Matthew Benet,
founder of edRev
Having worked with more than 200 gifted and profoundly gifted students and with a deep-set caring and passion for helping all of the kids that he is working with, Matt is uniquely equipped for all edRev sets out to do.
My Story
Matt has taught a variety of classes for both CTY online and at CTY’s on-campus summer program. Within 6 months of joining CTY Online as a Competitive Mathematics instructor, he was awarded the Sarah D Barder Fellowship for excellence in gifted education. While at CTY, Matt helped redesign the three highest level competitive math classes CTY offers. Recognizing the importance of gifted socialization, Matt also designed, ran, and iteratively improved CTY’s High School Competitive Math Club, CTY's most social offering, which still runs to this day.
As an expert in virtual education, Matt was enlisted by MIT’s Educational Studies Program to design and direct their first virtual program after COVID hit. The first of its kind, this program served over 2000 students from around the world, and served as a basis for how future virtual MIT programs could run. Matt has also designed an interactive VR classroom for teaching Physics (built by some great people from RecRoom).
In July 2022, Matt founded edRev to provide gifted socialization and tutoring, with a focus on helping gifted students achieve their potential. Running edRev is Matt’s full-time devotion, and he strives to help gifted students thrive and develop skills to address asynchronous development – a common trait among the gifted. In his own words, "giftedness is a double-edged sword; I aim to teach gifted kids how to sharpen one edge and dull the other."
He claims he can "teach anything", and challenges you to test this claim.