Milestones
Beyond Acceptance: Why Minds Matter Colorado Is Growing Into a Seven-Year Model
Author: Chad Cookinham, Executive Director, Minds Matter Colorado Key Takeaways Getting into college is a milestone, not the finish line. The first year of college is where many talented students lose momentum, often for reasons that have nothing to do with ability. Minds Matter Colorado is growing from a three-year high school program into…
Read MoreWhat Makes Mentorships Work
Here is a great post excerpted from First Round: “When First Round launched its Mentorship Program in 2016, we didn’t know what to expect. We’d heard from a number of people in our community that mentorship remained an elusive, missing piece in their careers. Younger people said it was intimidating and difficult to find a…
Read MorePictures Worth a 1000 Posts
Every Monday night the magic happens for Minds Matter Denver at West High and two other locations. This is one instance where a blog post cannot do justice to the pictures. Take a minute and mosey over to our Facebook page to look at all the stars.
Read MoreWhat Minds Matter Does. In A Minute.
Savinay explains what Minds Matter Denver does in exactly 60 seconds, which is no small feat.
Read MoreCold Brew Goes With …
So there is a new commercial out for Verizon that makes really dumb analogies about how certain things go together. They do, however, have a point. Minds Matter Denver has a simple mission–to prove that Genius has no zip code and that people from even the humblest origins can skyrocket to the top of society.…
Read MoreThere Will Be a Movie Today
At Minds Matter, we’re always thinking about things: students, mentors, teachers. While we spend a great deal of time talking about our students and their mentors we’d like to take a minute to think about teachers. And what better time to do so than over the Holidays, when you might be spending time with some…
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