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A group from a Visionarium edition sitting together on wide marble steps.

Stories

Alumni

Testimonials, recaps and letters. Each one with a name and with permission — we do not publish a word from a student without their family authorising it.

Letter The most revealing week of my life Seven days, one program, and what he calls an enormous blessing. Samuel Campos · July 27, 2019 Letter Words can’t describe what it meant On business, self-respect, and finding people she now calls siblings. Sofia Restrepo · October 4, 2018 Letter An awakening, at the right moment It found her in a moment of uncertainty and became the guide she says she needed. Sara Garzón · September 15, 2018 Letter A week that can change you this much On leaving her comfort zone, and the lessons that only fit into a single week. Alexandra Turriago · September 11, 2018 Letter It gave me a family She came for the world’s best companies. She says what she left with was something else entirely. Paula Silgado Mesa · September 11, 2018 Letter A different world opened up She came in expecting to learn business. She left having opened her eyes to something wider. Violeta Portilla · September 11, 2018 Letter Getting up with one purpose Why she says every day since Visionarium starts with the same intention: being happy. Catalina Ricardo · September 9, 2018 Letter The small things that matter most Punctuality, how you dress, and one word she says opened every door that week: networking. Laura Vergara · September 9, 2018 Letter The story behind every company What she says stayed with her wasn’t the companies — it was every person she met along the way. Mariana Correa · September 9, 2018 Letter What I used to think success meant He thought it was about control. Visionarium rewrote the definition — and led to a summer internship. Jorge Andrés Dávila · September 19, 2017 Letter A city that never stops moving On what New York does to you physically and mentally, one week at a time. Daniela Manzanera · August 6, 2017 Letter One of the best experiences a kid my age can live On what stayed with him long after he left New York. Alejandro Klaric · August 5, 2017 Letter More than business and finance A short note on the people he found along the way. Cristian Jassir · August 5, 2017 Letter The inspiration I didn’t expect to find She went in expecting the companies to be the highlight. She left saying it was her own classmates. Marianna Maldonado · August 5, 2017 Letter Music, business, and Kenny Gerbson A Lincoln Center Jazz scholarship student on why he thinks the program is a rare kind of classroom. Kenny Guaman · July 28, 2017 Letter More in one week than in a school year What he says Visionarium taught him that the classroom never did. Andy Klarić · July 23, 2017 Letter The friends you get to choose A thank-you letter to an entire edition, one nickname at a time. Juan Camilo Izquierdo · July 23, 2017 Letter What you have left of Visionarium A letter to the next class, from an alumnus who moved to France a few days after writing it. Julián Montalvo · July 23, 2017 Letter Not sure what to study — then sure Before Visionarium she didn’t know what came after high school. After, she did. Maria Rivadeneira · July 23, 2017 Letter Hard to put into words A short account of the bonds one week can leave behind. Nicolás Espinosa · July 23, 2017 Letter Humility, patience, and brotherhood You think you’ll only learn about business. He says that isn’t true. Pablo Samur · July 23, 2017 Letter Every company started somewhere On realizing the biggest names in the world once stood exactly where she was standing. Valentina Rueda · July 23, 2017