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TRINITY SCHOOL Summer Opportunities and Learning Adventures Summer Opportunities and Learning Adventures is a compilation of local, national, and worldwide programs available to families at Trinity School and the primary way our College Counseling Office communicates information about them. Its focus is older students, especially upper schoolers, but some of its information applies to younger students, as well. The number of summer and school-year opportunities available to students is vast, and our knowledge about them varies according to the program. Please be sure to do your own research before enrolling a child in any of these programs. This guide’s listings are grouped according to the categories and disciplines outlined below. Each listing is a hyperlink to the first page of that section. Links at the end of each section provide a means for users to return to the top of the section, as well as back to this introductory page.
CATEGORIES AND DISCIPLINES Academic Study Adventure Learning Community Service Culinary Arts Government and Politics International Explorations Leadership Training Religious Studies The Arts What Really Doesn't Fit Anywhere Else
Much of this information comes from college counselors across the United States. Locally, we’re especially grateful to our colleagues at Carolina Friends School and Durham Academy. If you know of great programs not yet on these lists, we’d appreciate hearing from you. Periodically, we’ll update this guide, which always will be available on Edline. I hope you find Summer Opportunities and Learning Adventures a useful source of information. Sincerely,
Warren Gould Director of Trinity Upper School and College Counseling
ACADEMIC STUDY Independent and Pre-College Programs
Enrichment Alley Web Page: View website
Description: Are you ready to take an active role in your own education? Whether you're looking for a summer learning experience, a gap year adventure, or a school year program for a single individual or a school group, you'll find it here. Discover opportunities to immerse yourself in a single subject, participate in a field experience, join a guided travel group, or make a difference through service learning.
Alfred University Web Page: View website
Description: Alfred University in western New York offers summer institutes in astronomy, creative writing, and entrepreneurial leadership.
American College Adventures Web Page: View website
Description: American College Adventures offers credit and enrichment courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in Spain, Italy, Costa Rica, Panama and London. Website includes many photos and a link to order a catalog.
Appalachian State's Martha Guy Summer Institute Web Page: View website
Description: Appalachian State University's Martha Guy Summer Institute for Future Business Leaders is a three-week program for rising seniors with an interest in business. Participants in the first two weeks on campus gain exposure to the curriculum of the Walker College of Business participate in leadership development and team building activities, interact with business leaders, and attend cultural events of the area. The final week is spent in Washington, DC and New York City.
Army Education Outreach Program (AEOP) Web Page: View website
Description: Gains in the Education of Mathematics & Science (GEMS) – Students in 8th to 12th grade spend one to four weeks in an Army lab performing experiments. Advanced courses in subsequent years build upon prior years' experience.
Aspire! UNCC's Summer Program Web Page: View website
Description: Aspire! is a week-long residential program for rising 11th - 12th graders who want a "sneak preview" of college life. This year, we have 6 academic strands - Health, Engineering Technology, Drama, Networking, Journalism and NanoScience. During the day, you work with your own group; evening activities include advice from the Admissions office about your college
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application; on Wednesday evenings, all Aspire! participants meet with Timeka Ruffin, a representative of the College Foundation of North Carolina, for an informational session covering college applications, career advice, scholarship opportunities, etc.; and meetings with students and faculty from departments of interest to you.
Auburn University's Summer Programs Web Page: View website
Description: There are many types of Summer Camps at Auburn University. Some are designed for individuals and some are for teams. Some are intended for academic enrichment, while others cater to extracurricular interests. All are intended to allow participants to experience Auburn University while enjoying outstanding education/training in areas of interest.
Barnard College's Summer in New York City Web Page: View website
Description: Barnard College's Summer in New York City offers opportunities to explore New York both in and out of the classroom. There are five-week courses on a variety of subjects for young men and women, a one-week Young Women’s Leadership Institute, and one-week mini-courses.
Boston College Experience Web Page: View website
Description: This six-week program at Boston College allows high school students to take college courses and earn college credit; live and study with peers as they experience college; and interact with BC professors. Each summer talented and motivated high school students who have completed the Eleventh grade and have compiled outstanding academic records immerse themselves in a campus environment that encourages academic exploration, fosters personal growth, and develops strategies for dealing with the more intense demands of college.
Boston University's High School Honors Program Web Page: View website
Description: Boston University's High School Honors Program is a six-week program for academically talented students who can take two BU courses for credit in the General Honors Program or participate in research opportunities through the Research Internship Program in Science and Engineering. The Summer Challenge Program is a two-week, non-credit college preparatory program for rising 10th-12th-graders. Students choose two seminars from the areas of creative writing, persuasive speaking, law, visual arts, business, and science.
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Boston University’s Program in Mathematics Web Page: View website
Description: Boston University’s Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists invites 60 high schoolers with an exceptionally strong interest in mathematics to spend six weeks engaged in creative mathematical exploration. PROMYS is sponsored in part by the the American Mathematical Society, the National Science Foundation, the National Security Agency, and Oracle Corporation.
Cambridge College Summer Program Web Page: View website
Description: UK Pre-College There are few cities in the world like Oxford and Cambridge and few places can compete with the splendor, atmosphere and tradition of Oxford and Cambridge universities. An extraordinary introduction to college life at two of the world’s most respected institutions of learning as well as an opportunity to enjoy the resources of two equally vibrant university cities. For students completing grades 9-12.
Career Explorations Web Page: View website
Description: "As a Career Explorations (CE) intern you’ll experience either a four-week or five-week work assignment at a firm in the Boston or New York City area. You’ll work closely with a carefully-selected career mentor - and the rest of the team at your workplace – to learn about your chosen field. Whether you’re interested in business, fashion, finance, healthcare, journalism, law, media, not-for-profit, photography, real estate, veterinary medicine or just about any other field, an internship can help you figure out what career you might want to pursue and what to study in high school or college."
Carleton College’s Liberal Arts Experience Web Page: View website
Description: Carleton College’s Carleton Liberal Arts Experience is an all-expense paid week for 50 rising juniors who represent the “best and brightest college-bound African-American students.” Participants take courses taught by Carleton faculty, and receive a free return trip to campus during their junior or senior years, and, if they matriculate at Carleton receive a special financial aid package. The Summer Writing Program is designed for rising seniors with strong reading and writing abilities. Participants explore contemporary and traditional literature in a class with Carleton faculty and in discussion sections with current Carleton students and hone their own skills in writing workshops. College Horizons is five-day program to prepare rising juniors and seniors who are Naive American, Native Alaskan, or Native Hawaiian for college.
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Carnegie Mellon University’s Pre-College Programs Web Page: View website
Description: Carnegie Mellon University’s Pre-College Summer Programs for Diversity include the Academy for Mathematics and Science, for rising juniors and seniors considering careers in engineering, science, and other math-based disciplines; the Advanced Placement Early Admission, in which students take two regular CMU classes for full credit; and the Fine Arts Programs in architecture, art, design, drama, or music. The programs last seven weeks.
CDC's Disease Detective Camp Web Page: View website
Description: The CDC Disease Detective Camp is an academic public health day camp held at CDC's headquarters in Atlanta, GA. The camp is open to upcoming high school juniors and seniors. Students interested in working in a team environment with other motivated students are encouraged to apply!
Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Programs Web Page: View website
Description: The Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Programs is committed to attracting and educating qualified students from diverse backgrounds. Our programs encourage, support and challenge each student's potential while making the learning experience productive, rewarding and enjoyable. This is accomplished not only in the classroom, but also in the dormitory, through sports and social activities, and in sharing life in an academic residential community where teachers and students learn and live together. Residential programs for Upper School students include math, science, government, writing and college prep.
Clemson University's Summer Science Program Web Page: View website
Description: Clemson University's Summer Science and Engineering Enrichment Program offers one, two, and three-week courses for rising juniors and seniors. Options include: Basic Electronics, Bioengineering, Biology I and II, Chemistry, Computer Science I and II, DNA Science, Earth Science, Engineering Graphics, Geometry, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, and Robotics.
Close Up Student Program Web Page: View website
Description: Since 1971, Close Up has provided educational programs in Washington that help students learn how they, as ordinary citizens, can play key roles in the U.S. system of democracy. Close Up is known for being fun and for positively impacting student attitudes. As our 650,000 alums attest, it’s the educational experience of a lifetime. We give you an inside view of the people, processes and places in our nation’s capitol. Our students meet with key people in government, law, business and media to gain real-world
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insights into how DC works. They meet with members of Congress (or staff), discuss hot issues with policy experts and dialogue with journalists about how the media shapes policy. Students also experience the stunning vistas of DC’s monuments – using our unique methodology that enables them to connect history to the roles they play in our democracy today. In short, we use Washington as a living classroom to give students insights that far transcend the typical travel experience.
Colorado College's Pre-college program Web Page: View website
Description: Colorado College offers exceptional high school students the opportunity to participate in their college classes during Summer Session. They encourage interested students to enroll in a course or two in order to experience college-level learning as a college-preparatory exercise and introduction to liberal learning in the arts and sciences. Summer Session is also the perfect opportunity for interested students to try Colorado College's unique academic scheduling system, the intensive "block" plan, which entails taking one class at a time for an intensive three to three-and-one-half week period. Because the traditional term is therefore cut short, students can take one course here at Colorado College and still have time to enjoy family vacations, part-time jobs, and other extracurricular activities.
Columbia University Summer High School Program Web Page: View website
Description: Rigorous summer pre-college academic programs for students in grades 9 through 12. Experience college life. Meet other highly motivated high school students from all over the world. Broaden your world view. Earn an official Columbia University Statement of Attendance.
Concordia Language Villages Web Page: View website
Description: Concordia Language Villages include 13 world language immersion programs (from Chinese to Swedish) for students ages seven to 18 as well as travel abroad opportunities.
Converse College Summer Workshops Web Page: View website
Description: Converse College in Spartanburg, SC offers week-long summer workshops in forensic science, theater, visual arts and writing.
Cornell Summer College Web Page: View website
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Description: Cornell Summer College offers three-week seminars and a wide variety of six-week classes in architecture, psychology, law, veterinary medicine, communication, and many, many more fields. Students can earn college
credit. For juniors and seniors, there are special opportunities for research apprenticeship and career exploration in life sciences.
