As the summer draws closer to the end, I think that now is a great time to reflect on all of the wonderful things that LTI has managed to do so far this year. In addition to having a very great spring session, LTI has also managed to be very influential in the community this summer. In the beginning of July, LTI has successfully expanded its curriculum to the HSSP program at MIT. All five HSSP sessions have been successful, and I can tell that all of these students are really learning a lot about great leadership.
In addition to HSSP, I am also proud to announce that the plans for the IAP trip to Shanghai are almost finalized. After talking with some high school students on the Fenway T-stop, I can see how important it is for a program like LTI to be expanded to other schools. Often I take for granted how important it is for high school students to be apart of a program like LTI and have mentors in their lives that encourage them to become better leaders. After talking with these students at the T-stop about politics, college plans, and sports, I could see how important a program like LTI is to very motivated high school students. After that experience, I realized that in addition to showing our mentees qualities of good leadership, LTI also shows them how to develop their own natural gifts and become outstanding leaders in their own communities. It's like what President Obama said "we can transform this country one community at a time."
