For educators
See the whole program without chasing every student
A status report rather than a dashboard. The obligations of every project in one place, and the ones nobody has met at the top.
Every project at once
One table: whose project, what stage, what is outstanding, when it is due. Sorted so the thing needing attention is at the top rather than found by scrolling.
What is missing, by name
Approvals not yet signed, deliverables past their date, dependencies ignored, and the date-order checks that disqualify a project at a fair.
The notebook, as evidence
Dated entries a student appended while working. Enough to answer whether a project is real, and to answer it in a minute rather than a meeting.
Review and publication
Completed work moves through a documented review with named reviewers and faculty oversight, and publishes to a permanent public record.
It replaces the spreadsheet of who has turned in which form, the folder of last year's deadlines, and the reconstruction of a project's history in the week before a fair. Your dates, deliverables and requirements are held as a program, so next year's class inherits them rather than the officers taking them home.
It is not a learning management system and does not want to be one. It does not grade, does not compute a readiness score, and does not rank one student's project against another's. It handles the research-specific coordination that a general classroom tool leaves to email.
There is no private adult-to-student messaging channel. Guidance is given at the program or the project level, where it is visible to the people responsible for the student.
SciPath carries no advertising, sells no data, builds no profiles, and never reads or analyzes student work with a model. Publication is a deliberate act that requires the author's consent on every path that reaches it, and a published record can be withdrawn.
The software is free and open source. A school can run its own copy, hold its own students' data, and keep operating regardless of what happens to us. Records export in a documented format rather than being locked behind a login. The source is public.
The demonstration runs a full season with invented students, so a first look costs nothing and touches no real work. After that, a pilot means one program, your dates, and your students.