YSEALI SPRING 2023 – PROGRAM CALENDAR

MAR 25 – APR 29, 2023

Week 1
Saturday/Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Mar 25 /26 27 28 29 30 31 1
International Arrivals to
Austin Bergstrom 7:00 – 8:45am 7:00 – 8:30am 7:00 – 9:00am 7:00 – 8:00am 7:00 – 8:00am 7:00 – 10:00am
International Airport Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
(ABIA) / Check Ins at DoubleTree DoubleTree DoubleTree DoubleTree DoubleTree DoubleTree
DoubleTree Suites by Hilton
9:15 – 9:45am 8:00am 8:30 – 10:00am 8:15 – 8:45am
Austin Hotel / Rapid Covid
Group Rapid Covid Test 9:00 – 11:00am Deadline to upload Joint Session: Group Rapid Covid Test /
Tests
Sanchez 4.414 Elevator Pitch Cultural Presentation to YSEALI Alumni Panel Weekly Survey
Presentation Preparation/ Canvas Fellows’ Hotel Rooms / Fellows’ Hotel Rooms
6:00 – 7:30pm 10:30am – 12:30pm
Office Hours Zoom
Group Arrival Dinner Cultural Activity
10:00 – 11:30am Rowling Hall 5.382 9:30 – 11:00am 9:00 – 10:30am
7:00 – 9:30am Austin City Bus Tour
Academic Orientation Community Service: 10:30 – 11:30am Joint Session:
Breakfast
Sanchez 4.414 Intro to Volunteerism in Site Visit Funding Your Enterprise
DoubleTree 12:00 – 1:30pm
the United States Texas Inventionworks Fellows’ Hotel Rooms /
Lunch
Jester A215A Zoom
J2 Dining
10:30am – 11:45am 12:00pm – 2:00pm 12:00 – 1:00pm
Lunch
Administrative Lunch Lunch 12:00 – 1:30pm
On Your Own
Orientation J2 Dining Hall 12:00 – 1:30pm J2 Dining Hall Lunch
2:00 – 5:00pm
Sanchez 5.624 Lunch J2 Dining Hall
Leadership Series:
J2 Dining Hall 1:30 – 3:00pm
Teambuilding
2:30 – 3:30pm Joint Session: 2:00 – 4:00pm
11:45am – 12:30pm Low Ropes Course
Orientation Activity Entrepreneur Panel U.S. Society:
Group Lunch Rowling Hall 4.304
Campus Tour & Group Fellows’ Hotel Rooms / Intro to US Gov’t Free Afternoon /
Sanchez 5.624 2:00 – 5:00pm
Photo at Tower Zoom University Teaching Center Evening
Cultural Presentations
1.116
12:30 – 2:00pm Parlin 201
3:30 – 4:30pm 5:30 – 8:00pm
Administrative
Student ID Cards Dinner 4:15 – 5:15pm
Orientation
Flawn Academic Center J2 Dining Hall 5:00 – 8:00pm Weekly Program Debrief
Sanchez 5.624 5:30 – 8:00pm
Dinner Session
Dinner
J2 Dining Hall University Teaching Center
J2 Dining Hall Dinner
2:30 – 4:30pm 6:00 – 8:00pm 1.116
On Your Own
Orientation Activity: Welcome Dinner
Immigration Document Texas Union, T-House Suite 5:30 – 8:00pm
Check In / Cultural 3.312 Dinner
Presentation Preparation J2 Dining Hall
Sanchez 5.624

4:30 – 8:00pm
Dining Hall Orientation &
Dinner
J2 Dining Hall
Week 2
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
2 3 4 5 6 7 8

7:00 – 10:00am 7:00 – 8:30am 7:00 – 8:30am 7:00 – 8:30am 7:00 – 8:00am 7:00 – 8:15am 7:00 – 10:00am
Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
DoubleTree Double Tree DoubleTree DoubleTree DoubleTree DoubleTree DoubleTree

