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STeLA Forum 2010

Facts and beyond

STeLA Leadership Forum is an intensive nine-day workshop for

advanced undergraduate and graduate students selected from

prestigious universities in the United States, China, Japan, and Fran

The mandate of the Forum is to create an intellectual network of

future leaders in science and technology. By participating in STeLA,

these students will be prepared to play leadership roles throughout

their careers. This network will significantly contribute to future

efforts to solve global issues in which science and technology are

crucial aspects.

STeLA believes that leadershipskills can be developed throughtraining and application.LEADERSHIP SESSIONutilizes curriculum from MIT'sSloan School and Harvard'sKennedy School in conjunctionwith STeLA's own exercises tofacilitate lectures, learningsimulations, small groupdebriefings and individualreflections to deepen theunderstanding of thefundamentals of leadership.

THEMATIC SESSIONSexplore specific topics in thescience discourse. This isfacilitated by lectures fromexamplary leaders andrenowned professors, roundtable discussions with experts,case studies pertaining to thefield, and site visits to leadingorganizations. Participantsgain first hand insight into theindustries and learn howtheory and practice arecombined in the real world.

STeLA 2009 represented 9 countries, 46%

women, Bachelor through Ph.D. students

in over 15 disciplines from biochemistry

to immunology to mechanical

engineering to aero-astronautics.

Many past participants continue on to

become staff members for the following

year.

This year we would focus on the theme of

technology development and its transfer

across the society. Our concern is t hat the

benefit of the recent, rapid development o

technology is not shared equally across th

population. How could we close this gap?

What is our responsibility as scientists and

engineers and as future leaders?

The last few days of the Forum are devote

solely to GROUP PROJECT, or what we

have termed, a " leadership laboratory," giv

the participants an opportunity to apply t

skills learned during the Forum. The

successes, failures, challenges and

frustrations experienced by the teams are

usually the lasting legacy of the forum,

deeply impacting the participants'

understanding of leadership.

August 15-24, 201 0Beijing, CHINA

Approximately 15 students from

China, Japan, US, and France will

join together at Beijing University.

We bet that youll leave with at

least a handful of lifelong friends

by the end. I know I did.

~participant 08, president 09