Joe Liemandt

This is a life skill I want to teach public speaking.

How do I frame it in a way where kids are going to love this and really engage with it?

The answer to that is it depends on the age of the kid.

So K-8, you can build an afternoon, and we have built an afternoon set of workshop and curriculum that's structured and standard and can be rolled out.

It's not custom where they're doing individualized projects.

But once you get to high school, we have what we call Alpha X Project, which is your four-year course.

super passion project where you have all afternoon for four years to work on you love.

And that is very custom.

Every kid's different.

We have one student who's putting, she's trying to get a Broadway musical.

It's the first all-teen produced, developed Broadway musical.

And so she spent years building it out.

She sourced all the people from TikTok and all the singers.

She can fill a thousand people into a venue now.

To your point, there's no guide or coach at Alpha who can help her.

Our high school curriculum very much is, how are you a self-driven learner who can use resources, including where AI really gives you superpowers, to be able to do these projects on your own?

And that's the difference.

K through eight, we have a life skills curriculum that the kids do that are designed and managed by the guides and coaches.

And then high school is where they transition to where they take ownership themselves.

And then they basically get feedback on how they're doing from the market, from the public.