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About Us

Joyful Discovery

Gigaplex Academy is the platform that helps CTSO chapters energize students, raise funds and showcase achievements – all through personalized passion projects.

Advisors often struggle to keep students engaged and meet fundraising needs, because there isn’t a clear way to connect CTSO projects and competitions to future careers.

Gigaplex Academy provides a simple framework that sparks student motivation, unlocks fundraising opportunities, and builds digital portfolios that highlight chapter impact.

We call the process ‘Career Discovery through Chapter Impact.’

Stand Out With An Authentic Story

Showcasing purposeful student engagement and community impact is key to thriving in CTSO competitions and preparing for college and careers.

Our framework uses analytical exercises to create a personalized student blueprint.
The blueprint highlights strengths, interests, and values — then connects them to the right competitions, projects, and fundraising opportunities.
This ensures every activity feels meaningful and aligned to the chapter’s mission.

By turning student passions into hands-on projects, advisors can boost engagement while chapters demonstrate real-world impact.
The authentic stories and digital portfolios created through our success plans help students stand out in competitions today — and in college and career applications tomorrow.

Personalized CTSO Success Plan

Available for students enrolled in TSA, DECA, HOSA, SkillsUSA and FCCLA CTSOs.

 Personalized CTSO Success Plan – Launchpad: Essential – $199

Launchpad Essential package is organized into main section and appendix.

Main Section –

  • Personality DNAUnique Natural DNA Behavior style that reflects an individual’s hard-wired instincts, motivations, and decision-making tendencies, shaped primarily by early life experiences. 
  • Strengths – Inherent behavioral talents that support performance and decision-making, allowing individuals to excel in specific areas.
  • Struggles – Natural challenges or blind spots that can surface under stress or in poor fit environments, often arising from overused strengths.
  • Communication Styles – Preferred ways individuals express themselves and interact with others, which can significantly impact engagement and effectiveness in conversations.
  • Business Potential Profile – A clear, quantitative assessment of a student’s potential to succeed as an innovator, entrepreneur, community advocate or trailblazing people leader based on behavioral traits. 
  • Resonant Purpose – An overarching mission statement that can guide the student towards self-aware and personally meaningful college and career decisions.
  • CTSO Clubs to join – An optimized stack ranking of career technology school organizations( CTSOs like DECA, HOSA , TSA and more) that students can join to build out the passion project.
  • CTSO Competitions –  A curated set of competitions that the student can register for to build the skills and showcase the impact of their passion project.

Appendix section –

  • Contrasting Work Talents – Contrasting work talents refer to the different behavioral traits that individuals exhibit in the workplace, often represented as opposing qualities. For example, one might be results-oriented versus relationship-oriented, or daring versus careful.
  • Aspirational Identity Blueprint – A verifiably accurate description of the student’s passionate interests, values, gifts and possibilities.
  • Aspirational Impact Vectors – Insights about what the student would love to do, would excel in doing, the world the student wants to see and how the student might be able to make that world a reality.
  • Passion project idea – A specific passion project idea aligned to the aspirational and behavioral blueprints with specific guidance on why the project fits, activities to be pursued and specific skills that would be built by building the passion project.
  • Implementation Plan A semester-by semester breakdown about competitions and community service activities that together can help the student demonstrate authentic community impact.
  • Networking Ideas – Curated set of individuals, organizations or entities within geographic proximity that can support the students project journey as well as career growth
  • Volunteering ideas – Curated set of individuals, organizations or entities within geographic proximity that can mentor the student through purposeful volunteering opportunities.

Gigaplex Academy is an independent organization and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America), TSA (Technology Student Association), DECA, HOSA, SkillsUSA, FCCLA, FFA, or any other Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO). All references to CTSOs, their competition names, or their programs are provided solely for educational and informational purposes under the principles of nominative fair use, to help students identify relevant opportunities that align with their career and leadership development goals. Logos, trademarks, and official marks remain the exclusive property of their respective organizations.

Launchpad Essential Plan – $199

Launchpad PLUS Plan – $1199

Our Values

Individuality

Educational experience must foster unique traits and aspirations of student.

Practicality

Education should instill real life skills by solving real life problems.

Creativity

Education should encourage creative solutions for business problems.

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