Character: Identifying and Optimizing your Personality Traits

Main Ideas

The College Application Process
Leadership Styles
Engineering: How We Make Things Work
The Art of Conversation
Moral Reasoning
Secret of Greatness
Social Intelligence: Effective Communication Skills
Home & Hospitality Management
Marketing and Advertising

Past Sessions

Undergraduate Student

Fordham University

Isabel Velarde

2018

September

The 8th grade Module was off to a great start! Isabel Velarde, a sophomore studying Philosophy and Mathematics at Fordham University and an Avenue Alum, presented “10 Tips for High School” about study, organization, an their own mission statement and learned about team-building through a TED Talk-inspired exercise: the marshmallow challenge.

Teacher, Geneva School

Isabella Legaspi

2017

September

We discussed our expectations for the Avenue year and went through the contents in the Avenue binder. Then, we delved into this month's topic: what is character and how to build it, headed by Unit I Leaders, Izzy Legaspi and Marita Montes. During the breakout session, we filled out a "Who-am-I" questionnaire to get to know our own characters.

Non-profit Consultant

Murray Hill Institute

Marita Montes

2016

September

Reading and Study Skills by Natalie Saenz, a Princeton University graduate and Columbia University graduate student in Chemistry with research experience.