Attention Leads to Ownership
Challenge A is the bridge between parent-directed elementary years and the more self-directed years to come. Students learn to take ownership of their work — and discover the joy of being responsible for their own learning.
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Every Challenge year integrates the same six strands — woven together by a single Director.
Mathematical foundations and reasoning about numbers, operations, and laws.
Natural science research — recording findings, illustrating, building models.
Constructing analogies, identifying fallacies in argumentation.
Drawing the world from memory and exploring the principles that shape nations.
Latin vocabulary, declensions, and conjugations.
The art of persuasive writing — literature analysis and essay composition.
The final five weeks of the semester give students the chance to put their research skills into practice — designing, executing, and presenting their own science fair project using the scientific method.
A look at how Directors guide students through dialectic and rhetoric across the Challenge years.