WHY CHOOSE US
Welcome to Prestige STEM Academy, where education meets inspiration!
Our school is dedicated to providing a dynamic and nurturing learning environment for students of all ages.
OUR CULTIVATION PLAN
Prestige STEM Academy has unique courses and services in comprehensive teaching and professional interest cultivation. We are committed to providing personalized education, fostering students' breadth of knowledge and professional interests, and helping them succeed in showcasing academic achievements.
With over 20 years of educational experience, Prestige STEM Academy has designed a unique educational model that covers learning from elementary to high school, with defined stage objectives.
First Stage(Grades 4-7): Foundation Program
Conduct preliminary interest exploration, eliminating directions that students are not interested in.
Establish a solid foundation in knowledge and basic abilities through Prestige STEM Academy curriculum.
Build a solid and distinctive knowledge structure and foundation that reflects individual characteristics.
Second Stage (Grades 8-12): Competence Development Program
Cultivate students in three directions: Academic Abilities, Extracurricular Activity Planning, and Competence Enhancement Education.
Academic Abilities include reading, writing, research, programming, etc. Introduce Prestige STEM Academy "The Young Pathfinders Program (YPP)" course, allowing students to explore different industries they may enter and establish their expertise in professional interests as early as 7th and 8th grades. Subsequently, use Prestige STEM Academy educational resources to cultivate students' enthusiasm for their interests and shape their advantages and achievements in their chosen direction through time investment.
Extracurricular Activity Planning includes competition training, team formation, competition participation, volunteer activity design, leadership activity design, and research guidance to achieve unique professional interest cultivation and achievement development for each student.
Competence Enhancement Education includes the cultivation and improvement of emotional management, time management, interpersonal relationship, and communication abilities. These abilities, which distinguish talents from ordinary top students, can be cultivated and enhanced through Prestige STEM Academy comprehensive curriculum and college planning guidance. This is also one of the important factors that enable Prestige STEM Academy students to surpass competitors from the same school in college admissions and secure priority admission to prestigious universities in their 12th-grade application results.
OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Normal high school begins in the 9th grade, but Prestige STEM Academy educational system believes that starting in the 8th grade will give children more advantages.
Through a five-year Prestige STEM Academy high school training plan, students will gain a solid professional foundation, extensive exploration and practical experience in professional interests, and the shaping and enhancement of comprehensive competitive abilities.
8th Grade
Use the YYP course to identify professional interest directions and pre-learn relevant 9th-grade credit courses.
9th-10th Grade
Cultivate students' interests through credit courses, competition clubs, and specialized training plans. Obtain achievements through competitions or research.
11th-12th Grade
In addition to continuing 9th-10th-grade credit courses, competition clubs, and specialized training plans, Prestige STEM Academy provides Ivy League and elite college admission guidance. For academically capable students, a university credit study plan is offered. For ordinary students not good at competitions and research, high school stage university credit study and transfer application services are provided. For students in the fields of biology and medicine, economics and finance, and computer science, pre-professional or specialized training plans are offered.
In the summer of 11th grade and 12th grade, students are provided with university admission planning, including guidance on the admission process, activity lists, main essay guidance, supplementary essay guidance, school selection guidance, early application strategy guidance, interview coaching, recommender selection guidance, online application guidance, waitlist conversion guidance, and supplementary admission guidance.
OUR EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
During the 9th and 10th grades at Prestige STEM Academy, we have prepared a systematic set of educational resources for students: credit courses, competition clubs, and specialized training plans.
CREDIT COURSES
Prestige STEM Academy is a fully accredited private school with a College Board dual-certified AP course system (both textbooks and teachers are certified), and a course system certified by the California A-G system.
By taking honors courses, AP courses, and advanced college-level courses at Prestige STEM Academy, students can comply with and standardly send official transcripts to applying universities. If students excel in these credit courses, Prestige STEM Academy teachers can write recommendation letters as high school recommenders to support their college applications.
COMPETITION CLUBS
Students who excel in the competition club system at Prestige STEM Academy are often outstanding students sought after by Ivy League and other top-tier schools.
In past years, Prestige STEM Academy advantage competition club projects with outstanding admission results include:
Biology Competitions/Olympiads;
Calculator Competitions/Olympiads;
Economics Competitions/Olympiads;
Research Competitions/ISEF;
Writing Competitions;
Mathematics Competitions/Olympiads
Students accepted into Prestige STEM Academy competition clubs, under the cultivation and guidance of competition-trained teachers, have set multiple records.
For example, each year, the number of students entering the USABO Semifinalists coached by Dr. Lin consistently ranks first nationwide. In the 2022 USMDO representing the United States in the IMDO finals, 50% of the U.S. national team members were students from Prestige STEM Academy. Students who diligently prepared within the Prestige STEM Academy educational system have all been admitted to their dream top-tier schools.
SPECIALIZED TRAINING PLANS
In 11th and 12th grades, Prestige STEM Academy not only provides regular credit courses and college planning services but also offers elite college planning programs, pre-medical programs for the biology and medicine field, economic and financial science cultivation programs, computer science cultivation programs, and university credit programs for outstanding students who have confirmed their college majors.