Summer PRogram

LEAD – Empowering Teens to Change Their World

For over 25 years, the Student Statesmanship Institute has been empowering students with Godly purpose, equipping them with real-world leadership skills, and engaging them to change their world.

Summer is quickly approaching, and with it, the LEAD Summer Program, SSI’s week-long, hands-on Biblical worldview camp that helps to empower today’s teens in a corrupt society. At LEAD, students are challenged to step outside their comfort zones in life-like career simulations with hands-on leadership training, taught by dynamic professionals.

Throughout the week-long LEAD experience, students build key life skills such as teamwork, critical thinking, and communication through leadership simulations, preparing them to take on their world. In experiences involving real Michigan lawmakers, judges, journalists, lawyers, business executives, and professors, LEAD’s unique leadership program lets students debate legislation, argue a criminal case before a sitting judge, manage multi-million-dollar companies, report news from press conferences, and so much more. Through building their faith, professional skillset, and self-confidence, we hope to empower today’s young people to shatter the low expectations that society has for their generation.

Starting this year, we’re excited to offer the Youth Empowerment Scholarship, a scholarship opportunity for all first-time LEAD students that applies $100 towards their registration in a life-changing summer experience. Contact office@ssionline.org for more information and to apply for this scholarship opportunity. Over seventy students have already been sponsored.

For over 25 years, the Student Statesmanship Institute has worked to develop the next generation of leaders. Alumni have pointed to LEAD as a catalyst for becoming involved in their communities, and helping them find what God has called them to do in their lives. SSI seeks to develop character, instill purpose, and equip young people as Ambassadors for Christ in their generation. While engaged in high-level leadership roles, students are inspired to apply Biblical and moral principles in a faith-filled environment, and empowered to use those principles in their lives, and the world around them.