The Gold Knight Rises, Rise to LEAD 2014

College of Sciences Alumna, Lauren Berger, ’06 (aka the Intern Queen) will be the Key Note Speaker on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at the Student Union for Leadership Week 2014: “The Gold Knight Rises, Rise to LEAD 2014”.  Leadership Week will take place from February 24th through the 27th in the Student Union and various campus venues. Leadership Week events will benefit every Knight in all majors.  This is a week full of exciting leadership workshops, guest speakers, and opportunities to become a leader at the University of Central Florida.

Leadership Week is an initiative coordinated by the LEAD Scholars Program within Student Development and Enrollment Services. It is supported by Student Government Association, LEAD Students Association and numerous offices and departments throughout the University of Central Florida. Leadership Week was created to identify, recognize, and develop leadership among students, faculty, and staff.

Lauren Berger is known as “The Intern Queen” and Chief Executive Officer of InternQueen.com.  She is the author of the National Campus Best-Seller, ALL WORK NO PAY: Finding An Internship, Building Your Resume, Making Connections, and Gaining Job Experience (Ten Speed/Random House), and one of the nation’s most in-demand career/internship experts. She has been internationally recognized for her work with young people and her entrepreneurial spirit has attracted millions of job and internship seekers. Recently, Berger has been featured on The Today Show, Fox & Friends, The New York Times, The New York Post, Teen Vogue, Bloomberg, LA Weekly, and more. She regularly contributes to AOL Jobs, USA Today, Huffington Post, Seventeen.com, Justine Magazine, and more.

Berger started InternQueen.com in September of 2009 when she was 24 years old. She is from Clearwater, Florida and attended Countryside Highschool. Berger graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2006 and her first job was working at Creative Artists Agency in Beverly Hills.

Some of the highlights of Leadership Week 2014 are:

OPENING KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Maj. Gen. Gwen Bingham, commanding general, US Army White Sands Missile Range
http://www.wsmr.army.mil/WWA/Leadership/Pages/CommandingGeneral.aspx
Date: Monday, Feb. 24, 2014
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Location: Student Union, Key West Ballroom 218ABCD

MOVIE KNIGHT presented by CAB: “The Dark Knight”
Date: Monday, Feb. 24, 2014
Time: 9:00 p.m.
Location: Knight’s Plaza

STUDENT LEADERS TALK: SGA President Melissa Westbrook and Vice President Jacob Kahn
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Student Union, Key West Ballroom 218ABCD

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Lauren Berger, UCF COS Alumna, aka the Intern Queen
http://www.internqueen.com/content/about-lauren-berger
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Student Union, Key West Ballroom 218ABCD

OPEN KNIGHT CLIMB presented by the RWC: Open to the first 120 participants
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014
Time: 7:00p.m.
Location: Challenge Course

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Jason Connell, founder of Ignited Leadership
http://ignitedleadership.com
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Student Union, Key West Ballroom 218ABCD

UCF SDES LEADER’S PANEL: Insight in the Life of a UCF Leader
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2014
Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: Student Union, Key West Ballroom 218ABCD

All members of the UCF community are invited to attend the various events and programs during the week. There are over 50 workshops that will be offered during the week at various times. For more information about Leadership Week, please contact the Student Director, Julie Deslauriers, deslauriersjulie@knights.ucf.edu.

To view a full schedule of all the opportunities available, please click here.
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