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.

I'm in the process of going through the construction of a 20,000 square foot $11.5 million dollar building dedicated to career and technical education for the students in the Philadelphia region.

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

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

The funding is not following children. We're trying to make better options for kids, for poor kids, middle class kids. Wealthy people have this choice, they opt out of their systems easily, why shouldn't all children have that choice?

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.

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.