Q: What is XL Academics Providing?
XL Academics designs online communities for professional career development to corporations and institutions, where high school/college students build co-operative relationships with professionals. Our cutting edge techniques make us the leader in constructing virtual infrastructures that provide quality based accessible service to students as well as professionals.

The objectives of what our service provides are listed as follows:

• For students to gain tangible tools and marketable skills
• To create a seamless structured learning environment to assist in academic and professional development
• To incorporate knowledge and skills from the development series to foster self-directed learning

The online course titled Virtual Academy is a pre-professional educational tool that prepares high school, vocational, and college students with the essential skills needed to become successful in their future profession. As students communicate with their mentors, they will complete student development planning goals, create program expectations, and the protege will complete curriculum modules based on a needs assessment. The protege will have the option of completing 6 of the 12 curriculum modules. Once the student has completed Virtual Academy, he/she is then eligible to enter the pre-screening pool for internships. Based on the student's application, the protege will be notified for interview options and will meet with a recruiter with that particular company.

Q: How does this service benefit students?
XL Academics builds communities. In this environment, students benefit by getting connected with professionals in their field of interest with the click of a finger. This is a higher echelon of networking at the convenience of the student/ potential employee and employer. The specific benefits are as follows:

Benefit to the Student:

• Developing marketable students
• Establishing profitable relationships
• Mastering transferable skills
• Developing and facilitating learning experiences with major corporations Benefit to the Company:
• Increase name recognition of your company
• Provide the labor and skill needed to complete a special project
• Provide the opportunity for your permanent staff to gain supervisory experience
• Allow you to assess the capacities of a potential employee
• Facilitate links between your company and the community for possible research, teaching and recruitment
• Increase the number of graduates who stay in the community after graduation

Q: Do the services that XL Academics provides compete with systems that are currently in place in institutions of learning?
The services that XL Academics provide serve as a supplement to systems that are currently in place within High Schools and Colleges. Through XL Academics students learn how to manage their personal finances, develop leadership skills, and enhance communication skills. In addition the community of XL Academics bridges the gap between students and employers, allowing them to engage in personal as well as professional development.

Examples of the modules that students choose from are as follows:

• Choosing a college/university or vocational school
• Leadership DevelopmentKnow your strengths
• Be a life long learner
• Goal setting o Shadow a successful leader
• Financial Management
• Choosing a banking/checking account
• When to invest
• Creating a budget
• Diversity
• Equal Employment Opportunity
• Understanding others
• Conflict Resolution
• Types of conflict
• Working with Difficult people
• Communication Skills
• Everything communicates
• Being an effective team member
• Decision Making
• Peer pressure
• Collaboration
• Time Management
• No more procrastination
• Plan your day
• Learn to de-stress
• Cover letter/Resume writing
• What are marketable skills?
• Choose the right resume
• Professional Etiquette
• Dress for success
• Table manners
• Interview skills
• Telephone /email
• Networking/Professional Organizations
• Building relationships
• Choosing the right network for you
• Community Outreach
• Get Involved
• Volunteering

Q: How does XL Academics get students to see the benefit of this program?
Today's student is looking for convenience and quality services that will adequately prepare them as they transition into professionals. XL Academics offers students opportunities to connect with professionals in the privacy of their own homes. In addition, the millennial student relies heavily on the internet for social out lets, job search, shopping, dating, and learning etc. It is a natural progression to offer a service that allows students to connect with professionals online. This is how students will see the benefit to the services provides by XL Academics.

Q: What are the components?
The components of the website are broken into four major components as follows:

• Informational Content. This is the information about the site, privacy policies, terms and conditions, company information, media kits, and new user orientation information.
• Information, related to the students or protege experience within the XL Academics mentoring program.
• Collection of tools that mentors are given in order to provide academic services and personal advice and developed a mentoring relationship with the student enrolled in XL Academics. These tools include instant message, private forums, learning contracts and programs.
• Administration Level that the staff of XL Academics will utilize to over see, maintain, and develop the company's program.

Q: How do the students and mentors maintain security?
The site utilizes a roll based security set up, in essence the sensitive information and areas within the site are protected by user or group security methods. All important information is transferred using a secure socket layer (SSL) connection which is a standard and accepted security component of all web browsers. The servers security includes web design and hosting, co-location services, and dedicated server technology. How is the success of student learning tracked on this website? The students are given a series of 4 tests (Needs Assessments) by the learning contract to review their progress as the end of each integral section of the training.

• The first of these evaluations are administered prior to beginning the program, to connect the students to the mentor.
• Two additional evaluations are administered during the course of the program.
• The last evaluation is administered upon completion of the program.

These tests are then utilized to judge the students progress. As the website grows there will be an increasing number of standardized tests and needs assessments as we continue to develop new programs and embark on initiatives to foster growth.