Your recommended path · Foundations
Explore. Specialize. Build your next step.
A guided journey from early technology exploration to focused training, portfolio evidence, and informed education or career choices.
Current stage
Explore technology
Build broad skills before specializing
Path progress
5 of 10 lessons
Three-stage roadmap
Choose where your interests can lead
Start with exploration, choose a direction, then build evidence for what comes next.
- Ages 8–17Current stage
Explore technology
Build coding fundamentals, problem-solving habits, web basics, cybersecurity awareness, and an introduction to AI through guided projects.
- Coding foundations
- Digital safety
- Creative projects
- Mentor support
- Guided practice, progress check-ins, and help choosing a direction.
- Evidence
- Certificate of completion
- Next step
- Choose a technical or skilled-trade specialization.
- Grades 9–12 and adults
Choose a technology specialization
Develop deeper skills through Linux administration, cybersecurity, cloud engineering, or data science and data engineering pathways.
- Linux administration
- Cybersecurity
- Cloud engineering
- Data foundations
- Mentor support
- Technical coaching, project reviews, and help connecting course choices to career interests.
- Evidence
- Certification preparation and project-based evidence
- Next step
- Complete advanced projects and organize evidence for a portfolio.
- High school and emerging adults
Build evidence and move forward
Turn guided practice into a portfolio of projects and prepare for the next education, apprenticeship, internship, or career step.
- Portfolio projects
- Career exploration
- Professional habits
- Mentor support
- Mentor feedback supports planning and preparation; outcomes are not guaranteed.
- Evidence
- Portfolio evidence and certification preparation where offered
- Next step
- Explore further education, apprenticeships, internships, or entry-level opportunities.
Your technology lesson path
Build skills in sequence
Each step uses academy lessons already available. Teachers may also unlock a step manually, and absence access remains available.
- Review
linux · Week 1
Introduction to OS & Terminal Basics
What an operating system actually does, and your first two commands.
- Review
linux · Week 2
Navigating & Managing Files
Move around the filesystem and create, copy, and remove files.
- Continue
linux · Week 3
Users, Groups & Permissions
Who is allowed to do what, and how the computer keeps track.
- Review
hardware · Week 1
Computer Anatomy
CPU, RAM, GPU, motherboard — the crew that runs everything.
- Review
networking · Week 1
How the Internet Works & OSI Model
Seven layers, explained with a postal-service analogy.
networking · Week 5
DNS, DHCP & Web Protocols
Names, automatic addresses, and HTTPS.
Complete MAC Addresses, Switches vs Routers first
networking · Week 7
Firewalls, VPNs & Cybersecurity Basics
Keeping the bad traffic out and private traffic private.
Complete Wireless Networks first
- Review
cloud · Week 1
On-Premise vs Cloud Services
Owning the machines versus renting them.
- Continue
cloud · Week 3
Virtualization & Virtual Machines
Many computers living inside one computer.
cloud · Week 6
CapstoneCapstone: Multi-Tier App Deployment
Deploy a simulated three-tier application.
Complete IAM & Security Principles first
Course library
Explore all four technology subjects
6 weeks
Linux & Operating Systems
Talk to a computer the way professionals do — with words, not clicks.
6 weeks
Hardware & Systems
Open the case. Learn every part by name and by job.
8 weeks
Networking Foundations
How a message gets from your Chromebook to the other side of the world.
6 weeks
Cloud Computing
Someone else's computer — and why that changed everything.