Alpha School Presents

Two Evenings That Challenge Everything You Know About Education

An intimate fireside series with the founders of Alpha — two nights, one question worth betting on: what a school should be. Attend one or attend both, we’d love to welcome you.

Friday · July 17

Kids Are Capable of Far More Than We Ask of Them

An evening with MacKenzie Price

Co-founder, Alpha School

MacKenzie Price tells the story that started it all — the afternoon her second-grader came home and said school was boring, the principal who said changing it would be like steering the Titanic, and her decision to stop asking and build something new. A decade later, that something is Alpha.

She’ll share what she got wrong, what took years to get right, and what it takes to bet your own kids on an idea before anyone else believes in it.

Time 6:00 – 8:30pm PDT
Location Microsoft Building 33 16070 NE 36th Way,
Redmond, WA 98052
Saturday · July 18

The Most Important Thing You Could Build Right Now Is a School

An evening with Joe Liemandt

Co-founder, Alpha School

Joe Liemandt almost never does this. The man who left Stanford and funded his first company on fifty maxed-out credit cards, built the first company to sell a billion dollars of artificial intelligence, and landed on the cover of Forbes at twenty-seven has spent most of his life out of public view — and is now spending the next twenty years of it building schools.

On Saturday night he’ll tell the founder’s story he rarely tells, then make his blunt case: that the two-hundred-year-old classroom is the worst way we’ve institutionalized to learn — and that we finally have the tools to replace it. If you want to understand where education is going, this is the room to be in.

Time 6:00 – 8:30pm PDT
Location Microsoft Building 33 16070 NE 36th Way,
Redmond, WA 98052
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