Type Website Founders Luke Heine | Industry Travel Website summerplaybook.com | |
Headquarters Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts | ||
Summer Playbook is a website that helps Ivy League students meet up over the summer by showing their locations and how they would like to interact. Luke Heine founded the program in order to connect Harvard students during the summer of 2014.
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History
The Summer Playbook is a project conceived in 2014 by Harvard student Luke Heine, Harvard Class of 2017, for the purpose of connecting students over the summer term. Joined later by William Bauer, Stanford Class of 2107, and Mark Steinbrick, Harvard Class of 2017, the trio launched the Summer Playbook's web platform in 2015 which displays the locations of Ivy League users on a world map to allow them to identify others in nearby areas. The site currently has more the 3500 users.
Growth
In just under a week in 2014, the form logged over 550 locations and 500 people, spanning across six continents. From Argentinians to Australians, hundreds of undergraduates quickly filled the map with red markers. In five days, the 2015 Summer Playbook logged over 1,500 locations and 1,200 signups.
Launch
The 2015 Summer Playbook focuses on building an inter-Ivy traveling community and will open up its service to other Ivy League schools in the second phase of the project in 2015. The Summer Playbook is now live for Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Yale University and Yale-NUS College.