Matthew Benet is an award-winning gifted educator. First through private tutoring, then through CTY, and today as the founder of edRev, Matt has taught and mentored over 200 gifted students since 2016. 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, 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, an organization that focuses on 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."