Many of these high school students have not had much, if any, experience in design-thinking or working with designers. And, for the college students this is their first time mentoring a group of high school students. itbdesign@gmail.com Mellissa Kuperminc www.portfoliocenter.com Portfolio Center false 2009-02-11T16:22:45Z For the Spring 2009 semester, Portfolio Center students are mentoring a high school youth group from Caminar Latino, Georgia’s first and only comprehensive domestic-violence intervention program for Latino families. The 15 high school students, who meet once a week with their college mentors, are developing a set of posters dealing with pressing social issues in Atlanta’s Latino community. The goal of the project is to hang these posters in area middle schools, adding to the cycle of mentoring by allowing the Caminar Latino students to help middle-schoolers’ find helpful solutions to social pressures. 1279 true 19 true Caminar Latino www.caminarlatino.org Portfolio Center www.portfoliocenter.com true true false Posters being developed for the project deal with powerful topics that affect the Latino community and include, avoiding gang violence, dating violence and stereotypes around immigration. 3 6 7 2009-04-06T14:08:50Z 2