“PCCAPS is different because you can enjoy a math or physics class, but PCCAPS actually puts into perspective what a career in that field would look like and what it would involve - it helps you figure out if that is actually what you want to do.”
-Riley Barnhardt, PCCAPS student
The biggest hurdles in Riley's PCCAPS project didn’t happen on the ground in Malawi, which is where her huge, multi-layered, multi-team project is still unfolding…
It happened right here, when she and her fellow PCCAPS business solutions team had to navigate some local red tape:
“One of the main challenges was actually pulling off a Crumbl cookie fundraiser. It was difficult to get approval. We had to figure out how to make it work. We weren’t allowed to sell directly from the student store, and we also couldn’t sell the day-of.”
How Riley and her team nimbly solved the issue, along with an even bigger one that popped up right after – and why she knows the entire process set her up for greater success...
