We exist to encourage, support and partner with homeschool parents to provide exceptional Christian academic classes for grades K-6. Arete embraces the Five D's of Learning: Do, Discover, Dialogue, Dramatize and Drill. Students will be challenged to strive for the virtue of excellence, Arete, both in character and academics.

Sex Geekdom’s mission is to create community for sex geeks. Our hope is to feel happier, more productive, and connected by regularly interacting with other people who are passionate about sexuality, sexual health, and making the world a more sex-positive place. “Sex geek” or “sex nerd” is an identification used by many people in the sex-positive community to describe their unusual, academic, and/or voracious interest in sexual knowledge. This interest extends well beyond that which would simply …

Create positive connections with other northern Illinois families who educate their children at home! Welcome to Positive Connections ! We are an inclusive and member-driven group.  Our primary purpose is to GIVE HOMESCHOOLING FAMILIES A WAY TO SHARE ACTIVITIES WITH OTHER HOMESCHOOLERS.Doing fun things together gives us all more opportunities to establish meaningful connections, support each other, and build community. This group relies on the members to schedule real-life events and activitie …

MadLUG is the Madison area Linux Users Group. Our goals are Linux advocacy, education, helping others with Linux, community-building, sharing ideas, and outreach. Our users come from a variety of backgrounds. Some are academics and students; others are system administrators, web designers and other IT professionals; and others simply enjoy computers. We have a diverse set of interests and ideas. There's always lots of great discussion on all things Linux, software, and technology.

Developing and nurturing the leadership, intellectual, and cultural potential of Latinas at every stage of their academic and professional careers.

This group is for both repeat readers of Jane Austen's works as well as first-time readers who would like to discuss the works of Jane Austen (as well as popular movie adaptations of them). The book club is not academic, but merely for casual readers who wish to participate in discussions for the purpose of enhancing their reading enjoyment.

This group will meet to study and understand Quantitative topics in financial engineering. Typically this group will be working through a chapter each month from a well known book in quantitative finance. However, this group is by no means an academic only group. Some of the group members will form organizations to try out the strategies studied in the real world (By actually pooling capital together and forming an investment club or joint venture). Topics that will be discussed: Volatility, …