Jude Wallis
Jude Wallis is a high school student and the founder of the Learn Network: free, interactive study sites built around a simple belief, that you understand a concept when you can drag it around and watch it respond.
The first site, EconLearn, teaches AP Economics through 21 draggable graph sandboxes, 1,100+ pages of guides and practice, and free teacher tools. The Colorado Department of Education lists EconLearn in its economics resource bank. Jude took 2nd place internationally at the Economics Olympiad (econolympiad.org). In September 2026 he placed 2nd of 66 overall, and 1st among the 46 student entrants, in Round 2 of the Huawei Optimization Tournament 2025-26 (Algotester), and he received a Commendation in the 2026 John Locke Institute Global Essay Prize in economics.
EconLearn grew into the Learn Network, which now spans StatsLearn for AP Statistics, CalcLearn for AP Calculus AB and BC, FinanceLearn for personal finance and investing, and PhysicsLearn for AP Physics 1, 2, and C. Physics may be the approach's most natural home: forces, trajectories, and collisions are physical to begin with, and the simulations here let you push on them directly.
Writing and recognition
- “What Building My First Product in High School Taught Me About Customers”, a first-person piece by Jude in YFS Magazine, a global publication for founders and small-business owners (July 2026).
- EconLearn is listed in the Colorado Department of Education's economics resource bank, alongside Khan Academy and EconEdLink.
- 2nd place internationally at the Economics Olympiad (econolympiad.org).
- Huawei Optimization Tournament 2025-26 (Algotester), Round 2: 2nd of 66 overall, 1st of 46 students.
- John Locke Institute Global Essay Prize 2026, Economics: Commendation.