Immersion Experience - The Baby in the King Cake
The New Orleans Service Immersion
Carter Romansky (OI), Contributing Writer
Issue date: 1/26/09 Section: Features
HBS students worked with Habitat for Humanity and Brad Pitt's organization, Make it Right, to help address the ongoing needs in the Ninth Ward. By building houses in the Upper Ninth Ward and helping to figure out ways to catalyze commercial development in the Lower Ninth, they put both their hands and minds to work. The Habitat team (along with another HBS team working with an organization called Idea Village) even made the local news: www.wwltv.com/video/news-index.html?nvid=320821&shu=1.
Not only did the Immersion give students the opportunity to work alongside talented people making a meaningful impact in New Orleans, it also gave them an opportunity to enjoy the city's famous music venues, restaurants, and other night spots. They ate shrimp and oysters, drank hurricanes, cruised Bourbon Street, Frenchmen Street, and Magazine Street, and even managed to join Charmaine Neville on stage for a song or two one night. Trumpet virtuoso Kermit Ruffins cooked for the audience before taking the stage on another occasion. In addition to these activities, Immersion participants enjoyed HBS-sponsored dinners and a reception with partner organizations and New Orleans area HBS alumni.
The student-led and project-based nature of the New Orleans Immersion gives students a unique and substantive way to bring together the core elements of their HBS education. Because they are responsible for producing meaningful work for their partner organizations, students on the New Orleans Immersion - both project leaders and project participants - must not only rely on their academic skills, but also the lessons they've learned about listening, teamwork, and leadership. As the New Orleans trip continues to become institutionalized at HBS and as the Immersion program starts to play an increasingly important role in next year's January term, HBS students will have ongoing opportunities to deepen their learning trough service.
Faculty and staff, including Stacey Childress, David Thomas, Allen Grossman, Jeff Polzer, Mukti Khaire, Rob Huckman, Nic Retsinas, Dutch Leonard, Laura Moon, Margot Dushin, Dana Pratt, and Lindsey Maguire were instrumental in helping students set up and complete the projects in New Orleans. Project leaders Tiera Brown (NB), Marcelia Freeman (NC), Mina Hsiang (NI), Catie Lee (NJ), Jonathan Lujan (OC), Behrad Mahdi (NE), Matt Segneri (NE), and Christina Wallace (NB) also deserve recognition for the efforts they made to ensure the success of the projects.
Not only did the Immersion give students the opportunity to work alongside talented people making a meaningful impact in New Orleans, it also gave them an opportunity to enjoy the city's famous music venues, restaurants, and other night spots. They ate shrimp and oysters, drank hurricanes, cruised Bourbon Street, Frenchmen Street, and Magazine Street, and even managed to join Charmaine Neville on stage for a song or two one night. Trumpet virtuoso Kermit Ruffins cooked for the audience before taking the stage on another occasion. In addition to these activities, Immersion participants enjoyed HBS-sponsored dinners and a reception with partner organizations and New Orleans area HBS alumni.
The student-led and project-based nature of the New Orleans Immersion gives students a unique and substantive way to bring together the core elements of their HBS education. Because they are responsible for producing meaningful work for their partner organizations, students on the New Orleans Immersion - both project leaders and project participants - must not only rely on their academic skills, but also the lessons they've learned about listening, teamwork, and leadership. As the New Orleans trip continues to become institutionalized at HBS and as the Immersion program starts to play an increasingly important role in next year's January term, HBS students will have ongoing opportunities to deepen their learning trough service.
Faculty and staff, including Stacey Childress, David Thomas, Allen Grossman, Jeff Polzer, Mukti Khaire, Rob Huckman, Nic Retsinas, Dutch Leonard, Laura Moon, Margot Dushin, Dana Pratt, and Lindsey Maguire were instrumental in helping students set up and complete the projects in New Orleans. Project leaders Tiera Brown (NB), Marcelia Freeman (NC), Mina Hsiang (NI), Catie Lee (NJ), Jonathan Lujan (OC), Behrad Mahdi (NE), Matt Segneri (NE), and Christina Wallace (NB) also deserve recognition for the efforts they made to ensure the success of the projects.
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