Cushing Academy Summer Programs Web Page: View website
Description: Cushing Academy Summer Programs include an individually-tailored skill development program (Critical Skills in English, Math, Study Techniques & Technology), a College Prep program with choices in the humanities and natural and mathematical sciences, and core courses in a variety of disciplines. Students ages 14 through 18 may take advantage of these residential programs at Cushing, a boarding school 62 miles from Boston.
Davidson College's July Experience Web Page: View website
Description: Davidson College's July Experience at Davidson is a three-week "educational, social, creative and personal-development program for rising high school seniors." Participants take two courses from several liberal arts disciplines—biology, English, mathematics, physics, psychology, anthropology, and political science. Upper School Dean, Julian Cochran, is an alumnus of the July Experience and would be happy to talk to interested parents or students.
Denison University's Young Writer's Workshop Web Page: View website
Description: The Jonathan R. Reynolds Young Writers Workshop is designed to give beginning poets and writers an opportunity to develop their talents and visions. Our Writers Workshop puts you in touch with the variety a life in writing has to offer. The eight-day Workshop encourages high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors to explore, discover, and affirm the craft of writing while in residence on the beautiful campus of Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
Duke University Summer Programs Web Page: View website
Description: Duke Youth Programs is a part of Duke University Continuing Studies and has provided summer academic enrichment for academically motivated youth for over 20 years. Each summer approximately 650 youth from around the nation and world, representing some 22 states and 5 different countries, attend one of our summer programs.
Duke University Talent Identification Program Web Page: View website
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Description: Duke University Talent Identification Program offers a wide variety of programs on the Duke campus and elsewhere. In the on-campus Pre-College Program (for rising seniors), students live in dorms, take summer classes with Duke undergraduates, and attend special workshops to help prepare for college. The two-week Global Dialogues Institute on
International Politics and Law is held at Wake Forest University. The two-week Leadership Institute is held on Duke’s East Campus. Duke’s Field Studies program offers a wide variety of workshops—filmmaking, creative writing, ecology, and astronomy—at locations around the US, as well as workshops in Costa Rica, Paris, London, and Italy.
Duke University's Howard Hughes Precollege Program Web Page: View website
Description: Duke University's Howard Hughes Precollege Program in the Biological Sciences is a seven-week program in which 15 rising juniors and seniors from area schools do full-time, hands-on research in lab settings with Duke scientists. Additional components include a morning seminar on scientific topics, informational sessions on the college application process and college life, a once-a-week tutorial, visits to other Duke science facilities, and informal social activities. Participants receive a $1,500 stipend.
Duke University Summer on the Edge Web Page: View website
Description: The Summer on the Edge Program is a six-week internship opportunity offered by the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, and is funded through a grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Students work in Cancer Center laboratories, attend lectures, and tour Cancer Center and Medical Center facilities. This unique program provides hands-on experience for high school students in basic and clinical oncology research as well as exposure to various methods of patient care, treatment and the psychosocial aspects of cancer. The program was originally established in 1989 by Dr. Robert Bast, former Director of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Summer on the Edge is designed to encourage high school students to explore and pursue careers in biomedical science and research. Students are recruited from diverse social, economic and racial backgrounds, with an emphasis on underserved populations and women. Local counselors and teachers are encouraged to identify suitable applicants for the program. June 22 - July 31, 2009
Earlham College’s Explore-A-College Web Page: View website
Description: Earlham College’s Explore-A-College is a two-week program at its Richmond, Indiana campus where students learn college-level study skills while taking classes in the arts, humanities, sciences, religion, or foreign languages. They can earn college credit.
Education Unlimited's Summer Focus Program Web Page: View website
Description: Summer Focus at UC Berkeley is a comprehensive 6-week summer pre-college program offered in a rare public-private partnership between Education Unlimited® and UC Berkeley Summer Sessions. The program is
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designed to provide a small-group learning environment for talented and motivated high school students who want to experience college life.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Summer Web Page: View website
Description: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Summer Academy in Daytona Beach, Florida includes aerospace, aviation career, flight exploration, and flight training options. These residential programs run from one to eight weeks and may include college credits. Depending on the program, students between ages 12 and 18 may participate.
Environmental Studies Youth Summer Institute Web Page: View website
Description: The Hobart and William Smith Colleges Environmental Studies Youth Summer Institute is a two-week, college-level interdisciplinary program. Rising juniors and seniors conduct research in a variety of locations: on a 65-foot vessel on Seneca Lake and in streams, quaking bogs, the Adirondack Mountains, and laboratories. Participants explore topics in environmental policy, economics, and ethics, and see the natural world through the eyes of artists, historians, philosophers, and scientists.
EPGY Summer Programs – Stanford and Abroad Web Page: View website
Description: The EPGY Summer Institutes are two-to-four-week residential programs for academically talented and motivated middle and high-school students. The Summer Institutes provide an opportunity for these students to pursue their intellectual curiosity and meet others who share their interests and abilities. Participants are enrolled in a single intensive-study course, taught by a Stanford instructor, and covering topics not typically presented at their grade level. For 2009, the EPGY Summer Institutes will be held on the Stanford University campus, in Beijing, China and London, England.
Four Star Academics at the University of Virginia Web Page: View website
Description: Four Star Academics at the University of Virginia offers high schoolers the chance to take college classes and earn college credit in its Senior Program (rising 10th-12th graders) or to pursue non-credit courses and other enrichment activities in its Junior Program (rising 7th-9th graders).
Furman University Summer Scholars Program Web Page: View website
Description: Furman University Summer Scholars Program includes ten one and two-week programs for rising juniors and seniors and taught by Furman faculty: French, graphic design, interactive animations, law, leadership, personal health/fitness, psychology, and writing about film. Furman students serve as counselors and coordinate and oversee extracurricular activities.
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George Washington University Summer Scholars Web Page: View website
Description: George Washington University Summer Scholars Pre-College Program is a six-week residential program for rising seniors. Classes take place on the downtown Foggy Bottom campus, while students reside on GW’s Mt. Vernon campus a short shuttle ride up the hill. Participants earn credit in a course of their choosing, and explore academic interests through specially organized seminars in a broad cross section of academic disciplines. Enrichment offerings such as First Year Writing, College Study, and Beyond Admissions prepare students for college life. In addition they offer 10-day mini courses for rising sophmores, juniors and seniors.
Georgetown University Summer School Web Page: View website
Description: Georgetown University Summer School allows students, recommended by their principals or guidance counselors, who will have completed their junior year with a B average or better, to earn credit for coursework.
Girls First at The Madeira School Web Page: View website
Description: Girls Frist is a two-week day or boarding summer program on the Madeira School campus in McLean, VA. Study options include creative writing, veterinary science, forensic science, fashion design, interior design, acting workshop or dance.
Harvard University Summer School Web Page: View website
Description: Harvard University Summer School allows juniors and seniors to take a wide variety of college courses alongside undergraduates from Harvard and other colleges, while living in dorms with other high school students. Students can earn college credit. There are recreational activities and workshops on college selection and admissions.
Heidelberg College's SummerBerg Web Page: View website
Description: SummerBerg is a unique and exciting summer experience at Heidelberg College. Our residential, academic program is open to boys and girls entering grades 8-12. Our students live and learn together – taking exciting classes, making friends and experiencing college life. Courses are designed to be challenging, but also clear and accessible. Instead of listening to dull lectures, students engage in hands-on classroom projects, fun activities and personal coaching. Students choose one course for the week, and students may attend multiple weeks and try different courses. In our Industrial Design and Computer Science workshops, we offer a different project each week.
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Hollins University’s Hollinsummer Web Page: View website
Description: Hollins University’s Hollinsummer for 19 years has given high school women a two-week taste of college life, including two classes taught by Hollins faculty members, at its Roanoke, Virginia campus.
iD Tech Camps Web Page: View website
Description: iD Tech Camps operate at universities in a number of states and in Spain. The closest is at UNC-Chapel Hill. Students aged 8-17 choose weeklong day and overnight programs in a host of technology-related areas, including cinematography, digital music editing, documentary filmmaking, multimedia and game creation, programming and robotics, stop motion animation, and web design and graphic arts.
Interamerican University Studies Institute's Artes Web Page: View website
Description: Interamerican University Studies Institute's Artes en Mexico program brings together teens with a passion for the arts in a four-week immersion in the language, culture, and arts of Mexico. Student live with a Mexican family, speak Spanish all day, and explore the arts with professional Mexican instructors. The four-week, eight-student Costa Rica--Pura Vida program includes a family homestay, intensive Spanish language classes, presentations by a Costa Rican biologist, jungle travel by boat, hiking in the Cloud Forest, a visit to the San Miguel Marine Biology Station on the Pacific Coast, and a tour of a coffee plantation. Applicants for either opportunity must be between 15 and 17 years old and have completed at least four semester of Spanish at the time of the program. IUSI also offers independent travel/study options year round in Querétaro, Mexico (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), and Costa Rica. Apply early as this fills up quickly! In addition, they offer independent travel/study/homestay options year round in Querétaro, Mexico (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), Ecuador, and Costa Rica. Intensive creative writing tutorials in Mexico are an example of more formal offerings.
Iowa State University Web Page: View website
Description: Iowa State University offers for rising 8th-12th graders CY-TAG—accelerated, fast-paced courses (approximately 100 hours of instructional time, equivalent to a full year of high school or a semester of college material)—and for rising 8th-11th graders Explorations—learning experiences in areas of study not traditionally taught in the high school curriculum. Eligibility criteria include a high score on the ACT or the SAT I.
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Johnson and Wales University's Career Explorations Web Page: View website
Description: Johnson and Wales University's Career Explorations weekends for rising 11th and 12th graders include accounting, business, culinary arts, equine studies, fashion, finance, hospitality, legal studies, sports/entertainment/event management, and technology. The camp occurs on their North Miami campus.
