What’s Next: From 10 Chapters to 50+ by 2026
Pebble Education started small, but it’s growing faster than we imagined. We’re closing our second year with 10 chapters, hundreds of students building real projects, and a growing library of tools that actually work in classrooms. Now it’s time to scale. Our…
Keep readingEducation as Craft, Not Transaction
Learning should feel more like carving wood than filling out a form. In craft, you return to the same material again and again. You work with your hands. You make mistakes. You sand things down. You try again. It’s slow, sometimes messy,…
Keep readingWhat I Learned Watching 200+ Student Projects Unfold
Over the past two years, I’ve watched more than 200 student projects take shape. Some were small and scrappy. Some were polished and bold. All of them taught me something. The biggest thing? Students don’t need to be told what to build—they…
Keep readingTwo Years Later: Pebble Education’s Impact and Next Chapter
Two years ago, Pebble Education started as a single club at one school. Since then, we’ve grown into a national network—10 chapters, over 25 projects built, and 750 students reached across the country. The numbers tell one part of the story. The…
Keep readingLetters from the Pebble Education President: Why I Keep Showing Up
Some days, the to-do list is overwhelming. There’s always another email, another meeting, another fix. But then I think about the moments that brought me here in the first place. I remember watching a group of first-time coders at our second hackathon.…
Keep readingIf We Could Redesign High School from Scratch…
Imagine high school without bells, periods, or rows of desks. What if school looked more like a studio than a schedule? If we started over, students wouldn’t sit through 50-minute blocks of subjects they didn’t choose. They’d work in teams on real…
Keep readingStudents Aren’t Consumers. They’re Collaborators.
A lot of edtech still treats students like users. You “log in,” “complete modules,” “consume content.” It sounds more like software usage than learning. But learning isn’t passive. It’s not something done to you. It’s something you build—through questions, exploration, and trial…
Keep readingWhat Makes a Curriculum Anti-Boring?
Boring content isn’t just dull—it’s forgettable. At Pebble Education, we build our courses to do the opposite. They stick. They spark. They pull students in instead of pushing them away. So what makes something “anti-boring”? First, there’s narrative. People remember stories, not…
Keep readingScaling Without Losing Soul
When we started Pebble Education, it was just a few of us sharing ideas in classrooms and community spaces. Every club launch, every course, every hackathon was built around the same idea: learning should be personal, purposeful, and people-led. Now, we’re growing…
Keep readingWhy We Don’t Gate Our Courses Behind Logins
When we launched our first course, we didn’t ask people to sign up. No logins, no email capture, no “create an account to continue.” Just the course—open and ready. It wasn’t an accident. It was the whole point. If someone’s curious about…
Keep readingScaling Up: From 200 Students to 2000
We started Pebble with one club and a simple idea: make technical learning feel approachable. That idea has reached over 200 students across 10 chapters. Now, we’re setting our sights higher—2000 students by the end of next year. This isn’t just about…
Keep reading5 Principles of Great Peer-Led Learning
Peer-led learning only works when the people in the room actually want to learn from each other. That means creating a space where trust and ownership are built in—not just hoped for. Here’s what we’ve seen make the biggest difference at Pebble:…
Keep readingWhat Educational Equity Really Looks Like in Practice
When people talk about equity in education, they usually stop at affordability. That matters. But it’s not the whole story. Equity means making sure every student can actually access the learning—not just log in. That includes language that makes sense to them.…
Keep readingCreating Courses That Actually Work
Every course we design starts with a simple question: what’s the thing students are struggling to understand, and how can we help them actually get it? That’s why we focus more on clarity than coverage. We don’t rush to cram in every…
Keep readingPebble by the Numbers: Our 2024 Year in Review
This year was about building steady, meaningful momentum—and looking back, it added up fast. We now have 10 active chapters in high schools across the country. Each one is student-led, with support systems in place for consistent meetings, workshops, and peer mentorship.…
Keep readingThe Case for Project-Based Learning
