Youth Workshops
Empowering Youth to Achieve
Go beyond mere instruction with workshops that provide a fully immersive learning experience. Our sessions equip participants with valuable skills and knowledge directly related to their career development and future success.
Workshops
Empowering Youth to Achieve
Emerging Leaders
Through engaging activities and self-reflection, this workshop asks youth to explore their values and beliefs in order to align them with behaviors that lead to making responsible decisions.
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Sharpen Your Edge
Research and experience prove that our ability to communicate, relate, and work together is our greatest asset. As many as 52% of companies across the country are concerned about recent graduates’ lack of personal skills.
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Time & Stress Management
Anxiety and stress are on the rise globally. According to National Institute of Mental Health, one-third of adolescent youth report feeling anxiety to a significant degree.
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Your Voice, Your Future
Let’s empower youth to experience success and believe in a prosperous future. This student-centered workshop incorporates elements of asset-based thinking, goal setting, and playful learning to guide youth in identifying their personal power.
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The Power of Personal Strengths
Students will identify personal strengths to leverage for their advantage. They will also collaborate to empower diverse strengths in group settings.
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Strengths-Focused Coaching
Being strengths-based extends far beyond taking the Gallup StrengthsFinder assessment. In these coaching sessions, we will work together to combat the deficit-focused concept of fixing weaknesses that negatively impacts human resilience, confidence, and achievement.
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Clemson University smartEDGE empowers youth to discover what is unique about themselves, maximize their potential, and immediately apply what they have learned. We achieve this through the following:
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- Facilitate virtual and in-person interactive workshops
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- Facilitate experiential workforce readiness programs to build employability skills
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- Aid youth in developing professional resumes and interview skills
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- Empower youth through life skill development
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- Co-author grants to support funding needs
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- Assess and evaluate programs and practices
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- Develop and deliver research-based new programs
How We Do It
smartEDGE focus areas include leadership, resilience, healthy relationships, social-emotional learning, emotional intelligence, and effective communication. Using this information, we develop interactive workshops and programs for youth audiences. Additionally, we combine internally developed trainings, open-source materials, and national best practice models that can be customized to meet the specific needs of any group.
Discover
Identify strengths, goals, and needs
Design
Customize the learning experience to meet goals and needs
Collaborate
Collaborative review to discuss any changes and approve the plan
Deliver
Combine personalized materials with interactive, engaging strategies
Summarize
Deliver the evaluation results and we have a final debrief
A service provided by Clemson University Learning Institute.
Phone: 864.878.1103
Email: info@cu-smartedge.com
Clemson University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any individual or group of individuals on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or genetic information.
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