Training Future STEM Leaders One Student at a Time with Susanne Cappendijk

English - September 17, 2020 04:05 - 1 hour - 60 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
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Production team:

Introduction Voice: David Bourne

Music credits:

Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals

Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks

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Childhood in the Netherlands: a deep love for books and spending time at her Dad's work (3:49)

University: her studies and research in Biology, Neuroscience and Pharmacology (7:45)

How Susanne views our human ability to learn (10:42)

Her decision to pursue an MBA and the path to her current role (13:56)

How students build hard and soft skills alongside Susanne (18:48)

The origin of EDsnaps: learning to solve a problem with the resources at hand (22:31)

EDsnaps’ mission: empowering female-identifying students to reach their full potential (25:19)

The growth journey of EDsnaps: from their first pilot program to today (28:00)

How Susanne pivoted their in-person programs to entirely online during the pandemic (32:30)

EDsnaps’ new 8-week summer program in 2020 (34:34)

The Continuously Learning Officer program: a co-ed leadership program for high school and college students (38:29)

How Susanne responded to the lost summer internships of her students (41:08)

Creating leadership opportunities for students through a peer-mentoring program (42:41)

Fostering leadership in underserved students through collaboration and uniting forces (44:04)

Leveraging partnerships to serve needs and wants of their students (48:09)

The role of volunteers in the EDsnaps programs (53:25)

How EDsnaps gets funding (55:25)

How they measure the success of their programs (57:13)

What Susanne wants to leave her mark on during her lifetime (1:03:07)