
FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING
Launch Year 2025 - 2026
4 September 2024

Forecasting as a Tool
Big Bugs!
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10 September 2025

Eye Witness Challenge
Biomass Exploration

17 September 2025

Solve It! Ukraine
Under Your Nose
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24 September 2025

Solve It! Ukraine - Peace Talks
Coordinates: Who lives here?
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Physics Design Challenge
1 October 2025

Rewriting Seminar
Sharp: Tool Evolution


Fashion Design Challenge
8 October 2025
The Stocktober Challenge

15 October 2025
Understanding the Market

22 October 2025
Deductive Reasoning Challenge
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Use permitted with full attribution.
Looking for a list of all of our topics?
The science and artistry of life
From concept to reality
Are you prepared?
Building tomorrow, today
Sanctuary Build
Visions of the Future
The Art of Prediction
Codes and Ciphers
The World of Approximation
Explore Your Options
Use Your Voice
Exploring Abstract Art
Exploring Efficacy
Design Challenge
A Globetrotting Challenge
Mission Design Challenge
Communication Challenge
Exploratory Exercise
Policy Practicum
Origami Challenge
Building Brick Challenge
Challenge
Creative Writing Challenge
Stop-motion Film Challenge
Word of the Year Challenge
A DIY Challenge
Building Brick Challenge
For Lovers of Books
2024 Brand Design Challenge
Hackathon Experience Design
Team City Design Challenge
An AI Partnership Experience
A Communication Challenge
Earth Day 2024
​Weekly Topics​
Every launch, we offer multiple topics for our cadets to choose from, based upon their interests. You will find a running accounting below. Note that some topics are taught as a series, and many respond to individual student requests and interests.​
What do we teach?
Missions
​Every semester, our cadets choose a Mission (project) aligned with their goals designed to challenge them to practice and demonstrate high agency. The cadets present their results to an audience of family and friends at Demo Day, held at the end of each semester.
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Applied Skills
We use challenges and strategy games to teach everything from critical thinking to teamwork and communication skills.​ We develop all of our challenges in house, and have an ever-growing library of challenges and puzzles in our Challenge Codex and Puzzle Warehouse designed to challenge even the brightest minds. We are working to make the Challenge Codex publicly available.
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Launch Year 2024 - 2025
4 September 2024

Physics Interest Exploration
Problem Solving in Space


Understanding Fire

Stakeholder Analysis

GROW: Formulas of Self
11 September 2024

The Launchverse: Guided Tour

Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs
18 September 2024
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS




Physics Interest Exploration
Logical Fallacies
Gross is Cool!
25 September 2024
We the People: Guest Speaker



The Art of Photography
Understanding Storm Surge
Exploring Happiness

2 October 2024
The Creative Writing Adventure
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Writing Chinese Characters
Invention Club

The Biography of Earth

Reusable Math: Differentials

Straight Out of Science

Big History
16 October 2024
Insect Superheroes



Writing Chinese Characters
Invention Club

The Biography of Earth

Reusable Math: Differentials

Straight Out of Science

Big History
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The Creative Writing Adventure
9 October 2024
The Creative Writing Adventure
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Writing Chinese Characters
Invention Club

The Biography of Earth

Reusable Math: Differentials

Straight Out of Science

Big History

Gross is Cool!
23 October 2024
Insect Superheroes



Writing Chinese Characters
Invention Club

Big History
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The Creative Writing Adventure

The Biography of Earth

Reusable Math: Differentials

Straight Out of Science
6 November 2024
Resplendent Riddles

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The Art of Presentations
30 October 2024
Guest: Author Scott Smith


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Survival Skills Challenge
Artificial Intelligence
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The Creative Writing Adventure

Invention Club

Writing Chinese Characters

The Biography of Earth

Reusable Math: Differentials

Straight Out of Science

Big History
13 November 2024
Turning Reality Into Math



Survival Skills Challenge
AI and Your Future
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Critical Thinking Skills
The Art of Presentations
20 November 2024
Riddle Quest

