Classroom Adventure, Inc. (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; CEO: Zentaro Imai) announced today that it has won the GESAwards 2025 Special Track Award (R&D Innovation) at the Global EdTech Startup Awards (GESAwards), widely described as the world’s largest EdTech competition and community.
GESAwards is a global initiative run through partners across six continents and brings together 6,000+ EdTech startups from 130+ countries.
Classroom Adventure’s award recognizes its continued R&D efforts in designing learning experiences that help people develop practical information-literacy skills through engaging, game-based formats.
The award comes at a time when misinformation and disinformation have been identified as a top global concern. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024 ranked “misinformation and disinformation” as the most severe risk over the next two years, and the Global Risks Report 2025 again highlighted it as a top short-term risk for the second consecutive year.
Classroom Adventure develops experiential, gamified learning programs that support learners in moving beyond “knowing” into “doing”—questioning claims, verifying sources, and making evidence-based judgments in real information environments. Its flagship program, Ray’s Blog, uses story and puzzle mechanics to guide learners through verification tasks and research workflows. Classroom Adventure reports that its information-literacy education, including Ray’s Blog, has reached 50,000+ learners across 12 countries.
In addition to its curriculum work, Classroom Adventure collaborates with international partners to run the GenAsia Challenge | Youth Fact-Check Championship, a team-based online tournament where young people compete on the speed and accuracy of verification. Top teams from national competitions advance to a world tournament, and Classroom Adventure has continued the initiative by taking over operations from Google starting in 2024 and running it in collaboration with multiple fact-checking organizations.
