Twenty years · 2006–2026
Add your name to twenty years of Ardent
Everyone who came through Ardent — or Avid Academy for Gifted Youth, as it was then — left something behind. Students and parents, the instructors who taught here and the people who ran the front desk. A problem that finally broke open, a student you still wonder about, a Saturday morning that turned out to matter. Tell us yours.
What to write
A few sentences is plenty. The ones people stop to read are specific — a name, a moment, a thing that actually happened.
- 01A teacher you still think about.
- 02Where you are now, and what carried over.
- 03The first time something clicked.
One story is featured each week, paired with a photograph from our archive. Photographs come from Ardent’s own collection — you only need to write.