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Real projects from real Distinction students.

Every project here was built by a real student, published with their family's permission. Only first name and age band are shown.

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The finished tablet, four quarters of signs.

An aspiring linguist

Learning to read a dead script

She taught herself cuneiform, then started teaching everyone else.

CommunicationPerseveranceLeadershiplinguisticsancient historyceramics
A finished hull, held up in the shallows.
Age 12 to 14

Three friends

What actually floats

Three friends who stopped guessing about buoyancy and started building hulls.

InitiativeCommunicationPerseveranceboatbuildingphysicsdiving
The same model months on, water painted in and the carved canoe at the dock.

Two friends

Architecture at the waterline

Two builders studying how architecture meets the ocean, working at the scale where being wrong is cheap.

PerseveranceInitiativeCommunicationarchitecturemodel makingcoastal design
ESP-01 on its launch rail before the first flight.

An aspiring astronaut

Twenty rockets, and this is the first

He does not buy the propellant. He makes it.

InitiativePerseveranceSelf-Awarenessrocketrychemistryaerospace
Molten metal poured from the crucible into a carved mould.
Age 15

A fifteen year old

Roadside scrap, remelted

An aspiring engineer who decided the aluminium at the side of the road was raw material, not rubbish.

PerseveranceInitiativeSelf-Awarenessmetalworkrecyclingengineering