Cabo was charged with designing a dream summer camp. He designed a reptile camp where campers would catch reptiles, snakes, skinks, and lizards.

Cabo was picked up early from the session (@1:54pm).

Cabo and I went through his office organizing books and papers and determining what he wanted to keep at school, take home and/or throw out.

Cabo was presented with a reading from a blog by Mr. Money Mustache.

We discussed the author’s alternate work/life structure. We discussed the power of compounding interest. We read from Vanguard’s website regarding historical returns of select funds.

Ben was challenged to create his own take on a snowman in our 3D drafting software. He drafted one version in the software. The iPad rebooted unexpectedly. He finished drafting the creation on the whiteboard. We then recreated it in the software after he was done.

Cabo was run through a brief review of Spanish materials that we had covered.

He was then presented the information from a Time magazine article. This article detailed what one expert had deemed his top 5 keys to memorizing information.

Cabo and I then discussed how he could implement some of the keys from this article into his academic pursuits.

We had a brief meeting with Judie during one of her regular check-ins. We discussed Cabo’s pursuits.

We then studied the obligatory contractions of the Spanish language.

We also discussed the impact of recency and primacy on the human brain and how that can inform good study practices.

Marcel and I discussed the design process involved with many of today’s popular products. He was then given the opportunity to mentally go through that process with an imaginary product.

One theme of the class that was discussed over and over again was the value of cost-benefit analysis and how they can be used as a tool during various stages of the design process.

Cabo and I discussed his recent performance on the PERT practice test.

We discussed his desire to move forward toward taking the actual PERT test, to dual enroll next year, and the process to move forward in the even that he and his family decide that it is the best option.

Today, I administered the Math portion of a practice PERT test to Cabo.

Cabo stayed focus through the test even though that took us a little over his scheduled session time.

At first glance, he did a fantastic job on the practice.

Cabo checked for work from his teachers.

We discussed his progress on his project of streaming content.

He let me know that he needs to re-acquire specific software in order to move forward on his project.

We developed a strategy for Cabo to get the software.