Their friends and neighborhoods often teach their values, which are not always positive. Our programs begin by reconnecting students with mankind's original teacher. Traditional education methods teach students skills they may someday use to benefit their lives. Students then embark on obtaining the skills necessary to produce these technology products. This makes learning relevant, highly motivating, and positions the school at the center of the community.
Successful students return in their senior year to actually teach the technology class.
The programs work because the rate of change in technology makes professional competence less determined by what you know and more determined by what you can learn. Thus high school students have the capacity to outperform people with 50 years of experience in technology. Our programs harness this capacity and apply it to improving the student's lives, their schools, and their communities. This makes learning extremely relevant. If schools can produce more than they consume, they can accelerate.