High School Elective · Grades 9–12
A full-year, project-based elective taught in ad-agency culture. Students take a venture through the complete journey — problem, offer, brand, launch attempt — and defend the evidence at Demo Day, leaving with the portfolio, the know-how, and the earned confidence to do it again on their own.
Taught inside your co-op · Weekly lesson + proctored studio hours · 1.0 transcript credit
A Minimum Viable Offer — no app required — priced honestly and launched for real under a parent-approved consent workflow, with every result tracked and learned from, whatever the market says back.
A rubric-scored Portfolio of Proof — research, brand, landing page, campaign data, launch report — the depth-of-engagement evidence colleges increasingly prize.
The discipline to verify, cite, and own every output — trained through an earned AI License, not an open tab.
Most startups fail because they build products no one wants — so this course refuses to let students build first. It's time to "understand the assignment": validate the problem, listen to the market, and let the evidence earn every next step. That discipline is the product.
Anyone can prompt their way to something that looks finished. This course builds the judgment to know whether it's any good — the same method behind real agency work — then hands students the AI, with context worth giving it.
Every output verified, every AI assist cited, integrity reflected in rubrics — character graded alongside craft.
Bootcamps end. The Agency promotes. Returning students re-enter the same year-long arc at the next rung — new venture, senior seat, higher bar — through 12th grade.
Found a venture with your pod. Rotate every seat, pass every gate, pitch with proof at Demo Day.
Scale last year's venture to a new segment — or found a higher-bar one. Hold a lead seat, onboard Associates, and defend a growth story with metrics.
Run the venture like an agency — real clients or a real revenue goal — mentor junior pods, and close with a leadership story: results, plus evidence of developing others.
And nobody ever enters late: every year begins at problem discovery, because every venture does. New year, new venture, new seniority — nobody repeats, everybody advances.
The one-hour lesson opens the weekly studio block — two proctored build hours follow on-site, completing the deliverable with minimal homework and logging every Carnegie hour toward credit.
Rubric-scored deliverables, module gates, and a capstone pitch — 40% deliverables, 20% participation, 20% quizzes, 20% portfolio & pitch. Credit: a full 1.0 elective — ~99 studio-block hours plus capstone events (~108 total), logged weekly and validated by your transcript reviewer.
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Yes — a full 1.0 elective credit. The weekly studio block (one hour of instruction plus two proctored build hours) accrues ~99 Carnegie hours across the year, with capstone events bringing the total to ~108. Hours are logged weekly with each portfolio entry, and we bring the logs and credit mapping so your transcript reviewer's job is straightforward. Lighter cadences map proportionally.
They practice real selling — and it's governed. Parents approve outreach scripts and external communications before students execute anything, first customers typically come from the co-op community, and consent is modeled as a core business ethic. Whether the market says yes is part of the lesson: results are tracked and learned from, never guaranteed — that verdict belongs to the customers.
AI assists learning but never replaces thinking. Access is earned through the License ladder — Observe, Navigate, Drive — with every output verified, every assist cited, and consent logs for any data use. Fabricating sources or results triggers revision and reflection, and integrity is reflected in rubrics.
Biblical business foundations — wisdom, integrity, stewardship, service — run as a quiet strand through every module, with depth set with each community: scripture-led where that's your culture, gently woven where it isn't. Students are assessed on skills and deliverables, never personal beliefs.
No. Q1 exists to find one properly — problem observation before solutions is the first discipline the course teaches. Arriving with an idea is welcome; arriving with curiosity is enough.
That's the design. Returning students advance — Grow, then Lead — with a new venture, a senior seat, and a higher rubric bar, while new students always begin at the front door. Nobody repeats; everybody advances.
Yes — the full-year format compresses cleanly to 32–33 weeks on a documented plan, and a 16-week semester format walks the complete arc at sprint pace where a co-op prefers it (credit maps proportionally). Your format is set during the consultation to match your calendar.
Tell us about your co-op and your students — we'll walk you through the year, the method, the credit pathway, and what it takes to launch.
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