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 FOR THE LOVE   OF LEARNING 

Launch Year 2025 - 2026

4 September 2024

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Forecasting as a Tool

Big Bugs!

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10 September 2025

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Eye Witness Challenge

Biomass Exploration

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17 September 2025

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Solve It! Ukraine

Under Your Nose

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24 September 2025

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Solve It! Ukraine - Peace Talks

Coordinates: Who lives here?

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Physics Design Challenge

1 October 2025

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Rewriting Seminar

Sharp: Tool Evolution

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Fashion Design Challenge

8 October 2025

The Stocktober Challenge

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15 October 2025

Understanding the Market

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22 October 2025

Deductive Reasoning Challenge

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No email sign-up gimmicks.

Just some of the materials and challenges our students loved, shared for the fun of learning.

Use permitted with full attribution.

Looking for a list of all of our topics?

Click here to link to the full list below

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The science and artistry of life

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From concept to reality

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Are you prepared?

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Building tomorrow, today

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Sanctuary Build

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Visions of the Future

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The Art of Prediction

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Codes and Ciphers

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The World of Approximation

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Explore Your Options

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Use Your Voice

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Exploring Abstract Art

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Exploring Efficacy

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Design Challenge

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A Globetrotting Challenge

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Mission Design Challenge

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Communication Challenge

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Exploratory Exercise

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Policy Practicum

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Origami Challenge

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Building Brick Challenge

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Challenge

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Creative Writing Challenge

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Stop-motion Film Challenge

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Word of the Year Challenge

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A DIY Challenge

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Building Brick Challenge

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For Lovers of Books

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2024 Brand Design Challenge

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Hackathon Experience Design

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Team City Design Challenge

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An AI Partnership Experience

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A Communication Challenge

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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

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Physics Interest Exploration

Problem Solving in Space

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Understanding Fire

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Stakeholder Analysis

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GROW: Formulas of Self

11 September 2024

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The Launchverse: Guided Tour

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Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs

18 September 2024

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

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Physics Interest Exploration

Logical Fallacies

Gross is Cool!

25 September 2024

We the People: Guest Speaker

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The Art of Photography

Understanding Storm Surge

Exploring Happiness

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2 October 2024

The Creative Writing Adventure

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Writing Chinese Characters

Invention Club

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The Biography of Earth

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Straight Out of Science

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Big History

16 October 2024

Insect Superheroes

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Writing Chinese Characters

Invention Club

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The Biography of Earth

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Reusable Math: Differentials

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Straight Out of Science

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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

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The Biography of Earth

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Reusable Math: Differentials

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Straight Out of Science

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Big History

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Gross is Cool!

23 October 2024

Insect Superheroes

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Writing Chinese Characters

Invention Club

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Big History

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The Creative Writing Adventure

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The Biography of Earth

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Reusable Math: Differentials

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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

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Invention Club

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Writing Chinese Characters

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The Biography of Earth

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Straight Out of Science

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Big History

13 November 2024

Turning Reality Into Math

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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

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Eureka Rush

11 December 2024

Demo Day Fall 2024

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8 January 2025

Journalism Basics

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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

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Would This Make a Good Pet?

15 January 2025

Eureka Rush

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Urban Architecture Challenge

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12 February 2025

The Physics of Cooking

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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

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Airport Design Challenge

Just Try It: Mission Design

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26 March 2025

Chemical Algebra

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Public Speaking: Voice

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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

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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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