PROGRAM
i2 Month represents the next step in our vision of the future of education, expanding the immersive experience of STEM Week into a single one month project incorporating key principles across all major content disciplines. Over the four weeks of i2 Month, students are tasked with solving a real world challenge that has been designed so that the class works collaboratively and uses integrated age appropriate concepts from English Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, and Art to be successful, just as engineers and problem-solvers do in the real world. With this in mind, all i2 Month programs require students to read and write, do numerical calculations, use new technologies, study history and government, create, take risks, and find an artistic ways to express themselves. The real world context of the challenge gives students purpose to their learning.
MONTHLONG COURSES
RESULTS TO DATE AND NEXT STEPS
After a successful inaugural program in five schools in 2017, we have more than doubled the number of schools running i2 Month and have added a new Biotechnology course in partnership with Vertex Pharmaceuticals where students start a new biotech company focused on sickle cell disease.
Road Map for Future Years
2021-22 School Year
i2 is now working with 6 schools in 4 districts to replace all of their current subject specific curriculum for the entire 2021-22 school year with one immersive interdisciplinary challenge.
A bilingual advertisement created by students to encourage brave pioneers to live on the moon.
““It was a great experience, especially the building part. I learned lots of new things. It was fun.”
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“Everybody was just having fun, but we were actually learning.”
Students design and build a lunar colony during i2 Month, read and write science fiction, and then form a government with a constitution to engage future colonists.