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title: "Catching Up: Ambient AI, Alpha School, and The Educator of the Future"
description: INCubatoredu student team 'Boosties' of McAllen, Texas, is featured in the Getting Smart podcast about how Ambient AI and Alpha School are shifting education
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# Catching Up: Ambient AI, Alpha School, and The Educator of the Future

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Getting Smart PODCAST

*By: [Mason Pashia, Nate McClennen](https://www.gettingsmart.com/podcast/) on October 7, 2025*

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**Mason Pashia:**  ... "We both love good news, and we think that’s core to what [Getting Smart](https://www.gettingsmart.com/) does—we’re sharing good news from around the ecosystem.

This one comes to us from our friends at Uncharted Learning, who have a really cool INCubatoredu program that is in a number of high schools across the country. It empowers young people to do entrepreneurial pursuits—everything from writing a book to creating board games to starting a nonprofit. It’s kind of all over the map. They sent me this press release recently from a group of students in McAllen ISD in Texas."

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