ISM is very challenging course that is designed for academically gifted and high achieving students that are either juniors or seniors at any Frisco ISD District High Schools. In order make it into ISM students have to go through an application and selection process and are individually chosen by the ISM teacher. The students who are selected to be in the course are select careers or topics of study, and the teacher helps the students narrow down the focus of this topic of study. Students will then conduct informational interviews with professionals in their chosen field of study. After they have conducted all of their interviews they will select a mentor, and they will work with him or her for the rest of the year. The course includes intense research, original idea generation, original product design, and written analysis of research.