This year, our Overarching Question is: “Does the past determine the future?”  We’ll explore whether heroes are born or made, how chemistry predicts elemental outcomes and whether political campaigns divide or unite.

We started our first week in middle school  Learning to Learn, Learning to Do and Learning to Be as individual heroes. In two weeks, we expect to be forged into a powerful tribe.

This week, Eagles dug deeply into a Hero’s Essay writing challenge, answering Who am I?; What do I promise? and Who do I want to become?  Each also reflected on how to overcome resistance, distraction and victimhood.

We also launched the Acton Network Film Fest, a music video competition open to over 100 Acton Academies around the world, as well as started drafting our studio contracts.

Friday afternoon featured our  Giant Hamster Wheel Contest, with teams of Acton Launchpad, middle school and elementary Eagles competing to conjure duct tape and paper into a contraption to propel the winning team across campus.