Develop your Student's Standout Factor
And garner scholarship dollars and opportunities!
What is a Stand-Out Factor?
A Stand out factor can be many different things but they are most likely to include:
* Initiative –student initiated, led and directed
* Passion – student has personal investment
* Individuality –has to do specifically with the students core values
* Strategy –student has strategized to achieve
I would also recommend that a Stand-Out Factor include:
* Positive impact on others
* Uniqueness
* Broad Reach & Big Win
How can you tell if you have developed your stand-out factor?
It’s the difference between ordinary and extraordinary
How to develop your Develop your Child's Standout Factor:
* Write, perform and publish a quality play,
book,
music or
film
* Develop art skills like throwing
drawing and
painting, pottery, creating stained glass windows/ lamps, blacksmithing, etc and enter art contests
* Hike a trail for
a cause or a
challenge
* Raise money to travel abroad and serve on a mission
* Breed and trademark a
type of fruit or
flower
* Breed and sell a pet- iguana, dogs, miniature cows
* Win money as a prize bowler, archer, skier, etc
*
Start a business, track your earnings and impact
* Help run a state or
national political campaign, work as a legislative Paige,
* Study and Perform
Shakespeare
* Learn multiple languages, particularly
Critical Languages
* Travel internationally; create guidebook or blog about travels, do international community service or charity work
* Do hundreds of hours of
Community Service
* Build a functioning web-site
* Build something impressive- like a Robot, Drone or Plane, or replicate all of the Enterprises’ ships as models
* Earn a license or Certification– pilot’s, drone, PADI
* Learn tech- 3-D Printing, Robotics,
Photoshop, Photography and it's many digital uses!
* Earn Awards such as the
National Latin Exam,
German National Exam,
* Participate in and win National Competitions- Geography, History,
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