Position Jesuit Tampa as the first college-preparatory school in Florida — and among the first Catholic prep schools nationally — with a comprehensive, multi-year emerging technologies pathway that prepares students for a post-knowledge-work economy while remaining rooted in Jesuit formation (discernment, character, cura personalis).
The thesis: as AI commoditizes routine cognitive work, the value of pre-college education shifts from knowledge transfer to judgment, agency, taste, human-AI orchestration, and the ability to build real things with real stakes. Jesuit's 125-year formation model is well-suited to this shift — most STEM-forward schools teach tools; Jesuit can teach wisdom about tools. That's the differentiated positioning.
This is not a "tech track" bolted onto the school; it is an infusion model. AI and emerging technologies get incorporated into effectively all activities — English (AI-assisted writing and its limits), theology (ethics of intelligence and labor), history (technological revolutions), science and math (data-native methods), athletics (performance analytics), college counseling, campus operations, and faculty practice itself. A thin spine of dedicated coursework and co-curriculars (the pathway, the co-curricular concepts in §6) sits on top of that broad infusion — the spine gives the program visibility and depth; the infusion changes the whole institution. Success is measured not by enrollment in tech electives but by whether every graduate, regardless of track, leaves fluent in working with AI. This also solves the schedule-real-estate problem: infusion doesn't compete for credit slots.
Final product (3–5 year horizon): a signature "Emerging Technologies & Human Formation" pathway spanning all four years, anchored by a cross-discipline advisory structure, a professional pipeline into major companies, a flagship co-curricular and service program, and admissions-level brand differentiation.