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Training Future STEM Leaders One Student at a Time with Susanne Cappendijk
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Production team:
Host : Maria Xenidou
Introduction Voice: David Bourne
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impactlearningpodcast(at)gmail.com
Music credits:
Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals
Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks
Where to find more about Susanne Cappendijk and EDsnaps:
Mentioned in this episode:
Karolinska Institutet - a medical university
John F. Kennedy High School (New York City)
Listen to this episode and explore:
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)
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