About MIT LTI
Mission Statement
Welcome to the Leadership Training Institute (LTI). The goal of the Leadership Training Institute is to teach motivated high school students the philosophy behind leadership, the importance of teamwork, and to promote self-reflection and the comprehension of self-identity.
About the Program
The Leadership Training Institute is a newly developed program, founded by YeSeul Kim in 2007. It is MIT sponsored program and currently geared to serve the schools of the greater Boston and Cambridge areas. LTI launched its pilot program through MIT's High School Summer Program (HSSP) in the summer of 2007. The program was oversubscribed and a success! LTI expanded tremendously in the fall of 2007, with the creation of an executive board and four committees. Over sixteen MIT students joined LTI as committee members or mentors. By February 3, 2008, LTI began its first full spring session of. Eight students successfully graduated from LTI and plan to return the summer of 2008 and spring of 2009 as peer mentors.
Short-term Vision
The short-term vision of LTI is to spread our name and spirit throughout MIT's campus, to reach the point where LTI is well-recognized among our student body. We wish to be a program that reaches out to a wide spectrum of high school students around the Cambridge/Boston area and actively helps those disadvantaged students to become competitive leaders in the future. We hope to become a program for which high school students compete to participate in, and whose mentors are dedicated heart-and-soul to the students we are helping.
Long-term Vision
The long-term vision of LTI is to expand our program into other campuses around the country, and to create a Leadership-In-A-Box tool that will start LTI off in other campuses or schools that wish to follow suit. By 2009, we hope to expand the program nationwide to other college campuses.
