Think Lab gives them real, unresolved problems to work through every week — built to sit alongside the academic excellence Starters Academy already builds, not compete with it.
They were never designed to measure how your child thinks when none of those three things are there. That's a different skill — and it's the one the working world actually tests.
The real fear isn't that your child won't pass. It's that they'll pass everything — and still not know how to turn it into anything.
Employers increasingly screen for exactly this — the ability to work through a problem with no instructions — over a transcript alone.
Selection committees for competitive scholarships abroad look past grades, for evidence a student can think and act independently.
The businesses and ventures that actually create impact need people who can solve problems no one's handed them the answer to.
This can be learned at any age — but a teenager who's already practising it has years of head start on an adult only beginning to.
Every week, a genuine, unresolved problem drawn from Nigerian life — not a worksheet with one correct answer waiting at the back of the book.
A mentor who pushes back on their thinking, not just their spelling — asking the next question instead of supplying the next answer.
Persistence, planning under uncertainty, and the confidence to try something with no guarantee it'll work — built through repetition, not a lecture.
Not a worksheet, not a textbook question — a problem that doesn't come with the answer attached.
They learn to find information, question their own assumptions, and actually understand the problem before touching a solution.
They generate more than one possible approach and decide, deliberately, what to try first.
Their thinking turns into something tangible — a plan, a prototype, a proposal, not just an opinion.
They test it, discover what's wrong, and improve it — the part most classrooms don't have time for.
They explain what they built, defend their decisions, and answer questions — out loud, to their group.
Learns by diving in and experimenting
Learns by planning before acting
Learns through people and collaboration
Learns by taking things apart
Design a fair rationing system for 300 students sharing one working tap after the school borehole fails.
A market trader wants more customers on a small, fixed budget. Research, propose, and defend a real plan.
Build a study system for exam week that doesn't assume electricity will be there when it's needed.
[Swap these for real Founding Cohort projects once the first term has run — nothing sells this harder than actual student work.]
Founding families help shape how Think Lab runs — and lock in founding pricing for as long as their child stays enrolled.
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No — Think Lab is built to complement academic performance, not compete with it. Sessions run outside school hours, and the thinking skills your child builds here — persistence, planning, working through ambiguity — are the same ones that make studying easier, not harder.
There usually isn't one. Think Lab's problems are drawn from real life, where the goal is a well-reasoned attempt, not a memorized correct response. That's the entire point — it's practice for the kind of thinking school doesn't always have room to teach.
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₦50,000 for the Founding Cohort — see exactly what's included above. This is founding pricing, offered specifically to the families who join before Think Lab has a public track record, and it's locked in for as long as your child stays enrolled.
Think Lab's founding cohort is open to students aged 12–16. If your child is younger, take the Future-Skills Test to get a sense of their thinking style now, and we'll notify you when a younger cohort opens.
Honestly, no — and we'd rather say that here than after you've paid. It's built for kids who already do fine in school and have room to be pushed further, not as a substitute for a child who's currently struggling to keep up academically. See the "who it's for" section above for the full picture.
Founding Cohort spots are limited by design — not as a sales tactic, but because small groups are how this actually works.