We had the good fortune of connecting with Cynthia Kaye and we’ve shared our conversation below.
Hi Cynthia, what’s the most difficult decision you’ve ever had to make?
Maybe not THE most difficult, but certainly in the top 5 are the decisions we’ve had to make this year with the pandemic and subsequent shutdown. Our business sells to schools; With schools, as well as everything else, closed, we had to regroup and find our pivot. As the school shutdowns progressed, the trending solution was virtual learning. Educators needed to find a way to teach remotely. For older students, this wasn’t too painful, but for the little ones, engagement was a major challenge. How do you keep a 4-5 year old’s attention over a computer? HEY! That’s what we do best! Pivoting our engaging 3D zoo experience for reading and math into a remote learning resource that engages kids was the new focus. Not only have we now successfully added virtual learning to our repertoire, we also took the time to script and film 26 alphabet lessons on YouTube and offer them FREE to parents and educators. They are fun, engaging, and offer over 6 hours of at-home learning.
What should our readers know about your business?
Increasing teacher and student engagement is definitely what sets us apart. I’m most proud of the stories we hear from teachers and parents who tell us how our products have helped their kids learn to read. Hearing that makes all of our efforts worthwhile. Something new we are very excited to give to the community is this FREE VIRTUAL LEARNING RESOURCE: It includes 6 hours of virtual lessons for learning letters and letter sounds with 26 magical zoo animals. It’s called the Zoo Crew Alphabet Show and is available on YouTube for teachers, kids, and parents. Using this Interactive Alphabet Chart, you can get access to each of the 26 lessons: https://alivestudiosco.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/interactive-alphabet-chart.pdf
Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
Ponce City Market comes to mind. So many unique and fun restaurants are there. We’d also walk or bike ride the Atlanta Beltline.
Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
For sure my Alive Studios team! Without them our dream of helping children with early literacy would be just that… a dream. Our team has endured the storms of a startup and have held solid through it all. We’ve all taken turns encouraging one another while developing excellent resources to give the gift of literacy to as many children as possible.
Website: www.AliveStudiosZoo.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/alivestudiosZoo
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiakaye/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AliveStudiosZoo
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AliveStudiosZoo
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/alivestudioszoo
Other: FREE LEARNING RESOURCE: 6 hours of virtual lessons for learning letters and letter sounds with 26 magical zoo animals. The Zoo Crew Alphabet Show is available on YouTube for teachers, kids, and parents. Using this Interactive Alphabet Chart, you can get access to each of the 26 lessons: https://alivestudiosco.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/interactive-alphabet-chart.pdf