Month: October 2015

It all started when my friends began an entrepreneurship program in Cambridge, this program encouraged them to think about problems that were negatively impacting our community and what we can do to stop them. This entrepreneurship program was the March-to-May Bootcamp created by Youth CITIES. Whether it was introducing a new program or creating a new product in order to tackle the problem, this program made my friends excited about creative problem solving. We were all middle school students at this time.  After around the 7th class of this program, one of my friends, Jennifer Kim, came up to me to discuss about problems in society that she was brainstorming and the solutions that she had came up with. One of these problems was the shocking statistic of car thefts…

  We all have ideas.  We've daydreamed, contemplated, complained, and wished upon a star...whether it's for better technology, living conditions, access to education, ways to communicate...you can fill in the blank here.  A lot of times, that's as far as we go - thinking about ideas.  It is the fear of starting?  The fear of failure?  Because it's a really long and winding road to make change happen? Then there are those who are not content to just come up with ideas for something better, but are going beyond the idea stage to actually doing?  They are not waiting for things to happen...they are making it happen.  Sometimes it's successful.  Often times it's a bumpy ride. CITIES Voices (#CITIESvoices) is a platform for CITIES Scholars to share about the things…