This document summarizes a SuitUp event where students from Level Ground MMA participated in a business competition coached by volunteers from Dropbox. Students formed teams to pitch new business ideas to judges. Team Evolutionary Habits won first place. The event aims to provide students with career opportunities and college access through skills-based learning. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive, with 100% of students and volunteers wanting to participate in future SuitUp events and believing it makes a positive impact.

1. SuitUp with Dropbox
07.25.2022
Opening Doors and Reimagining Pathways for
Students Everywhere…

2. participants
engaged
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About Dropbox
Back in 2007, making work
better for people meant
designing a simpler way to keep
files in sync. Today, it means
designing products that reduce
busywork so you can focus on
the work that matters. Most
“productivity tools” get in your
way. They constantly ping,
distract, and disrupt your team’s
flow, so you spend your days
switching between apps and
tracking down feedback. It’s
busywork, not the meaningful
stuff. Dropbox wants to change
this. They believes there’s a
more enlightened way to work.
Dropbox helps people be
organized, stay focused, and get
in sync with their teams.
About Our Students
In addition to athletics,
Level Ground MMA
provides college access
and career opportunities to
Boston youth. Their
students are exposed to a
disproportionately high level
of poverty and crime, and live
in neighborhoods that
experience a greater
prevalence of obesity-related
illnesses.
Level Ground strives to
meet the needs of youth in
an authentic and
compassionate manner by
using MMA as a “hook” to
connect youth to college
access and professional
development options.
SuitUp All Stars are students
that participate outside of
their school or organization to
engage with industry experts.

3. Volunteers Gender Students
85% Female 50%
14% Male 36%
0% Prefer Not Say 14%
Meet the Participants
Volunteers Race/Ethnicity Students
0% African American 7%
57%
Asian / Pacific
Islander 14%
0% Black 21%
14% Caucasian 7%
0% Hispanic/Latinx 36%
29% Multi-Racial 7%
0% Prefer Not Say 8%

4. Business Case Challenge
Through SuitUp, volunteers from Dropbox, students from Level Ground MMA, and
SuitUp All Stars participated in a SuitUp business competition in which they created a
new product or service that supports teens in achieving work-life balance. Volunteers
coached students in various departments before helping them pitch to judges for a cash
prize.
Winning Team:
Team 2:
Evolutionary Habits
Team 1:
CORE
Team 2:
Evolutionary
Habits
Team 3:
UNConventional
Coaching
SuitUp to the Challenge

5. From Student to CEO…
A look at how we are changing life trajectories
through corporate skills-based volunteering

6. Competitions Make a Difference…
100%
of students feel more confident in school
and preparing for a career after working
with SuitUp and their coaches
100%
of volunteers believe their company
made a positive impact through SuitUp
100%
of volunteers see SuitUp as a way to
encourage more students to explore their
industry or company
AFTER SUITUP...

7. Dropbox’s Impact
SuitUp asked students if Dropbox’s SuitUp competition made an
impact on their future career choice. 86% of students said that
engaging with the volunteers influenced their career choice and
now they can see themselves using skills such as communication,
teamwork and public speaking.
Students are now interested in exploring the following fields:
Business Administration / Entrepreneurship 50%
Education 7%
Graphic/Web Design 21%
Fashion Design 14%
Financial Services 29%
Marketing 50%
Media/Public Relations 14%
STEM 14%
Other 14%

8. Same time
next week?
86% of volunteers are interested in doing a SuitUp competition again
100% of students enjoyed interacting with the corporate volunteers
100% of students would like to participate in SuitUp again

9. During the competition, we
overheard…
“
Love how they created an ecosystem with data from different
places and how it was used to produce personal feedback for
consumers to use! – Dropbox Judge
With that interest comes more work and with more work comes a
greater chance that the judges choose us. – SuitUp All Star
We have GENIUSES on this team. I just want to let you know that
we're gonna win. We have winners here. – Dropbox Coach
You’re going to be the one that makes them sign the deal. You’re
going to make them that sign the pitch. Sell your idea, you own it!
– SuitUp MVP Coach

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11. THANK YOU
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Hope to see you again soon!