Welcome to Barefoot Technology Academy
A virtual microschool reimagining education for the radically curious.
A virtual microschool reimagining education for the radically curious.
Barefoot Technology Academy is a virtual microschool for gifted and twice-exceptional teens who are ready to go beyond worksheets and test prep. We believe that young people learn best when they’re doing real, meaningful work: creating, building, coding, and questioning the world around them.
Our students are curious, intense, and often underserved by traditional schools. They’re the ones who light up when solving a problem, writing a story, coding a game, or asking “what if?”.
Every subject is explored through hands-on, interdisciplinary projects that are student-driven and purposeful, engaging deeply with research.
Computer science isn't an add-on, it’s a tool for exploring science, history, math, art, literature and problem solving.
We care about understanding, not busywork. Students go deep, take creative risks, and revise until they're proud of their work.
We honor complexity, intensity, and difference. Our students are supported to thrive as their whole selves, no matter their strengths and challenges.
With small cohorts and individual mentorship, we offer a schedule that supports deep work and autonomy.
We exist to build the kind of school we wish we’d had: a place where different is an asset, deep work is the norm, and learning actually means something.
We exist because the world is too complex (and too beautiful) for cookie-cutter schooling.
We exist because brilliant, creative, and neurodivergent young people are burning out in classrooms built for conformity.
We exist because being gifted doesn’t mean being easy to teach. It means being wired differently — more curious, more intense, more sensitive, more divergent — and needing a learning environment that gets that.
We exist because school should be a place to build a life, not just a transcript.
We exist because the future belongs to the question-askers, the builders, the designers, the coders, the kids who won’t stop wondering "what if"?