Announcing Session 5 Quests!

Announcing
​Session 5 Quests!

We are thrilled to announce our quests for our Spark, Discovery, and Adventure Studios for this upcoming session.

As our learners continue to work towards answering their overarching question of the year, "How do we build a heroic culture?" each studio will spend the first week back this session revisiting all things Acton. From their daily launches, to Freedom levels, from Core Skills to their contracts, they will explore how these systems help build culture and why each is an important building block for a successful Acton experience!

On top of that, we are also partnering with Tiger Rock Martial Arts this session, to allow all of our heroes to try out Taekwondo during PE, culminating in a Taekwondo showcase as part of our public exhibition on March 31st!

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Spark Studio

Quest: Healthy Living

​It's pretty remarkable if you stop to consider, the only world our youngest heroes have ever known is a world fixated on the pandemic. We are coming up on two years since the world shut down. This world altering event marked the beginning of their school experience and in many ways the outside world of masks and hand sanitizer is the only world they've known.

But what does it truly look like to live a healthy life?

Our Spark studio will explore how factors like food, exercise, sleep/ screen time, and mental health all contribute to the strength of their immune systems and ultimately their ability to live a long healthy life!
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Biome of the Session: The Rainforest

The Sparks will dive into the world of rainforests, exploring the ins and outs of this diverse and important ecosystem!

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Discovery Studio

Quest: Build an Arcade -  Mechanical Engineering

The Challenge:  Use the Engineering Design Process, along with completing a series of challenges, as a team of mechanical engineers to develop and build a new arcade game to be showcased at the exhibition! ​

Imagine this… you are a mechanical engineer who works for one of the biggest arcade companies in the world.  Your challenge is to create a new arcade game that will win the prize for generating the most income at your company’s exhibition on March 31st.  Not only will the winning team be promoted within the company with the honor of having designed the company's most popular new game, but each team member will receive a Chick-fil-A gift card as well!  Buckle your seatbelts, here we go! 
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Writer's Workshop: Pitch a Pet

​Narrative: The learners have a big responsibility: to better the community by choosing whether or not to purchase a studio pet, and if so, which pet to choose. They come up with proposals, conduct the appropriate research, learn the art of persuasion, ask others to join them, and then vote on a final decision. 

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Adventure Studio

Quest: Building an Electric City​

​Do great cities come from central planning or citizens choosing?

The Challenge: You are placed in the shoes of a mayor/ city planner and must balance the wants and needs of different residents, and ultimately build a great city!

In this Quest, Lions will have the chance to deeply explore electricity and quantum mechanics, and put theory to concrete use by constructing functioning 21st-century cities.  Throughout, they’ll be challenged to function as effective teams - setting goals, dividing work, and managing projects in the face of uncertainty and aggressive deadlines.
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Genre: "I Have a Dream For My Community" Speeches

The learner's genre challenge this session is to write a persuasive speech to designed to help improve something in their community. They have six weeks to work their way through a series of writing challenges, culminating with a speech where they "stand on the box" and give their 5-8 minute persuasive speech.

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Quests are real-world projects to master 21st-century skills.
Usually lasting four- to six-weeks, each Quest includes a series of challenges bound by a compelling narrative and is designed to deliver 21st century skills while simultaneously incorporating traditional topics like science, social studies, and history.