About Shelby Joe

Shelby Joe 周 is the Founder of Piqosity. He has more than 20 years of experience in education as an entrepreneur, professor, and tutor. Shelby earned his BA in Political Science from Rice University. Born and raised in Mississippi, he now resides in Houston but has also lived in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hamburg.

App Update to Personalized Practice

Our engineering team took a break from the post-Thanksgiving Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping frenzy to push a big app update, particularly to the student features of Personalized Practice and Review Activities. Highlights from this update include: Personalized Practice is completely rewritten both with the student user interface and backend engineering. We updated [...]

By |2024-05-30T16:28:51-05:00November 29th, 2023|Piqosity News|

ACT Practice Tests, 12 Full-Length

Piqosity’s market leading ACT test prep course just got even better. Our top tier Advanced package now includes 12 full-length ACT practice tests, and the middle tier Honors package now includes 6 full-length ACT practice tests. We’ve also added hundreds of new questions to our Personalized Practice feature. The new ACT practice tests are [...]

By |2024-08-22T11:55:59-05:00October 24th, 2023|ACT Test Prep|

Mississippi National Merit Semifinalists 2023-2024

For 163 Mississippi high school seniors, the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Competition brought good news: these high-achieving students have earned the celebrated “Semifinalist” designation. In order to do so, they had to score among the top 1% of Mississippi students who took the PSAT/NMSQT in October of 2022.  This list is for a previous [...]

By |2024-09-12T15:08:06-05:00September 15th, 2023|SAT Test Prep|

App Service Disruption

Dear Piqosity Students, Parents, and Educators, This is a notice that our servers have suffered a security breach. What happened? On July 2, 2023 at approximately 9pm US Central Time, we discovered that our Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosting account had been the target of unauthorized access and our primary and secondary systems deleted. [...]

By |2023-07-06T16:34:16-05:00July 2nd, 2023|Piqosity News|

Announcing Launch of Pre-Calculus and ELA 10 Courses

We're excited to announce the launch of our new ELA 10 and Pre-Calculus courses designed primarily for ninth grade students. They come bundled together for unparalleled levels of practice to help with the challenge of beginning high school. With these launches and our future roadmap, Piqosity is taking its place as the web's leading e-learning [...]

By |2023-03-24T10:04:06-05:00March 23rd, 2023|English, Math, Piqosity News|

Scheduled Maintenance March 15-16

The Piqosity app will be offline for a major code release starting at 11:59pm on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, that will last until at least 6am Thursday, March 16th US central time. As previously announced, there will be some significant features in this release. Feature and Content Updates Pre-Calculus and ELA 10 are going [...]

By |2023-03-17T17:06:24-05:00March 6th, 2023|Piqosity News|

Big Content and App Updates On the Horizon

We have big plans for 2023! The internet's most innovative and advanced e-learning platform for ACT, SAT, ISEE, math, and English is getting more awesome beginning later this winter. Here’s a look at our content and app roadmap going through this summer. We’re adding more learning content, new courses, and more app features. More [...]

By |2023-11-29T17:10:18-06:00January 11th, 2023|Piqosity News|

OpenStax K12 Content is Coming to Piqosity

We're proud to announce that we're partnering with Rice University's OpenStax to vastly expand our instructional material in math and English. OpenStax is one of the world's largest publishers of open educational resources (OER) and fourth largest publisher of educational content. Since 2012, Rice University has been publishing a library of free textbooks through its OpenStax [...]

By |2023-11-30T10:08:36-06:00November 30th, 2022|Piqosity News|
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