[1][2][3] Mindquest operated until the end of 2003, when the Bloomington Schools closed it in favor of a regional distance learning program.
[6] A key obstacle for Mindquest in its early days was visibility, as few people had access to the Internet in 1995.
The instructional leader of SHAPE and Mindquest, Greta Ploetz, received grant funding from the Bush Foundation to create the Mindquest Academy,[7] an online college entrance preparation program that in 2011 was still in operation through the Minnesota Department of Education.
Martin Borg, a Mindquest teacher, and Kevin Byrne created an online assessment company called Achievement Data, Inc (ADI) in 1998, and sold it to Questar in 2005.
In 2003 Byrne created a work-based charter high school called Minnesota Internship Center (MNIC), and as of 2011 he continued to serve as its executive director.