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Over a decade ago, the founder of Blooming Minds STEAM Academy, Olga Khamichonak, realized that most school programs do not meet the needs of advanced students. She saw how gifted students would lose their motivation to learn and how teachers would sometimes not realize that these students need more. Olga […]

“Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.” ― Zig Ziglar   Our curriculum encourages students to gain knowledge by experimenting and searching for answers, reflecting with the instructor, and then coming back and revising the material consistently. While the foundation […]

“As a parent of 4 children, I have so much appreciation to Blooming Minds Academy for the on-going learning enrichment. My oldest started at Blooming Minds 9 years ago at 1.5 years old and today, my youngest one, who is 1.5 years old now, is about to register for her […]

  Olga Khamichonak is a founder of Blooming Minds STEAM Academy. Olga has graduated from Minsk State Pedagogical College and Minsk State Linguistic University with Bachelor’s in Teaching and Master’s in Linguistics of the English Language. Olga began her career as a teacher of English in Minsk, Belarus. For almost […]