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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

It's given us an opportunity to start critical discussions with our congregations, parents, community leaders and members, about the laws that govern education in Pennsylvania.

The Yass Prize is almost like Burning Man for education reform.

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

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