The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) works with low-income high school students to translate their "street smarts" into "business smarts" and "academic smarts" through experiential coursework, business case competitions, and more. NFTE provides high-impact opportunities to re-engage high school students who are veering onto dropout pathways and make school more relevant and engaging. Their efforts are really aligned with the work that the Council is aiming to do, and one of my co-workers who serves as a NFTE ambassador invited me to the brunch, where I met a group of cool young DC-based entrepreneurs and heard from Garrett Graff, social media entrepreneur and the youngest editor of the Washingtonian magazine.
After brunch, I visited the National Building Museum (it's going to stop being free in a week, so see it soon if you're on an intern diet!). Visiting museums always makes me nostalgic about my training in American Studies, where one key aspect was always the fusion of culture, history, literature, policy, and every social science -ology with a special focus on the form and the content of objects. The NBM exhibition on Designing Tomorrow included a variety of artifacts from the World's Fairs in the US during the 1930s. World's fairs were all about imagining the future, which, in a way is what we who aspire to shape policy do every day -- hopefully beyond just the rhetoric of win the future.
And now for something completely different -- dogs!
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