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Imagine

high school

college

grad school

career

Learning a skill that is not taught until you’re on-the-job

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Remember

How useful has it been to your every day life?

Learning to type?

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There’s another skill that is becoming just as important as typing.

It’s working with data. You know: lists, charts, databases.

Except normal typing isn’t enough. You need to learn how to use a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel.

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Chinese English Hindi

Spreadsheets are the true language of the future.

NOT

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Everyone uses spreadsheets.

Receptionist

CEO

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Every occupation uses spreadsheets.

Sciences Medicine

Psychology Business History

Art… Engineering

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Art??

Ask any grad student

Art pieces and research have all been digitalized and cataloged in university online databases.

Art auctions are increasingly set by sophisticated analyses of historical prices.

Absolutely. Ask Sotheby’s.

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The most common program used to analyze DATA is Microsoft Excel.

But we’re not teaching anyone how to use it…

…leading to frustration and WASTED time.

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Sheer Mechanics We focus first on

Because that opens the door to quick, repetitive, addictive learning.

Finance Accounting Math

Keyboard Shortcuts

Hand-Eye Coordination

Speed

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Practical

Our class is:

Relevant Immediate

We stay away from theory and jump right into actual use.

We use course materials such as college admissions data that is relevant to students’ current lives

Students will use these skills immediately in high school and college.

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Numbers must tell a story, just like words. Trainees will learn how to use numbers to argue a point.

Story.

Businesses rely increasingly on larger volume of data. Trainees will learn how to quickly manipulate numbers.

Data.

The way numbers are presented makes a huge impact on the credibility of the numbers and the author. Trainees will learn how to add immediate value to a spreadsheet via formatting.

Presentation.

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Trainees must have both hemispheres firing in order to compete in the global economy.

Brawny brains.

Working with a visual presentation such as Excel will help trainees grow a large capacity for invention, creativity, free-form association and big-picture thinking.

Left-brained.

Trainees will develop a muscular

proficiency at analytics, logic, math

and interpretation. Right-brained.