Student Spotlight: The Teen Girl Who Is Fixing Modern Dating
What happens when kids have time to pursue their passions at school? Dreams chased, businesses built, limiting beliefs broken — things many adults never get around to doing. This is the AlphaX Project: our four year, Olympic-level project for Alpha’s high-schoolers. (If you haven’t already, I strongly encourage you to read about it here.) In the meantime, take a look at what one of our high schoolers is building. This isn’t the 1950s dating scene anymore. Dating culture is no longer share-a-milkshake-at-the-soda-shop-and-have-her-home-by-nine type of vibe. Most teen interactions happen over Snapchat. Through a screen. In DMs. And there’s a dark side to this. Not only can it be wildly unsafe (with little to no parental supervision), it can negatively impact how teens interact in person. Read the full article here
