Taking cues from this, NextTerm is a three-week, project-based, immersive semester that gives students the freedom to pursue their passions, curiosities, and interests. All students in grades nine through eleven choose from a menu of more than twenty courses, including many with a travel component. 

During NextTerm, students aren't just working toward a grade (although courses are graded); students work to solve real-world problems and advance the way our society thinks about and approaches the issues of our time. 

Courses are team-taught, informed by a variety of environments and real-world practitioners, and utilize resources both on and off campus. Students are afforded the time and the resources to follow the information and their budding interest wherever it takes them. The result is empowering, invigorating, and transformative. 

Different than traditional travel programs that focus primarily on culture, NextTerm courses explore a specific topic or issue, in the environment most relevant to that topic.