MENTA

Collection
Design Strategy (MBA) | Design Division

Course
Fall 2015Innovation StudioLisa K. Solomon, Susan WorthmanDSMBA-600-01
Final project
Student(s)
Adriana Santamaria, Heraclio Atencio, Joshua Tharp, Maria LaRotta, Di Wu
Description
MENTA is a community for future voters that want to be mentored by college students.

MENTA is a volunteer community where college students create events that interest and educate high school students about civic engagement. The college students find meeting spaces, relevant guest speakers, provide refreshments, and connect with groups of high school students to participate. 

During the event, the college and high school students will engage in activities where they can get to know each other as well as discuss civic oriented issues. From here, mentor relationships develop organically where it’s the college and high school student’s responsibilities to begin and continue the mentoring relationship. 

MENTA will provide a website that guides the college students in developing the events as well as tracking each event held so the college student can use the history as a resume building tool. 

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