Our approach involves synergies between nationally coordinated efforts and intense person-to-person interaction in more than 30 local chapters. Throughout the year, chapters deliver repetitive, habit-forming workshops and exercises in SAT/ACT preparation; study skills, advanced algebra, analytical development; oratorical development; leadership and management; critical reading, thinking and comprehension; career planning; and college preparation that culminate in three national capstone events involving all chapters: Success Boot Camp, the LOT National Business Case Competition, and Global Community Service Project.
Success Boot Camp
Success Boot Camp is the nation’s most intense “microinternship” experience for minority high school students. Working with trainers, facilitators, coaches, and mentors from every level of the corporate world and public policy arena, students summon the courage to tackle extreme high pressure situations. At the same time, they learn by doing— preparing for college by visiting college campuses, for their careers by engaging corporate recruiters and executives, and to seize leadership opportunities by collaborating to make their communities better now. Held in conjunction with the National Black MBA Association, Inc. National Convention and Exposition, the camp is a sun-up to late-night experience that focuses on academic excellence, professional development, college preparation, health and fitness, leadership, and service— from work-outs at dawn to interactive workshops to leadership elections to networking with major corporations. Students are pushed to do things that others have never challenged them to do before, like public speaking or networking with corporate CEOs or having dinner with national elected officials. They are required to solve the world’s problems and then defend their ideas. And in the process, they begin to realize that the limits to your potential are only those that they place there themselves.
National Business Case Competition
Through the LOT National Business Case Competition, high school students train for months to analyze an MBA-level Harvard-style graduate business case and pitch recommendations before panels of senior corporate executives and business school faculty who are instructed to evaluate candidates as if they were MBA candidates, not high school students. In the process, LOT students must master math application, critical thinking, analytical writing, research, and public speaking and then present detailed financial projections and implementation plans. One of the most intense experiences any high school student participates in, it is billed as the "toughest competition for high school students in the world." Case Competitions have been held at some of the leading business schools, including the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, University of Michigan Ross School of Business, and the Ohio State University Fisher School of Business, where students have analyzed complex business problems affecting major corporations like including major corporations like Samsung, Apple, Walmart, Facebook, Viacom, Nissan, and Starbucks.
Global Community Service Project
The Global Community Service Project challenges LOT students to organize a nation-wide effort to improve society. National student leaders engage local chapter leaders around a central theme, and students in cities around the country create, design, and execute original community service projects in their local area over the same period of time.
The National Executive Team
LOT students are expected to take an active role in shaping how their chapters impact the world. To spearhead that activity, students elect a national “C-Suite” Team similar to that in major corporations: a student president & chief executive officer, chief administrative officer, and chief operating officer. Each local chapter also elects a “chapter executive” who works with the national officers to develop and implement major projects.
Success Boot Camp
Success Boot Camp is the nation’s most intense “microinternship” experience for minority high school students. Working with trainers, facilitators, coaches, and mentors from every level of the corporate world and public policy arena, students summon the courage to tackle extreme high pressure situations. At the same time, they learn by doing— preparing for college by visiting college campuses, for their careers by engaging corporate recruiters and executives, and to seize leadership opportunities by collaborating to make their communities better now. Held in conjunction with the National Black MBA Association, Inc. National Convention and Exposition, the camp is a sun-up to late-night experience that focuses on academic excellence, professional development, college preparation, health and fitness, leadership, and service— from work-outs at dawn to interactive workshops to leadership elections to networking with major corporations. Students are pushed to do things that others have never challenged them to do before, like public speaking or networking with corporate CEOs or having dinner with national elected officials. They are required to solve the world’s problems and then defend their ideas. And in the process, they begin to realize that the limits to your potential are only those that they place there themselves.
National Business Case Competition
Through the LOT National Business Case Competition, high school students train for months to analyze an MBA-level Harvard-style graduate business case and pitch recommendations before panels of senior corporate executives and business school faculty who are instructed to evaluate candidates as if they were MBA candidates, not high school students. In the process, LOT students must master math application, critical thinking, analytical writing, research, and public speaking and then present detailed financial projections and implementation plans. One of the most intense experiences any high school student participates in, it is billed as the "toughest competition for high school students in the world." Case Competitions have been held at some of the leading business schools, including the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, University of Michigan Ross School of Business, and the Ohio State University Fisher School of Business, where students have analyzed complex business problems affecting major corporations like including major corporations like Samsung, Apple, Walmart, Facebook, Viacom, Nissan, and Starbucks.
Global Community Service Project
The Global Community Service Project challenges LOT students to organize a nation-wide effort to improve society. National student leaders engage local chapter leaders around a central theme, and students in cities around the country create, design, and execute original community service projects in their local area over the same period of time.
The National Executive Team
LOT students are expected to take an active role in shaping how their chapters impact the world. To spearhead that activity, students elect a national “C-Suite” Team similar to that in major corporations: a student president & chief executive officer, chief administrative officer, and chief operating officer. Each local chapter also elects a “chapter executive” who works with the national officers to develop and implement major projects.
