2009 Program Schedule

Leadership Training

• Leadership skills must be experienced to be learned. Your training includes:
• A modeling or demonstration of leadership by speakers
• Targeted leadership themes for each session
• A theatrical experience for each session
• Leadership games and simulation activities
  
  

Topic: Overcoming Obstacles

28-year-old Katelyn Weymouth is a keynote speaker who will share her personal story of tragedy, challenge and triumph. After contracting bacterial meningitis in her freshman year at UConn, she spent 8 months in a coma and faced many medical challenges, including the loss of both of her feet. Katelyn has taught herself to snowboard and is now working on her Ph.D. in Genomics.

Topic: Social Networking Responsibilities

Professor Luanne Proko is program chair of Business Communications at Nichols College. In her classes, she emphasizes that success requires effective communications as an individual, as a team member, as a member of an organization and as a citizen in a global environment...and all of these arenas require different skill sets.

Professor Proko will share advice on using social networking sites such as Facebook and You Tube. She earned her bachelor's and M.B.A. from Assumption College and is an avid runner and proud soccer mom for her two daughters.

Topic: Diversity Training

Diversity trainers Al and Keith Toney's session on stereotypes and myths is a big hit with START high school participants. They have served as foster parents to many youth in need, and their hme has been listed as an emergency hotline for the Department of Social Services of Massachusetts.

Sunday	June 7th, 2009
8:30-9:15 a.m.	Registration  (Shamie Hall)
9:15-9:55 a.m.	Group Round Up (Shamie Hall)
	-teambuilding
	-setting expectations and guidelines
	-identity building
10:00-11:15 a.m.	Confluence (Field House)
	-respect/acceptance
	-forming
11:15-11:55 a.m.	Welcome & Orientation (Davis Hall)
12 noon-12:35 p.m.	Working Lunch
12:40-1:30 p.m.	Keynote: Katelyn Weymouth - "Elevate Your Expectations" (Davis Hall)
1:35-3:10 p.m.	Nuts & Bolts Workshops (Assigned Rooms for Sm Gps) -personal organization -communications -inclusion
3:15-3:35 p.m.	Team Meetings to Review & Process (Assigned Rooms for Sm Gps)
3:45-5:05 p.m.	Simulation - Chips Ahoy (Field House)
5:15-5:50 p.m.	Dinner (Lombard Dining Hall)
5:55-6:45 p.m.	Keynote Speaker: Luanne Proko (Davis Hall)
6:50-7:25 p.m.	Issues Roundtables (Auditorium)
7:30-9:50 p.m.	Interactive Play: "There is nothing we can do?" (Auditorium)
10:00-10:30 p.m.	Team Meetins to Review & Process (Assigned Areas) -group pictures
10:35-10:50 p.m.	Wrap/Rap (Auditorium)
11:10 p.m.	Lights Out! (Shamie Hall) -all delegrates in rooms -systematic room check

Monday	June 8th, 2009
7:00-7:45 a.m.	Wake-up / Breakfast (Lombard Dining Hall)
7:50 a.m.	Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jim Fitzgerald (Davis Hall)
9:10-10:55 a.m.	Large Group Session - Assertiveness Rights, Rights, Acceptance (Davis Hall) Al & Keith Toney, Diversity Trainers
11:00-11:20 a.m.	Team Meetings to Review & Process (Assigned Room)
11:30 a.m.-12:10 p.m.	Lunch Student Leaders Q & A: Gena Ricciardi; Sarah Groh; Danielle Desrosiers
12:15-1:10 p.m.	Green Leadership (Davis Hall) Architech Brian Baer / Student Lauren Nutter
2:05-2:55 p.m.	Project Green Schools (Davis Hall)
3:00-3:35 p.m.	Goal Seeting Workshops (Assigned Rooms)
3:35-4:25 p.m.	Preparator Packing/Rm Check (Shamie Hall)
4:30-5:00 p.m.	Dinner (Lombard Dining Hall)
5:00-5:30 p.m.	E-Value-Action (Auditorium)
5:35 p.m.	Wrap/Rap (Auditorium)
5:50-6:35 p.m.	Closing Ceremonies (Auditorium) Keynote: Dr. Jim Fitzgerald

There will also be a Parents' Program on Monday, June 8th from 4-6:35 p.m. before Closing Ceremonies.