Landmark College's Summer Program Web Page: View website
Description: Landmark College's Summer Program for High School Students is a three-week program designed to build the skills of high school students with learning differences or AD/HD through coursework, activities, experiential learning, and the development of self-understanding and self-advocacy skills. The Transition Program for Recent High School Graduates and Their Parents is an intensive, 15-day program to help students with learning differences--and their parents--successfully navigate the move from home to college. Parents participate in the initial and session-ending workshops and complete "thinking tasks" during the intervening two-week period. Information on the summer programs is listed at the bottom of the page.
Meredith College's Math Week Web Page: View website
Description: Meredith College's Math Week gives young women rising to the 10th-grade the opportunity to explore mathematics in daily sessions, group projects, interaction with professional women, visits to NC State and the NC School of Science and Mathematics, and other activities. Each participant also creates her own personal web page.
Michigan Math and Science Scholars Web Page: View website
Description: Michigan Math and Science Scholars (MMSS) is a program designed to expose high school students to current developments and research in the sciences and to encourage the next generation of researchers to develop and retain a love of mathematics and science. MMSS features small 15-student classes taught by University of Michigan professors, as well as other outstanding instructors from around the world.
Michigan Tech's Youth Programs Web Page: View website
Description: The Michigan Technological University Summer Youth Programs (SYP) will introduce you to careers and allow you to develop new skills through laboratory, classroom, and field experiences. The program includes more than seventy one-week explorations, scheduled over multiple weeks. Some programs offer considerable scholarships.
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Middlebury College Language Academy Web Page: View website
Description: Now Middlebury College offers top-quality summer language immersion—for middle and high school students. For four amazing weeks, you'll live on a college campus. You'll take the famous Middlebury College Language Pledge®. You'll be challenged, but supported all the way! You'll make amazing new friends...And you'll rise to the challenge together. Vermont's Middlebury College leads the world in language learning. With its affiliate, the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Middlebury has created the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy. This unique summer program is open to students who have completed 7th grade through students who have completed 12th grade.
MIT's MITES Program Web Page: View website
Description: MITES (Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science) is a rigorous six-week residential, academic enrichment summer program for promising high school juniors who are interested in studying and exploring careers in science and engineering. This national program stresses the value and reward of pursuing advanced technical degrees and careers while developing the skills necessary to achieve success in science and engineering.
National Security Language Initiative for Youth Web Page: View website
Description: The US Department of State through the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI for Youth) provides merit-based scholarships for eligible high school students to learn less commonly taught languages in summer, semester, and academic-year overseas immersion programs.
NCSU Pre-College Summer Programs Web Page: View website
Description: North Carolina State University offers summer academic programs in a variety topics, including Ag-Discovery, Design Camp. Engineering, NC-MSEN Summer Scholars (for math, science, and technology), Poultry, Shelton Leadership Challenge, Biotechnology and Life Sciences, Summer Exploration (Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Resources), Summer Textile Exploration Program, and Teen Writers’ Workshop.
NCSU School-Year Programs Web Page: View website
Description: North Carolina State University offers programs during the school year in NC Math and Science Education Network, Photonics Explorers (grades 9 & 10), Photonics Leaders (grades 11 & 12), and Upward Bound.
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North Carolina Central University’s Youth Programs Web Page: View website
Description: In keeping with the University’s public service mission and its philosophy of outreach, North Carolina Central University offers a program of academic enrichment opportunities and challenging recreational activities for children, youth, and adults.
Northfield Mount Hermon School Summer Session Web Page: View website
Description: Each summer, we gather as a community to engage in academic work and to learn from each other in many different ways. Our student population is diverse and worldly – in the summer of 2008, 34 different countries and 21 states within the US were represented. Our talented faculty is assisted by 35 teaching interns to provide an outstanding experience for our students. Our goal, through all aspects of our comprehensive program, is to provide a valuable, life-changing experience for each student who joins us. For many students, NMH Summer Session provides their first taste of a rigorous academic experience and challenges them to a new level. Other students come from strong schools and use their summer here as an opportunity to further build academic skills, advance in their coursework, and prepare for college.
Notre Dame University Precollege Program Web Page: View website
Description: Notre Dame University Summer Experience students participate in an intensive three-week course of study. This summer, six academic tracks will be offered: life sciences, business / entrepreneurship, literature, pre-law, psychology, and theology.
NYU Summer 2009 Web Page: View website
Description: Summer recess is an excellent time for high school students to concentrate their learning in a favorite subject or explore a new topic. A number of programs are offered for students who would like to experience NYU.
Quantum Learning's SuperCamp Senior Forum Web Page: View website
Description: Quantum Learning's SuperCamp Senior Forum is a ten-day college-prep program for students in grades 9 through 12. Academic skills addressed include strategies for improving reading, writing, note-taking, memory, and SAT skills as well as life skills (e.g. communication, creative thinking, goal-setting, and problem solving). The similar College Forum is for students in grade 12 and college. Programs are available at the Claremont Colleges, Colorado College, Hampshire College, Stanford University, the University of Wisconsin--Parkside, and Wake Forest University. International programs are offered in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico, Switzerland, and Singapore with additional sites under development.
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RIT College & Careers Program Web Page: View website
Description: The College & Careers program at Rochester Institute of Technology is an opportunity for students to explore career options through interactive academic sessions. These sessions include personal hands-on experience, demonstrations and discussions. Working with both faculty and students, you will discover and utilize the state-of-the-art facilities and technology available at RIT. This program is designed to help students who will be entering their senior year in the fall gain the experience and knowledge necessary to start making career decisions about the future.
Robert E. Cook Honors College Web Page: View website
Description: Robert E. Cook Honors College of Indiana University of Pennsylvania hosts two summer honors programs, one which includes discipline-specific courses (art, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, film, finance, journalism, literature, and philosophy) in the morning and an Interdisciplinary Honors Core Course in the afternoon where students tackle some of the most basic and debated questions of human existence (e.g. How do we discern the good from the bad?), and one which consists of an intensive, discipline-specific week of exploration and discovery.
Saint George’s University on Grenada Web Page: View website
Description: Saint George’s University on the Caribbean island of Grenada offers 10-day pre-medical and pre-veterinary summer programs for interested American and Grenadian high school students. The schedule includes lectures, labs, and a variety of recreational events, including whale and dolphin watching, a catamaran sail, trips to historic sites, beach parties, and a wrap up dinner. Search for "summer camps."
Salem Academy's Spotlight program Web Page: View website
Description: Spotlight is Salem Academy and College’s premier summer academic program for rising 7th-11th grade girls. Located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Spotlight provides an environment in which young women meet to share experiences, discover new interests, and grow as individuals. Our summer sessions foster a tightly knit community in which girls spend their days making friends, learning and having fun.
Skidmore College's Pre-College Program Web Page: View website
Description: Skidmore College's Pre-College Program in the Liberal Arts allows high school students to tale two college courses, a full semester of credit.
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Summer at Stanford Web Page: View website
Description: Stanford University invites current juniors and seniors to participate in its eight-week Summer College taking undergraduate courses for credit. Optional courses and seminars include "Working Smarter," "Writing Well at the College Level," "College Admission 101," and "SAT I Preparation." The three-week Stanford Discovery Institutes in Creative Writing and in Philosophy are available to current sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
Summer Discovery Web Page: View website
Description: Summer Discovery, by Musiker Discovery programs, sponsors three to six-week programs at UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, the University of Michigan, Georgetown University, the University of Vermont, and Cambridge University. Students can earn college credit. A wide variety of academic and sports programs are offered. The web page shows which courses are available at which campuses.
Summer Institute for the Gifted Web Page: View website
Description: The Summer Institute for the Gifted (SIG) began in 1984 with a single session in New Jersey and has expanded over the past twenty-four summers to include ten residential sessions in seven states and numerous day programs. In 2008, we served close to 2000 academically gifted students in Kindergarten through 11th grade. SIG provides academically advanced students with an interesting and challenging educational experience. The program combines remarkable academic courses with cultural, social, and recreational opportunities. The academic program is central to the design and purpose of SIG. The program provides students with academic challenges designed to fit their abilities and interests. It also provides them with the opportunity to engage with other students who have similar abilities and interests. Because of the small classes, low teacher-student ratio, and teaching assistants, programs are individualized for each and every student.
Summer on the Edge at Duke University Web Page: View website
Description: The Summer on the Edge Program is a six-week internship opportunity offered by the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, and is funded through a grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Students work in Cancer Center laboratories, attend lectures, and tour Cancer Center and Medical Center facilities. This unique program provides hands-on experience for high school students in basic and clinical oncology research as well as exposure to various methods of patient care, treatment and the psychosocial aspects of cancer. Click here for an informational brochure.
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Summer Study Program Web Page: View website
Description: The Summer Study Program for rising 10th-12th graders offers college credit and enrichment opportunities—SAT prep classes, sport-specific clinics, discussion groups, intramural sports, outdoor activities, and other special events—at the American University in Paris, Penn State, and the University of Colorado. A shorter enrichment program is also available for rising 9th-11th graders. The Counseling Resource Library includes a video about the Penn State program.
Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics Web Page: View website
Description: Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics (SVSM) is a cost-free, state-funded program for academically talented North Carolina residents who may pursue careers based in science and mathematics. The program brings rising juniors and seniors together in residential settings for intensive study.
Syracuse University’s Summer College Web Page: View website
Description: Syracuse University’s Summer College for High School Students offers six-week programs in acting and musical theater, architecture, art and design, engineering and computer science, fashion and textile design, law, liberal arts, management, and public communications. Students can earn college credit.
Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP) Web Page: View website
Description: A Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP) is a six-week educational experience for high school juniors that offers challenges and rewards rarely encountered in secondary school or even college. Each program is designed to bring together young people from around the world who share a passion for learning. Telluride students, or TASPers, attend a seminar led by college and university faculty members and participate in many other educational and social activities outside the classroom.
Texas Lutheran's Lone Star Scholars Academy Web Page: View website
Description: The Lone Star Scholars Academy (LSSA) is a two week residential program that offers university-level coursework for tranferable college credit to academically gifted high school students like you . Each LSSA student will participate in two college-level courses taught by select TLU faculty and area educators.
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The Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop Web Page: View website
Description: The Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop in an intensive, two-week summer program for students aged 16 through 18 at Ohio’s Kenyon College. Participants spend 5 hours each day in workshop groups (13-15 students), meet individually with instructors, attend public readings by visiting poets, fiction writers, and essayists, and read their own works at these public sessions.
