Abstract: A system for inciting a body of students to focus on academic topics and produce compositions regarding those topics is disclosed. The system comprises a host system on which an application can execute which navigates students along a virtual path as moderated by a teacher, with students being required to create compositions to be evaluated by the teacher in order to proceed. The system additionally provides communication mechanisms between students and teachers, a peer reviewable gallery of teacher approved compositions, and a mechanism to customize the virtual path to match the initial mental focus of the student group.