We are dedicated to providing students with character and teamwork training in the wilderness, and then applying these skills to project based learning in technology. Ultimately the students gain professional technical experience while they produce marketable technology products whose revenues help sustain the program. The WTA is funded by the Paul G. Allen Foundation, the US department of Energy and others. The WTA will work with schools during the school year to implement such a class. Once a school has the class in place, the WTA will truck surplus equipment to the school and provide ongoing technical support to teachers and students.
Students demonstrate competency and obtain professional job experience during a one-year internship.
Establishing a statewide virtual multimedia software company consisting of students from schools across Washington. Students can tackle large multimedia projects and produce marketable products by breaking down large subject into workable components that individual schools or groups of students can handle. We accomplish this by first teaching and individual responsibility in the wilderness. Students then gather media and learn technology. Ultimately they produce their section of a CD-ROM or web site that is later assimilated into a marketable product.