The Putney School Summer Programs Web Page: View website
Description: The Putney School Summer Writing Program is a three-week residential program at this Vermont boarding and day school. The program includes college-like round table seminars, free writing time, one-on-one instruction, group editing, production of a student literary magazine, presentations and readings by guest writers, open readings of students’ work, and excursions into the landscape and resources on campus and in the local community.
The Salisbury Summer School Web Page: View website
Description: The Salisbury Summer School of Reading and English is a month-long session for about a hundred students who've just completed the 8th-12th grades and wish to improve their language arts and study skills. This program, almost 60 years old, is located on a 600-acre campus in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains in northwestern Connecticut.
The Smith Summer Science Program Web Page: View website
Description: The Smith Summer Science Program is a four-week residential program for exceptional young women in rising to grades 9-12 with strong interests in engineering, medicine, or science.
The University of Chicago's Summer Session Web Page: View website
Description: During the summer, the University of Chicago offers numerous opportunities to accomplished high school students. Tomorrow's undergraduates can immerse themselves in the University of Chicago's unique atmosphere as early as this summer. Choose from among the following undergraduate-level, credit-bearing programs.
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The University of Miami's Summer Scholars Program Web Page: View website
Description: The University of Miami's Summer Scholars Program offers three weeks of "sun, fun, and study" for rising junior and seniors. University faculty teach the courses for college credit in: Art: Design & Images, Broadcast Journalism, Filmmaking, Forensic Investigation, Global Politics, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, and Sports Management.
Tuskegee University's Pre-College Programs Web Page: View website
Description: Tuskegee University's Pre-College Programs in Engineering run from one to eight-weeks and allow students to take classes, engage in research, attend seminars, perform experiments, and make field trips.
U Penn's Applied Science and Technology Web Page: View website
Description: The School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania invites highly motivated and talented high school students to apply to participate in our three-week Summer Academy in Applied Science and Technology (SAAST). SAAST gives students the chance to take their interest in science and math to the next level and apply it to cutting-edge technology in Biotechnology, Computer Graphics, Computer Programming, Nanotechnology, and Robotics.
UNC's Write Workshop Web Page: View website
Description: Bell Leadership Institute is proud to offer The Write Workshop to tomorrow’s leaders. Presented by Dr. Dana Lebo, this workshop is sure to give you the right start on your college application essay. Through the course of this workshop, Dr. Lebo has students do exercises in self-analysis and peer feedback that contribute to the creation of a powerful personal essay. By presenting a series of activities involving the psychology of writing, creativity, and small-group experience, students are challenged to explore and express the unique voices within them. In the process, they learn the fundamentals of effective writing – what it really takes to connect to the reader. In The Write Workshop, students begin to understand how even everyday experiences and relationships can be invested with meaning and emotion.
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University of Alabama's Summer Academy Web Page: View website
Description: The University of Alabama's Capstone Business Leadership Academy is a 10-day residential summer program designed for academically exceptional rising high school seniors (students in between their junior and senior years during the program) interested in obtaining an education and pursuing a career in business. Participants interact on an individual basis with university professors and working professionals through a variety of presentations and experiences.
University of Chicago's Summer Programs Web Page: View website
Description: During the summer, the University of Chicago offers numerous opportunities to accomplished high school students. Tomorrow's undergraduates can immerse themselves in the University of Chicago's unique atmosphere as early as this summer. Choose from undergraduate-level programs or hands-on research opportunities.
University of Southern California Summer Programs Web Page: View website
Description: University of Southern California has several precollege programs including USC Summer Seminars, USC SUmmer Certificates and a Summer Science camp for women. USC Summer Seminars Spend four weeks living and learning on the USC campus and earn three units of elective credit at USC Summer Seminars. Open to students who have completed at least the freshman (9th grade) year of high school. USC Summer Certificates Taste the college curriculum in two-week short courses. Open to students who have completed at least the freshman (9th grade) year of high school. USC Summer Science Camp for High School Women Learn about marine biology and oceanography at the Phillip K. Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island. One-week program for high school women.
University of Virginia's 4 Star Camps Web Page: View website
Description: "Innovative and individualized instructional programs by 4 Star Camps can help you position yourself for future successes. Whether you are climbing your tennis ladder, looking to join the golf team or preparing academically for the college of your choice; a 4 Star summer camp at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville is available for you."
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USC's Exploration of Architecture Web Page: View website
Description: University of Southern California's Exploration of Architecture for more than 20 years has offered summer programs, now ranging from one to three weeks. Students explore architecture as a career but also learn about the design process and how cities are built. They experience lectures, site visits to significant buildings, and architectural office tours.
UVA Writers Workshop Web Page: View website
Description: UVA Writers Workshop offers two sessions of workshops for a range of experience levels. Students have the opportunity to participate in readings, conferences, workshops and have a variety of oppportunities for publication and performances.
Vanderbilt Summer Academy Web Page: View website
Description: At Vanderbilt Summer Academy, highly gifted students can soar—learning at a rapid pace in a true community of peers. Students have the opportunity to flex their intellectual muscles, make lifelong friends, and have lots of fun—all while enjoying the many benefits of a secure setting at a top-ranked national university.
Virginia Tech's C-Tech2 Web Page: View website
Description: Virginia Tech's C-Tech2 (Computers and Technology at Virginia Tech) is a two-week program for highly motivated young women. These rising juniors and seniors explore various applications of engineering, mathematics, and science through hands-on activities.
Washington University in St. Louis Web Page: View website
Description: Washington University in St. Louis offers three, five and eight week sessions for highschool students. Students can choose from over 200 college courses and can earn college credits.
William and Mary's Pre-Collegiate Summer Program Web Page: View website
Description: William and Mary's Pre-Collegiate Summer Program in Early American History offers a month-long opportunity for rising juniors and seniors to earn four hours of college credit by participating in a freshman-level course that teaches early American history through the use of historic sites.
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Wolfeboro Summer Boarding School Web Page: View website
Description: Each student's program is developed to support individually established Primary Goals. Any three-course combination will promote improved study habits, study skills, organization, motivation and confidence. Sustained focus and improved productivity are fostered comprehensively by the school's computer and cell phone free classrooms, study halls and campus. The emphasis is on step by step procedure, neatness and attention to detail in all written work.
Women's Technology Program at MIT Web Page: View website
Description: The Women's Technology Program (WTP) is a rigorous four-week academic and residential experience at MIT where female high school students explore engineering through hands-on classes, labs, and team-based projects in the summer after 11th grade. Our goals are to: • interest girls in studying engineering and computer science, and • help them recognize their potential for success in these fields. WTP classes are taught by female MIT graduate students, assisted by female MIT undergraduate students, and do not earn academic credit; WTP students are expected to work hard because they are excited about learning.
Worcester Polytechnic's Frontier Program Web Page: View website
Description: Worcester Polytechnic University’s Frontier Program is a two-week, residential program for rising juniors and seniors interested in biology and biotechnology, computer and electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, physics, or robotics.
Additional Opportunities Description: In addition to specific institutions mentioned above, many other colleges
offer programs for high school students to take classes on-campus for college credit, including:
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Many colleges offer summer writing programs. A college counseling listserve recently listed the following “academic upgrading” programs that emphasize writing skills: Dean College, Curry College, Landmark College, Boston University, Salisbury Summer School of Reading and Writing (see details above), Wolfeboro Camp School, Project Advance at York University, Camp Kodiak, Ontario, Sheila Morrison School (summer
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academic program, located in Utopia, Ontario), Cornell University summer writing programs for high school students, and Columbia University College Preparatory Program. Northfield Mount Hermon Summer Session (Northfield, MA) offers a College Preparatory program which includes options to study expository and academic writing.
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ADVENTURE LEARNING
Action Quest Web Page: View website
Description: For over 30 years, AQ has consistently delivered high quality sailing camps, scuba camps, community service and marine biology camps. Through hands-on learning and adventure travel throughout the world, we have successfully ignited the inherent leadership skills within thousands of young adults.
America's Adventures & Venture Europe (AAVE) Web Page: View website
Description: America's Adventures & Venture Europe (AAVE) since 1976 has offered summer programs, 2-6 weeks long, for students aged 11 to 19. Locations include Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Asia, Europe, Alaska, Hawaii, the Rocky Mountain states, & Canada. Components may include biking, hiking, horseback riding, rafting, sailing, sea kayaking, surfing, service projects, and language immersion.
Asheville School's Summer Academic Adventures Web Page: View website
Description: Asheville School's Summer Academic Adventures is a three-week program designed for academically talented students entering grades 7 through 10. Mornings are spent studying the humanities, math, science, art, and computer technology. Afternoons are spent playing games and sports, or whitewater rafting, kayaking, rock climbing, and hiking in the mountains of western North Carolina.
Cottonwood Gulch Web Page: View website
Description: Cottonwood Gulch, founded in 1926, maintains a 540-acre base camp and ecological preserve in the Zuni mountains of New Mexico. Its summer programs provide individuals an opportunity to experience the historic, cultural, environmental and natural significance of the American Southwest. Programs emphasize outdoor living skills, scientific inquiry, wilderness camping, fun and frontier adventure.
Deer Hill Expeditions Web Page: View website
Description: Deer Hill Expeditions programs have combined community service with outdoor adventures—backpacking, canoeing, kayaking, mountaineering, rock climbing, and whitewater rafting—in the American Southwest for rising 9th-12th-graders since 1985.
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Eagles Nest Camp Web Page: View website
Description: Eagles Nest Camp offers three-week “Hante” outdoor adventure programs for high school students, including backpacking, mountain biking, and mountaineering. This is the same group that runs the semester-long Outdoor Academy program in Brevard.
Green River Preserve Summer Camp Web Page: View website
Description: The Green River Preserve is an environmental summer camp located on a magnificent 3,400 acre private wildlife preserve in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Brevard, North Carolina. For rising 9th through 12th graders, we offer Green River Expeditions—two-week canoeing, backpacking and kayaking adventures which follow the Green River tradition of combining learning with exploration. Through wilderness skills, creative arts and the exhilaration of outdoor fun and discovery, we inspire young minds. The mission of the Preserve is to provide a challenging and nurturing learning experience and to inspire a profound appreciation of interconnectedness, ecological respect and the joy of living.
