Welcome to ACME!

The ACME Network is a 501(3)(c) non profit organization that provides an online experiential learning and mentoring platform to middle school, high school and college students.

We believe that mentoring – provided by experienced professionals as well as by fellow students – provides essential experiential education as a supplement to classroom learning.

Since 1999, ACME’s ACME Animation program has pioneered the use of broadband multi-point videoconferencing and a unique 24/7 online mentoring community platform, to connect working,creative-industry professionals to middle school, high school, and college classrooms in California, and across the country. 

ACME’s PAY IT FORWARD mentoring sets it apart from other mentoring communities.  Students must offer constructive feedback to their peers across the entire network (not just in their class) in order to earn access to professional mentors and more accomplished students. This system establishes a pattern of mutual support and collaboration within a community where the highest standards of performance and professional behavior are embedded in the experience itself – and rewarded!

The Company has received institutional funding from The Ahmanson Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the Weingart Foundation, the California Emerging Technology Fund and other funders.   Program fees from participating schools and students have accounted for between 50-60 percent of ACME’s funding.

ACME’s platform provides an experiential, project-based learning opportunity for students in Art and Digital Media, but is also used in English, Technology and Social Studies programs.

ACME makes the classroom experience relevant and measurable with respect to 21st century job skills and workforce development.