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The HSLI allows high school students in their junior year to apply for the opportunity to participate in a summer institute where they study and practice leadership skills and service as a form of community and civic engagement. Students work under the direction of faculty and staff affiliated with the Wartburg Institute for Leadership Education.
HSLI Dates: July 20-26, 2008
HSLI
Participants will:
• Participate in team-building activities and hands-on service
projects designed to expand and challenge leadership and service skills.
• Travel to Chicago to work with Holy Family Lutheran Church members
in the Cabrini Green housing project, helping to rehabilitate low-income
housing.
• Develop a community service project to be implemented in their
home communities during their senior year of high school.
• Work with a trained college student mentor.
• Create a portfolio and submit it for review to the Institute
for Leadership Education.
Successful
projects & portfolios result in:
• 3.5 semester hours of transferable college credit for “LS115:
Elements of Leadership."
• Eligibility for a $1,000 renewable scholarship to Wartburg College
($4,000 value)
