There are practical requirements for students throughout their academic studies, providing each student with important real-life experience in conducting experiments, making useful products, participating in activities that further enhance his or her understanding of the subjects taught or learning a new skill. The practical area consists of both projects and skill development.

Students will complete over four hundred hours of practical credit by the time they finish the Middle School. The requirements are fairly broad, but could include activities such as run a simple business, participate in a community service project, cross plants to get a hybrid, write a computer program, write a short play or build a dome. Field trips as well as campus apprenticeships provide some of the framework for these activities. Under certain circumstances, some Middle School students can arrange for off-campus apprenticeships.

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