Chris has interned with startups and attended hackathons since high school. He dreams of a career that forces continual learning and growth while positively impacting many people. Within 5 years, he hopes to help educate and connect communities globally through education and technology projects. This summer he will help educate youth, and within 6 months and a year respectively continue his startup and get a job advancing his goals, allowing him at 5 years to fully pursue making education and connection available worldwide.

1. Just Keep Learning
My 5-Year Plan
Chris Aring
The Stone Soup Leadership Institute’s
15th Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development
June 22-28, 2019 • Newport, RI

2. 5 Years Ago
● Finished my sophomore year of
high school.
● Began an internship with a
startup out of MIT.
● Interested in software
development.

3. Fast Forward to 2019
Intel International
Science and
Engineering Fair
Enrolled at Olin
College of Engineering
Part of some
Hackathons and
projects

4. My Dream for My Life
● A career that forces me to keep learning and growing.
● A career where I have impact; where the projects and tasks I
complete have a positive effect on as many people as possible.
● I want to live a life where I not only have enough money to support
myself and my family, but enough to help support people or groups
in need.

5. My Dream for My Community
● I want to help my community become more connected, as a
community should be.
● I want to help my community connect with other groups and
people.
● I want my community to be more self-sustained and focused on
education to empower and educated the next generation.

6. My Dream for the World
● Educate those less fortunate. We can’t expect the well-educated
and well-off will assist other groups of people. People need to be
educated so that through support, they can grow their own
communities.
● With such a globalized world, we need to help create a sense of
community beyond our own doors.

7. My Dream
● Many of my dream revolve around education and connection.
Educating groups and helping them to connect with each other no
matter their geographical location.
● Steps Needed
○ This Summer - Work to educate youth at the annual youth leadership summit.
○ 6 Months - Continue working on my own startup to help connect my community.
○ 1 Year - Get a job that will help me reach my professional goals.
○ 5 Years - Now that I (hopefully) have a steady job, I can focus more on turing this
plan into actionable progress.

8. Strategies
● Opening myself up to new people and groups to build connections.
● Getting a job that has allowed me to have steady income and learn
a variety of useful tasks for my future.
● Asking questions.
● Reading books and making meetings with people that I believe can
teach me something.

9. Help Along the Way
● My college has helped me to meet new people and build
connections.
● The Institute’s 15th Annual Youth Leadership Summit
● My friends and family.
● My current job has helped me to focus my skills and realize what it
is exactly that I want to do in my future.
● Past educators