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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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Every occupation uses spreadsheets.

Sciences

Medicine

Psychology Business History

Art… Engineering

Math

Finance

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We’re teaching high school students Microsoft Excel.

Our system is unique.

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We use VISUAL, TACTILE and

MUSCLE-MEMORY learning.

The same technique that people use when learning VIDEO GAMES.

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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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ingrid.trejo@sololocales.org