Get Future Ready
Unlock the skills that matter most. When you’re part of The Project Lab you’ll work alongside motivated peers with support from our impressive tutors and expert project designers. You'll learn valuable real-world insights that set you up for success in college, position you more competitively for internships, and prepare you for any direction life may take you.
College Prep That is Also Life Prep
The Project Lab experience offers a dynamic problem-solving approach that goes beyond traditional constraints, fostering innovation, creativity, and human-centered solutions that make a meaningful impact on the world. Doing real work doesn’t have to wait until after college.
By thinking multi-dimensionally about the world around you, you’ll learn to move from idea to action.
Skills You'll Build in Each Project Lab
Develop Empathy
Hone your ability to connect with people and truly understand their needs. This is a Swiss army knife kind of skill you will use everywhere, trust us.
Define the Challenge
Master the art of pinpointing complex issues with precision and clarity. Imagine having the tools to dissect any problem and get to the core of it.
Generate Creative Ideas
Unleash your creativity and generate innovative solutions. It's like having a secret stash of ideas that can change the world.
Prototype & Test
Become a hands-on problem solver by building, testing, and refining your ideas. It's like being a scientist in your own laboratory.
Implement Solutions
Transform your ideas into tangible, real-world solutions that bring to life your passion and commitment.
The Project Lab Advantage
Our approach to learning will prepare you with content and skills that stand out and tell a whole story about who you are. Let your creativity shine, meet connections to collaborate with, create purpose driven work you can share.
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Curiosity
Tap into things you already know you’re interested in and go further with them, discover new interests with the support and expertise of your Project Lab team.
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Real World Impact
Tackle meaningful, real-world challenges, building confidence in open-ended situations.
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High Level Collaboration
Partner with a variety of viewpoints, backgrounds, and expertise levels.
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Creative Problem Solving
Learn how to solve problems and challenges and develop versatile problem-solving skills, including frameworks for creative solutions.
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Future Readiness
Enter college and your career path with a unique personal narrative and a strong sense of purpose.
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Effective Communication
“Show” don’t “tell”. Learn how to share not just any story, share YOUR story.
The Project Lab Experience
Assess the challenge.
Construct an argument for why the existing approach isn’t working.
Develop a solution based on the content and skills you are getting from your Lab.
Show your work!
Create something you can share.
What to Expect in The Lab
Through regular, short, structured work sessions you’ll build your argument alongside your collab (aka the other students in your Project Lab)
Students in all projects will work with 2 undergraduate mentors that will inform, guide, and inspire throughout the process.
Each collab will meet virtually 3 times a week in the late afternoon for 45-60 minutes. At other times students will work asynchronously with their mentors and each other via Slack (a collaborative communication platform with a dedicated channel for each Lab).
Produce showable, shareable work to present your solution through the medium of your choice – maybe it’s a website, a video, a podcast, an article, even a product launch– we’ll be here to support and encourage you to create the visual representation of your idea.
Set Your Child Up For Success
TPL is an opportunity to provide your child with an exceptional educational experience that embraces their genuine interests and fuels personal growth. As your child learns to identify and own their interests, strengths, and goals, they’ll gain confidence and begin forming a unique personal narrative that will help them stand out in the ever-evolving landscape of higher education.