Austin X. Volz

Previously

• Avenues Mastery AcademyCreator and Director

  Built cell phones and 3D printers in the best place in the world for making and innovation.

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  A quest-based intensive program that brought together high school students from the USA, Brazil, and China in Shenzhen, China to build smartphones and 3D printers under the guidance of expert mentors. Later expanded to biodiversity research in Costa Rica.

• Global Impact DiplomaFounding Steering Team Member

  Twenty-six schools. One diploma for students who want to change the world.

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  A collaborative, decentralized partnership between 26 schools to create a high school pathway that prepares students to make the world a wildly better place.

• Avenues J-TermProgram Lead

  Four thousand students, thirty countries, three weeks to understand and solve global-scale problems.

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  J-Terms were two 3-week miniterms for all 4,000 students across 30 countries to simultaneously develop skill sets for global-scale problems as well as provide study abroad and service learning opportunities.

• Avenues Global PassportCreator and Director

  A world language curriculum and product offering forty languages.

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  A world language program that employed a task-based learning and teaching approach to offer 40 languages, from Spanish to Mandarin and from Hungarian to Norwegian.