The class 11 and 12 project
One real app each, live at its own address, for the board project and the college file.
Who this suits. Senior students who need a project that stands up to being looked at, and a school that would like theirs to stand out.
- Could start
- At the start of an academic year
- What it asks of the school
- Committed
How it runs
Each student takes one idea through a whole term: what it is for, who uses it, what the screens are, and then the building. The app ends up live at its own web address and running on a phone.
Because it is live, it can be handed to real users — the school office, a parent, a shopkeeper on the road outside — and the student has to deal with what those people say about it. That feedback is most of the education.
What the student walks away with is a working link, an app on a phone, and the story of what went wrong and what they changed. That is a far better thing to put in front of an admissions officer than a printout.
What each side puts in
The school provides
- The project slot classes 11 and 12 already have
- A teacher willing to see a project through a whole term
- A little patience with ideas that fail in week three
The school gets
- Board projects that are demonstrably the student's own work
- A concrete admissions story: your students ship real software
- A portfolio the school can point at for years, because the links stay live
The students get
- One serious piece of work with their name on it
- A live link and a phone app for applications and interviews
- The experience of a real person using their software and not liking part of it
How it is paid for
Priced per cohort rather than per period, because a term-long project uses more than a lab exercise does. Some schools fund it from the project or activity fee that already exists for classes 11 and 12.
There is no price on this page, and that is on purpose. What this costs to run depends on how it is taught — short exercises shared between a few students cost a fraction of what long solo projects cost — and we would rather measure that in your school than quote a number we cannot stand behind. Whatever follows a pilot is agreed in writing before the pilot begins.
The catch
This is the most expensive model in this list, and the reason is worth understanding: the longer a project runs, the more it costs to keep changing it, because everything built so far has to be read again each time. A term-long project is many times the cost of a lab exercise. It also needs a teacher who will still care about it in week eleven.
Every model on the main page carries one of these, and the same page lists what we have not built yet. Everything we have not finished across the whole product is on our trust page.
Start with one class, one term, free.
Whichever model you end up running, the first step is the same: one branch, one teacher, one term, at no cost.
Talk to us about a pilot