Jude Wallis is a high school student in Manhattan Beach, California, and the founder of EconLearn, a free, interactive study platform for AP Microeconomics and AP Macroeconomics.
He built EconLearn to close a gap he kept hitting as a student: AP Economics is one of the most graph-heavy AP exams, yet most prep is static text. On EconLearn, students drag real supply, demand, and AD/AS curves and watch equilibrium, surplus, and deadweight loss change in real time, then practice with AP-style questions tied to what they just saw.
Jude took 2nd place internationally at the Economics Olympiad (econolympiad.org). That competitive-economics background is the lens behind every module: the economics has to be rigorous, and the graphs have to reward curiosity.
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, an algorithmic optimization contest run on Algotester.
In October 2026 he placed 4th of 110 teams in the final round of Learn2Design 2026, a NeurIPS 2026 competition in designing gravitational-wave detectors by computer search, after placing 1st of 67 in Round 3.
He also received a Commendation in the 2026 John Locke Institute Global Essay Prize in economics.
Today EconLearn includes 21 interactive graphs, 566 practice questions with explanations, flashcards, free-response (FRQ) practice, an AP score predictor, and classroom tools used by AP Economics teachers and their students.
Writing and recognition
- “The Econ Kid: How Jude Wallis created EconLearn.org, an advanced teaching platform attracting attention nationwide” ↗ , a feature by Mark McDermott in Easy Reader & Peninsula (September 2026).
- Sequence A400352 in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences ↗ , which Jude authored. He computed its newest term, 13,856,993, a value connected to Erdős problem #293 (approved September 2026).
- “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, and is used in AP Economics classrooms at Mira Costa High School.
- EconLearn was featured as a free economics resource on the Pennsylvania Department of Education's Standards Aligned System portal ↗ (October 2026).
- “How This Teen Made His First Software Sale to a School” ↗ , an interview with Jude on the Honest Wealth Builders podcast about building EconLearn in high school and selling it to a school district (August 2026).