Scholars (12+)

Scholar Phase

The Scholar Phase kids (ages 12+) come face to face with greatness in the scholar projects guided by Leadership Education Mentoring Institute trained mentors. We offer at least one LEMI scholar project per year to enable our older kids to discover and prepare to live their life's missions as they learn HOW to think not WHAT to think by attaining the skills to read like a lawyer, write like an author, compute like a mathematician, observe like a scientist, and speak like an orator.

The scholar projects at LTI in 2025-26 school year are the Georgics Project and Sword of Freedom & Hero Project

Georgics

For youth ages 12+

  • community inter-dependence

  • community stewardship

  • entrepreneurship

  • real estate ownership

  • hard work

  • forgiveness


Sword of Freedom & Hero Project

For youth ages 12+

  • purpose of government

  • world crisis and personal and family choices

  • leadership

  • war, pestilence, betrayal, statesmanship,

  • hardship

  • how to survive during difficult times

  • public virtue

  • what traits make a hero

  • cycles of history


Scholar Projects

Scholar Projects are thematic courses spanning various disciplines, including history, math, science, government, and literature. Projects are structured sequentially to develop a student’s Vision, sense of Mission, and mentored growth in each individual’s Abilities, Skills, and Knowledge. Scholar Projects follow a continuum, increasing in difficulty and complexity as a scholar progresses through them. Each Scholar Project comprises an arc of growth through personal challenges, failures, and victories.

2024-2025 scholar projects were Shakespeare Conquest and Pyramid Project

2022-2023 scholar projects were Sword of Freedom/Hero Project and Transition to Scholar Shakespeare Class. In Sword/Hero the students 14 + studied the US civil war era in depth through debates, discussions, simulations, and memorizing the Gettysburg Address. They helped put on a Civil War ball as a community project in December 2022. In the Hero portion of the class, students explored the first and second world wars and researched and presented on ten heroes of their choice from great figures in history. They participated in a simulation of the Nuremberg trials and a final smack down jeopardy-style final exam to test their recall of World War II facts, persons, and ideas.

The Transition to Scholar Shakespeare Class were challenged to read, watch, or listen to 17 Shakespeare plays. Students studied Shakespeare, the man, his language, and the stories and characters that make his plays great. Each week, students came prepared to discuss the themes and ideas in a different play. The class culminated in a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream put on by the students.

2021–2022 scholar projects were Shakespeare Conquest and Pyramid Project.

2020–2021 scholar projects were Key of Liberty and Quest 1&2. In Key of Liberty, the scholars learned about the American Revolution and the founding of America. They memorized the Declaration of Independence and became Constitution experts as they competed in and won the Constitution Bowl. They surpassed their parents, and scholars from Colorado and California in their knowledge of the constitution. In our Quest class, youth read and discussed 10 significant books, wrote meaningful papers, and finished with sharing a major project they had worked on during the year, such as training a wild horse, creating a video project on stoicism, and building a sensor-controlled robot.



What does Scholar Phase look like?


A scholar is a youth between the ages of 12-18 who are on the path of leadership education. They are invested in pursuing an education to match their mission. They are the youth who are self motivated to learn all they can. They will grow up to be the future leaders, mothers and fathers, artists and statesmen of the next generation.

They understand that the years of their youth are crucial preparation years before they are responsible for family, homes and careers.

At LTI, we understand that this seems like a huge disparity between what the average American “teenager” is doing and what an inspired scholar youth is doing. We have a mission to help more teens become inspired, scholar youth.