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Youth Empowerment

How FSI’s Impact Lab Course Nurtures Future Leaders through Impact-based Learning

How FSI’s Impact Lab Course Nurtures…

Explore the skills, insights, and professional growth gained by FSI's Impact Lab interns during their three-month experience!

Impact Lab Students Learning About Systems change and Becoming a Changemaker

Impact Lab Students Learning About Systems…

Check out what FSI's Impact Lab Course students learned about systems change in their third workshop!

Developing a Resilient Mind for Success: Impact Lab’s World Mental Health Day Workshop

Developing a Resilient Mind for Success:…

For this year's World Mental Health Day, FSI and City Mental Health Alliance Hong Kong hosted a mental health workshop…

Impact Lab’s First In-person Seminar on Design Thinking: The Creative Process of Ideation

Impact Lab’s First In-person Seminar on…

In their first in-person Impact Lab seminar, student interns learned about the design thinking process and explored its application in…

Harris Cheng On Why Impact Lab Isn’t a Course but an Experience to Grow and Find Yourself

Harris Cheng On Why Impact Lab…

Read our interview with Harris Cheng to find out how Impact Lab was a transformative experience that opened his eyes…

Vivian Seo: From Impact Lab Intern to FSI Executive Director

Vivian Seo: From Impact Lab Intern…

Get to know Vivian Seo from our interview with the Impact Lab alumni, former Goldman Sachs analyst, and current FSI…

Zuhayr Abdullazhanov: How My Impact Lab Experience Led Me to Deloitte and Now Bard College

Zuhayr Abdullazhanov: How My Impact Lab…

Find out how Impact Lab inspired Zuhayr Abdullazhanov to pursue a life of novel experiences, from Deloitte to Bard College.

How Impact Lab Prepares Youth for the Future of Work

How Impact Lab Prepares Youth for…

Find out how FSI's Impact Lab Course and Community Business Support Program equip youth for the future of work.

Tony Gaitanos Hollingworth: Impact Lab Helped Me Build the Foundations for the Professional I Am Today

Tony Gaitanos Hollingworth: Impact Lab Helped…

How does Impact Lab equip youth with directly transferable workplace skills? Read our interview with Tony Hollingworth to learn more.

David Izikowitz: From Impact Lab Intern to Climate Tech Entrepreneur

David Izikowitz: From Impact Lab Intern…

Read our interview with David Izikowitz to learn how Impact Lab inspired him to become an entrepreneur committed to social…

Join Impact Lab to Build Social Impact Leaders for the Next Decade

Join Impact Lab to Build Social…

Check out Impact Lab's 10th anniversary event: the alumni and partners present, our impact, and the future of youth empowerment.

Impact Lab: 10 Years of Nurturing Young Social Impact Leaders

Impact Lab: 10 Years of Nurturing…

Find out how Impact Lab started as we celebrate 10 years of nurturing young social impact leaders this year.

Impact Lab Seminar: Be the Change You Want to See

Impact Lab Seminar: Be the Change…

What are systems change? Where are they needed? Impact Lab students convened to learn more.

Entrepreneurship 101: How to Fail Well

Entrepreneurship 101: How to Fail Well

Impact Lab students and Ethnically Diverse Entrepreneurs share insights on risk management and learning from failures.

Impact Lab Students Practicing Design Thinking as the Leaders of Tomorrow

Impact Lab Students Practicing Design Thinking…

Impact Lab students practice their problem-solving skills and think of creative solutions at Design Thinking seminar!

Impact Lab Kicks Off New Semester with Intercultural Learning at Orientation Event

Impact Lab Kicks Off New Semester…

Students from all over the world meet for the Impact Lab Course orientation and prepare for their internships at social…

Soomi Hong on Social Impact: Start Small and Build Consistently

Soomi Hong on Social Impact: Start…

Soomi Hong talks about her impactful internship at Soap Cycling and how everyone can create positive impact with consistent effort.

Sam Climo: Be Involved in as Many Opportunities as Possible

Sam Climo: Be Involved in as…

Sam Climo, an Impact Lab alumni, talks about how the course empowers youth and equips them with transferrable skills.

Masood Ahmed: Aim for Solutions that Drive Great Impact

Masood Ahmed: Aim for Solutions that…

Impact Lab alumni Masood Ahmed talks about how his internship at Weava has reinforced his passion for startups.

Meet Our Impact Lab Interns: Aurora Fang

Meet Our Impact Lab Interns: Aurora…

Read our interview with Aurora Fang, a postgraduate who interned with FSI to pursue her passion for corporate sustainability governance.

Meet Our Impact Lab Interns: Tiffany Cheung

Meet Our Impact Lab Interns: Tiffany…

Read our interview with Tiffany Cheung, who describes how her first internship experience at Impact Lab equips her with professional…

Meet Our Impact Lab Interns: Clemens Friese

Meet Our Impact Lab Interns: Clemens…

Clemens Friese talks about how the Impact Lab internship experience confirmed his interest in working with a social startup in…

Kaisha Woo and Vivian Seo: Why Art is for Everyone

Kaisha Woo and Vivian Seo: Why…

Meet Kaisha and Vivian, who talk about their vision for Gowld Art Centre, and their respective learnings in bringing art…

Sidhant Gupta: Balancing Impact and Profitability

Sidhant Gupta: Balancing Impact and Profitability

Read our interview with Sidhant Gupta, co-founder of Clearbot, on a mission to clean the world's ocean waste with AI-powered…

Meet Our Impact Lab Interns: Jolyn Yin

Meet Our Impact Lab Interns: Jolyn…

Read our interview with Jolyn Yin on how the Impact Lab Course allowed her to experiment with her enthusiasm for…

Meet Our Impact Lab Interns: Hyein Yoon

Meet Our Impact Lab Interns: Hyein…

Hyein Yoon, an Impact Lab intern at Soap Cycling, describes her efforts to promote Soap Cycling’s mission with her marketing…

Cheryl Kong: From Impact Lab Intern to Empowering the Next Generation of Youth

Cheryl Kong: From Impact Lab Intern…

Cheryl Kong, an Impact Lab intern at GREEN Hospitality, takes the skills she learned forward to her current youth empowerment…

Tomáš Kessl: Impact Lab Intern to Chief of Staff at EdTech

Tomáš Kessl: Impact Lab Intern to…

Read our interview with Impact Lab alumni, Tomáš Kessl, on how the experiential learning course inspired his social impact journey.

Justen Li: Student Intern to Board Chairman

Justen Li: Student Intern to Board…

Justen Li on the importance of experiential learning for youth and his learning journey as the Chairman of Soap Cycling.

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