Our Teams

Our Teams and Their Objectives

This website is ran by students in Team Dynamics and Decision Making at Michigan Technological University. Below you will find short descriptions of each of the different teams they are assigned to, as well as links in the headers of each section for more information. Click here to learn more about the facilitating course.

Project Management

Project Management is very different from every other department. Each member of this group manages one of the other departments. This means that they are directly involved with another department and they are in charge of running meetings, assigning tasks, making sure things are done on time, bringing individual teams together, and being the coordinator with the TA and Instructor.

Teams 1-2: Marketing, Promotional Department

This team is focused on the promotion of Empower Up and its mission through social media accounts and monthly newsletters. This team is also tasked with ensuring brand cohesion in all aspects of the project. Communication and collaboration are essential to this team’s success.

Podcast Team:

The goal of this team is to create podcasts for students as well as anyone interested in post-secondary education. The podcasts are professional, engaging, and informative. The top priorities of the team are to interview guidance counselors, professors, admissions, financial aid, career coaches, current students, TAs, RAs, and local businesses.

Video Team:

The goal of this team is to create videos for students as well as anyone interested in post-secondary education. The videos this team creates are professional and informative. The top priority of this team is to show different post-secondary options and avenues. Personal testimonials and day-in-the-life videos are some of the ways this team accomplishes this.

Teams 3-4: Website, Promotional Department

This team is tasked with managing and updating this website throughout the semester. Some of the website team’s main tasks include creating a central point to showcase EmpowerUP, posting updates when necessary, and promoting other teams’ project work.

Team 5: Trio Upward Bound Saturday Academics, Outreach Department

Our goal is to provide an engaging environment for local high school students involved in the TRIO program to supplement their learning. We also are working on standardizing and simplifying the current template Outreach uses for these events.

Teams 6-7: Planning and Paying for College Conference, Outreach Department

This team is working to help high school students and their families get ready for college through a conference on November 13, 2024. The conference includes sessions for families on several different topics so that families have a choice on what they want to attend throughout the night.

Team 8-9: Tech Tutors Teaching and Mentoring, Outreach Department

This team is working alongside TRIO and Tech Tutors to bring tutoring sessions to local schools in the UP. They provide tutoring and mentoring to underserved students in the area. They strive to develop engaged relationships with both the students and administrators within these schools.