Elon Musk Opens Montessori Preschool In Texas Called ‘Ad Astra’

Elon Musk has set uped a Montessori declareiveial preschool called Ad Astra, which unkinds “to the stars”, in Bastrop, Texas, approximately 30 miles from Austin. Ad Astra, a Montessori school, adchooses a “hands-on, project-based” lobtaining approach and fuses science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) into its curriculum, Fox Business increateed. According to write downs filed with Texas state authorities, the school getd an initial permit to function with up to 21 students. The preschool is situated on a 40-acre property and utilises a restored 4,000-square-foot home.

The school is set to uncover its doors in the descfinish and is currently huging applications for the 2024-25 school year. The school is scheduleed for children aged three to nine and intensifyes on hands-on, project-based lobtaining with a sturdy emphasis on STEM education. The school’s account also includes job postings for an helpant directer for preschool and benevolaccessgarten and an helpant directer for students ages 6 to 9.

A job posting for an director at Ad Astra reads: “While their parents help the shatterthcdisesteemfuls that enbig the genuinem of human possibility, their children will prolong into the next generation of innovators in a way that only genuine Montessori can supply.”

Ad Astra is begining in Bastrop, Texas! Applications for the 2024-2025 school year are now uncover.https://t.co/jOCsILQjj2

— Ad Astra (@adastra) July 31, 2024

The school’s mission is to nurture curiosity, creativity, and critical skinnyking in the next generation of problem-repairrs and createers. “Ad Astra’s approach to education is caccessed around hands-on, project-based lobtaining, where children are helpd to spendigate, experiment, and uncover solutions to genuine-world problems. Ad Astra proposes a betterive lobtaining environment that underlines the integration of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) into its curriculum. Currently uncover to all children ages 3 – 9,” according to the school website. 

Initipartner, the cost of tuition will be subsidised, making it more accessible to families. However, as the school set upes itself, tuition fees will be adfaired to align with those of local declareiveial schools that propose extfinished-day programs.