Dual School

Alexis Garhart, Josh Grun, and Caitlin

Werner
Mission

● Educate youth on social entrepreneurship

● Empower youth by providing resources in order to allow them to create their
own social entrepreneurship endeavors
● Highlight youth potential
● Strength in the staff
● Weakness in the marketing
Original Project Goal

● Create documentary as a marketing tool to help expand Dual School and get
their name out there
○ Problem within SWOT research was marketing, the tier 2 team was
doing social media so we wanted to do something different and
unique
○ Dual School had actually been wanting to do a documentary so it
became our original project
Successes and Challenges

Successes:

● Understand Dual School’s needs to highlight the potential of the youth

● Effective communication with Dual School staff
● Collaborating with Dual School book team

Challenges:

● Filming impacted by COVID-19 coronavirus restrictions

● Many project pivots
Project Pivots

● Dual School book

● Timeline set to be finished in the fall
● Covid-19 Coronavirus
○ Documentary turned into a podcast
○ Virtual interviews
Final Product

● Plans to work further with Zack and Marianna as well as the students
working on the book to feature specific students
● Storyboard detailing podcast with interview/conversation with Dual School
alum about their experience
○ Riya: Women in STEM
○ Cyrus: Created an app around chronic illnesses
○ Megan: Worked on culture identity/ urban gardening initiative
● Expansion of book idea
Learning Outcomes: Team and Individual

Individual: Team:

● Accountability by being separated and ● Resiliency from project challenges and

accomplishing tasks pivots
● Overcoming weaknesses ● Using strengths to designate tasks
● Gaining new skills as we learn how to ● Regular, effective communication
make a podcast
Next Steps?

- Working with the book team to coordinate our podcast (get more
information)
- Plan interview dates with the students we want to feature