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Critical Thinking: Nuance
Would This Make A Good Pet?
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The Art of Presentations
27 November 2024
Guesstimate Challenge

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The Art of Presentations
Riddle Quest
4 December 2024
Pitch Fest 2.0


Eureka Rush
11 December 2024
Demo Day Fall 2024
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8 January 2025
Journalism Basics



Make Your Own Path
Greatly Mistaken
29 January 2025
The Science of Action

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The Great Debate: Practicum
22 January 2025
The Amazing History of Soap

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Why Do We Play Video Games?
The Great Debate: Foundations

Would This Make a Good Pet?
15 January 2025
Eureka Rush



Urban Architecture Challenge
Would This Make a Good Pet?
12 February 2025
The Physics of Cooking


The Science of Performance I
19 February 2025
Ocean Mysteries
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The Science of Performance II
26 February 2025
History Challenge
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The Workshop
5 March 2025
The Periodic Table: Intro
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The Workshop
Public Speaking
12 March 2025
The Periodic Table: Team Atom
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The Workshop
Civ-Dev Challenge
5 February 2025
Creature Power Adventure



Airport Design Challenge
Just Try It: Mission Design
Skeletal Elements

26 March 2025
Chemical Algebra
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Public Speaking: Voice
Applied Art: Landscapes
The Workshop
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2 April 2025
The Paradox Paradox

