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Our long-term goal

A generation that understands reality, discovers what is possible and acts.

Our long-term goal

A generation that understands reality, discovers what is possible and acts

SXLA's long-term goal follows from its mission and vision: young people who understand the real needs around them, discover what is possible and act to leave the world better than they found it.

Mission: to inspire and equip youth to achieve breakthroughs that accelerate an abundant future for all through technology.

Vision: a world where every young person has the skills, tools and opportunities to shape a stable, abundant and thriving future.

Overview of the 360° JEP Studio: a learner at the centre of a four-step loop (notice a discomfort, ask and find out, build a solution, test and improve), with an SXLA hub, a mobile studio and partner schools.Select to enlarge
The 360° JEP Studio at a glance: the learner loop, and how the Studio reaches partner schools.
Abundance, in practical terms

Solutions and enterprises for basic needs

Our long-term ambition is for young people to build solutions and enterprises that bring clean water, food, shelter and energy to their communities. Entrepreneurship is one pathway to this, not the destination: many learners will contribute through further study, work and community life.

A water container on a green stand at a round concrete water point between school buildings and trees.
A water point at Spectrum Secondary School. Everyday needs like water are where many learners' questions begin. Photo: SXLA

Clean water

Food

Shelter

Energy

The pathway

A pathway from school to community

Each step is a separate decision. The MTP schools are long-term plans, subject to funding and the decision gates in SXLA's plans. The necessary resources and partners are being sought to meet the planned timeframe. Stay tuned for updates.

  1. Spectrum Secondary SchoolToday: learners meet real situations and the JEP learning loop from S1.
  2. MTP Secondary SchoolPlanned: a second school, in a host community, with JEP from S1.
  3. MTP Advanced AcademyPlanned: the most capable JEP graduates take ideas to working products.
  4. The communityYoung people bring solutions and enterprises back to their communities.
Proposed campus concept, not an existing building: an aerial view of the planned shared MTP campus beside a road. MTP Secondary School is on the left, labelled with the boys' hostel, the sports complex, the girls' hostel, classrooms, science laboratories and the library. Administration buildings, a roundabout and the main entrance are in the centre. MTP Academy is on the right, labelled with AI and innovation studios, research laboratories, collaborative learning spaces and prototyping workshops.Proposed campus concept, not an existing buildingSelect to enlarge
The planned MTP campus in Kyentare, Hoima City, where the next two steps of the pathway are planned: MTP Secondary School on the left and MTP Academy on the right. Proposed campus concept, not an existing building.
Reach

JEP beyond our own schools

Through the JEP Studio Hub-and-Box Model, Spectrum Secondary School becomes a hub and mobile studios visit partner schools. Partnerships start only after the 2027 review at Spectrum.

JEP for other schools

What makes JEP distinct

Same learner, same discomfort, a different result

JEP does not replace the curriculum or compete with add-ons. It connects both to the learner's own problem.

What makes JEP distinct: the same learner and the same discomfort, a family plot that grows too little food, compared under the CBC on its own, a typical add-on and the 360° JEP Studio, where the learner uses every subject to fix it.Select to enlarge
What makes JEP distinct: the curriculum on its own, a typical add-on and the 360° JEP Studio, compared for the same illustrative learner.

This page expands step 14, the ten-year target, and step 15, our vision: the end of Part 3 of our theory of change.

Part 1The need
  1. 1 Problem
  2. 2 People
  3. 3 Reason
Part 2The work
  1. 4 Inputs
  2. 5 Interventions
  3. 6 Partners
  4. 7 Behaviours
  5. 8 Big idea
  6. 9 Mission
Part 3The results
  1. 10 Pathways
  2. 11 Outputs
  3. 12 Short-term outcome
  4. 13 Long-term outcomes
  5. 14 Ten-year target
  6. 15 Vision

Help a learner turn discomfort into knowledge, action and value

Today's priorities are finishing the boys' dormitory, equipping the Hybrid Edge JEP Studio and completing Spectrum Secondary School.

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Theory of change

How JEP expects change to happen, from problem to long-term impact.

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Proposed campus concept, not an existing building: MTP Secondary School.Proposed campus concept, not an existing building

MTP Secondary School

Planned: a second secondary school in a host community in Hoima City. The necessary resources and partners are being sought to meet the planned timeframe. Stay tuned for updates.

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