1:1 STEM Tutoring & Mentorship · Grades 6–12
Lasting Confidence, Built.
For the gifted, quietly brilliant, and neurodivergent kids whose ability and report card tell two different stories — remote, nationwide.
UT Austin ECE · Microsoft · Elite Guide, Alpha/GT School · 3,000+ 1:1 hours
Your kid used to light up when they figured something out. Somewhere in the last few years, that light faded. School became something to survive. You've tried what everyone tries — and watched the homework conversation turn into a fight anyway.
You're not failing. The system wasn't built for a mind like theirs.
Matt Starolis
Engineer-Mentor · Founder
I don't start with a curriculum. I start with a question: what does this student's mind do when no one's watching? The answer tells me everything — where their energy goes, what makes them light up, and what school has taught them to hide.
From there, we build. Some days that means rescuing a grade. Some days it means a mini-course on how CPUs actually work. And always, underneath everything, we're working on the person — how they think, how they talk to themselves, how they show up when it matters. There's a word for that layer of the work: metacognition — thinking about your own thinking — and it's the thing I teach more deliberately than any subject.
I'll go anywhere in the universe to meet a student. I only ask that they step onto the porch to meet me.
The work is visible
You're never guessing what happens in sessions. After every one, you receive a written summary — drawn from the full transcript by AI models I built, not from memory. Every problem we solve comes back typeset, publication-clean, in a packet your student can actually study from. And each semester we sit down together: progress, goals, what's next.
His pre-calculus grade was an F. Graduation was at risk. His mother was running out of options. Eight weeks later, he scored an 88 and walked across the stage.
“I can't thank Matt enough for helping my son graduate with confidence.”
Richard P., parent of HS senior, TX
And he isn't the only one.
83rd → 96th
percentile in statewide math — a 2nd grader
70% merit
scholarship to a top game-design program
$60,000
merit scholarship to SCAD
“He has gotten back his love of math and science that he lost for a few years, which is priceless. Matt was a huge positive influence in his life, and I am so grateful for his mentoring on so many levels.”
This is for you if
- Your kid's mind moves faster than the classroom, and the boredom is starting to cost them.
- You've already tried tutoring, and you can tell they need something deeper than another grade rescue.
- You care more about who they become than about this semester's report card.
It Started With a Nintendo
I was seven. My first thought was “this is amazing.” My second: “but how the hell does this work?” No one could answer — not really.
That question took me through computer architecture, into engineering leadership, an investment firm, a startup, and a director's chair at Microsoft. Then I walked away — not because the work was hard, because it was empty. Every rung confirmed the same thing: I was built to build people, not products.
If any of this sounded like your kid, let's talk.
A conversation, not a sales call. Month to month, no contracts — families stay because the work works.