A Year of Using Project Leo

Teachers and Students Thrive with AI Enhanced Conversations

Last week marked the end of instruction for the 2023-2024 school year in my mechanical engineering classes. Using Project Leo for an entire year allowed me to learn and grow as a teacher more than ever before. I think it is safe to say that my students feel the same way. Here are just a few quotes from students.

Honestly, my Project Leo experience was eye opening. By learning these skills, I realized how there is nothing stopping me from pursuing something I am passionate about. The projects done in class showed me that I can literally make anything in the world that I want to at any time.

-11th Grade Student

This 11th grade student did an amazing job exploring his passion for mountain biking by designing and 3D printing custom gears and by creating an automatic balancing device for bicycles. While he hit some challenges that I couldn’t help him with programming the Arduino, he vastly expanded his electronics skillset.

Project Leo has helped me pursue things I want to do easier and be able to track my development in various projects so I can share my progress.

-10th Grade Student

This student built a wide variety of projects that developed her CAD, programming, and fabrication skills. Starting with designing and 3D printing mechanical fidget rings, then a solution to help flip over mars rover that is stuck. She then began programming a video game, then transitioned to designing and building a mockup of a WW2 trench. Finally, she designed D&D dice and a castle holder. She was my student with the most diverse projects in all of my classes. A perfect example of how students don’t need to know their passions, but instead get to explore them.

Project Leo gives you lots of feedback with every project and posts guiding that student to succeed.

-10th Grade Student

This student has a clear passion for military technologies. While I tried to convince him to join a Hackathon in El Segundo with other military builders (read more from

Packy McCormick

), he decided to build some of his own amazing drones.

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I learned more from my students that any other year thanks to the powerful personalization provided by Project Leo. While there were moments where I thought I may be crazy giving each one of my students the opportunity to explore their own personalized projects, the more refined our product became the more supported I felt. My colleagues who helped us figure out the most important features to build agreed.

I wasn't really sure what I expected when I introduced Project Leo to my World History students, but I certainly didn't expect the level of enthusiasm and engagement that it ignited. Witnessing their genuine excitement was truly inspiring. Project Leo addresses a critical missing piece in traditional school projects – empowering students with agency and ownership over their learning.

-10th Grade History Teacher

The most important output of Project Leo were the conversations about student projects. I got to know all of my students at a much deeper level because I was constantly having conversations about their interests and passions. Every single class I had the chance to talk to my students not about surface level interests, but how they are trying to build a meaningful solution to a problem related to their interests. I was able to generate more “Ah-Ha” moments per class period than ever before. Students wanted to work harder, wanted to work through challenges, and wanted to help each other more than any other time in my 12-year teaching career. Having a classroom operating system than enhances human conversations is truly a gamechanger.

Our team is excited to offer Project Leo to any school who is interested to use classroom software that finally supports teachers to have a bigger impact and to increase the engagement level of any student. Send me a note today if you would like to join our limited time Early Adopter program to help shape the future classroom operating system.

Steven Eno, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, steven@projectleo.com