A Boomerang Classroom product
Built by a 20+ year teacher · Early access opens 2026
Boomerang Projects helps students manage extended research projects with structured peer feedback and rubric-aligned self-assessment. Research Reports, Team Presentations, Senior Capstones, Science Fair, honors theses — one workspace, every project type, with the guardrails teachers and students actually need.
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The philosophy
The hardest part of any extended research project is the middle — when a student has a question, half a bibliography, an unfinished argument, and a deadline that suddenly looks closer than it did yesterday. Boomerang Projects was built around that middle. Give students room to notice, freedom to imagine, and a clear workspace to turn ideas into work a real audience could read or watch.
Independent research projects are student-led — that's the point. Boomerang Projects adds the kind of light structure that protects student agency instead of replacing it. Customizable timelines. Visible milestones. Quiet accountability.
Citation tools (MLA, APA, Chicago), source-credibility scoring, your rubric — all live inside the workspace, so students and teachers stop searching the internet for what their own project already requires.
Good research moves past what is toward what could be. Every screen is designed to keep that motion going — from a question, to evidence, to a recommendation a real audience could act on.
Who it's for
Extended research projects come in many forms. Some require collaboration, some are a paper only, others end in a presentation or a defense. Boomerang Projects supports the workflow underneath all of them — and a research-based workflow that supports the AP Seminar approach as well.
Individual extended papers — question, evidence, recommendation.
General Research Studio
Group projects that defend a position with sources and a multimedia deck.
Team Presentations Studio
Persuasive papers backed by evidence and counterclaims.
Research & Argument Studio
Question → method → data → conclusion, with a board or presentation.
Science Fair Studio
Year-long culminating projects — paper, product, or performance.
Senior Capstone Studio
Extended scholarly papers for honors program completion.
Honors Thesis Studio
4,000-word independent investigations in a chosen subject.
Portfolio Studio
The workflow inside the workspace matches the AP Seminar and AP Research approach to research and presentation.
Research & Argument Studio · Extended Research Studio
Eight Studios
Inside Boomerang Projects, students work in a Studio matched to their project type. Each Studio shares the same research-and-writing workflow, with adjustments to deliverables, milestones, and rubric language.
for AP Seminar coursework
for AP Research coursework
for IB Diploma coursework
for science fair projects
for year-long senior projects
for any extended research paper
for team-presentation projects
for honors program theses
The product
Boomerang Projects organizes the actual shape of extended research work — from a question, through credible sources, into a draft or a deck, with peer feedback and rubric-aligned self-assessment running the whole way. The screens below are mockups of the v1 build.
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One dashboard. The components your class is working on — Research Report, Team Presentation, Individual Presentation, Argument Paper, and more — each tied to your class rubric. Students see exactly what they're working on, what's next, and what the rubric will reward. Less guessing. More argument.
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Pick the final due date. Boomerang Projects works backward through the project type — Topic Lock, Perspectives Map, Bibliography, Drafts, Peer Feedback — so students always know what's due next. Relaxed, Standard, or Compressed pacing, exportable to CSV for the gradebook.
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MLA, APA, and Chicago on a one-click toggle. Choose the source-evaluation method that fits your classroom — RAVEN, SIFT, or CRAAP — so source quality becomes a habit, not a last-minute check. Bibliography-level flags tied directly to rubric rows surface gaps before the rubric does.
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Group projects live on coordination. A shared board — Backlog, In Progress, Peer Review, Done — keeps every teammate's work visible. Each card carries a rubric row, an owner, and an estimate. Contribution Receipts roll the whole board up per teammate, so participation evidence is built in, not reconstructed at the end.
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Teachers create rubrics in plain language — rows, levels, descriptors — then those rows show up next to the draft, on the bibliography, on the team board, and in self-assessment. Six starter templates (Research Report, Argument Paper, Team Presentation, Individual Presentation, Science Fair, Senior Capstone) get you to a working rubric in ten minutes, or build from a blank rubric.
A teacher-built workspace
Designed by a 20+ year high school English teacher who runs extended research projects every year. Every screen exists because a real cohort of students hit a real wall — and a real teacher had to solve it on a Tuesday morning.
Your rubric rows aren't buried in a help doc. They appear next to the draft, next to the bibliography, and inside the dashboard — in your own words.
Minimal data collection. FERPA-aware language. No third-party trackers in student-facing flows. Student work is for the student and the teacher — not for a model, not for an ad network, not for anyone else.
Peer feedback by default
Boomerang Projects is built around a stance: on drafts, peer feedback comes first. Students learn more from giving a rubric-aligned response to a classmate's argument than from waiting in line for the one adult in the room. Teachers stay in the conversation through conferences, mini-lessons, and the triage queue — but the written feedback on individual drafts stays peer-based by default.
That's the default — not the only setting. Some classes work differently, and the workspace knows that. A class-level toggle lets you turn on teacher comments on individual drafts whenever the project type calls for it.
In the room
Early access is part of the work
Honest about limitations. Open about implications. Curious about possibilities. The v1 cohort is small on purpose — so we can listen, refine, and ship features the classroom actually needs.
v1 · Early-access release
v2 · After classroom pilots
Secure Early Access
We're onboarding a small first cohort of teachers running extended research projects in the 2026–27 school year. Early-access partners get free access during the entire early-access period and a direct line to the founder — your feedback shapes what v1 ships with.
"Boomerang Projects came directly out of running extended research projects with high schoolers — out of watching students do their best thinking when the workflow stopped getting in their way. The tools we put in classrooms should reflect the best of teaching: trust, judgment, and care. The freedom these projects are built on is worth protecting, and the structure that protects it is worth building well."
— Drew Snow, Founder & CEO, Boomerang Classroom
drew@boomerangclassroom.com
