What's a Day Like?
The Institute is committed to making sure students receive an unrivalled experience over the course of their two summers in the program.
Here is what a typical day might be:
| 7:00am | Enjoy breakfast and coffee with colleagues in the residence dining commons or outside in the California sunshine |
| 8:00am | Meet with 24 colleagues and 4 instructors to review the day's topic; break into groups to brainstorm objectives for field trip-based research project |
| 9:30am | Walk across campus together to BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Station; travel to one of San Francisco's top clean energy firms |
| 10:15am | Conference with CEO, CFO and other industry leaders, including short lectures and question-and-answer periods |
| 11:30am | Have opportunity for one-on-one sessions with firm's executive team members |
| 12:00 | Enjoy a catered lunch on the green at San Francisco's Embarcadero Plaza |
| 1:30pm | Take part in a large-group discussion of achieved and revised objectives |
| 2:00pm | Participate in small-group preparation of sustainable business model proposal, guided by instructors at 1:6 faculty to student ratio |
| 3:00pm | Compare business and economic models in student panels |
| 4:00pm | Walk back to the dorms; read, relax, and chat about tomorrow |
| 6:00pm | Have dinner with friends |
| 8:00pm | Attend a free blues concert at record store on Telegraph Avenue |