An elevator pitch is a succinct and persuasive speech that is used to spark interest in yourself (or interest in a project, idea, or product). For the purposes of FirstGen Ahead, college juniors will soon have an opportunity to practice their 30-second elevator pitch that introduces themselves to a panel of coaches. Coaches will provide feedback and students will have another attempt to integrate the feedback received and practice again. The feedback will be based on the rubric emailed to students and includes elements of an elevator pitch (introduce yourself, explain what you do, explain what you want), and delivery (cadence, clarity, tone, body language). This is timely as most college juniors are about to begin interviewing for summer internships.
