2025 SC Education + Business Summit

This session will create space for conversation and planning around giving more students and teachers access to real-world experiences, including how to connect with community partners and stakeholders.

Alefiya Master is the Founder and CEO of the award-winning app development program, MAD-learn. She believes that enabling students to have passion-driven career choices should be a key focus for all educational institutions. It’s not often that you find a millennial, woman, minority, educator turned entrepreneur who has founded and grown 2 EdTech companies that now impact over 80,000 students in 30 states and 5 countries. She knows the critical role of education in workforce development and the need to have ALL kids learn to think and create for themselves and be exposed to technology creation, not just consumption. She has presented at multiple conferences around the country.