![]() Those experiences helped shape Boom Learning’s model of empowering teachers to develop the resources they need to excel. Mary founded a co-operative school for gifted and talented kids 3 to 9 years old. Life after Microsoft included a term in the state Senate for Eric, who co-sponsored a bill to track student/teacher/school performance that was signed into law. Mary (whose maiden name was Heuett and who met and married Eric after he left Microsoft) was a senior attorney from 2002-2006. Eric was a software development manager from 1991-1999 and a software architect from 2002-2003. where they’re buying and selling resources to help each other,” Stuart said.Īlthough their Microsoft careers overlapped, Stuart and the Oemigs did not know each other. ![]() “It was sort of shocking to find out that there’s hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions. ![]() Not until joining Boom Learning did he become aware that there was a burgeoning market in teacher-to-teacher sales. Stuart, a veteran computer gaming executive, was general manager of Microsoft Game Studios from 1994-2003. “This is teachers telling other teachers this is the tool they’ve been looking for,” said Stuart Moulder, another Microsoft alum who joined Boom Learning as CEO in April. After getting off the ground in 2016, the new and improved platform - which works with virtually any device or browser – began to soar in 2017.īoom Learning now has 5,000 paying subscribers and counting – all through word of mouth. “When I first started the engineering on it, we kind of crashed and burned because the tools we needed didn’t exist,” said Eric, chairman and chief technology officer.īut technology doesn’t stand still and when Eric went back to the drawing board in 2015, the barriers he faced before no longer stood in the way. “Rachel was looking for a way to turn her (paper) task cards into an app,” Mary said.įounded in 2012, Boom Learning failed in its first attempt to build a platform. Teachers Pay Teachers is an online marketplace where teachers buy and sell all sorts of classroom materials that they create. The Oemigs didn’t set out to build a business around digitizing task cards, but their determination to make a difference in K-12 education led them to cross paths with Rachel Lynette, a top seller of task cards on Teachers Pay Teachers. Each card presents a question the student must answer or an activity they must complete before moving on to the next card in the deck.Īlready a go-to resource for many teachers in paper form, task cards in digital form are even handier because they are interactive.Įach deck of digital Boom Cards is essentially a mini-app that automatically grades each student’s performance, providing students and teachers alike with immediate feedback and an easy-peasy way to track progress – something schools are “dying for,” said Mary, general counsel and chief operations officer. Task cards are bite-size alternatives to worksheets for helping students practice and master new skills. The Oemigs are co-founders of Boom Learning, a Kirkland educational technology company that provides teachers an online platform to create, buy and sell digital task cards. Microsoft alums Eric and Mary Oemig are on a mission to help students learn by helping teachers teach. Boom Learning is a next-generation platform provider for teacher-created resources that wasīack to School Boom Learning leaders create go-to online resources for teachers MICROSOFT ALUMNI NETWORK PHOTO | DAN DELONGįrom left, Microsoft alums Eric Oemig, chairman and CTO, Mary Heuett Oemig, COO and general counsel and Stuart Making the Most of LinkedIn for Job Search.Microsoft Alumni at the Ballpark - Spring Training 2023.Science of Happiness: Career Success, Fulfillment and Wellbeing.
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