Every workshop builds one life skill.
Explore examples for each skill and grade band below. The slate changes every session, built from which advisors are teaching and what families pick.
Schedule a quick 15-minute consultation with our enrollment team to see if we can help your child accelerate.
workshops ran in Fall 2026
of them are competition teams
advisors, each with their own slate
every grade, every session
No audition. Every child ranks five.
Explore example workshops for different tracks and grade levels.
Think like a Scientist
Run real chemistry experiments at home until results are clean and repeatable, then prove it to a real scientist live.
AI Robot Coach Academy
Coach robots through complex VEX VR challenges using Claude and ChatGPT, documented in an Engineering Notebook.
VEX All-Stars: Rebuild the Legends
A virtual robotics challenge: compete on legendary VEX fields with Claude as your AI engineering partner.
The Unbuyable Product Lab
Invent a product that doesn’t exist, build it at home, and keep fixing it until it actually works.
Board Game Designer
Design, playtest, refine and pitch an original board game while learning strategy and game-design thinking.
Attractions in Action
Design an original attraction, prove the guest-flow and budget math, and field-test it on an earned Disney trip.
Mind Lab
Design and run an original behavioral-science experiment on real people, then defend it to a working psychologist.
3D Printing Academy
From your first 3D print to a useful gadget of your own. Students learn basic CAD skills, then flex their problem-solving by designing a useful print for the home.
Thunderdome
Understand weather patterns and predict the weather from your own measurements. Students build their own weather stations while learning data analysis.
The Peace Table
Learn to work together and resolve conflicts, listen, understand both sides, and earn a Peace-Maker badge.
Sold!
Write, shoot and edit a real commercial, then screen it to a live audience who decide: would we buy it?
Page Turners
Read what you love, score points for going bold into new genres, and climb the leaderboard.
Heroes & Villains: What Makes a Person Good?
Short stories, myths and dramatic scenes full of difficult choices and flawed heroes. Students defend their ideas with evidence, challenge classmates, and decide what actually makes a person good.
Global Headlines
Research the issues shaping the world right now, hold multiple perspectives at once, and challenge respectfully. The final challenge is a 30-minute, entirely student-led discussion.
Going Viral
Create original content, use AI feedback to improve it, and learn how creators capture attention.
Chess Foundations
Recreational chess for beginners: rules, piece movement and core tactics in a fun, low-pressure setting.
Strategic Chess
Developing players sharpen strategy, tactics and game planning. Recreational and unrated; rated play lives in Competitive Chess.
Say That Again
Draw a random topic cold, take a clear position, and defend it under live challenge. No notes. No prep.
The Deal
Master the Ackerman negotiation model used by FBI negotiators and close a real deal at a local business.
Food Lab Challenge
Become a food scientist and recipe creator, exploring flavor, nutrition, kitchen skills and food science.
Sky Tower Challenge
Design, test and rebuild towers, balancing height, strength and stability like a real engineer.
Codebreakers
Crack secret codes that get harder every week, including a final one no one has ever solved.
Habit Systems
Accomplish your biggest goals one tiny step at a time. Understanding how habits form means any skill can be improved over time.
Lift the World
Students learn first principles and creative design to solve a real problem, working alongside students in Ghana to build a prototype those students can deploy at home.
How a session works.
Build your list
Families browse what each advisor offers and save the ones they want.
Choose your times
Rank up to three time slots for each saved workshop.
We build the schedule
Workshops are finalised from those votes and set at the times most families picked.
Rank your top five
The schedule is set. Each child ranks a top five to enroll.
You do not sign up for these. You try out.
Teams run the full year and compete against schools outside GT. Every one of them auditions.
Competitive Chess
USCF-rated competitive chess across three levels, Competitive Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced, matched to each player’s rating.
Math Competitor Academy
Students train like math athletes, mastering competition strategies, tackling challenging problems, and competing in AMC 8, MOEMS, Math Kangaroo and MathCounts.
Math Elite Academy
Students tackle advanced competition mathematics, train for AMC 8, MathCounts, AMC 10 and AIME pathways, and prove their skills in nationally recognized contests.
Botball Robotics Team
Found GT’s first competition robotics team, fully autonomous robots, building toward the Botball World Championship.
History on Trial
Research a historical topic you love using primary sources and present at the National History Day competition.
The Verdict
Build a real case, cross-examine witnesses, and argue before outside judges who deliver a binding verdict.
Speech and Debate Team Prime
Speech and Debate Team Gold
Speech and Debate Team Navy
