This article features Calgary Girls' School (CGS), a charter school including grades four through nine that opened with 188 students in 2003. The school was aligned with Alberta Education's charter-school mandate at that time to offer parents a broad range of school choices. Today the Alberta charter school mandate is to focus on innovation and research, and CGS, now in its seventh year--the last three a full house at 600 students--is fully prepared to follow the new mandate. For the first time, all 600 girls have a laptop computer as they plunge into another year of inquiry-based studies in a learning environment that the CGS principal, Caroline Parker, calls "a bit of a dream" because it reflects the kind of school Parker and her staff would build if they just had the means to do so--and they do, for the most part.