The High Desert Partnership in Academic Excellence Foundation

The organization operates a tk-12 public charter school, academy for Academic Excellence. The school provided instruction for approximately 1,433 tk-12 students. The school is modeled on The principal that children learn better when they have The opportunity to be actively engaged along with The teacher in The education process. The school has entered into partnerships with businesses, colleges, local government agencies and The federal government, specifically nasa and The department of defense. Through these partnerships The students have unique opportunities for hands on learning. One example is our Partnership with nasa-ames. When nasa performed their juno project to orbit jupiter, our students and students in south america, through lewis centers mission control, were able to participate in The tracking of spacecraft via The internet. They operated The deep space radio telescope dss-13 located at The goldstone deep space network in The mojave Desert. Such programs are once in a life time opportunities for The students to perform real science in real time. There are many other examples of this hands-on instructional model.