High Mountain Institute’s Leading Edge Web Page: View website
Description: High Mountain Institute’s Leading Edge is designed for young adults as an intensive two-week summer leadership development program through a balance of hands-on experiences, academic study, and thoughtful evaluation, The Leading Edge faculty will lead students to consider carefully their own skills, areas for development, and roles as leaders within their own communities (home, school, peers, family, etc.). Experiences such as living and traveling in the backcountry of the Colorado Rockies provide fodder for spirited and honest consideration of each student's strengths and weaknesses as a leader. Intensive intellectual study of leadership theories and practices build a foundation of knowledge for each student. A solo, peak ascent, and careful final evaluations (by faculty, self, and peers) conclude the program. The program is designed for students who have completed their senior year of high school and for exceptional students in the summer between junior and senior year. High Mountain Institute’s Rocky Mountain Semester focuses on Western American studies. One-third of each semester takes place in wild settings, far away from the reaches of modern civilization. The rest is on the campus at the foot of several 14,000-foot peaks, the highest in the state of Colorado. Students live in cabins.
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Kieve Web Page: View website
Description: Kieve, in addition to its Maine summer camps for boys and girls and semester-long program for sophomore girls, offers a 25-day co-ed summer wilderness experience in Colorado's Rocky Mountains for 16 to 18-year-olds. Backcountry skills include off trail navigation, small group travel, river crossing, and rock climbing. Kieve Ocean Term is a semester school for sophomore girls at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, a 100-acre research facility on the Damariscotta River. Students conduct extensive fieldwork, embark on a weeklong exploration of the Maine Coast about the schooner Roseway, and participate in activities including kayaking, camping, snow cave building, a high ropes course, rock climbing, and team challenges.
Mountain School Web Page: View website
Description: Mountain School, founded in 1984 and sponsored by Milton Academy (MA), is a one-semester program for forty-five high-school juniors who come from private and public schools throughout the United States to spend four months on a working farm in Vermont. The school's major components are a rigorous academic program with an emphasis on the environment, outdoor and farm activities, and the social experience of dorm and community life.
National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) Web Page: View website
Description: National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) builds outdoor skills and leadership through extended expeditions, some offered for college credit. NOLS courses are offered throughout the year.
North Carolina Outward Bound Web Page: View website
Description: North Carolina Outward Bound offers programs in backpacking, rock climbing, mountain biking, sea kayaking, etc. in the NC mountains, Outer Banks, and other locations. Summer courses range from nine to 49 days. Ages 14-18 and adult. The national organization organizes five-day to semester long programs around the world, some for college credit. www.outwardbound.org.
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Putney Student Travel Web Page: View website
Description: Putney Student Travel, in addition to its pre-college and language learning programs, offers community service options in locales around the globe. Putney offers six categories of programs: Community Service, Global Awareness in Action, Language Learning, Cultural Exploration, Excel pre-college Enrichment, and Putney Foundations for 7th and 8th graders. They emphasize cultural immersion, learning by doing, having fun, getting off the beaten track, making friends, and giving something of yourself to others – rather than touring or sightseeing.
Rustic Pathways Web Page: View website
Description: Rustic Pathways for more than 20 years has organized international adventure and community service experiences for students aged 13 and over. Participants can go on a four-wheel drive safari in Australia, surf in Fiji, practice their Spanish and help with a turtle conservation project in Costa Rica, study Buddhist life or work in elephant conservation in Thailand, ski and snowboard in New Zealand, sea kayak in Hawaii, and mountain bike in the American Southwest. Programs range from a week to 66 days (the Extreme Planet program in five countries on three continents).
Sail Caribbean Web Page: View website
Description: Sail Caribbean teen adventure camps offer students a variety of Caribbean summer adventures including teen sailing camps, teen scuba camps, summer community service camps, marine biology camps, conservation programs, and adventure education. All of our summer adventure camps focus on experiential learning, leadership training and personal growth. No experience is necessary, just a thirst for adventure!
Schoolhouse of Wonder Web Page: View website
Description: Schoolhouse of Wonder is a Durham, NC based non-profit organization dedicated to providing opportunities for people of the Triangle region to connect with the Earth. Through hands-on discovery and playful adventure, Schoolhouse of Wonder inspired children to develop a heartfelt connection to, and a sense of wonder about, our Earth. We offer opportunities for children to develop the knowledge and skills they need to fully understand how to care for the Earth.
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Spirit Ocean Adventure Web Page: View website
Description: Spirit Ocean Adventure is an 11-12 day sailing expedition aboard the Spirit of South Carolina, a 140-foot tall ship owned and operated by the South Carolina Maritime Foundation. While aboard the Spirit, participants are active members of the crew, immersed in all aspects of life at sea. Under the guidance of the professional crew participants will stand watch, navigate, and learn to sail, all while embarking on a journey of self-discovery.
Student Conservation Association Web Page: View website
Description: Student Conservation Association offers month-long volunteer experiences in US national parks. Crews of six to ten high school students with two adult leaders do projects such as trail building and maintenance; constructing shelters, rock walls, and bridges; habitat and riparian restoration; and invasive species removal. These projects may take place deep in the backcountry, in more accessible parklands, or within well-populated communities. Crews live and work out of a base camp, sleeping in tents and sharing camp responsibilities such as cooking and cleaning.
The Earthwatch Institute Web Page: View website
Description: The Earthwatch Institute sponsors more than 140 projects in 18 states and 50 countries. Individuals may join short-term volunteer opportunities directly assisting scientists in their field research. Most projects are 10-14 days long, but one-week, three-week, and weekend opportunities are also available. Expeditions relate to archaeology, biodiversity, cultural diversity, endangered ecosystems, global change, oceans and world health. Programs include ones focused on cacti and orchids in the Yucatan, butterflies in Vietnam, dolphins in Costa Rica, coastal archaeology in Maine, and coral reefs in the Virgin Islands. Team members must be at least 16 years of age.
The Road Less Traveled Web Page: View website
Description: The Road Less Traveled has educated youth to believe in themselves and their individual and collective abilities to shape the future for two decades. We do this by leading young men and women ages 13 to 19 on challenging, stimulating, mind-and-soul expanding journeys. Our values are simple: get out there, learn new skills, welcome surprise, work together...
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Wild Rockies Field Institute Web Page: View website
Description: Wild Rockies Field Institute was founded in 1993 by several instructors at the University of Montana. Students learn about environmental issues and the threats to specific ecosystems while traveling in the field, from Alaska to Mexico. Courses range in length from a week to two months during the spring, summer, and fall. College credit is offered through the University of Montana.
Windsor Mountain Student Travel Web Page: View website
Description: In the summer of 2009 Windsor Mountain Student Travel continues a strong tradition of over 40 years of international student travel with our Bridge programs. The goal of these programs is to build lasting ties of friendship and understanding between people of different social, economic, and cultural backgrounds, and to teach our students to travel with a mindful, global perspective. Each program is guided by the fundamental Windsor Mountain values of risk, respect, and responsibility. (Formerly Interlocken Crossroads Adventure Travel)
Woods Hole Web Page: View website
Description: Woods Hole offers several summer programs for high school students. Science at SEA (SAS) is a 19-day program for sophomores, juniors and seniors, and focuses on the coastal and offshore marine environment around Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Oceanography of the Gulf of Maine (OGM) is an 18-day program open to high school juniors, seniors, and college freshmen. Each section has two components: one on Appledore Island at the Shoals Marine Lab and one at sea on board one of SEA’s tall ships. Oceanography of the Southern California Bight (OSCB) is a three-week program for sophomores, juniors and seniors focused on marine environments off the Southern Californian coast. Half of the program takes place on Catalina Island and half aboard SEA’s new 134’ sailing vessel. College credit is available for all three programs.
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COMMUNITY SERVICE: LOCAL OPPORTUNITIES
American Red Cross of Durham Web Page: View website
Description: Each year over one million Americans serve as Red Cross volunteers serving local community needs — helping people in emergencies, providing half the nation's blood supply, teaching first aid and CPR courses, delivering emergency messages to members of the military, organizing programs for the elderly and the young.
Caring House Phone: (919) 490-5449 x120 Web Page: View website
Description: Volunteers are always needed to provide hospitality services and recreation options to our guests. We also need help with building and grounds maintenance and general home upkeep. Groups, such as church outreach groups, are needed to provide Community Dinners for our guests each Wednesday evening. For more information contact Anna Jones at the above number.
Carolina Cares Phone: 966-2504 Description: Comfort bags for pediatric ER, contact Cheryl Jackson. Duke Forest Web Page: View website
Description: The Forest is in need of volunteers for a variety of activities including data entry, office management and trail maintenance. Please contact us if you are interested in volunteering in one or more of these areas.
Duke Homestead Web Page: View website
Description: Share your love of history by becoming a volunteer at Duke Homestead State Historic Site. Learn how to welcome visitors and lead guided tours of the historic buildings on site, including the Duke family's 1852 house. Training provided. If interested, please call Alison Holcomb at (919) 477-5498.
Duke Hospital Summer Junior Volunteer Program Web Page: View website
Description: Duke Hospital Summer Junior Volunteer Program offers students between the ages of 14 and 18 service opportunities at the hospital.
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Durham Community Land Trustees Phone: 490-0063 Address: 1201 W Chapel Hill St Description: Contact Karl Hammond for volunteer information. Durham Parks and Recreation Department Phone: (919)560-4355, ext. 212 Web Page: View website
Description: Volunteer opportunities available working with special-needs children as well as Adopt-a-Trail and Adopt-a-Park programs. For more information contact Beth Gessner.
Durham Public Schools Web Page: View website
Description: Durham Public Schools welcomes parents, businesses and community members who wish to volunteer their time and share their resources in the schools. Community support is vital to ensuring our young people’s success. We urge the entire community to get involved in our schools to help students achieve academic success and become responsible and productive citizens. Volunteer opportunities include tutoring, office assistance and gathering materials for classrooms.
