Wowzers was founded by Reed Howard. She had an experience on her first day as a teacher 40 years ago that changed her philosophies about teaching. Click here to read more.
After a long career of igniting a passion for learning in young people, Reed decided she wanted to combine the two things she's most passionate about: education and family.
She founded Brain Hurricane, a hands-on education company, in 2001, with her two oldest children, Paige and Andrew. Her youngest son TJ helped found Brain Hurricane during those early years, and joined full time shortly after graduating from college.
Over the years Brain Hurricane has grown to service more students by using efficient strategies to collect, synthesize, and act on data. But Brain Hurricane never delivered content over the web. So in 2009 the Brain Hurricane team began development on Wowzers. The goal was to deliver the same engaging learning experience to students, but to use more powerful data collected electronically to more robustly individualize the learning experience for each child.
The foundation of Wowzers is a data-driven, standards-aligned learning platform. But we haven't forgotten our roots: Whenever we create new content or develop new technology our first goal is to make sure that it will keep students from dying while waiting for the bell.
