Students can still apply for life changing leadership experience!
June 8, 2017
Students can still apply for Youth Corps… a dynamic leadership training experience for thirty-six outstanding 9th and 10th grade students (rising 9th & 10th graders would apply for next year) in Richland & Lexington Counties that a national leadership association described as unlike any other opportunity in the country… right here in the Midlands.
Youth Corps partners with the community to unleash the leadership potential of youth and to instill the values of leadership and professionalism through dynamic community interaction.
Students start their own businesses (this year’s students grossed over $23,000 in sales and gave back over $2,000 to various nonprofits and charities from their own money), help to pass an actual bill at the State House, help victims of crime, meet with young people behind the fence at DJJ, work with Columbia’s non-profits, interact with the world of journalism, and much more as they develop as leaders and acquire the big picture of our city.
Youth Corps turns great students into great leaders. Youth Corps Alumni have gone on to become student body presidents, captains of athletic teams, members of the Supreme Court at their universities, serve on the board of directors of nonprofits and much more.
For more information and to get an application, go to www.youthcorps.net or call Jeff Becraft, Youth Corps Executive Director, at 665-5640. Application deadline for the next round of interviews is June 27 and July 14 for the next round.
More than one outstanding student has stated, “This is the year that my life changed forever.
