Allow Fellows to explore or strengthen a self-declared area of interest.
Sponsors and supportive adults are encouraged to offer guidance in the selection process and use strategies that foster and support independent choice.
Programs suitable for Fellowship awards will achieve the following objectives.
Sponsors and supportive adults are encouraged to offer guidance in the selection process and use strategies that foster and support independent choice.
Adolescent brain research demonstrates the benefit to young people of having safe opportunities to take risks. There are a wide range of ‘risks’ that challenge youth to safely move outside their comfort zone.
Fellowship activities must provide high quality engagement with responsible adults.
We want to encourage Fellows to select opportunities that build upon readily available courses or programs and move them beyond their current capabilities. Think achievable, stretch goals.
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The Experience Fellowship is an adapted replication of a successful model that has been provided by the Eva Gunther Foundation . The Eva Foundation’s work is inspired by the life of Eva Gunther, who was killed by a drunk driver at the age of 12 ½.
Her family established the Foundation to remember Eva’s remarkable strengths and to allow other girls to have experiences similar to those Eva had. The Hendricks Family Foundation would like to thank the Eva Foundation team, particularly Eva’s father, Mark Gunther, for sharing their work and supporting our replication.