El Centro Hispano Web Page: View website
Description: Volunteers, whether young or old, bilingual (Spanish/English) or monolingual (English only or Spanish only) are always welcomed and needed at El Centro Hispano. Volunteer opportunities include general administrative assistance, helping out in ESL classes, tutoring children after school, participating as an interpreter in various special events throughout the year or working with the Volunteer Program, the Health Program and the Membership office.
Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina Web Page: View website
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Description: Volunteers are incredibly important to us and we welcome volunteers of all ages and skill sets. The staff at the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina strives to create a positive volunteer experience for everyone. The Food Bank believes that a volunteer's time should be well utilized and we are committed to creating an environment that welcomes everyone. In Durham and Raleigh, all warehouse groups of 4 or more individuals must be scheduled in advance however warehouse individual volunteers may just come in during our regularly scheduled volunteer hours. Volunteering is a great way to teach children about service and spend some quality time with them. For safety reasons, we ask that volunteers participating in our general volunteer opportunities be 12 years are older. Our Durham, Greenville and Raleigh sites also offer Kids Day for volunteers 5 years old and older.
Habitat for Humanity of Durham Web Page: View website
Description: Habitat for Humanity of Durham is a volunteer-driven organization. People volunteer with us in five areas home construction, hospitality for construction volunteers, office work and community service, special events and committees.
Habitat for Humanity's ReStore Web Page: View website
Description: Opportunities include sorting, pricing, cashier, sales floor assistant, testing and repair, EBay sales, special events and projects.
Inter-Faith Council for Social Service Web Page: View website
Description: IFC: A caring organization that assists and supports people in need through staff-volunteer partnerships, congregations, individuals and community coalitions. The Inter-Faith Council for Social Service meets basic needs and helps individuals and families achieve their goals. We provide shelter, food, direct services, advocacy and information to people in need. We accomplish this through strong partnerships with volunteers, staff and those we serve. We rely on the active involvement of caring individuals, congregations and other community organizations.
Museum of Life and Science Web Page: View website
Description: Museum of Life and Science needs high school students to serve as Summer Science Camp Youth Volunteers who’ll spend five hours each day during two separate weeks working as part of a classroom team with an educator and class assistant at the Museum in Durham or at Frank Porter Graham or Estes Hills Elementary Schools in Chapel Hill.
Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill Web Page: View website
Description: The Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill offers 28 hotel-style guest rooms, plus dinners and brunch each week. It's not easy. But the support of caring community volunteers and a dedicated staff make this monumental undertaking possible. Whether you're able to contribute a few dollars or thousands, cook a meal or organize a fund-raiser, your gift makes a world of difference to the families who stay here.
Ronald McDonald House of Durham Web Page: View website
Description: Whether it’s cooking a meal, answering the phone, sharing a laugh or shedding a tear, volunteers truly make a difference in the lives of the families staying at Ronald McDonald House of Durham.
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SEEDS Web Page: View website
Description: Both weekend and week-day opportunities available. The Scrap Exchange Web Page: View website
Description: The Scrap Exchange is a labor-intensive enterprise. With a small core staff, we rely on volunteers to help us process and organize materials, clean and maintain the store, and generally keep things running. We’re happy to work with volunteers of all ages and abilities.
Triangle Impact Web Page: View website
Description: Allows you to filter for "Family Friendly" activities -- be sure to contact the individual organization to see if there are any age restrictions.
Triangle Land Conservancy Web Page: View website
Description: TLC offers several structured volunteer opportunities including office assistants, site stewards, trail crew and interns. Detailed information is available at the website.
Triangle United Way Web Page: View website
Description: Another clearing house of opportunities. To find youth opportunities, click the "Volunteer Solutions" link, under "Find an Opportunity" click "try a full search". On the left under "I am interested in opportunities available to" select your age group.
UNC Health Care System Web Page: View website
Description: Being a Junior Volunteer is a wonderful experience, but it requires committment, maturity and a drive to provide service to others! Some of the job you may help with are gift shop, central distribution, gift shop and mail or flower delivery. All of the following are requirements that apply to every High School Volunteer. Graduated from 8th grade and at least 14 years of age Available one day a week (Monday-Friday) to volunteer. Academic year volunteers: Able to volunteer immediately after school until 6 pm Summer volunteers: Able to volunteer between the hours of 9 am and 4 pm Purchase a volunteer polo shirt for $10 Attend the orientation session Turn in all required paperwork from orientation
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Urban Ministries of Durham Web Page: View website
Description: Volunteers are needed on an ongoing basis and you can make a difference in the many ways. We need volunteers to work in the clothing closet, food pantry, kitchen, shelter and office. We also need volunteers with special skills.
Volunteer Center of Durham Web Page: View website
Description: A clearing house for volunteer opportunities including youth opportunities. Additional Websites www.volunteermatch.org Search for volunteer opportunities in the U.S. by interest and location. Programs with a Service Component Action Quest Web Page: View website
Description: For over 30 years, AQ has consistently delivered high quality sailing camps, scuba camps, community service and marine biology camps. Through hands-on learning and adventure travel throughout the world, we have successfully ignited the inherent leadership skills within thousands of young adults.
America's Adventures & Venture Europe (AAVE) Web Page: View website
Description: America's Adventures & Venture Europe (AAVE) since 1976 has offered summer programs, 2-6 weeks long, for students aged 11 to 19. Locations include Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Asia, Europe, Alaska, Hawaii, the Rocky Mountain states, & Canada. Components may include biking, hiking, horseback riding, rafting, sailing, sea kayaking, surfing, service projects, and language immersion.
Global Works Web Page: View website
Description: Global Works offers cultural exchange, language experience, and language immersion programs in Colorado, the Pacific Northwest, Bolivia/Peru, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the Fiji Islands, France, Ireland, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, and Spain. Trips generally include service, adventure, and cultural activities.
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International Service Study Web Page: View website
Description: The International Service Study Seminar Series has sponsored a four week summer community service program in Paris, France for ten years. 2009 will mark the eleventh year for the program in Paris and the first in Barcelona. Both programs offer students 16-18 years of age an intense cross-cultural immersion experience. They are rooted in substantial work in community service, intensive language training, and course work (literature and writing, history and politics, art and architectural history).
Lifeworks Web Page: View website
Description: Lifeworks offers incredible summer camps for teens. With a focus on service and adventure, our trips span the globe to destinations as diverse as the British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the Galapagos, China, Thailand and India.
Student Conservation Association Web Page: View website
Description: Student Conservation Association offers month-long volunteer experiences in US national parks. Crews of six to ten high school students with two adult leaders do projects such as trail building and maintenance; constructing shelters, rock walls, and bridges; habitat and riparian restoration; and invasive species removal. These projects may take place deep in the backcountry, in more accessible parklands, or within well-populated communities. Crews live and work out of a base camp, sleeping in tents and sharing camp responsibilities such as cooking and cleaning.
The Earthwatch Institute Web Page: View website
Description: The Earthwatch Institute sponsors more than 140 projects in 18 states and 50 countries. Individuals may join short-term volunteer opportunities directly assisting scientists in their field research. Most projects are 10-14 days long, but one-week, three-week, and weekend opportunities are also available. Expeditions relate to archaeology, biodiversity, cultural diversity, endangered ecosystems, global change, oceans and world health. Programs include ones focused on cacti and orchids in the Yucatan, butterflies in Vietnam, dolphins in Costa Rica, coastal archaeology in Maine, and coral reefs in the Virgin Islands. Team members must be at least 16 years of age.
The North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service Web Page: View website
Description: The North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service works to create a culture of service and civic engagement in the state. The Commission encourages community service and volunteerism as a means of problem solving across the state by administering federal funds to community service programs and volunteer programs such as AmeriCorps
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and Citizen Corps. State priorities such as the Governor's Page Program, the NC Mentoring Partnership and the NC Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service are also managed by the Commission. Above all, the Commission provides valuable support for North Carolina's growing force of volunteers who make extraordinary impacts in the lives of others and help meet community needs
The Road Less Traveled Web Page: View website
Description: The Road Less Traveled has educated youth to believe in themselves and their individual and collective abilities to shape the future for two decades. We do this by leading young men and women ages 13 to 19 on challenging, stimulating, mind-and-soul expanding journeys. Our values are simple: get out there, learn new skills, welcome surprise, work together...
Walking Tree Travel Web Page: View website
Description: Walking Tree programs incorporate cultural and language immersion, community service, and adventure to enable young people to see themselves, another culture, and the world in a new and exciting light. Our programs combine living in local communities, significant service projects, cultural activities and education, and excursions to our host country’s best destinations.
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CULINARY ARTS C'est Si Bon Web Page: View website
Description: C'est Si Bon! cooking school is located in Chapel Hill on three beautiful acres with a working garden and a bevy of laying hens. Devoted to teaching technique rather than recipes, we believe that cooking brings us closer to the heart! Join C'est Si Bon's old world approach to the culinary arts where its not about the "show"; but getting your hands in the dough!
Culinary Institute of America Web Page: View website
Description: Offers fully accredited Associate and Bachelors degrees in Culinary Arts, Baking and Pastry Arts, Culinary Arts Management and Baking and Pastry Arts Management on our 150-acre campus in Hyde Park, NY. Students attending the CIA do enjoy the traditional college experience while taking classes in our 140 kitchens and bakeshops and 5 restaurants-we guarantee on campus housing for all incoming freshman in our residence halls and lodges, students can participate in intercollegiate and intramural athletics, and join the various clubs and organizations that we offer from our own student run newspaper to our International Club.
Johnson and Wales University – Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Rhode Island Web Page: View website
Description: Offers a campus experience with majors featuring, but not limited to, culinary arts. They have several campuses and offer an excellent culinary program as well as many other degree options including a very strong business program
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GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
American Legion Auxiliary's Girls' State Web Page: View website
Description: Tar Heel Girls State is a week-long workshop in the legislative process sponsored by the North Carolina American Legion Auxiliary. North Carolina's program is the longest continuous-running Girls State program in the United States. For a week in June, some 300 of North Carolina's most promising rising high school senior girls come from every part of the state to learn about and participate in various parts of government.
