Co-founder Vantage School Alexandra Popcheva

Joined: 21/12/2017


Entrepreneur


My name is Alexandra. I am 20 years old student in Psychology now.

When I was at school (13-16 y.o.), I did not really want to attend the classes in math, chemistry, physics. I found them useless and boring. As I was born rebellious and artistic person, I wanted to find more artistic ways to express myself, and refused to give up.

I then visited different extra curriculum activities such as make-up courses, then applied to become a fashion model, then went to debate-club to learn how to structure and present a thesis, then my mom brought me with her at stage behavior and artistic classes.

But still something was missing?

The time has passed, I became 17, and I started worrying about which path shall I go next? Rather in “serious” business (like Commerce, Sales, Psychology), or in arts?

I then realized that whichever path I choose, I am still missing the core skills for success like excellent presentation skills, digital skills, project management, problem solving skills, even basic communication ones.
One day we had a talk with my mom, she, telling me about her regrets that she did not use her time in the past to teach me on soft skills rather than just checking my homework in chemistry. I agreed to start acquiring those soft skills, however insisted to have those training “in an artistic format”.

This is how the idea of Vantage school was born. A school for social skills with an artistic format where students start from scratch, and need to perform a real-life show (stage performance) after a year. In the meantime, they will acquire the social skills in real life settings while doing what they truly love (singing, dancing, making-up).

All the functional groups (dancers, designers, photographers) that are needed for the end show will play as one team, thus students will observe and experience variety of activities under one roof for a long enough time. It will help them learn and see different perspective, potentially choose their life path more accurately, and will experience project management and team collaboration.

I will be happy to make Vantage School concept real thanks to your support, and help other young people be better prepared for what is coming, especially for those rebellious young people (like me) who want to become entrepreneurs and will most of all need those social skills to make their ideas alive.

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