For parents and guardians
Six weeks of real quant work, with a capstone your student defends.
A small group of 8 to 12 high schoolers. Each week they build a model, explain their choices, and get feedback. The six weeks end with a capstone they defend in a short live conversation.
What it is
- $349 for the six weeks. Nothing is charged now: we take payment only once a cohort has enough students.
- Starts in January 2027. Exact dates are set when the cohort fills.
- Led by StrikeLab's founder with a paid college mentor. The reviewer team and exact dates will be confirmed before enrollment.
- Built on StrikeLab's free lessons, so you can see the material first at strikelab.dev/lessons.
- Students need a laptop or Chromebook and about 3 hours a week.
What a week looks like
Plan for about three hours across the week, using a laptop or Chromebook.
Learn the idea
Start with a short lesson on a market model, risk measure, or strategy.
Build and explain
Write Python in the browser, show what the numbers mean, and state what could make the result misleading.
Get feedback and revise
The founder and college mentor review the work. Students use that feedback to improve the code and explanation.
The capstone defense
At the end, each student gets 10 minutes to explain the question they chose, walk through their code and results, and answer questions about assumptions and limits.
- The founder and college mentor review the capstone and the student's explanation.
- A parent or guardian consents before any live call with a minor.
- The call is never private one-on-one: two adults are present, or it is recorded with parent or guardian consent.
See a sample capstone
These examples were written by the StrikeLab team to show the expected kind of question, code, result, and reflection. They are not student submissions.
Example · StrikeLab team
Is a 30-day SPY call fairly priced at 18% volatility?
SPY trades at $521 and a 30-day $525 call is quoted around $9.70. Black-Scholes only matches that price at one volatility. Is that volatility believable, given how much SPY has actually moved?
Example · StrikeLab team
Does a 50/200-day moving-average crossover beat buying and holding?
The "golden cross" rule says buy when the 50-day average rises above the 200-day and sell when it falls below. Does it beat simply holding the index, after I remove the ways a backtest can fool me?
Join the waitlist
We only use this email to tell you about the January cohort. The form does not take payment. See what we store on the student data page.