9:00 – 11:00am 8:15am

9:00 – 11:00am 8:45 - 9:15am
9:00am – 12:00pm Virtual Learning Depart DoubleTree
Taking a Concept from Group Rapid Covid Test
Cultural Activity Branding & Marketing Platform: UPeace
Idea to Product and from / Weekly Survey
Hospitality Host Day Rowling Hall 5.382 Rowling Hall 5.382
Product to Market 9:00 – 11:30am University Teaching
Sanchez 4.414 Community Service Center 1.116
Pick-Up after Free Morning
12:00 – 2:00pm Urban Roots East Farm
10:00am
Lunch 9:30 – 11:30am
12:00pm – 1:30pm
11:30am – 12:30pm J2 Dining Hall Microfinance and its
Lunch provided by hosts Lunch
Lunch Role in Economic
J2 Dining Hall
J2 Dining Hall 12:00 – 2:00pm Development
Drop-Off by 2:30 – 3:30pm
Lunch University Teaching
8:00pm Economic Development
J2 Dining Hall Center 1.116 Lunch
1:00 – 3:00pm 2:00 – 5:00pm and Entrepreneurship in
On Your Own
Joint Session Young Entrepreneur San Antonio
12:00 – 1:15pm
Design Thinking Chat: Milky Tomato Parlin 201
Lunch
Lunch or Dinner On Your Fellows’ Hotel Room / McCombs (CBA) 4.340
2:00 – 5:00pm J2 Dining Hall
Own (if needed) Zoom 3:45 – 5:15pm
Elevator Pitch
How to Plan and Deliver
Presentation Preparation / 1:45 – 3:45pm
5:30 – 8:00pm an Effective Presentation
3:30 – 5:00pm Office Hours Leadership Session:
Dinner Parlin 201
Intro to UT Austin McCombs (CBA) 4.338 Leader Identity & Free Afternoon
J2 Dining Hall
Graduate School Inclusive Leadership
Admissions 5:30 - 7:00pm University Teaching
Parlin 301 (Optional: Registration Center 1.116
Required) Dinner
Austin Connections 4:00 – 5:00pm On Your Own
5:00 – 8:00pm 5:30 – 7:00pm
Happy Hour Weekly Program Debrief
Dinner Group Dinner with
Native Bar & Cafe Session Free Evening
J2 Dining Hall Cultural Ambassadors
University Teaching
Sip Pho
Center 1.116
5:30 - 8:00pm
Dinner 5:30 – 8:00pm
J2 Dining Hall Dinner
J2 Dining Hall
Week 3
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 San Antonio

*Easter* 7:00 – 8:30am 7:00 – 8:30am 7:00 – 7:45am 7:00 – 9:00am 7:00 – 9:00am 7:00 – 7:45am
Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
DoubleTree DoubleTree DoubleTree DoubleTree DoubleTree DoubleTree
7:00 – 10:00am
Breakfast 7:45am
8:00am 9:00 – 11:00am 8:15am 9:30am
DoubleTree 9:15am – 9:45am Meet in DoubleTree
Deadline to upload Customer/ Problem/ Lyfts depart DoubleTree Depart DoubleTree
Poster to Canvas Solution: Stakeholders & Group Rapid Covid Lobby
Partnerships 9:00am – 12:00pm Test / Weekly Survey
Rowling Hall 5.382 Community Service 10:00 – 11:30am University Teaching 9:40 – 10:40am
9:00am – 12:00pm
Community First! Village Site Visit & Presentation Center 1.116 Cultural Activity
Elevator Pitch
Free Morning 12:00 – 1:30pm Kendra Scott Women’s The Alamo
Presentation Preparation
Lunch 12:30pm Entrepreneurial Leadership 10:00am – 12:00pm
/ Office Hours
J2 Dining Hall Return to campus Institute Risks and Barriers to
Sanchez 4.414 11:10am – 12:10pm
Market Entry / How to Cultural Activity
12:30 – 1:30pm Mitigate Them and
Lunch 2:00 – 5:00pm Lunch 12:00 – 2:00pm Riverwalk Boat Tour
12:00 – 2:00pm Using the Internet and Prepare a Company to
On Your Own J2 Dining Hall Lunch
Lunch Social Media to Drive Launch 12:30pm
J2 Dining Hall
J2 Dining Hall Business Growth University Teaching Depart for San Marcos
1:30pm
McCombs (CBA) 4.340 Center 1.116
Lyfts depart near J2 Dining
Hall 2:15pm 1:30pm
Free Afternoon 12:30 – 2:00pm
Depart J2 Dining Hall Lunch
2:30 – 4:30pm
5:30 – 8:00pm 2:00 – 4:15pm Group Lunch On Your Own
Leadership Session:
Dinner Site Visit & Presentation J2 Dining Hall at San Marcos Outlets
Creating My Leadership
J2 Dining Hall Austin Community College 2:30 – 4:30pm
Map
Cultural Activity 2:30 – 4:30pm 1:30 – 5:00pm
Parlin 204
4:45pm Blanton Museum of Art Weekly Survey & Cultural Activity
Lyfts return to campus Program Debrief San Marcos Outlets
Dinner Session
5:00 - 7:00pm
On Your Own University Teaching 6:30pm
(Optional: Registration
Center 1.116 Arrive at Double Tree
5:00 – 8:00pm Required)
Dinner Austin Connections Austin
Free Evening 5:00 – 8:00pm 5:00 – 8:00pm
J2 Dining Hall Happy Hour
Dinner Dinner
Native Bar & Cafe Dinner
J2 Dining Hall J2 Dining Hall On Your Own
5:30 – 8:00pm
Dinner
J2 Dining Hall
Week 4
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
16 17 18 19 20 21 New York 22 New York

