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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.