01 / Learn it
Find the hole.
School gives me a place to build foundations, ask better questions, and try again.
Student, athlete, entrepreneur — Alpha School · Austin. Level 6 · Men’s artistic. Mini-Max Project · Grades 6–8
I’m 11. I do school, gymnastics, and build things. In sixth grade I start a three-year Mini-Max Project: a media company for people my age who are learning, training, and building something at the same time. I don’t know how to do most of it yet. That’s the fun part.
The two words behind my family’s project
Routine + Mastery
The same loop shows up in school, gymnastics, and building: repeat the work, find the hole, and change the next attempt.
Routine is the boring stuff I repeat until it works. It is also the routine I compete, with judges and a number at the end. The boring one is why the other one works.
Mastery means I don’t get to hide the holes. My school makes me get 90 before I move on. My family is building RoutineMastery for families like mine. It is one of the places where I get to practice turning a real problem into something useful.
Why I’m making SAE
I want to meet the people doing all three.
I want to get to know and celebrate people who are learning, training, and building something at the same time. I want to hear how they do it, share what they learn, and make more room for people—at any age—to try.
I’m 11, so I’m not standing outside this story pretending I have it solved. I’m inside it: learning at a new kind of school, training six days a week, and helping my family build companies. This site is the record of that journey.
What I’m actually doing
Three things at once. Not always gracefully.
02 / Train it
Do the reps.
Gymnastics gives me six events, a coach, and a number at the end.
03 / Build it
Make something useful.
SAE is where I meet people doing all three and keep track of what I learn from them.
The plan (sort of)
Try things. Notice what breaks. Try again.
I’m starting SAE, a media company for people my age who are learning, training, and building something at the same time.
I’m not pretending I know how to do it yet. I’m keeping track of what I try, what I get wrong, and what I learn next.
See the project →Where I’m at
No combined score. That would be weird.
School, gymnastics, and building measure different things. These are snapshots of the work, not a leaderboard.
Student
Now- School
- Alpha School· Austin
- Model
- Mastery-based
- Academics
- 2 hrs· mornings
- Afternoons
- Workshops + projects
- Long project
- Mini-Max Project
- Starts
- Grade 6
- Horizon
- Grades 6–8
Athlete
2025–26- Level
- 6
- Events
- 6· FX PH SR VT PB HB
- Training
- 6 days / wk
- Season
- Nov – Apr
- State · VT
- 1st●
- Season best · VT
- 9.850
Entrepreneur
Before year 1- Working name
- RoutineMastery
- Horizon
- 3 years
- Stage
- POC prep
- For
- Gymnastics families
- Next gate
- Customer testing
- Starts with
- Problem conversations
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