How Your Grade Is Built
80% of your grade splits 90/10 between Summative and Formative work. The other 20% is the trimester's Final Exam, on top of everything else.
Activities are formative. They're low-stakes on purpose — this is where you're allowed to be bad at something on the way to getting good at it.
Projects, Problems, and Unit Tests are all summative. These are where you show what you actually walked away with.
How Points Work
An Activity is the baseline point value. Everything else is set relative to it:
The baseline unit of points. Graded on completion & quality.
1×Same point value as an Activity, but it's Summative — it counts toward the 72%, not the 8%.
1×Worth double a Project. It's the capstone of the unit — it should weigh like one.
2×Same point value as a Project.
1×Course Structure
The year is split into two 11-week trimesters. Each one runs three units: two Core units and one Flex unit that's built to shrink first if the calendar loses days.
A Few Ground Rules
Any day we're building, cutting, or testing something, Safety & Shop Rules are in effect. No exceptions.
Activities can be redone. Projects and Problems can be revised before the unit closes. Unit Tests cannot.
Use AI to learn, not to skip learning. If you turn in something you can't explain, that's treated as plagiarism.