LEaP focuses on leadership skills not management skills. LEaP ties into the ABET Engineering Criteria 2000. LEaP students will participate in a formal WPI and Community Service effort. LEaP students have shown great initiative in designing and implementing projects such as the Toy Drive, a LEaP WWW site, a LEaP newsletter, a major fair for high school students, and a fundraiser for a local child care facility. LEaP education and training sessions are taught by WPI staff and faculty, WPI alumni, community leaders, and business experts.
LEaP begins with a self-assessment process.
This portfolio includes a record of the student participant's assessments, assignments, autobiography, notes, a record of the activities attended and applied experiences, as well as other information relevant to the LEaP experience. The focus of each user and the mode of instruction varies.