Electives
Special Electives are designed both to enhance our existing academic programs, as well as to give the student, upon successful completion, a CORTONA ACADEMY SPECIAL CERTIFICATE OF OUTSTANDING ACHIEVMENT IN: (ELECTIVE). These certificates significantly enhance the student’s eventual application for college admissions and awards from Congress: Sample electives that are periodically offered include:
- Project for America: The Chevy VOLT: Study the mechanics and benefits of an actual Volt! We bought it. Our Students are designing improvements. Join the Project!
- Graphic design: both 2-D and 3-D
- 3-D Printer: Taking your invention from design to rapid prototyping.
- Creative writing – poems, short stories, blogs, etc.
- Understanding Einstein: from black holes to wormholes to time travel
- The Fine Arts: appreciating and understanding works in the arts by the masters
- Creating Fine Arts: Individual Projects , Mentors, Showings.
- Problems, puzzles and prize money! Solve problems in contests which award actual prizes!
- Screen play writing: how to write movie scripts, and get them to agents
- Game simulation and design: game theory, game paradigms
- DNA: mapping genomes through forensic genetics
- Marine biology
- Robotics
- Fractals and Fibonacci: from snowflakes to the golden triangle to the shapes of galaxies
- Chess: any level
- Special projects: student has mentor while exploring an area of intense interest in technology or the arts.
- College enrollment: how to select, apply to, get accepted, and fund college.
- A Patent Lawyer is on staff to help students get patents on their inventions, and creative and artistic designs.
