September 1, 2025 OSE Apprenticeship Curriculum

2 Week Builder Crash Course 6 more weeks focusing on Topic Area

Topic Areas: Year 1 Focuses on Mastering Construction. This cycle repeats every 2 months, with 5 cycles per year, and 6th cycle is vacation where students can work, rest, or participate in field trips: industrial tourism to China, school builds, service learning ghetto builds, drone manufacturing for Ukraine, etc.

Discovery

• We discover which track people want to migrate to, assuming that they will evolve phase by phase.
• Tracks: builder, collaborative builder, collaborative CAD designer, CAD designer, entrepreneur, collaborative entrepreneur, the numerate, the prompt engineer, etc. We will discover archetypes as we move along. The philosopher, the engineer, the bureaucrat, etc. Technician. Civ Architect. Programmer. Artist. Life Artist. Lawyer. Mathematician.

Cycle 1 - Sep 1 - Oct 31, 2025

1. 20 Builder Trades - learn all the trades involved in house construction from foundation to PV - as you build 2 homes in 8 weeks.
2. Radical Collaboration Crash Course - starting with moral intelligence for a better world, we collaborate. Here's how we roll in swarms at scale. FreeCAD Collaborative Literacy. Realtime Uploading. Template exercise - do one for a new project, user testing. Extreme Collab Protocol. Project - 24 of us engage SMEs based on modular design guides for any tech. Remote collab engages, too - $200/semester, or $75/week. Design build sprint at end. We are transparent on resources, with budgeting guidelines based on detail design. Allocations only upon design.
3. House Builder Enterprise - Learn everything around the enterprise ecosystem related to construction: Architecture-Landscape Design-Interior Design 101 - how to produce architecture drawing for the building department; Surveying 101 - using open source RTK gps to measure coordinates and identify markers using standard formats, Structural Engineering 101 - how to do first principle calculations. Reconciling with tables., Soils Engineering 101 - performing soil bearing capacity tests and soil tests; means and techniques for stabilizing earth and preparing sites for construction; Electrical Design 101- Generating Electrical Engineering Designs for ; Generating Architecture Drawings with Open Source Software; Site Elevations, Site Plan, Landscape Plan; Site surveying with drones. Digital twinning of landscapes. Working with 3rd party inspectors. How to get a General Contractor License, an Electrical License, Plumbing license, and HVAC license. Getting Certified as a Construction Manager. Open Source Video Production 101. To site prep, add geophysical and hydrogeological studies.
4. Abundance mindsetting. How to See Possibility. Principles and Psychology of Operating a Business in Paradise and Abundance. Architectures 101. One Hour. Learning Mindset. How to Read 101. Learning How to Learn. Unlearning. NLP. Negotiation. Visual Learning Advantage. Multiple Intelligences. Bond Ambition. Character.
5. Open Source Civilizing- Survey of 500 Modules for an equitable technosphere.

Cycle 2 - Nov 1 - Dec 20

1. Open Source Materials Production Facility - Milling Your Own Lumber; Solar Concrete From Limestone; 3D Printed Parts. CEBs. Opensourcing one of the machines in a 6 week design sprint. Shoot for 100 onsite participants.

Others

1. Housing Innovation - Off-Grid Smart Home - Design and Build of a Thermal Storage for Heating and Cooling Using PV; Smart Home Controller 101; Compressed Air Energy Storage 101, Nickel Iron Batteries as the only lifetime design battery.