The summer may be over for your 9 to 13-year-old, but Prequel Explore is just getting started. 👊

Here’s what’s in store for them when they enroll. 👇

📅 Weekly Live-Action Programming — Engaging sessions bring learning to life through hands-on projects.

🌎 Real-World Challenges — Forget textbook theory, we’re all about action. Whether it’s building a business, designing a video game, or beating Harvard MBAs in teamwork simulations, your kid will get their hands dirty with real work.

⭐ Remarkable Role Models — Unless your kid wants to be a teacher, they’re not getting this at school. Our mentors are people who have been where your kid really wants to go.

Don’t take our word for it. We have over 800 alumni, including 👇

In today’s issue:

💼 Flash poll results: Most of you talk to your kids about work.

🔬 This kid rocks: TIME’s Kid of the Year will blow you away.

🥤 Notable nibbles: The energy drink epidemic, the student housing issue, and a few other things that aren’t so depressing.

^{FLASH POLL RESULTS}

Kelly told us:

^{THIS KID ROCKS}

TIME’s Kid of the Year is cancer’s worst nightmare

15-year-old Heman Bekele began cooking up chaotic science potions as a toddler, looking for anything that would create a reactive “goo”.

(Hopefully he kept his hands off his mom’s expensive face cream, but that’s unlikely. 🤷)

These days, Herman has ditched his household concoctions for a full-blown lab at Johns Hopkins. 

His wild idea? 

A soap that doesn’t just clean—it fights skin cancer. 

His work is so impressive that he was just named TIME’s 2024 Kid of the Year. 👏

Inspired by a childhood in Ethiopia watching laborers fry under the sun, he’s developing a skin cancer treatment that’s as simple as washing your hands.

His invention is a cancer-fighting soap filled with tiny particles that help medicine cling to your skin instead of going down the drain. 

And he’s already got major scientists backing up his hypothesis.

He’s aiming high — FDA approval, patents, and global access. 👊

I’m optimistic about our future because of kids like Herman. I meet kids like him every day. Our world is in excellent hands.

Story source: TIME

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^{NOTABLE NIBBLES}

I’ve got my finger on the pulse of stories that matter to you 👇️

🥤 Glug, glug, glug: Kids are guzzling energy drinks, and it’s terrible for them in ways you might not have considered.

🏘️ It’s hard to study when you’re homeless: As if college kids didn’t have enough to worry about, student housing costs are soaring.

😀 Don’t worry, be happy: If your kid is feeling down, pull out these inspiring quotes on kindness.

🦠 Back-to-school bugs: As thrilled as you are for you kids to go back at school, you know they’re coming home with something icky. Here’s how to minimize the damage.

🤨 Um. What?: Can’t understand a word out of your kid’s mouth? Here’s a guide to the latest middle school slang.

🍕 Pizza & games for a rock-bottom price: Is inflation limiting how you entertain your kid? Chuck E. Cheese has a solution for you.

📈 ICYMI: Prequel kids have had a killer summer.

Hope you enjoyed today’s issue!

Until next time,

Ivy

CEO — Prequel

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