Built around the theme “Belonging,” the cohort of undergraduate students explored many facets of urban life.
Sunday: Visit the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI)
Monday: The Market and the State of the City
- Meet with leaders of the Pike Place Market Foundation and Friends of the Waterfront
- WSU alumni panel discussion (representatives of government, industry, non-profit)
- Walking tour of Pike Place Market
Tuesday: History, Industry, and Belonging
- Tour Amazon Spheres
- Meet with Amazon recruiters about the hiring processes and opportunities
- Meet with MOHAI curators, archivists, and collections managers
- Town Hall meeting on health and houselessness in Seattle
Wednesday: Legacies of Exclusion and Building Belonging
- Tour Denshō, a digital-born, video oral history project about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
- Meet with City of Seattle government officials
- Evening talk: “Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound”
Thursday: Finding Belonging in Large Organizations
- Tour Boeing airplane factory
- Meet with Boeing recruiters
- Meet with College of Arts & Sciences alumni advisory board