GirlsLead

Overview: This conference is a six-day immersion in Leadership and Women’s Studies for high-performing female high school students. Through classroom teaching, guest speakers, and interactive small-group work, students learn to enhance their abilities to lead in their personal, academic, and professional lives. Teaching is performed by professionals who exemplify unique leadership traits with the assistance of Team Leaders, who are typically recent college graduates or undergraduate upperclassmen with strong leadership background and skills.

College Accredited Curriculum: This course has been college accredited. Students who complete GirlsLead are eligible to earn two (2) college credits from Loras College.  No additional course work is required to earn college credit.  (Students must pay $249 for each college credit.)

Course Content: The following topics will be covered in the GirlsLead conference.

Readings: Students will be given approximately 40 pages of college level background reading assignments on leadership traits, skills, and practices.

Classroom Activities: Students who participate in the conference will:

          • Enhance leadership skills through a series of themed workshops
          • Networking panel with female business leaders
          • Participate in etiquette workshop
          • Develop a marketing campaign for advancing women’s issues
          • Experience a high ropes course with deaf facilitators

Off-site experiences: Off-site visits at this conference are intended to expose students to Washington, D.C. These may include briefings at women’s specific monuments and memorials, a tour of Arlington National Cemetery with specific focus on women in military service, and Smithsonian American History museum.