We design learning experiences to turn boring classrooms into labs for discovery. Our goal is to teach students the important skills of STEAM - science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics - through interdisciplinary challenges. For example, students might build a musical instrument that incorporates elements of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. We assess students not through exams or grades but by the projects they make. We teach skills like thinking, making, playing, and improving to train students to invent the future.

2. What do we do?

3. We design learning experiences

4. Turning boring classrooms……

5. Into labs for discovery

6. We want our students to gain one key insight...

7. The world is malleable
And they can reshape it
Provided they gain the right skills

8. But what are the right skills?

9. We think there are 3 important skills

10. Let's talk about STEAM

11. Good grades used to be the ticket to
success...
...but the 21st Century demands innovation

12. Innovation is rearranging and
connecting dots across disciplines...

13. That is why we don't teach
Just Science
Just Computing
Just Art
Just Mathematics

14. Instead we
encourage interdisciplinary thinking

15. We create challenges that run on STEAM

16. Here's one challenge we give our students:
Build a musical instrument

17. That takes STEAM

18. Science - vibration, resonance, amplitude, frequency
Technology - frequency measuring apps, cutting tools
Engineering - choose the right material, precision in
cutting
Arts - music theory, notes, performance
Mathematics - calculate frequency-wavelength relations

19. Let's talk about Making

20. Knowledge is power only when you
know how to use it

21. A simple crowbar turns the abstraction of
geometry into a usable simple machine.

22. But how do you assess if somebody is
learning how to use knowledge?

23. We don't have exams. We don't issue
grades.

24. We assess our students through the
projects they make.

25. How do you prepare students for jobs that
don't yet exist?
To use technology that does not yet exist?
For a future that does not yet exist?

26. We give them the skills to invent the
future

27. ...and that means training them in

28. which includes

29. Our classes teach TMPI
THINK
MAKE
PLAY
IMPROVE

30. A thinking process that lets you create something from
nothing

31. So…
• We promote
INNOVATION
CREATIVITY
IMAGINATION
among the junior students

32. Let’s Learn.
Let’s not just read……

33. Thank You