Alpha World School

A year building real schools where the grid doesn’t reach.

Students spend a year in Kenya and Ecuador deploying solar power, engineering clean water, and bringing Starlink and the Alpha Timeback curriculum to kids who’ve had neither — while doing real, peer-reviewed research alongside professors from MIT, Harvard, and Stanford.

Not a simulation. Not a fundraiser. The real version.

1 year2 continents11 field toolsPeer-reviewed researchOffline-first
KenyaEcuador

What the cohort does

Build the infrastructure

Solar power where the grid doesn't reach, clean-water systems engineered on site, and Starlink for a link to the rest of the world.

Never stop learning

Every morning, wherever they are, the cohort completes their academics — AP courses included — on the Alpha Timeback system.

Do real research

Tree frogs in the Amazon, hydroponics for dry regions, a community health study — worked with professors into a published, peer-reviewed paper.

Two build sites

Kenya

1.75°S · 35.85°E

Loita Hills School Site · 48V bank · 2 days autonomy

Classroom lightsTimeback tabletsStarlink dishWater pumpVaccine fridge

Powered by a microgrid the students size themselves — drag the globe to find it.

Ecuador

0.99°S · 77.81°W

Tena Amazon School Site · 48V bank · 3 days autonomy

Classroom lightsTimeback tabletsStarlink dishLaptop chargersDehumidifier

Powered by a microgrid the students size themselves — drag the globe to find it.

The Field Stack

The AI-powered tools the cohort builds in the August workshop and carries to the field. Most run offline. Each one is honest about what’s real and what’s a demo.

Runs offlineUses ClaudeLive simulation

Power

Size a real solar microgrid, then watch the whole school's readiness on one screen.

Water

Test a source against WHO limits before anyone drinks from it.

Connectivity

Keep academics running through an intermittent satellite link.

Research

The instruments behind real, peer-reviewed student papers.

Teaching

Trilingual teaching that works with the internet off.

Logistics

Get the right materials to a remote site at a known landed cost.

Language

The few right words that make a shared job site safer.