Our objective is to heighten interest in the sciences as a career choice for high school students and to encourage students to participate in these programs.

This would change high school as we know it. It lets students have more choice. It lets them play to their strengths.

I taught high school students Spanish.

Fort Wayne has only one other charter school currently offering families choice, and we believe there is lots of interest in a high-quality college preparatory program that is public and has free tuition.

We had to randomly distribute the students overloaded in that school into their second choice. That's the 30 students or so who got their second choice.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.