Annie Makela and Bill Selak sat down with students from the 2018 Social Impact Summer Apprenticeship. As part of the launch of the Scott Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Hillbrook School, we offered a unique and selective summer apprenticeship in collaboration with Middlebury College’s MiddCORE program last July 2018.
Summer Apprenticeship students spent the week working in a small group with high school peers, as well as college students and professionals in various industries, and completed a design challenge and presented it. Students built key entrepreneurial skills: systems thinking, financial literacy, design thinking, ethical leadership, and storytelling.
Throughout the week, students followed the “apprentice-a-problem” model as they designed and prototyped a mobile classroom for the Scott Center for Social Entrepreneurship. The Apprenticeship was MiddCORE students and mentor coaches from companies such as PayPal, Patagonia, Big Sur Land Trust, Wells Fargo, Just Business and the World Bank.
This first-of-its-kind week-long program is for students interested in exploring the questions: What matters to me? What skills can I build to do something about it? Who can I learn from to better understand the systems that will create change?
Link: Social Impact Summer Apprenticeship Summer 2018 info
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