Category Archives: Education

Your Tutor Is One Call Away: Help Hub Connects Students and Tutors Via Twilio Voice

At 14 years old, Miguel Kudry (pictured right) started building apps. Now at age 20, he’s launched his second company, Help Hub, a new social platform that connects students with tutors via Twilio Voice. I can’t exactly picture Miguel needing … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on May 1, 2013 Tagged , , ,

Win an Atomic Getaway to Visit the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

A team of the worlds brightest scientists from over 100 countries are working to simulate the Big Bang in a giant 17 mile long hadron collider, buried 574 feet below the earth. Why are they doing this? To prove the … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on April 26, 2013 Tagged , , , , ,

The Science of Sharing: San Francisco Exploratorium Re-opens with Twilio-Powered Exhibit

The Exploratorium is a San Francisco institution, combining the arts and science in a fun and interactive way. The museum is celebrating it’s re-opening tomorrow at a brand new location on with an incredible amount of new exhibits and we’re … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on April 16, 2013 Tagged , , ,

Apps to Empower: Build an App to Support Women in Developing Countries

Apps To Empower is trying to make the tablet a life changing device for women in developing countries. They need your help. They’re calling on developers to build apps that aid in conflict resolution, entrepreneurship training, mentorship, business planning and … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on February 19, 2013 Tagged , ,

PennApps Recap: EyePhone, Inventory, and Making Your Coffee Maker Text You

PennApps is the largest student hackathon in the world. Students from all over the country came to Philadelphia to forego sleep in order to build innovative apps and hardware hacks. Developer Evangelist, Jon Gottfried, was on scene live coding Twilio … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on February 7, 2013 Tagged , , ,

Inigral Helps Colleges Reach Students With Twilio SMS

Choosing the right college is difficult. It’s a big decision based on what you want to study, but it’s still influenced by smaller factors like where your friends are going to school, or how friendly your tour guide was. Those … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on January 31, 2013 Tagged , , , ,

Sending Images via SMS with Filepicker and Twilio

If you are a web developer, you know that handling file uploads is not fun. You are either spending time dealing with files and permissions, or learning how your language handles MIME multipart encoding. Then there is the problem of … Continue reading →

Posted by Joel Franusic on January 15, 2013 Tagged , ,

Developer Contest: Use Twilio, OpenVBX or Stashboard and Win a Netbook – Ends Sunday August 1st

The contest category for this week is Anything Goes. To qualify, submit an application, service, mashup, plugin, open source project or anything else that uses the Twilio API, OpenVBX or Stashboard. That's the only requirement. Previous non-winning entries are free … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on July 27, 2010 Tagged

Twilio for Education

School Absence Hotline by Carlos Pero School Absence Hotline is an application for parents and teacher to communicate about absences and provide information regarding H1N1 and other illnesses that might keep students home from class.

Posted by twilio on November 6, 2009 Tagged