Leadership Projects

PGST students work with their faculty mentors throughout the program to refine the leadership projects they described when they applied. They formally present their projects to their PGST classmates for review, and help each other focus on how to implement them in their local schools and communities in the upcoming school year. Students report back to the PGST office with their progress at the end of their senior year.

Sample Program Excerpts

Kaitlin Connell

Seneca Valley High School, IU#4l                                          
Kaitlin will organize a tutoring and mentoring program through her local library for students in fourth through sixth grade. The program will focus on creating a well-rounded educational foundation and social interaction between high school and elementary children.

Kent DeBolt                                                     

Deer Lakes High School, IU#3
Kent will develop and implement an improved peer-tutoring program. The program will include two objectives. The first is to develop a set of qualifications that students must meet in order to tutor and the second is to require tutoring for participants in extracurricular activities if their grades drop below a new, higher standard.

Matt Farber                                        

Central Columbia High School, lU#i6
Matt will initiate an organ donor awareness program in his school and community. This project will educate students and adults on the importance and need for organ donors.

Monae Kelsey                      

Germantown Lankenau Motivational High School, lU#i6
Monae will implement a teen pregnancy course in her school. Her hope is that by discussing the statistics and facts of teen pregnancy, she will be able to help adolescents find a solution to decrease teen pregnancy rates.

Holly Kline                                                  

Richand High School, IU#8
Holly will implement a foreign language program in a local elementary school. This project will allow students to have a basic background of a language other than English before they reach high school.

Krystin Kopen  

Wyoming Seminary, IU#i8
Krystin will create an after-school art program for elementary students who do not receive art instruction. The program is designed to expose these children to the fine arts and help develop their visual and spatial intelligences.

Keep Us Posted!

If you are a former Govie we want to hear about how your Leadership Project is going. If you have completed it, let us know how it went. If you have photos, video clips or other information, please send them to:

philip.malin@millersville.edu

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