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The Leadership Scholars Program is a mentoring program in Cincinnati, OH to create positive, long-term relationships between high school upperclassmen and inner-city junior high students, with an emphasis on developing leadership skills.

Upon entrance into the program, small groups of high school juniors from participating high schools (leaders) are paired with small groups of seventh-graders from participating grade schools (scholars). These small groups meet once a week at the grade school for two years in order to: build friendships, talk about important issues, develop specific leadership skills, provide each other with support and good role models, clomplete long-term projects, and have fun.

In addition the entire program meets at monthly workshops, which normally include icebreaking activities, a keynote speech, and several other activities aimed towards leadership in the leaders' and scholars' communities and the world. Periodic whole-program field trips and quarterly team outings to high school events round out the experience of the program.

Founding
The idea for a program providing inner-city grade-schoolers with positive, leaderly role models and support systems was thought up by Harry Santen in 2007.

Board Members
The Leadership Scholars Program has an exceptionally involved board of directors from its inception. The current board consists of:

-Harry Santen, President

-Tracy T. Moore III, Executive Director

-Jim Evans

-Dr. Pat White

-Jenny Williams

-all those other people