It was when he landed up at SpaceX’s headquarters at Hawthorne, California in 2015 and saw a bunch of kids running amuck while ostensibly studying and learning at Ad Astra, an innovative lab school at the time on the aerospace manufacturer’s campus, that Chrisman Frank’s life changed forever. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d seen kids so animated and free in any school.
As he watched them and thought about his own desultory school experience, Frank felt a pang of FOMO (fear of missing out) for his son, then two, and millions of other children. So he decided to do