rootAlpha Timeline

rootAlpha is beginning a journey toward becoming an active nonprofit educational entity. Check out our progress!

January 2026

Federal Filing and National Conference

rootAlpha spreads the word!

  • Finalizes requirements to submit paperwork as a federal 501.c.3 nonprofit educational corporation.

  • Presents a poster at the American Association of Physics Teachers National conference on the research behind our activities and introduces our resources to the physics teacher community.

December 2025

Submit paperwork, Finalize activities

rootAlpha becomes official!

  • Official recognition as a nonprofit corporation in Washington state

  • Prepares for the AAPT conference in January where rootAlpha and our classroom activities will be debuted to the physics teacher community in a poster presentation.

November 2025

Board finalized, Playtesting activities.

Founders complete recruiting board members and begin playtesting and refining classroom activities.

October 2025

Production begins!

rootAlpha team begins designing classroom activities

  • Activities in math designed for integer operations, combining like terms, and balancing equations

  • Activities in physics designed for bridging kinematics and forces conceptually as well as developing intuition about the relationships between kinematic values

September 2025

rootAlpha begins!

Company is started

Founders begin recruiting members to the board

Choices made about branding, website, products, mission, values, and framework.