👋 hi, I'm Katherine

I build things that help people actually learn — classrooms, products, and AI tools.

Former senior chemistry teacher turned product manager and edtech founder. This is my library of artefacts: the programs, apps, and companies I've built along the way.

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Founder

Companies I've built

Education businesses taken from zero to real users — the full stack of product, curriculum, marketing, and operations.

YYC Academy

Founder · Teacher · Everything else

An online small-group VCE Chemistry tutoring program I built from scratch — curriculum, weekly exam-style worksheets, full-year notes, a private student community, and a TikTok channel that brings students in year after year. Designed for students who study hard but still feel lost, with a focus on understanding over memorising.

Program designCurriculumCommunityMarketingBusiness ops

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99.6

Student ATAR — school dux

Study score, from a student averaging 30%

99.20

ATAR — chem was his "bottom two"

Max class size, by design

Edapt Education

Co-founder

Co-founded an edtech startup building tools and resources for teachers. Took a product from idea to real users — learning the hard, valuable lessons of early-stage product: what teachers say they want vs. what they'll actually use.

Startup0 → 1 productEdTech

AI × Product

Product & AI tools

Working software I've designed and shipped — pairing deep classroom knowledge with AI-assisted development to solve real learning problems, fast.

Le Chatelier Visualiser

Designer & builder

An interactive web app that lets students disturb a chemical system at equilibrium — add reactants, change pressure, heat it up — and watch how concentrations respond in real time. Built with AI-assisted development to turn one of VCE Chemistry's most abstract topics into something you can play with.

AI-built toolInteractive learningWeb app

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Chemistry Worksheet Generator

Designer & builder

A tool that generates VCE Chemistry practice worksheets aligned to the official Study Design — multiple choice plus short-answer questions, formatted like a real VCAA exam. Built to scale what I was doing by hand every week for my own students.

AI productAssessment designWeb app

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Product & Learning Design

Product Manager @ Cengage

Now building education products full-time as a Product Manager at Cengage — one of the world's largest education companies. The through-line in everything I ship: deep classroom empathy applied to product decisions.

Product managementLearning designEdTech

Teaching at scale

Making hard things learnable, everywhere

Published textbooks, a video series, coaching experts worldwide, and a TikTok feed — whether the audience is a Year 12 student or a global course creator.

Edrolo VCE Chemistry Units 1 & 2 textbook

Edrolo VCE Chemistry Units 3 & 4 textbook, 3rd edition

VCE Chemistry Textbooks & Videos · Edrolo

Author & video presenter

Wrote VCE Chemistry textbooks for Edrolo — Units 1 & 2 and Units 3 & 4 (3rd edition) — and created the VCE Chemistry Units 3 & 4 video series. Translating a dense study design into explanations, worked examples, and videos that thousands of Victorian students learn from is product thinking with a very unforgiving user base: teenagers.

Curriculum writingPublished authorVideo seriesEdrolo

Founding Learning Coach · Maven

Learning design coach

As a founding learning coach at Maven, I helped experts around the world turn what they know into cohort-based courses people actually finish — coaching them on learning design, structure, and student engagement. Teaching teachers to teach, at global scale.

Learning designCoachingCohort courses

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@yeahyoucantoo · TikTok

Creator · 103.6K followers · 1.5M likes

Chemistry explainers and exam tips for an audience of 103.6K students — 1.5M likes and counting. It's where most YYC students first find me, including one who went from "two teachers told me to drop chem" to a study score of 44. Meeting learners on their For You page beats waiting for them in a classroom.

Content creationAudience buildingDistribution

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About

The short version

👩‍🔬

I've seen education from every seat: senior chemistry teacher, textbook author, startup co-founder, tutor to hundreds of students, and now product manager. That means I don't guess what learners and teachers need — I've been in the room.

Lately I've been pairing that domain depth with AI: building working tools (like the two above) that solve real classroom problems, fast. I care about products that make people say "oh, I actually get it now" — whether that's a Year 12 student or a user hitting a feature for the first time.