Joe Liemandt

And so think of, there's tons of stories around it, but these are project-based workshops where kids are doing stuff they love, but also teaching them life skills.

And so think of a life skill that you want.

Oh, I want my kid to be, I want entrepreneurial life skills.

So our fifth graders last year, or two years ago, ran an Airbnb and they loved it.

And they had to learn

P&Ls and gross margin and all these things.

They had to learn business and they were loving it.

How do we set prices and decorating it?

And this year, those same group were like, well, we want to launch a food truck.

Austin has a big food truck scene.

We want to launch a food truck.

And I was talking to one of them and I was like, why'd you pick, they pick breakfast food, dippers, they call themselves.

Why'd you pick breakfast food?

They're like, do you understand the gross margin of breakfast food?

It's just enormous.

And you're like, okay, this is awesome.

And they have the food truck and they're on weekends, like they're going to car dealerships and have it open and they're making a thousand dollars and just think it's great.

When you think of life skills, we're trying to treat, we have a whole life skill curriculum because common core curriculum is the standard academics, but parents have a standard of, okay, well, how do we teach teamwork and leadership?

Today, teamwork and leadership is taught via sports in America.

Most life skills in America are taught in after-school sports.