American Legion's Boys' State Web Page: View website
Description: Tar Heel Boys' State is sponsored by The American Legion Department of North Carolina. It is an intense workshop concentrating on North Carolina state government and politics. Some 500 rising high school seniors representing all geographic areas of North Carolina participate annually in this program.
Close UP Foundation Address:
http://www.closeup.org/ Description: Close UP Foundation offers weeklong government studies programs in
Washington, DC from November through June for 10th, 11th, and 12th graders.
Congressional Youth Leadership Council Web Page: View website
Description: Congressional Youth Leadership Council sponsors the National Young Leaders Conference in Washington, DC (six-day sessions throughout the year and 11-day sessions during the summer) and the Global Young Leaders Conference in both Washington, DC and New York City (12-day sessions during the summer).
Foundation for Teaching Economics programs Web Page: View website
Description: Economics for Leaders is a week-long, residential programs providing students (who have just completed their junior year in high school) with an exceptional opportunity to learn important leadership skills.
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Junior Statesmen Summer School Web Page: View website
Description: Junior Statesman Summer School offers “a challenging, dynamic academic experience to students who have a passion for politics and government.” Month-long sessions are held at Georgetown, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale. Students take core classes in government, public speaking, law, etc. and participate in a mock US Congress. A friend of Anthony’s helps lead this California-based program, so he can give you more details.
NCSU's Shelton Challenge Web Page: View website
Description: Participants are rising 9th-12th grade students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher, with previous leadership experience in clubs or other organizations.The Challenge Institute is an important program thrust of the General H. Hugh Shelton Leadership Center that also includes leadership scholarships and executive forums. This is a residential program, meaning that we require participants to reside on-site for the week.
North Carolina Governor's Page Program Web Page: View website
Description: North Carolina Governor's Page Program allows students between 15 and 18 to spend a week delivering legislative bills, assisting in mass mailings, answering telephones, and delivering agency messages. Appointments are made on a first-come, first-served basis. Application forms may be submitted year-round and are available online.
Presidential Classroom Web Page: View website
Description: Presidential Classroom, begun in 1968, offers juniors and seniors 15 weeklong programs during the spring and summer: the flagship Presidential Classroom Scholars Program (US government and politics); the Global Business, e-Commerce, and Public Policy Program; the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program; the Media and Democracy Program; and the Law and Justice in a Democracy Program. Our own Anthony Clay is an alumnus of the Presidential Classroom Scholars Program.
St. Alban’s School of Public Service Web Page: View website
Description: St. Alban’s in Washington, DC has a School of Public Service in collaboration with Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs, and the National Association of Schools of Public Administration. Fifty talented and highly motivated rising seniors from across the country will use factual cases and readings, meetings with policymakers, and visits to government agencies to enhance their public service education.
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The National Youth Leadership Forum on Law Web Page: View website
Description: The National Youth Leadership Forum on Law is a Washington, DC-based, 6-day exploration of the legal profession. Activities include discussions with legal scholars and practitioners, seminars on current legal issues, visits to law schools, law firms, and local and federal courtrooms. The Supreme Court trip often includes a session with a sitting Justice. Students also participate in a Supreme Court simulation based on an actual case. The program is open to rising juniors and seniors.
University of Miami's Summer Scholars Program Web Page: View website
Description: The University of Miami's Summer Scholars Program offers three weeks of "sun, fun, and study" for rising junior and seniors. University faculty teach the courses for college credit in a variety of concentrations, including International Relations.
Washington Workshops Foundation Web Page: View website
Description: Washington Workshops Foundation offers the weeklong Congressional Seminar during the spring and summer and the summer Diplomacy and Global Affairs Seminar in Washington, DC. The Advanced Congressional Seminar/Capitol Hill Internships offers the opportunity to work as an intern for three or six weeks during the summer on Capitol Hill and to earn college credit. Our own Anthony Clay is a Washington Workshops Congressional Seminar alumnus and had a student intern for New Jersey Senator Robert G. Torricelli in 1999 through the Capitol Hill Internship program.
Wisconsin's Whitewater’s World Affairs Web Page: View website
Description: The University of Wisconsin--Whitewater’s World Affairs Seminar for almost 30 years has brought together for a week each June rising juniors and seniors from some 50 countries around the world, to discuss global issues.
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INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATIONS
Academic Study Associates Web Page: View website
Description: Academic Study Associates offers language and culture programs in France, Italy, and Spain. From Barcelona to Berkeley, ASA Pre-College and cultural immersion programs balance expert instruction, scheduled activities, travel and freedom to foster greater independence and personal growth.
AFS Web Page: View website
Description: AFS, since 1947, has sponsored international exchanges. Now, some 10,000 young people and educators participate each year. Students may choose from summer, semester, and year study abroad programs as well as community service programs. Scholarships are available.
AIFS: American Institute for Foreign Study Web Page: View website
Description: A typical day while abroad could include classes taught on-site at museums or other historical places, theater performances, social activities organized by AIFS staff, guided tours, and so on. You will also have the support of the experienced staff and counselors who work for AIFS. AIFS summer programs include opportunities for sports, visits to the theater and concerts and numerous excursions in some of the world’s great cities; and plenty of time to chat with new friends. You can learn or improve your understanding of French, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Italian and Russian. With AIFS, you get an “experience,” not just a program.
America's Adventures & Venture Europe (AAVE) Web Page: View website
Description: America's Adventures & Venture Europe (AAVE) since 1976 has offered summer programs, 2-6 weeks long, for students aged 11 to 19. Locations include Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Asia, Europe, Alaska, Hawaii, the Rocky Mountain states, & Canada. Components may include biking, hiking, horseback riding, rafting, sailing, sea kayaking, surfing, service projects, and language immersion.
American Collegiate Adventures Web Page: View website
Description: A variety of programs in different countries including Spain, Italy, Costa Rica and the US. Some programs include a community service component. Programs last from 2 to 6 weeks.
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ASSE Web Page: View website
Description: ASSE was established in 1976 as the American Scandinavian Student Exchange by the Swedish Government to organize student exchange programs between Sweden and the United States but has since grown to include almost 30 countries and summer and year programs.
Audubon Expedition Institute Web Page: View website
Description: Audubon Expedition Institute allows high school seniors to do a first-semester experience as part of its undergraduate and graduate programs, a collaboration with Lesley University (MA) and the National Audubon Society. Participants travel North America to immerse themselves in ecological issues. Also allows high school graduates to participate in its experiential ecology programs as a post-graduation year.
AYUSA Web Page: View website
Description: AYUSA, a non-profit organization founded in 1980, offers summer, term, and semester home-stay programs in countries around the world.
Broadreach Web Page: View website
Description: Broadreach offers experiential educational trips and leadership courses for teenagers including marine biology, rainforest field studies, community service programs, wilderness adventures, and live-aboard scuba/sail training. Locations include the Caribbean, Costa Rica, and Australia.
Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel Web Page: View website
Description: The Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel offers a five-week summer program in Israel that educates and inspires exceptional young Jews from diverse backgrounds to become active participants in Jewish culture throughout their lives, and to contribute their talents and vision to the Jewish community and to the world at large. Bronfman Fellows spend the summer before their high school senior year traveling through Israel, exploring their Jewish Identity, and engaging with thinkers, authors, artists, and educators in an all expenses paid experience that will change their lives. A 2009 graduate is DA's most recent participant.
Cambridge College International Leadership Program Web Page: View website
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Description: Scholars are taught to think and communicate critically and analytically in order to make better and more informed decisions. Scholars returning from this three week program to their schools and communities are better prepared to serve and lead when the opportunity arises.
Cambridge College Summer Program Web Page: View website
Description: UK Pre-College There are few cities in the world like Oxford and Cambridge and few places can compete with the splendor, atmosphere and tradition of Oxford and Cambridge universities. An extraordinary introduction to college life at two of the world’s most respected institutions of learning as well as an opportunity to enjoy the resources of two equally vibrant university cities. For students completing grades 9-12.
Camp Spanish Immersion - Madrid Web Page: View website
Description: Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, founded C.S.I. in response to demand generated by the success of our Operación Inglés (English for Spaniards) language program, which we introduced in 2002. All the camps are hosted by Jesuit secondary schools in Spain. At Operación Inglés and C.S.I., we offer students an unparalleled immersion environment of learning mixed with fun and adventure.
Council on International Educational Exchange-CIEE Web Page: View website
Description: CIEE High School Abroad programs and Gap Year Abroad programs provide U.S. high school students and recent high school graduates with an unforgettable international experience. Since 1947, CIEE has sent over 50,000 U.S. youth to locations around the globe. These programs allow U.S high school students and recent high school graduates to study abroad, to live with a native host family, work abroad, and/or volunteer, and to challenge themselves on a new level by becoming fully immersed in a language and a new culture.
Experiment in International Living Web Page: View website
Description: Experiment in International Living has three- to five-week programs in many countries and the Navaho Nation. Students stay with a host family and participate in group activities including travel, language study, community service, ecology, and the arts.
Glimpses of China Web Page: View website
Description: Glimpses of China program started eight years ago. The program developed combines both qualities because it has been developed jointly by Western educators, Chinese educators from Peking and Fudan Universities, men and women from Hong Kong who have lived and studied in the United States and the United Kingdom, and professors from East China Normal University in Shanghai. An international mix of students, top scholars and teachers, and an engaging mixture of instruction and investigative field studies create an unequalled learning opportunity.
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Global Volunteers Web Page: View website
Description: Global Volunteers is a private, non-profit, non-sectarian organization devoted to local empowerment and community development in the US and around the world. Volunteers choose from some 150 programs in 90 host communities spanning 19 countries for one, two, or three-week stints. Participants may work on a literacy project in Mississippi, teach English in Ghana, care for orphaned children in the Ukraine, help with environmental conservation in the Cook Islands, repair community facilities in Costa Rica, or assist with basic health care in Tanzania.
Global Works Web Page: View website
Description: Global Works offers cultural exchange, language experience, and language immersion programs in Colorado, the Pacific Northwest, Bolivia/Peru, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the Fiji Islands, France, Ireland, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, and Spain. Trips generally include service, adventure, and cultural activities.
