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Dash is on its way.

Follow the development of a screen-free early literacy adventure created to make meaningful practice feel playful.

2026

Selected for REV’s Manufacturing Hardware Accelerator

Monty & Friends Literacy Club was selected for REV Ithaca Startup Works’ 2026 Manufacturing Hardware Accelerator, a program supporting teams as they bring physical products toward manufacturing.

In development

Building the Dash experience

Dash is being developed as a physical learning system that invites children to work with letters and sounds through hands-on play and immediate audio feedback.

Classroom-informed

Testing the practice loop

Dash has been validated with 45 students in kindergarten and first-grade intervention settings as the learning experience continues to take shape.

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