Focused practice
Student workshops
Interactive sessions where students practice a specific skill and apply it to situations they recognize.
For schools & youth organizations
Give students meaningful opportunities to communicate, lead, and execute—through workshops, consulting projects, clubs, and custom pilots.
Program design, materials, and facilitation to support your team.
Advisory, after-school, summer, leadership, or career-readiness programming.
Practical tools and activities your educators and mentors can continue to use.
Ways to work together
Choose a starting point based on what you want students to practice, build, or own. We can adjust scope, timing, and facilitation around your setting.
Interactive sessions where students practice a specific skill and apply it to situations they recognize.
Students investigate a real question, gather evidence, weigh options, and present recommendations to an audience with a stake in the answer.
Students build a team, share responsibility, and move an idea from concept to delivery—with guidance as needed.
Start with a specific need and shape a manageable experience around your students, schedule, and staff capacity.
Examples from Vana Lab Engagements
Vana Lab experiences adapt to the students, setting, and opportunity. Here are a few ways that has looked in practice.
Students worked as a consulting team—researching a challenge, developing recommendations, and presenting their thinking to a client.
Students contributed to real work while building communication, self-advocacy, follow-through, and professional confidence.
Students explored how to communicate, make thoughtful decisions, and navigate greater independence as they move toward college and work.
Based on actual Vana Lab engagements. Images are illustrative and do not depict specific participants or partner organizations.
A simple place to begin
Bring us the challenge, opportunity, or priority. We’ll help shape a sensible starting point around your students, timing, and constraints.
Partner voices
Vana Lab led two sessions for our internship program focused on communication and helping youth advocate for themselves. The sessions provided valuable information and actionable techniques. Robert is a strong facilitator with excellent leadership skills with youth, and we hope to work with him again.
Robert came and spoke to our upperclassmen in Science Research and was incredibly inspiring. Rather than telling students there is one clear path to success, he talked about the mindset needed to navigate a future that is always changing. He connected with students in a way that felt approachable, relatable, and meaningful.
Robert worked with our rising 12th graders the summer before their first year of college. He has such a warm demeanor and truly meets students where they are by breaking down complex ideas into simple terms. He answers questions thoughtfully, and it’s very clear that he has a big heart for empowering young people.
Let’s find a useful starting point
Tell us what you’re trying to make possible for your students and where an experience could fit.
Book an exploratory conversationPrefer email? info@vanalab.com
Helpful to include: your organization, student age range, approximate group size, and timing. The first conversation is about fit—not committing to a program.