Passion
Academies
Passion
Academies
About Passion Academy Courses
Passion Academies allow students to explore, ignite, and cultivate their passions through interactive and interdisciplinary project-based courses, guest lectures from industry professionals, case studies and partnerships with real-world organizations, and research and design activities. In the program, students learn by doing. Increasingly, skills that are demanded in the digital age include creativity, empathy, critical thinking, innovation, systems analysis, technology design, leadership, social influence, and problem-solving to tackle complex problems in the world. These skills are best cultivated through problem-based learning approaches that ask students to design solutions to real-world problems.
Current and Future Passion Academy Courses
Current and Future Passion Academy
Courses
Redemptive Entrepreneurship Academy
- Redemptive Entrepreneurship *#
- Finance: Business Economics
- Finance: Investments
- Finance: Philanthropy
- Sports & Entertainment Management #
- Digital Marketing: Internship
- Biotechnology #
Ethical Tech Academy
- Redemptive Entrepreneurship *#
- International Space Station Program and STEM *
- Engineering Innovation & Design
- Computer Programming *
- Blockchain
- Data Science & Cognitive Computing
- Game Design #
- Biotechnology #
- Digital Marketing: Website Development *
- Ethics of Technology #
Faith, Culture, and the Arts Academy
- Redemptive Entrepreneurship *#
- Graphic Design *
- Advanced Digital Art
- Film Studies
- Media & Broadcasting
- Sports & Entertainment Management #
- Sustainability & Architecture
- Game Design #
- Ethics of Technology #
- Digital Marketing: Design *
Notes
* courses will be taught in 2022-3 school year
# multiple specialization courses
Passion Academy Certificate
Full-time or part-time students can obtain the Passion Academy Certificate with a specialty designation by completing six trimesters of Passion Academy coursework, equivalent to two full-year courses and activities, at least five of which must come from one area of specialization: Redemptive Entrepreneurship, Ethical Tech, or Faith, Culture, and the Arts. Courses are offered during the academic day and as after school programming.
Passion Academy After-School Activities
Passion StartUp Lab is an after-school program designed as an incubator and accelerator for students interested in taking their passion project ideas to the next level. Students meet as a cohort that meets daily after school in a variety of ways – large cohort workshops, small project group gatherings, live guest lecturers, asynchronous self-paced lessons – to go from ideation to launch of real-world products or services that provide solutions to existing problems. Gravitas Passion Academy will provide guidance, mentorship, networking, and lessons to help students on their entrepreneurial journey. Each Passion StartUp Lab runs for a trimester, coinciding with the three sports seasons most schools follow. Students do not have to be fully enrolled in the Gravitas program to participate in this program.
Gravitas: A Global Extension of The Stony Brook School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national and ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, financial aid policies, and school-administered programs.