This January, 25 of our Skills4life students who had developed business ideas with great potential during the semester got the chance to develop their ideas further and present them in front of a panel of judges at the second Leadership Weekend. We were again amazed by the potential of the youth and the ideas they develop. The 5 finalist teams p
resented in front of a panel of judges: Salim Karroum from FNB, Mohammad Khattab from al Gezairi and Nada Khorshid from Welfare Association. The students were well prepared in terms of concepts, presentation skills and teamwork and we are all proud of their achievements. The winning team’s business idea, Solar Power Machine, is developing and selling solar panels for traffic lights.
The ‘Leadership weekend’ is the final activity that culminates the skills learned by secondary students throughout the Skills4Life semester. Winning teams are offered internships in organizations depending on their interests and future ambitions. The runner up teams also get to intern within Skills4Life’s three partner organizations, ULYP, Welfare Association and INJAZ Lebanon.
To prepare our 25 students, aged 17 and 18, for their internships
, we will conduct a workshop addressing topics such as: what is an internship? Internship do’s and don’ts, how to benefit from your experience, work ethics, office etiquette and more. The organizations hosting these students will give written assessments on their performance during the internship, which students can include in their profile as they apply for universities and jobs in the future.
We appreciate all the effort the participants, judges, trainers, partners and schools that went into making this Leadership weekend a success.
Skills4Life is funded by the European Union.
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