Building an education savings platform, with Ruby!
summary
Wealthsimple Foundation builds an education savings platform in Ruby that ties into government RESP accounts and avoids promoting the for-profit parent. Engineers build and operate the application and also run outreach and workshops. The project helps 8,700 students claim $5.4M in funding and delivers financial literacy to about 2,000 people, showing the product actually reaches its audience while navigating tax‑agency marketing restrictions.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:27Accessibility advocacy
- 4:16Educational workshops
- 6:01Mentoring and coding
- 8:32Teaching programming
- 11:26Civic hacking
- 13:54Open source software
- 16:22Non-profit work
- 24:10Call to action
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