delivering the opening keynote in Geneva, Switzerland at the United Nations “Digital Transformation” ITU summit on the “Metaverse for SDGs” (spoiler alert; the video starts off with our founder playing a prank on the UN delegation and attendees)
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