Pedagogy, not vibes
Six rules we never break
Real projects, real hardware, real thinking — every rung is a thing you can hold, not a badge you unlock.
Make first, name later
Concepts are experienced with hands and bodies before they get vocabulary. Kids sort buttons before they hear 'classifier'.
One new tool per semester
A hard rule across all ten years. Skills stack because nothing lands on a cliff of three unfamiliar tools at once.
Spiral, not checklist
Algorithms appear in Grade 3 as sandwich recipes and in Grade 12 as evaluated research. Same thread, deeper rung.
Every year ships
A public capstone with a real audience every single year. Feedback from real users beats grades from worksheets.
Honest AI
Students train models and measure them — accuracy, failure classes, bias by dataset. No magic, no hype, no fear.
Assessment that respects making
Portfolios and rubrics, not exams. Evidence of iteration counts as much as the thing working.