We don’t want you to rinse, wash, repeat. We want you to build and sustain.

The Yass experience has given us “permission” to do exactly that.

in innovators who are doing this type of transformational work, so that others can learn from it and replicate it, so that you can actually grow yourselves.

we have to find academic experiences that represent neuro-divergent learners, kids who want to learn about gaming, who want to do stuff online, who dropped out of school.

It has helped me raise the ceiling on what’s possible.

focusing on what we know is important for kids really works, and having a network of people now that also agree was super huge.

And through that, we were able to open up our second campus in the city of Wichita.

We believe very much that microschools should be bottoms up, they come from the community. They're founded by educators who know their community really well. And they want to design a learning environment for the kids in that community.

The Yass Prize has empowered our youth, families and community by bringing great visibility to our efforts.

It’s thanks to organizations like the Yass Prize that our children are going to have a better tomorrow.

from all different demographics, all different states, all different service provider types that you can learn from.

Not only because of the capital, but because of the knowledge that comes by communing with the diverse group of people as opposed to everybody that thinks the exact same way that you might think.