WISE offers globally relevant education in an environment offering exciting possibilities & opportunities in academics, applied sciences, sports, fine, & performing arts. Creativity, innovative thought, and action are encouraged and facilitated in context, through ideation, design, application, and validation. It is a center for conceiving & incubating relevant ideas for real-world application locally, regionally, & globally. We offer what other do not: a base for deriving meaning from discoveries & observations taken from the community, region, & wider world. We are a basecamp for ideas, a lab for analyzing everything, a center for investigation & understanding. What is learned is applied, and returned to the world in meaningful ways.