With participation of 30 students from public and private schools, Lincoln Academy encourages students to become environmental and social leaders
- Initiative will provide solutions to the Hospital Nacional de Niños
- Project started 13 years ago
More than memorizing or doing math calculations, students need inspiration to become agents of change. The Lincoln School Entrepreneurship and Leadership Academy aims to awake empathy as a fuel to promote environmental and social leadership in students.
Members of student governments from public and private schools participate in this initiative to create projects based on the Sustainable Development Goals. This time students from four schools participate: ICS, Cristóbal Colón, Santamaria and Barrio Socorro.
Sylvia Montero, Elementary Principal, explained that through this project the students develop leadership and entrepreneurship skills while proposing initiatives to meet the needs of the Hospital Nacional de Niños.
“Entrepreneurship is not just about earning money, empathy towards people in need must be promoted. We try to develop a sense of equity and social justice in students,” added Montero.
The Entrepreneurship and Leadership Academy objectives are:
- Develop the entrepreneurial mind, along with social and environmental development.
- Understand, identify and connect the Sustainable Development Goals with the projects that are developed.
- Take students through the design thinking process: empathize, ideate, iterate, define, prototype, test.
- Plan and implement activities and projects that have an impact on society wellness.
- Give students the opportunity to demonstrate and develop their leadership qualities.
- Develop teamwork skills and celebrate their fruits.
- Strengthen bonds with neighbor schools.
During three sessions the students will meet to share their project progress, it will be in June when they present the results of their research and show a model of their proposal.
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