Pathful Earns Three Finalist Nominations in The EdTech Awards 2026

RALEIGH, NC, April 7, 2026 -- Pathful, the nation's leading career readiness and development company, today announced it has been named a finalist in three categories of The EdTech Awards 2026, the world's largest recognition program for education technology. The nominations span both the Cool Tool Awards and the Trendsetter Awards, recognizing Pathful's Lifestyle Calculator, Experience Tracker, and the company as a whole.

The three finalist nominations are:

Pathful: Trendsetter Award, EdTech Company Setting a Trend Finalist

Lifestyle Calculator: Cool Tool Award, Career Planning Solution Finalist

Experience Tracker: Cool Tool Award, Collaboration Solution Finalist

Now in its 16th year, The EdTech Awards program, produced annually by EdTech Digest, recognizes the most exceptional innovators, leaders, and trendsetters in education technology across the K-12, Higher Education, and Skills and Workforce sectors. Finalists and winners are evaluated on pedagogical workability, efficacy and results, support, clarity, value, and potential.

The Trendsetter nomination recognizes Pathful as a company actively shaping the direction of career readiness and development, combining authentic career exploration, progressive skill development, and work-based learning management into a platform that bridges education and the workforce for over 3.5 million students and adult learners nationwide. The recognition reflects Pathful's broader mission: not only building tools that meet the needs of educators and the workforce, but building tools that students and adult learners genuinely want to use.

That learner engagement is on full display in the two Cool Tool finalist nominations. The Lifestyle Calculator helps students and adult learners connect financial realities to their career goals by simulating real-world costs across 11 expense categories, using national data with county-level precision. Rather than telling learners what careers to pursue, it shows them what a career can actually support, turning abstract ambitions into concrete plans. The Experience Tracker solves a persistent challenge for educators: consolidating work-based learning hours, community service, career coaching, and postsecondary visits into a single, streamlined platform that learners are eager to engage with.

"It's not enough to develop career readiness and development tools that serve the needs of educators and the workforce if learners don’t actually engage with them, which is why we build features with students in mind, and get feedback from educators and students at all steps of our process. Being recognized as a company setting a trend reflects what we've always believed: when career readiness is designed to be genuinely engaging, students find their moment of clarity. That moment when a learner says, 'this is what I want to do with my life,' and that is what drives everything we build." - Alexandra Fuchs, VP of Product, Pathful

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About Pathful

Pathful is the nation's leading career readiness and development company, serving over 3.5 million students and adult learners nationwide. Pathful delivers the most comprehensive career readiness solution available, combining authentic career exploration, industry-informed skill development, and work-based learning and CTE program management to create a seamless bridge between education and the workforce. Since 2013, Pathful has partnered with schools, districts, companies, workforce development organizations, and national associations to help learners discover careers they're passionate about, connect with industry professionals, and develop the skills needed to succeed in today's evolving economy. Learn more at pathful.com and follow us on LinkedIn, YouTube, X, Facebook, and Instagram.

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Media Contact

Lindsay Hallam

marketing@pathful.com

888-908-4924

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