If you want to remember something, build with it. That’s the simplest argument for project-based learning. You can memorize a math concept for a test. But when you use it in a real project—say, modeling wildfire spread or analyzing school energy use—it…
Keep readingWhat Traditional School Doesn’t Teach You (But Should)
Most students graduate knowing how to pass tests. Fewer leave knowing how to solve real problems. School teaches facts, formulas, and fixed routines. But it rarely shows you how to figure things out when there’s no clear answer. It rewards compliance more…
Keep readingTools for Teachers: Our Free Resources for the Classroom
Over the past year, we’ve had dozens of conversations with teachers who want to bring real-world topics into class, but don’t have the time to create new material from scratch. So we made it easier. We’ve taken the core of our Pebble…
Keep readingWhy Students Should Be Designers of Their Own Education
Students don’t need more rules. They need more responsibility. At Pebble, we’ve seen what happens when students take ownership of what they learn. In our hackathons, learners pick the problem, form their own teams, and decide how they’ll solve it. Some build…
Keep readingBuilding Student Leadership Pipelines Through Pebble
Strong student programs don’t run on content alone. They run on people—especially students who lead from within. At Pebble, we spend just as much time building leadership pipelines as we do building curriculum. Every chapter we support starts with a student lead.…
Keep readingRethinking What Counts as “Smart”
We tend to measure intelligence by speed. How fast you solve a problem. How quickly you answer. How early you finish. But learning doesn’t always look like that. Some of the sharpest thinkers I’ve met aren’t fast. They pause. They reflect. They…
Keep readingThe Importance of Self-Paced Learning
Deadlines move fast. School calendars don’t wait. But learning doesn’t always follow a schedule—and it shouldn’t have to. That’s why we’re investing in self-paced courses. Students learn better when they control the pace. They pause when something’s unclear, repeat ideas that don’t…
Keep readingCourse Launch Reactions: “I Finally Understand LinAlg!”
We’ve been quietly testing our new Foundations in Linear Algebra course with a small group of early students. The first public video drops July 22, but early reactions are already in—and they’re exactly what we hoped for. “I finally understand what a…
Keep readingOur First Online Course: Launching Foundations in Linear Algebra
Today we’re launching our first course: Foundations in Linear Algebra. It’s built for high school students who want a clearer understanding of the math behind machine learning, physics, 3D graphics, and more. You don’t need prior experience with vectors or matrices. If…
Keep readingTwo Hackathons, 200+ Students, and the Road Ahead
In less than a year, Pebble hosted two national hackathons, welcomed over 200 students, and grew from a single school club to 10 chapters across the country. What we’ve seen is that when students are given space to build, they take it…
Keep readingWe Hit 10 Chapters Nationwide! Here’s How We Got There
What started as three friends from middle school bored over summer has now grown into a network of 10 Pebble chapters across the country. Over 200 students are building projects, hosting workshops, and creating spaces to learn together—led entirely by peers. Each…
Keep readingHow Educators Are Using Pebble Clubs in Classrooms
Pebble started as a student-led initiative, but it’s now finding a place inside classrooms—with teachers using clubs to deepen learning. At a school in Virginia, a computer science teacher added Pebble projects as a flexible option for students who wanted more than…
Keep readingMapping Our Growth: 5 Schools, 100 Students and Counting
In just a few months, Pebble chapters have taken root at five schools across the U.S., with over 100 students now part of the network. These aren’t just numbers—they represent clubs running workshops, hosting guest speakers, and building real projects together. Each…
Keep readingStudent Spotlight: How Ansh Built Aesa
When Ansh joined FrostByte Hacks, he wasn’t aiming for flashy design or big promises. He just wanted to build something useful—and that’s exactly what Aesa Finance became. Aesa helps everyday users understand complicated financial data in simple, clear language. Inflation, CPI, commodity…
Keep readingBehind the Scenes: Organizing a Nationwide Hackathon
Planning a nationwide hackathon is a lot more than opening a Zoom room and calling it an event. For both Hackathon #1 and FrostByte Hacks, we had to think through dozens of moving parts—from outreach to logistics to technical platforms—while keeping the…
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