While the school world abruptly pivoted to the checkerboard of faces and delivered “Zoom School” in the Spring of 2020, Adam Mangana and Vince Jordan, with OptimaEd, pioneered the use of VR (virtual reality) technology to have school in the metaverse. Scholars were able to have a class together as avatars and continue the relationships that they had developed with their teachers and with their fellow scholars while in person.