This is the school of the future of Elon Musk


This is the school of the future of Elon Musk



Goodbye to gymnastics and music and hello to robots



Ad Astra (Towards the stars in Latin), this is the name that Elon Musk put to his dream of a school south of Los Angeles (United States). In 2014, the five sons of Tesla's CEO went to Mirman in Los Angeles, but he did not like the methods of the American school.

"It's important to teach problem solving, or teach the problem and not the tools," Musk said in an interview with Beijing Television in 2015. "I did not see regular schools doing the things I thought they should be done," he added.

The doors of Ad Astra opened on July 20 of that year for children between 7 and 14 years old. In the first year of the school's life, it had 20 students and now the figure has risen to 40.

The rumors after the birth of this school were to teach and educate the children of the workers of Space X, but "it is not clear to which workers the offer is made, or how many or under what conditions", says the writer Christina Simon to the BBC.

In this private school, subjects such as math, physics or music are not taught, but the Musk label is included in its curriculum. The 40 young people of Ad Astra improve their knowledge of artificial intelligence every day. One of the main objectives is to promote the entrepreneurial mentality.

In addition, students learn several programming languages ​​of robots (Scheme, Swift and Scratch) that they then use in their projects in a module called A-Frame. Three times a year the students organize a fair in which they expose the companies and projects that they have created for themselves.

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