AI-generated digital manipulatives that help teachers build better SLS learning

Why This Award Matters

The 2025 Gold Innergy story shows how generative AI can move from novelty to classroom infrastructure: teachers create manipulatives faster, students interact with concepts more directly, and SLS becomes a launchpad for richer learning evidence. The deeper achievement is not just the prize. It is the design habit behind the work: start from a real classroom problem, build something teachers and students can use, and keep improving it until the technology helps thinking become visible.

Strengths Worth Noticing

• Turns teacher ideas into usable manipulatives without waiting for a full software project.
• Keeps pedagogy visible: the interactive exists to surface concepts, not to decorate a lesson.
• Supports faster iteration so teachers can adapt resources to learner needs and classroom language.

Alignment to EdTech Masterplan 2030

The EdTech Masterplan 2030 calls for technology-transformed learning, stronger use of AI and digital tools, and a student-centred approach to teaching and learning. This award connects to that direction in three practical ways:

1. Harnesses technology more effectively by pairing AI generation with teacher-designed learning intentions.
2. Acts as a capability multiplier because teachers can produce and refine manipulatives at classroom speed.
3. Develops technological fluency by letting students learn through interactive representations inside familiar SLS workflows.