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The Workshop
Applied Art: Optical Illusions
9 April 2025
Frozen: Absolute Zero
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The Workshop
Go4Games: Game Theory
16 April 2025
Riddle Quest: Artefact Edition
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The Workshop
Solve It: The Rise of AI
23 April 2025
Closet Chaos: Design Challenge
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The Workshop
Chess Tournament
7 May 2025
Policy Debate: Healthcare
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The Workshop
The Art of Presentations
30 April 2025
The Science of Tracking
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The Workshop
The Trivia Trials
19 March 2025
Chemical Algebra
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Zero-sum Thinking
Go4Games: Game Theory
The Workshop
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14 May 2025
Rewriting Workshop
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The Art of Presentations
Policy Debate: Healthcare
The Workshop
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21 May 2025
Demo Day Spring 2025
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28 May 2025
Cadet Talent Show
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​​​​Launch Year 2023 - 2024
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6 September 2023
- Artificial Intelligence (AI): Policy Practicum
- What's Worthwhile about Minecraft
- GROW: Up-skilling My Strategy
13 September 2023
- Economics: The Power of Theory
- Why Cute? A quest for a definition
- GROW: Am I asking the Right Questions?
20 September 2023
- Endless Opportunities in the Stock Market
- Art and Architecture: A Perfect Union
- How to Build a Perfect School
- GROW: How to make ends meet
27 September 2023
- The International System of Units
- GROW: Financial Planning
- Stock Market Movers and Shakers
- Stretch Goals
4 October 2023
- How to Build Rollercoasters: The Physics of Fun
- Raising Artificial Intelligence
- Greed, Fear, and Psychology in the Stock Market
- GROW: Our Relevance, Imagination, Symbolism, Expression, and Creativity
11 October 2023
- How to Know if a Business is Good or Bad
- GROW: Growing Up
- How Mosquitoes Find You, and other Interesting Facts
- The Great Debate: Argumentation
18 October 2023
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- What are stock options and why do they exist?
- GROW: Embracing Life Systems
- Analytic Technique: Assumption Analysis
- Dealing with Data: Considerations for Categorization
25 October 2023
- Artificial Intelligence and Financial Markets
- The Virtual Library of 2024
- Adventure Learning: Preparedness and Planning with Foresight
- Geography Gauntlet
1 November 2023
- Structural Approaches to Knowledge Management and Modeling
- Creative Writing Practicum
- Interest Mapping
8 November 2023
- Submarine Mountains
- Ideas that Shaped Civilization
- Contingency Planning: A What If Challenge
15 November 2023
- AI Preparedness: Does AI Know All the Answers?
- Cognitive Biases: Avoiding Analytic Pitfalls
- GROW: The Art of Slow Working
- Giving Thanks: A Master Class in Perspective
22 November 2023
- C-Suite Simulation
29 November 2023
- Start with Strength: Core Capability Mapping
- How to Calculate the Distance Between Stars
- GROW: The Art of Slow Working (Part II)
- C-Suite Simulation
6 December 2023
- Ideas that Shaped Western Civilization
- Structural Integrity, Tensile, and Compressive Strength
- GROW: Seasons of Life
- Bad Logic: Wagering Mistakes by Smart People
- Logo Design: Hands-on Learning
13 December 2023
- Bad Logic: Part 2
- The Tool of Scientific Thinking
- Theory of Knowledge: How do I know what I know?
- GROW: Seasons of Life Part 2
- The Shape of Things to Stress
- The AI 20 in 60 Challenge
10 January 2024
- "Goals without plans are just wishes." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
17 January 2024
- Ideating: Problem-Solving with Protypes
- GROW: Effective Communication
- Natural Structures in the Sea
- Weather the Weather Challenge
- Medicine Through Time: Medieval Beliefs and Treatments
24 January 2024
- How much does that cloud weigh?
- Solve It: Lake Kivu
- GROW: Community Development
- Categorization and Coding
- Problem-solving with Prototypes
- Medicine Through Time: Medieval Beliefs and Treatments
31 January 2024
- Haiku vs. Limerick Challenge
- Solve It: Lake Kivu
- Categorization and Coding
- Problem-solving with Prototypes
7 February 2024
- Geodesic Dome Design
- Solve It: Lake Kivu
- Conditionals and Coding
- Problem-solving with Prototypes
14 February 2024
- Speak! Organize Your Thoughts
- Create-a-Class Class (C3)
- Problem-solving with Prototypes
- Conditionals and Coding
- 3D Thinking
21 February 2024
- Explore: Heat
- Survive! Contingency Planning Challenge
- Categorization and Coding
- Museum Exploration
28 February 2024
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- Idiomatically Speaking
- Be an Ecopreneur
- Make Your Own Museum
- Coding: Data Types and Lists
- Skill Sort: Your Future, Your Plan
6 March 2024
- Make Your Own Museum
- Endless Opportunities in the Stock Market
- Coding: Data Types and Lists
- Overcoming the Anchoring Bias
- Be an Ecopreneur
- Ethics: Questions and Dilemmas
- GROW: Quarterly Catch Up!
- Periodic Table Snakes and Ladders
13 March 2024
- Explain Yourself: Feynman's Approach
- Invention: Prototypes of Your Inventions
- Coding: Final Challenges!
- Be an Ecopreneur
- Pi in Space: Enough Challenges to Go 'Round
20 March 2024
- Solve It: Dangerous Detritus
- Eclipse: Standing in the Shadow
27 March 2024
- Experiments in Space
- Solve It: Dangerous Detritus
- Shop Startup
3 April 2024
- Stock Market Movers and Shakers
- Critical Thinking Skills
- The Great Debates
- Animal Exploration: Cicadas
10 April 2024
- Game Map Creation
- Solve It: Space Debris
- Sewer Sensibility
- Environmental Mysteries
- Secret Mission Development
17 April 2024
- Rock Geek
- Environmental Sciences Fun
- Political Momentum: Generating Change
24 April 2024
- Ceteris Paribus
- Chess Fundamentals
1 May 2024
- Artificial Intelligence and Me
- Chess Puzzle Fun
- Executive Functions
8 May 2024
- What is Calculus?
- The Internet's Nerve System
- Brain Workout: Working Memory
- GROW: Seasons of Life
15 May 2024
- Solar Science
- Public Speaking: Exemplary Oratory
22 May 2024
- Cardboard Creations: Exploring Engineering
- Word Play: A Language Sleuthing Challenge
- GROW: Team Wellbeing
29 May 2024
- Mission to Space: Cadet Considerations
- The Bully in My Head
- GROW: Building Habits
Summer 2024

Summer 2025
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Covering:
​- Safety
- Breaking AI News
- AI Literacy
- Large Language Models
- Vibe Coding
- Student-led Application

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