Stories
Fifteen years of people, in their own words.
We could tell you the program works. Better: here are the teachers, kids, parents, and alumni who would tell you what actually happens in the room.
- Interviews
- 48 this year
- Kids quoted
- 120+
- Alumni tracked
- 310
- Rule
- Kid quotes approved by kids
8 profiles
Teachers
Six people who teach here, why they stay, and the thing they wish parents knew.
Read more12 profiles
Kids
Six kids, six projects, and one kid who will tell you exactly what is wrong with the snack menu.
Read more9 profiles
Families
Parents on transportation, trust, and the first time their kid asked to go early.
Read more6 profiles
Alumni
Where they went, what they kept, and the ones who came back to work here.
Read moreThe numbers
Impact
Attendance, return rates, the survey, and the two questions where we are flat.
Read moreThe legends
Hall of fame
Records, the lamp, a 14-foot shark, and the kid who read 40 digits of pi.
Read moreHow we do this
Every quote on this website comes from a recorded conversation with a signed release. Kids approve their own quotes — we read them back, and if a kid wants to change or remove something, we do. Parents approve any quote from a kid under 14. Nobody is quoted from a survey response without being asked first.
We do not use stock photos of children, and we do not use AI-generated images of children. If there is no photograph, it is because we did not have permission, not because we forgot.
The stories are not marketing. They are the only honest way to describe a program that is mostly about a kid's face when a hinge finally lines up.
Every one of these people started somewhere
Most of them walked in on a Tuesday, sat at a bench, and stayed for eleven weeks. You can do the same.