Investigation
Detective & Forensic Science Lab
Can a small team of student detectives crack a high-stakes case using only evidence, logic, and integrity?
If you walked in today, you’d see…
- 4–5 teams huddled around evidence packets, arguing (respectfully!) about what the data really proves.
- A student at the board mapping alibis on a large timeline while classmates challenge gaps and contradictions.
- A teacher circulating like a coach, asking questions such as: “What makes you confident that’s true?” and “What evidence would change your mind?”
Historical Immersion
Experiencing History: The Price of Freedom
What does it really cost to build a powerful, free nation—and what prices are we willing to pay?
If you walked in today, you’d see…
- A huge, Risk-style map of the “New World” on the floor/walls, covered with mini people, ships, and resource tokens.
- Students clustered around “resource areas” negotiating trades, planning railroads, or arguing over who owns a port.
- A House huddled over a Dilemma Question: “You’ve discovered gold on land already occupied by others. What do you do?”
Creative Production
From Page to Stage: Original Play Production
Can a team of students write, produce, and perform an original play—while running the show like a real business?
If you walked in today, you’d see…
- One group drafting dialogue on a shared doc while another rehearses a scene they just wrote.
- A student director stopping a run-through: “That joke didn’t land—how else could we show this?”
- A “producer” team at the whiteboard updating a budget: expected ticket sales, costs, and profit goal.
Real-Market Venture
Marketplace Builders: Economics & Entrepreneurship
Can you design a business that creates real value for others—and survive in a competitive market?
If you walked in today, you’d see…
- Desks transformed into mini-storefronts with signs, prototypes, and samples.
- One team debating whether to raise prices after selling out; another arguing if coupons are “smart marketing or giving away profit.”
- A student at the board updating a class ledger of wages, taxes, and spending on shared “public goods” (like classroom improvements).
Civic Simulation
Politics: Power, Principles & Persuasion
What do I truly believe—and what am I willing to trade for power?
If you walked in today, you’d see…
- One group running a “free rider” experiment and arguing about what it reveals about human nature and public goods.
- Another group designing a poll and canvassing younger students to register and vote in a school-wide election.
- A student drafting an op-ed on free speech while a partner works on a “white paper” proposing real changes to studio rules.
Creative Performance
Songwriting: From Blank Page to Live Stage
Can you write an original song that truly moves people—and find the courage to perform it in front of a live audience?
If you walked in today, you’d see…
- A circle of students sharing raw lyric ideas, debating which lines feel honest vs. cliché.
- One duo quietly recording a rough demo on a laptop while another experiments with chord progressions on guitar or keyboard.
- A small “Stage 1” audience of 3–5 peers filling out feedback forms after a brave first performance.
Systems Simulation
Space Odyssey: Survive, Build & Lead
Can your crew survive, build, and lead a thriving colony in space—using science, engineering, and character to guide every decision?
If you walked in today, you’d see…
- One team aligning a telescope or digital sky map to plot safe travel routes through asteroid fields.
- Another group hovering over a jar ecosystem, debating whether changing the light or nutrients would stabilize it—or crash it.
- A small squad wiring LEDs and switches, trying to keep their “habitat dome” lit for at least 60 minutes on stored energy.
Field Science
Wildlife Biology: Save the Biomes
Can a team of student wildlife biologists diagnose and solve real-world crises before entire biomes collapse?
If you walked in today, you’d see…
- Students in goggles and lab coats leaning over dissection trays, carefully labeling external and internal structures.
- Giant biome maps and data charts on the walls: predator–prey graphs, invasive species maps, water-use diagrams.
- One House arguing about whether cheatgrass or wildfire is the bigger driver of tundra collapse; another mapping how illegal logging, poverty, and corruption intertwine in the Amazon.
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