{"id":1618,"date":"2023-04-30T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T17:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/business.me.holycross.edu\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2023-04-30T13:43:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T17:43:39","slug":"pothos-project-brings-students-into-the-worcester-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/2023\/04\/30\/pothos-project-brings-students-into-the-worcester-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Pothos Project Brings Students into the Worcester Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/12\/Pothos-RR-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1619\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/12\/Pothos-RR-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Students sitting at table for speaker\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sponsored by the Ciocca Center for Business, Ethics, and Society and the Office of Sustainability with faculty guidance from Professor Karen Teitel, 20 students from all four class years participated in the third offering of the Pothos Consulting Project this spring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pothos plants often symbolize determination, perseverance, wealth, and good fortune.\u00a0 It thrives under challenging circumstances, making the most of limited resources like light and water, and its heart-shaped leaves clean the air. It also improves its environment while ensuring its own growth and flourishing. Through the Pothos Project, students help Holy Cross and our local business community do the same, becoming more sustainable on their way to prosperity and good fortune.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the six week project, participants attended interactive sessions with HC alums and select businesses, learning about the consulting field and its distinctive recruitment process. As participants collaborated with an organization on a real-world consulting assignment that aimed to increase corporate responsibility, participants practiced some of the skills and tricks needed for the job. Alumni mentors provided guidance and support throughout the program. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Thank you to our Holy Cross alumni mentors:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cole Worthy \u201988: Program Manager &amp; Vice President, Haley &amp; Aldrich<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Megan Skwirz \u201812: Consultant, Slalom Consulting<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jessica Dodakian &#8217;14: Associate, McKinsey &amp; Company<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patrick Czorniak &#8217;11: Senior Manager, Deals Transformation, PwC<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Thank you to our local businesses:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcawworcester.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Burncoat Center for Arts and Wellness<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: 78 Burncoat St, Worcester<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dancefitnesscollaboration.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dance Fitness Collaboration:<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 70 James St, #219, Worcester<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrsmoriconis.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mrs. Moriconi\u2019s Ice Cream<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: 1116 Pleasant St, Worcester<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redemptionrock.beer\/bcorp\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Redemption Rock Brewery<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 333 Shrewsbury St, Worcester &#8211; led by VP of Sales, <\/span><a href=\"mailto:bronwyn@redemptionrock.beer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\" data-rich-links=\"{&quot;per_n&quot;:&quot;Bronwyn Vogler&quot;,&quot;per_e&quot;:&quot;bronwyn@redemptionrock.beer&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;person&quot;}\">Bronwyn &#8220;B&#8221; Vogler<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201907<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sponsored by the Ciocca Center for Business, Ethics, and Society and the Office of Sustainability with faculty guidance from Professor Karen Teitel, 20 students from all four class years participated in the third offering of the Pothos Consulting Project this spring. Pothos plants often symbolize determination, perseverance, wealth, and good fortune.\u00a0 It thrives under challenging &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/2023\/04\/30\/pothos-project-brings-students-into-the-worcester-community\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pothos Project Brings Students into the Worcester Community&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,102,110,366,372,387,437,449,512],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alumni","tag-community","tag-consulting","tag-pothos","tag-presentations","tag-project","tag-speaker","tag-students","tag-worcester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}