Summit International

As the 21st century progresses, the way in which learners build
knowledge constructs and internalize that knowledge has advanced as well.
Sadly, our education systems have not kept up with this trend as quickly as
needed.  From Pre-K through Undergraduate
Degree, learners have come to expect a fast paced, exciting environment in
which to learn. Videos and interactive multimedia content such as games,
simulations, and virtual worlds are quickly becoming the norm among today's
computer literate learner. Learners have become accustomed to sitting hours on
end in front of their computers playing video games and interacting through
social sites such as Facebook and Twitter building their own learning through
alternative sources. This trend, according to social-constructivists, is expected
to continue and is actually more in-line with the way people learn and develoWii's
Internet Channels, Microsoft's X-Box 360, Playstation 3, and other online and
gaming platforms already accessed by international learners from pre-k to young
adult, Summit International will design, develop, produce, and implement
instructional content that promotes the core subjects of Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) as well as, Fine Arts, Fitness Education,
and Music Appreciation and deliver it through a familiar environment for
learners from pre-k to young adult, thus increasing learner engagement,
motivation, and success.

LYDIA is a response to a glaring need in America and other first world countries, and we hope to address similar needs in second and third world countries. One of the chief complaints heard by potential clients and even by various community organization workers, is that in order to get a job one has to have experience and/or child care. In order to qualify for certain types of assistance, one has to get a job, which requires putting a child into daycare, of which most require registration or other various fees.

How is one to pay these fees? By having a job. The job is hard to go to, to get, to work without childcare. But the job is also needed in order to procure experience. How can one gain experience if one does not have the job?

Another chief complaint is that not enough assistance programs are known about – or too many programs are known about and it’s overwhelming, it’s confusing who has what information, or who is receiving what . This complaint originates within the organizations and agencies who feel that their agencies could be of better service if only they could better see the needs of their clients.

So three of LYDIA’s proposed programs encompass daycare, job experience, and case management or acting as a liaison between the client and the various community agencies.

Another unaddressed need – or poorly addressed, if one talks with today’s youth – is that of something to do for teens, preteens, and young adults. The youth of today long to be able to do something, anything, of value but they do not always know what to value or where to go or find things of value.

Finally, the chief complaint is that of no hope, being stuck, unable to move on or not having the know how to do something. LYDIA seeks to answer these needs and complaints by offering viable solutions through Life Coaching, Job Coaching, Youth Programs, and Child Care.

There is a vital need for trained service/assistance animals for those with disabilities - service-connected and non-service connected. There is also a vital need to educate the public about the American with Disabilities Act and how service/assistance animals are to be treated and accepted in government and business environments. Through the multiple talents available through its staff, Summit International will produce and distribute the necessary training materials - video series, online serious games, print materials - needed to teach the public what to do and how to be when a person with disabling injuries brings their service/assistance animal with them.

Summit will also produce and distribute a service/assistance animal training series allowing those who need service/assistance animals to train their own as provided by the ADA.