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While students are away, the PhET team is at play! 🧪⚛️
We're using every minute of summer break to bring you something we've been building toward for a long time: Quantum Simulations. The first one lands in a couple of months. Learn more about our Quantum Education Initiative and how you can get involved:
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/vwgngqvyyd
The video shows an empty college campus an empty college campus. The scene shifts to a montage of PhET team members at work in the office: writing code for quantum simulations and waving to the camera during a meeting. On-screen text reads "A whole lot of quantum... is coming your way". The text is surrounded by screen recordings of quantum design documents and in progress simulations.
05/14/2026
Every student deserves the full experience of scientific discovery, not a simplified version of it.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) were written for a web of pages, forms, and documents. PhET simulations are not pages. They are dynamic environments designed for interactive exploration and discovery. There's no text alternative that replicates the experience of discovering Ohm's Law by building a circuit. Since 2014, our Inclusive Design Initiative has been asking a harder question: how do you make interactive discovery accessible?
We call it modal parity: the belief that a learner who is blind should be able to experience the same depth of discovery as a sighted learner. Not a simplified version. The real thing.
Over a decade of research, design, and collaboration with learners with disabilities has shaped this work. We're proud of how far it's come, and we know that we're not finished. We have legacy simulations still being upgraded, and scaling inclusive features across our full library is ongoing work.
We'll be sharing more about the specific features on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, May 21.
For now, we'd love for you to read our full reflection: 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/fqsexazhhe
04/20/2026
We're back from NSTA 2026 in Anaheim, and honestly? Our hearts are full.
Spending time with teachers at our booth: hearing your classroom stories, your questions, your wish lists, is one of our favorite things we get to do. This year did not disappoint. 🚀
A few things that made us especially happy:
✨ So many teachers were excited about our upcoming Quantum simulations. Stay tuned, because we think you're going to love them.
🧬 Membrane Transport is getting rave reviews from biology teachers who stopped by.
🛠️ PhET Studio sparked some really great conversations. It was wonderful to see teachers light up learning how it could make their lives a little easier while helping PhET keep building the sims you rely on.
We also loved connecting with partners and being part of the bigger STEM ed conversation happening in our community.
If you came by and said hello, thank you. If you didn't make it to Anaheim, we hope to see you next time! And if you want to stay up to date on everything PhET has coming, create a free PhET account to get our monthly newsletter. 💙
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