7:00 – 10:00am 7:00 – 8:30am 7:00 – 8:30am 7:00 – 8:30am 7:00 – 8:00am 7:30am
Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Check Out of
9:15am
DoubleTree DoubleTree DoubleTree DoubleTree DoubleTree DoubleTree Austin
Bus Departs Hotel
8:30 – 9:00am 8:00am
Free Morning 9:15am – 11:15am 9:00am – 12:00pm 8:00am 10:00am
Group Rapid Covid Test / Depart DoubleTree /
Leadership Session: Self Entrepreneurship: Deadline to upload Cultural Activity
Weekly Survey Airport Check In
Care in Leadership “Words of Wisdom” from Elevator Pitch Statue of Liberty and
Sanchez 3.508
Sanchez 4.414 the Experts Presentation to Canvas Ellis Island
Breakfast On Your Own
12:00 – 2:00pm Rowling Hall 5.382
9:00 – 11:00am After Airport Check In
Lunch 11:15am 9:00am – 12:00pm Lunch
Academic Course Review
Lunch On Your Own Lyfts depart Sanchez Elevator Pitch On Your Own by
12:30 – 2:00pm and Reflection 10:30am
Presentations Battery Park
Lunch Sanchez 3.508 Meet at Departure Gate
11:45am – 12:45pm Rowling Hall 4.314
J2 Dining Hall for Delta #1395
4:00 – 5:30pm Group Lunch 12:30 – 2:00pm
Cultural Activity Central Texas Food Bank 2:00pm
12:30 – 2:00pm Lunch 11:35am
Bowling with Cultural Cultural Activity
Lunch J2 Dining Hall Depart ABIA on Delta
Ambassadors at Texas Walk from Battery Park
1:00 – 4:00pm 2:00 – 5:00pm J2 Dining Hall #1395
Union Underground to Charging Bull, Wall
Community Service: Elevator Pitch
Street, NY Stock
Central Texas Food Bank Presentation Preparation / Afternoon to Prepare for
Afternoon to Prepare for Exchange, 9/11
Office Hours Departure from Austin
Departure from Austin Memorial Site
4:30pm McCombs (CBA) 4.340 4:30pm
Bus returns to DoubleTree Arrive New York JFK
Free Afternoon to Explore / 5:30 – 6:00pm 3:15pm
Dinner On Your Own International Airport
Dinner On Your Own Certificate Group Photo Bus to Hotel (optional)
5:00 – 8:00pm UT Tower or Free Time
Dinner
J2 Dining Hall 6:00pm
Check in to
5:00 - 8:00pm Depart Campus
Intercontinental Barclay
Dinner
Hotel
J2 Dining Hall 6:30 – 8:30pm Free Time in NYC (Times
(111 E 48th St,
Academic Residency Square, dinner)
New York NY)
Closing Celebration
Riverboat Bat Cruise &
Free Time in NYC
Dinner with Cultural
Ambassadors

9:00pm
*Ramadan Ends at
Return to DoubleTree
Sundown*
Week 5
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
23 New York & Philly 24 Philly & DC 25 Washington DC 26 Washington DC 27 Washington DC 28 29

8:30am
Meet in lobby to walk to 9:45am 9:15am
10:00am security check-in Depart from hotel Depart from hotel, walk to 8:00am – 12:00pm 4:00am
Check out of hotel, load (corner of 5th & Chestnut) Open Gov Hub State Department Departures to IAD and
luggage, depart from hotel Meeting DCA
8:45am 10:15am 9:45am (State Dept Certificates,
10:30 – 11:30am Security check-in for Cultural Activity Site Visit Posters Walk-around,
Cultural Activity Independence Hall National African American Open Gov Hub Alumni Info, Debrief with
Columbia University Visit Museum of History and (1100 13th St NW, Ste 800, each institute)
with YSEALI Alum 9:20am Cultural entry time Washington, D.C. 20050)
Cultural Activity *No large bags or
Independence Hall Tour food/beverages* Lunch
Lunch 11:30am On Your Own
On Your Own near 9:50am Depart from Open Gov
Columbia Cultural Activity Lunch Hub, walk to Capitol
Congress Hall Tour African American Museum Building 12:00pm
1:00pm Cafeteria Free Time to visit Library Departures to IAD and
Bus departs from NYC 10:15am 12:00pm of Congress, Smithsonian DCA
Cultural Activity Arrive at Capitol Building Museums, National
4:30pm Walk from Independence 1:00pm security Portrait Museum and/or
Cultural Activity Hall to Liberty Bell Depart from African DC Zoo
Rocky Steps at American Museum 12:30 – 2:30pm
Philadelphia Musuem of Lunch Lunch
Art On Your Own Capitol Cafeteria
Free Time in DC to visit
4:45pm 12:00pm Library of Congress, 2:40pm
Check in to Hotel Monaco Load luggage on bus / Smithsonian Museums, Cultural Activity
(433 Chestnut St, Depart Philadelphia National Portrait Museum, Capitol Tour
Philadelphia PA) and/or DC Zoo *No food or liquids
3:15 – 6:15pm allowed, leave most things
Cultural Activity at hotel*
Jefferson, MLK Jr., and
Lincoln Memorials, outside 3:40pm
White House Photos outside Capitol

6:45pm
Check in to Homewood Free Time in DC
Suites Downtown Hotel
(1475 Massachusetts Ave,
Washington DC)