Congratulations to our Class of 2023! We celebrate our Spike Founders’ college results, notable Spikes, and significant growth milestones.
Congratulations to our Class of 2023! We celebrate our Spike Founders’ college results, notable Spikes, and significant growth milestones.
New York Magazine recently published a scathing cover article titled, Inventing the College Applicant, that harmfully frames teen passion projects as an inauthentic tactic used by rich teens to get into top colleges. This post is a defense of the teen passion project. When done for the right reasons, it is an effective educational model for teens.
In his 2023-24 back-to-school message, our founder shares about how spikes are becoming more common for teens in high-achieving communities and are starting to get recognized, if done right, as a way to protect teens from the toxicity of high achievement culture – to become “healthy achievers”.
Congratulations to our Class of 2023! We celebrate our Spike Founders’ college results, notable Spikes, and significant growth milestones.
The Spike Foundations Program is a four-week intensive innovation-entrepreneurship BootCamp that aims to help teens between the age of 13 and 17 develop entrepreneurship and executive skills. You will be working with Larry, Spike Lab’s co-founder, and Daniel, a startup coach from Silicon Valley, to design and build a product in four weeks’ time.
Congratulations to our Class of 2022! We celebrate our Spike Founders’ college results, notable Spikes, and significant growth milestones.
In our Spike Coaching program, gratitude is a key marker of whether a student will launch a successful Spike project. This trend speaks to the necessity of teaching kids gratitude. We include tips on how parents can cultivate this trait in their teens.
Are you a teen who wants to a business? Or become an innovator? In this article, I’ll describe the unique benefits of learning entrepreneurship in high school, highlight the beliefs that set Spike Lab apart, and shout out a few other notable programs.
An entrepreneur, designer, and engineer, Sonia is passionate about the application of human-centered design (HCD) and technology to improve quality of life.…
Self-motivation can be hard for students to build and maintain. How can they practice motivation as a skill? How can parents support them?
The importance of self-reflection for students appears in both a Spike project and colleges applications. But how do you cultivate this skill that is essential for lifelong learning and success?