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Imagine

high school

college

grad school

career

Leapfrogging years ahead in learning a skill that they don’t teach you until you get your first 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 global 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

Math

Finance

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Art??

Ask any grad student

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

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

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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We focus first on sheer mechanics because that opens the door to quick, repetitive, addictive learning.

Finance Accounting Math

Keyboard Shortcuts

Hand-Eye Coordination

Speed

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Practical

Relevant

Immediate

We stay away from theory and teach keyboard shortcuts and simple formulas that drastically cut the time needed to complete a task.

We work with college admissions data to keep the lessons relevant and useful to students.

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

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

Story.

Data is expanding. Learn how to quickly manipulate large data sets.

Data.

Add immediate value to a spreadsheet via formatting.

Presentation. Skills

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Fire up both hemispheres

Brawny brains.

Grow a large capacity for invention, creativity, free-form association and big-picture thinking.

Left-

brained.

Develop muscles in analytics,

logic and interpretation.

Right-brained.

Fire up all cylinders

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