Astra Nova School: Elon Musk Creates Online School With $7,500 Annual Fee
The school will teach rocketry and virtual reality.
The founder and CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, has created an online school where children will study virtual reality and rocketry for $7,500 a year. This is reported by The Daily Beast.
The online school Astra Nova will open its virtual doors as early as September and will be the successor to the exclusive school Ad Astra, which has been teaching a small group of children for free since 2016, including Musk's own children and employees of SpaceX. The last time this school opened places for gifted students outside Musk's circle, more than 400 families applied.
The innovative curriculum included no language, music or sports lessons, but students worked on complex projects, such as building combat robots, discussing nuclear policy and planning how to defeat the evil part of AI.
In the case of Astra Nova, "kind, motivated and academically serious" children anywhere in the world aged 8 to 14 will be able to get a place in the experimental online school. However, such online lessons (only once a week) will cost parents $7,500 a year.
Additionally, the school plans to start in-person classes from September 2021. To get a place, children must write an essay about their hobbies and complete one of the tasks: designing and filling a virtual art gallery, choosing the best astronauts for the first mission to Mars, or mastering a complex strategy game.
Also, on Tesla's official website an unusual product has appeared — short red shorts with the inscription "S3XY" for $69.42. In this way, Elon Musk is mocking traders who did not believe in his company's success.
Additionally, Elon Musk supported the decision of American rapper Kanye West to run in the presidential race in the US.
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