Year 2—Symposium | Official Launch Date

The class showcases their Community Impact Initiative to all Scholars, staff, and community members at Summer Symposium! This is your kickoff and is a time to celebrate! Leadership team takes the reins on this, though other class members may help as they see fit.

• New Leadership Team is elected (1 yearlong term). Two new members, one from year prior.

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

Year 2—Semester 1 | Execute

This is the phase where ‘the rubber meets the road’. This often feels like the meat of the project since a lot is happening during this time, like status reports and meetings, development updates, and performance reports. A “kick-off” meeting usually marks the start of the Project Execution phase where the teams involved are informed of their responsibilities.

A major deliverable during this phase is securing an agreement with a low-income school to implement the initiative.

Year 2—Winter Break Meeting | Status Meeting

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

Leadership team presents to entire class, staff advisor, community advisor, and applicable community members about the status of the initiative. Topics for this discussion might include:

• Who have you shopped the initiative around to? Have they agreed to partner? Who’s said no, why?

• Feedback from schools, community members, and other important stakeholders.

• What barriers, challenges, opportunities have you encountered since launching?

• What have you learned so far in this process?

• What are the next steps for making your initiative World Class?

Staff advisor, community advisor, and applicable community members give feedback following the presentation. This feedback should focus on entrepreneurial thinking, learning from failure, and the next steps for making the initiative World class.

Year 2—Semester 2 | Incorporate Feedback and Ideate

During this semester, the Leadership team will be incorporating feedback from from the Winter Break meeting. This doesn’t necessarily mean going back to the drawing board. The hope is that the initiative is still active while the ideation is happening. Essentially, this semester should be used by the Leadership Team to keep moving their class’s community impact initiative towards World Class status.

• Entire class should have clear roles and assignments which continue to execute this initiative and move it towards World Class status.

• The Leadership team and entire class should be ideating on how to measure and assess their program in preparation for Year 3. 

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

  • • Think of this presentation as an opportunity to 'sell' your initiative. You've spent two years perfecting it, now show us why it's effective, World Class, and entrepreneurial.

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