Summer Experiences to Build Leadership Skills, Civic Engagement, and a purposeful pursuit of UT Prosim
Summer 2021 information coming soon
Offered by VTengage, visit the links below to register
- Lunch & Learn: Food insecurity discussion series
June 1, 4, 8, 15, 22, 29 - all sessions 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
This discussion series is centered around global and regional food insecurity issues. Each week, participants will watch short videos or hear from a speaker, then reflect as a group on the issues presented that week.
- Your Purposeful Pursuit of Ut Prosim
June 4, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Participants will explore purpose-guided leadership through watching the award-winning short film, "Butterfly Circus". Following the film, participants will discuss how to apply the film's principles through VT's experiential learning opportunities.
- Pursuing Ut Prosim with Your Life Story
June 11, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Participants will learn how to identify and leverage meaningful moments in their lives in order to be intentional about further exploring and developing their unique, authentic selves at VT and beyond. - Systems Thinking and the Student Leadership Competencies
June 17, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
This interactive workshop will utilize systems thinking activities to help attendees learn how to better understand complex social problems and determine their role in both creating and resolving them. Participants will be asked to think critically about their ability to affect change through the lens of Corey Seemiller's Student Leadership Competencies. - Accessible Communications during COVID-19
June 24, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
The session will present participants with tangible ideas to make communication, particularly in marketing, more accessible, how to avoid common accessibility mistakes, and more. - Hokies Vote: Understanding the landscape of student voting at Virginia Tech
June 30, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Participants will learn more about the voting trends of Virginia Tech students and young voters broadly. - Systems Thinking and the Student Leadership Competencies
July 9, 1 – 2 p.m.
This interactive workshop will utilize systems thinking activities to help attendees learn how to better understand complex social problems and determine their role in both creating and resolving them. Participants will be asked to think critically about their ability to affect change through the lens of Corey Seemiller's Student Leadership Competencies. - Designing Service-Learning Courses- Virtual and In-Person
July 22, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
In this workshop designed for faculty members and instructors, the basics of designing and implementing service-learning courses will be covered for faculty new to this pedagogical tool. - Hokies Vote: Understanding the landscape of student voting at Virginia Tech
July 29, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Participants will learn more about the voting trends of Virginia Tech students and young voters broadly.