Welcome to the fourth week of the third session’s weekly newsletter! This week in Genre, we finished writing our biographies! We split up...

Welcome to the third week of the third session’s weekly newsletter! Quest this week was centered around plants, and as it isn’t Acton...

We are now done, with week 6 coming close to the end of the session. We are finally wrapping up all of our projects, like the NYC, which...

Welcome to the first official week of the third session’s weekly newsletter! This session’s Quest is biology, and we will be learning...

Hasn't the time flown by? It’s already the last week of the session, and it's soon to be the Holiday break! This week has been so busy...

We are now 4 weeks into session two, and we did many fun things this week. I can't wait to tell you all about it! In genre, we began to...

It is now two weeks into this session and here is a brief update of what we have been up to this week! In genre, we dived more into what...

We have just finished week 3 of session 2, and here's a quick rundown of what we have done this week! In civ this week, we focused more...

We are so excited to finally begin session two! We are looking forward to many things, like diving more into our NGA (Next Great...

Welcome to the last week of the first session’s Launchpad newsletter! Since this is the last week of the session, we spent a lot of time making sure our Genre challenges were well-edited and our Quest was thoroughly reflected on. In Genre, we made some last edits to our blog posts to ensure they were ready for greenlighting (the final approval stage). It took a lot of hard work and effort to make sure our blog posts met the excellence standards, but after a few hours, we acco

Welcome to the sixth week of the first session’s Launchpad newsletter! This week in Genre, we put the finishing touches on our blog posts by giving each other a final critique. We have written four blog posts each, some of which will be published on an official Acton Academy blog that will be accessible to all parents and family members.  In Quest this week, we played our A Game again, except instead of playing as individuals, we split into groups to learn the crucial skill o

Welcome to the fifth week of the first session’s Launchpad Newsletter! This week in Genre, we wrote yet another post for our NGA blog. We focused on the Hero’s Journey and the various steps the Hero’s Journey consists of, such as the Call to Adventure and Meeting the Mentor, to name a few. We spent a lot of time freewriting, where we sat quietly with ourselves, allowing our inner thoughts to come to writing.  We started out NGA this week with Clearness Committee meetings. The

Welcome to the fourth week of the first session’s Launchpad newsletter! This week in Genre, we again focused on writing our NGA blog posts. We styled our pieces after Seth Godin , an author known for his short but very informative blog posts. Our goal was to pick a topic we were interested in and write about it in under 200 words. This proved challenging to some, but in the end, we all created posts we felt proud of.  In Quest, we continued playing our A Game (the card games

Welcome to the third week of the first session’s Launchpad newsletter!! This week was the start of an exciting adventure in the Launchpad studio as we began our Next Great Adventure searches! The Next Great Adventure (or NGA, for short) allows young people to explore and discover their passions, find their gifts and calling, and use them to change the world one day. This week, we spent a lot of time studying and finding industries that interest us, and we took a deep dive int

Welcome to the first session of AABC’s new launchpad! I am so excited to be the first to share with you all a week in the life of a Launchpadder, and I hope you are ready to hear all about it. Since it’s one of the first weeks of the new school year, we put a lot of focus into building the tribe. This meant that we played a lot of team-building games together, which included getting-to-know-you games, board games, and Launchpad’s very first lip dub! For those of you who are u

For the 1st time ever in AABC, we have a Launch Pad studio!!!! On Tuesday night, we invited the LP Falcons for a special opening night. They cooked themselves a Mexican dinner, discussed the rules of the House Cup, and started to build their special bond. On Thursday, the LP Falcons opened the day by cooking breakfast and having a fascinating morning launch discussion about the following question: What does it mean to live a successful life? They then started working on the f