Year 1 | Summer Symposium

• Class completes Impact Focusing exercise during Symposium.

  • Upload Impact Focusing document to the Google Site.

• Leadership Team is elected (1 yearlong term).

• Class leaves Symposium with concrete ideas on their project, next steps, responsibilities, and timelines.

Year 1—Semester 1 | Identify your entrepreneurial solution
Leadership team uses this semester to conduct an assessment of the problem and the community. The class gains a deep understanding of the problem, the solution, and everyone involved. This should include, but is not limited too: 

• What’s the problem/opportunity, root cause, and contributing factors?

• Who’s affected? Are their spillover effects into other communities?

• Who are the big players: who’s involved in the solution, who’s/what’s causing the problem, who needs to get involved?

• What school will you partner with/target for your initiative?

This assessment should involve real conversations with real people in the selected school/community. By the end of Term 1, the class should have identified several entrepreneurial solutions for the issue they want to solve. Each solution should be well thought out, planned, and actionable.

Year 1-Winter Break Meeting | Presentation on Findings
Leadership team presents to entire class, staff advisor, community advisor, and applicable community members about the problem they’re solving, the evidence and information they’ve gathered, and their list of potential solutions. Staff and community members in attendance give feedback with the end goal of one solution being selected as the class’s initiative moving forward.

• This is a virtual event, entire class attendance mandatory. Leadership team schedules and manages the meeting for all attendees.

This is a great opportunity to include community members who have a local connection to the community/school in mind, who have expertise in the issue or solution, and potential organization/business partners.

Year 1—Semester 2 | Project Planning and Development

This phase focuses on setting goals and developing a roadmap that everyone will follow. During this phase, the scope of the project is defined, a project management plan is developed, and roles and responsibilities are clearly defined so everyone involved knows what they are accountable for. At the end of Semester 2, the initiative should be ready for launch, school(s) should be contacted and considering the project, and you should be in communication with school leadership.

• Leadership team and class should be prepared to present on their Community Impact Initiative at Year Two Summer Symposium.

• Track your progress by updating milestones and tasks that you are working on or have completed already!

• Track your progress by updating milestones and tasks that you are working on or have completed already!