Student Experience

  By Melissa Hook Did you know… It takes 700 gallons of water to produce a single t-shirt. 200 million promotional t-shirts are made every year. 150 billion total gallons of water are lost per year — or the equivalent of draining the Lake Union every two weeks. Goodwill Hunting is the brainchild of Dave Bergart, Amy …

During the final fall residency weekend, first-year Presidio Graduate School students from the Seattle campus spent a whole day touring local manufacturing facilities to see the principles of operation they have been studying in action.  The organizations we visited included Watson Furniture – maker of custom and catalog office workstations; Sage – maker of high-end …

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  I am lucky to be a Presidian, part of a community that is willing to come together and stand for each other. This community holds businesses and our government accountable to our shared values. The Women’s March and upcoming protests are our chance to show our leadership and educate others to create a more just, …

Posted on CSRwire: Jun 08, 2016 – 10:05 AM EST SAN FRANCISCO, Jun. 08 /CSRwire/ – Presidio Graduate School (PGS) honored its 13th graduating class with a heartwarming commencement ceremony at the SFJAZZ Center. With frequent rounds of applause, voluminous cheering and occasional hooting, the 30 students of the Class of 2016 celebrated the culmination of …

Original publication on upstreamideas.org If you were to just turn on your TV, you would think that the debate around climate change hasn’t changed much since the early 2000’s.  You would see a reoccurring conflict between contending forces, and for all the talking and debate the needle never moves. While not unimportant, I am asking …

Recap of Fall 2015 Trip to Pinnacles National Park by Kathleen Wong, PGS Outdoors Club Chair One pleasant Fall weekend brought 17 Presidians together for an opportunity to step outside of the classroom to experience the outdoors.  Pinnacles recently gained national park designation in 2013, making it one of America’s newest national parks. Just 3 …

I had the pleasure of going to dinner with Presidio’s community event speaker, Stephanie Lampkin, Dean Steven Crane and Avi Kruley earlier this month. Stephanie is the Founder & CEO of Blendoor, a “blind recruiting” app that facilitates job matching based on merit. Blendoor is a startup application aimed at increasing diversity in the workplace, …

Bo Han (C: “The topic of Superforecasting was something I have never thought of until Monday, except in the context of fortunetelling, which is a different art altogether.  The fact that there are people who dedicate their career to this area is quite fascinating. According to Phil Tetlock, forecasting is a science and an art you …

Five Creative Ways to Fundraise   The International Sustainability Club had two main fundraisers over the fall semester.  The effort was to support the ground work for a group of PGS students in Hyderabad, India with the organization Pollinate Energy, which works to improve access to energy for India’s urban poor.  In the PGS spirit of doing …