Science and research
Research paths reward one subject taken much further than the curriculum, and evidence of genuine independent enquiry — a question the young person chose and did not abandon. Olympiads and science fairs are the field's competitions; contact with people doing actual research is the accelerant. Comfort with being wrong is the temperament, and it shows in a record that keeps the dead ends.
How old is your child?
One subject goes deep: beyond the syllabus, into the olympiad problems, into a question of their own. The record starts keeping the enquiry — hypotheses, attempts, failures.
What most families do instead.
Most families spread thin — every science, every fair, nothing deep — because breadth photographs well. Admissions in research fields read for depth, and a single question pursued for two years beats twelve certificates.
What the record looks like after two years on this path.
- One line of enquiry followed across two years, dead ends included
- Subject olympiad or science fair entered, result kept
- Assessment levels in the deep subject, tracked and pushed
- A conversation with a working researcher, dated
Depth, kept
A single enquiry followed over years, with every failed attempt recorded — which is what research actually looks like.
Olympiads and fairs
Subject olympiads, science fairs and research competitions, matched to age and country.
Show meA researcher to talk to
Someone doing the actual work, occasionally willing to take an interest.
Show meWhat to do this month.
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Have your child write down the one question they most want answered, and take the first real step on it with Cora.
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Run the assessment in their strongest science.
Sign up and the first conversation already knows the direction. The plan Cora builds is aimed at it from day one.
A path your child has not chosen will not survive the work. We build toward the direction you have in mind by getting your child genuinely interested in it — that is not a softer version of the goal, it is the only version that arrives.
And if they change direction at sixteen, the record survives it. Finishing things, building things, working with people — the evidence transfers.