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Activating Social Innovation Through Badging

by Janai Mungalsingh I’m happy to report that the next generation is ready to start creating innovative solutions for the future. For the past five years, I’ve developed a holistic curriculum approach to teaching entrepreneurship in Babson’s Summer Study for High School Students. I have listened firsthand to the reasons young people from around the…

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Meet Our Summer Study Faculty Director, Katrin Fischer

Babson’s Summer Study program allows rising high school juniors and seniors to live like college students and learn like entrepreneurs. Working closely with our curriculum designer, the Summer Study Faculty Director helps to create engaging classroom learning environments with workshops, guest lectures, and more. This year’s Summer Study Faculty Director is Katrin Fischer—a faculty member in…

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Why an Entrepreneurial Education Empowers Youth to ACTIVATE Their Futures

Every high school student is poised at a crossroad of possibilities. How can we, as educators, equip today’s youth with the confidence to define their sense of purpose and launch into their future trajectory in this ever-changing global climate? Working with more than 1,000 high school students who have experienced the transformative influence of our…

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Summertime and the Living is Abundant

By Emily Weiner, Associate Director of The Lewis Institute and the Babson Social Innovation Lab. There’s a big misconception that staff and faculty in academic institutions slow down over the summer. The reality is, nothing could be further from the truth at Babson, and that’s certainly true here at The Lewis Institute. Things are heating…

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Meet Babson Summer Study’s New Faculty Director

By Erika Buckley, Communications and Development Associate for Youth Entrepreneurial Leadership Programs Angela Randolph wants high school students to understand that none of us, including herself, know what we don’t know. Angela sees her role as Faculty Director of Babson Summer Study as helping students widen the lens of their current perspective. “I help students…

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The Evolution of Babson Summer Study

By Emily Weiner, Associate Director of The Lewis Institute and the Babson Social Innovation Lab. When Cheryl and I first became involved with Babson’s Summer Study for High School Students program, I couldn’t imagine all of the ways it would grow in scale and impact. Those early days were all about bringing a Social Value…

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When the World is Your Classroom

By Janai Mungalsingh ’08, Manager of Youth Entrepreneurial Leadership Programs at Babson College. I’ve dedicated the last 15 years of my career to youth out-of-school-time programs. I describe my job as creating those “ah-ha” moments for young folks. While I have always understood and recognized the importance of classroom teachers in the learning process, I…

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The Young Entrepreneur’s New Business Value

I’ve had the great pleasure of being involved with Babson’s Summer Study for High School Students in some capacity for the last six years, ranging from co-teaching modules about social responsibility with Cheryl Kiser to helping design and manage the overall program. I beamed with pride as I watched members of our first high school…

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