Global Youth Village Web Page: View website
Description: Global Youth Village offers an three-week international summer camp in Virginia. Sixty youth (ages 13-18) and staff from more than 20 countries explore skills and perspectives on development issues, prejudice, peace building, and community action.
Interamerican University Studies Institute's Artes Web Page: View website
Description: Interamerican University Studies Institute's Artes en Mexico program brings together teens with a passion for the arts in a four-week immersion in the language, culture, and arts of Mexico. Student live with a Mexican family, speak Spanish all day, and explore the arts with professional Mexican instructors. The four-week, eight-student Costa Rica--Pura Vida program includes a family homestay, intensive Spanish language classes, presentations by a Costa Rican biologist, jungle travel by boat, hiking in the Cloud Forest, a visit to the San Miguel Marine Biology Station on the Pacific Coast, and a tour of a coffee plantation. Applicants for either opportunity must be between 15 and 17 years old and have completed at least four semester of Spanish at the time of the program. IUSI also offers independent travel/study options year round in Querétaro, Mexico (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), and Costa Rica. Apply early as this fills up quickly! In addition, they offer independent travel/study/homestay options year round in Querétaro, Mexico (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), Ecuador, and Costa Rica. Intensive creative writing tutorials in Mexico are an example of more formal offerings.
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International Service Study Web Page: View website
Description: The International Service Study Seminar Series has sponsored a four week summer community service program in Paris, France for ten years. 2009 will mark the eleventh year for the program in Paris and the first in Barcelona. Both programs offer students 16-18 years of age an intense cross-cultural immersion experience. They are rooted in substantial work in community service, intensive language training, and course work (literature and writing, history and politics, art and architectural history).
LEAPNow Web Page: View website
Description: LEAPNow offers seven-week summer programs of cultural exploration and self-transformation on 5 continents—Africa (South Africa), Asia (Bali), Europe (Italy), North America (US), and South America (Bolivia/Peru). They also offer semester-long programs for 17-20 year olds in Australia/Fiji/New Zealand; Central America; India; South America; and the South Pacific. LEAPYear is a nine-month program for 17-20 year-olds and includes: a three-month experiential group semester of language, service and cultural immersion in Central or South America; a solo internship in Latin America or Spain; a formal Rite of Passage that involves the parents, career and job-readiness counseling; and a curriculum of Life Skills Learning held at a retreat center in the US. College credit is available.
Learning Programs International Web Page: View website
Description: LPI programs emphasize language acquisition and cultural immersion for students at various levels of proficiency. Students have the opportunity to take classes at an accredited foreign university while living with a host family. LPI offers summer programs to study in Spain, France, Mexico, and Costa Rica.
Lifeworks Web Page: View website
Description: Lifeworks offers incredible summer camps for teens. With a focus on service and adventure, our trips span the globe to destinations as diverse as the British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the Galapagos, China, Thailand and India.
Oceanic Society Web Page: View website
Description: The Oceanic Society seeks to "protect marine wildlife worldwide through an integrated program of scientific research, environmental education and volunteerism." Advanced high school students and others may choose the Caribbean Coral Reef Ecology Program, a weeklong field study of Belize's coral reef environments by boat, snorkeling, and walking/wading the
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beaches and intertidal reef, lagoon, sea grass beds, beach, storm beach, and mangrove islands. High school and/or university credit is available. The Bahamas Dolphin Project is a two-credit, hands-on field research experience studying the behavior of wild spotted dolphins in the Bahamas. Other research expeditions (open to young people but not focused on them), usually a week, are available in the Bahamas, Belize, Guyana, and Surinam and include crocodiles, dolphins, giant otters, manatees, and sea turtles. Natural history expeditions go to a host of locales, including the Amazon, Antarctica, the Galapagos, Micronesia, New Zealand, Vancouver Island, and the US. Programs run throughout the year.
Oxbridge Program Web Page: View website
Description: Oxford, Cambridge, and Paris. The Cambridge Tradition, a four-week program at Cambridge University in England, offers courses in the arts, humanities, languages, sciences and social sciences. Similar programs are offered at Oxford University and the Académie de Paris.
Oxford Advanced Studies Program Web Page: View website
Description: The Oxford Advanced Studies Program is in its twenty-sixth year. Organized by Oxford Tutorial College, a well-established and respected educational provider, the courses provide international students aged sixteen or over with the opportunity to live and study in the heart of this beautiful university city. One-on-one tutorials are the core of the Oxbridge teaching method and we take a similar approach. On all OASP courses, students receive at least one such individual tutorial every week in each class that they take. Tutorials are complemented by small group seminars, with presentation and explanation of each topic under the tutor’s guidance. The program offers both a Summer Session and an Academic Semester program (for Gap year).
Putney Student Travel Web Page: View website
Description: Putney Student Travel, in addition to its pre-college and language learning programs, offers community service options in locales around the globe. Putney offers six categories of programs: Community Service, Global Awareness in Action, Language Learning, Cultural Exploration, Excel pre-college Enrichment, and Putney Foundations for 7th and 8th graders. They emphasize cultural immersion, learning by doing, having fun, getting off the beaten track, making friends, and giving something of yourself to others – rather than touring or sightseeing.
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Rustic Pathways Web Page: View website
Description: Rustic Pathways for more than 20 years has organized international adventure and community service experiences for students aged 13 and over. Participants can go on a four-wheel drive safari in Australia, surf in Fiji, practice their Spanish and help with a turtle conservation project in Costa Rica, study Buddhist life or work in elephant conservation in Thailand, ski and snowboard in New Zealand, sea kayak in Hawaii, and mountain bike in the American Southwest. Programs range from a week to 66 days (the Extreme Planet program in five countries on three continents).
Scottish Studies Summer Program Web Page: View website
Description: The University of St. Andrews Scottish Studies Summer Program offers high school students broad exposure to the archaeology, history, literature, art and music of Scotland through traditional British seminars and tutorials.
Sojourns Abroad Web Page: View website
Description: Sojourns Abroad offers programs in Siena and Paris including Language Study, Homestay Accommodation, Art & Art History, Social Service, Midweek Excursions, Weekend Travel, Outdoor Adventures, Cultural Enrichment. The programs ground participants quickly as residents in their chosen city. Sojourns Abroad is a stimulating respite from the restricting demands of both traditional academic paths and conventional study abroad programs.
Spoleto Study Abroad Web Page: View website
Description: Spoleto Study Abroad, based in Raleigh, offers talented secondary school students interdisciplinary cultural studies in a European setting. A "Renaissance program for the Renaissance student" interested in studying instrumental or vocal music, drama, creative writing, photography, or visual arts.
Study Programs International Web Page: View website
Description: SPI: Study Programs International offers high quality language immersion & cultural programs exclusively for high school students. All SPI immersion programs are unique and personalized global experiences designed to build leadership qualities that help students succeed in both college and in their future career goals.
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TASIS Web Page: View website
Description: TASIS, the highly regarded American School in Switzerland founded in 1956, offers summer academic and enrichment programs, many for credit, in England, France, Spain, and Switzerland.
The Traveling School Web Page: View website
Description: The Traveling School offers specialized high school courses, overseas travel, outdoor adventure, and fun for girls ages 15-18. Choosing from one of our exotic overseas destinations, students travel through several countries, live in another culture, earn academic credit toward graduation, and complete service and volunteer projects. Students earn full high school academic credit for unique and unrivaled courses in math, history, science, language arts, foreign language, PE, and Global Studies. We adjust the curriculum to take full advantage of the remarkable environment and the culture. Spend a semester developing strong outdoor skills, improving your self-confidence, gaining expertise, and falling in love with the outdoors.
The University of Dallas Web Page: View website
Description: The University of Dallas offers summer programs for high school students in Europe. These college courses focus on Latin or Shakespeare in Rome and Winston Churchill in London.
Walking Tree Travel Web Page: View website
Description: Walking Tree programs incorporate cultural and language immersion, community service, and adventure to enable young people to see themselves, another culture, and the world in a new and exciting light. Our programs combine living in local communities, significant service projects, cultural activities and education, and excursions to our host country’s best destinations.
Where There Be Dragons Web Page: View website
Description: Where There Be Dragons offers six-week travel programs in Asia and Latin America for students age 15+. “Through cultural immersion, home-stays, service projects, wilderness exploration, and an introduction to the world-views and development issues of the nations we visit, students return with a broad understanding of life in the developing world.” This organization also offers semester-long programs for high school students who graduate early or want to take time off before college.
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Witness for Peace Teen Delegation to Nicaragua Web Page: View website
Description: Witness for Peace Teen Delegation to Nicaragua. Every summer, Witness for Peace leads one or more trips to Nicaragua for small group of high school students. In past years, US teens stayed with families in San Ramon (Durham’s sister city) and Managua, and learned about economic, political, and cultural issues including US foreign policy in Latin America.
World Horizons, LLC Web Page: View website
Description: World Horizons, LLC was founded by a returned Peace Corps volunteer in 1986 to give high school students a mini-Peace Corps experience. Program locations include the Costa Rica mountains, Fiji, the Caribbean island of Dominica, Iceland, a Mexican ecovillage, Hawaii, Maine, and Utah. Service projects include expanding a community center, participating in reforestation, caring for abused and abandoned animals, and helping at a camp for critically ill children and their families.
Youth for Understanding (YFU) Web Page: View website
Description: Youth for Understanding (YFU) began as a way to heal the wounds of World War II through US homestay programs for German youth. Today, YFU-USA sponsors semester, summer, and year programs in some 50 countries.
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LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Birmingham-Southern College Student Leaders Web Page: View website
Description: Birmingham-Southern College Student Leaders in Service is a week-long residential program that exposes rising seniors to leadership theories and provides opportunities to practice leadership through community service projects.
Close UP Foundation Web Page: View website
Description: Close UP Foundation offers weeklong government studies programs in Washington, DC from November through June for 10th, 11th, and 12th graders.
Congressional Youth Leadership Council Web Page: View website
Description: Congressional Youth Leadership Council sponsors the National Young Leaders Conference in Washington, DC (six-day sessions throughout the year and 11-day sessions during the summer) and the Global Young Leaders Conference in both Washington, DC and New York City (12-day sessions during the summer).
Free Enterprise Leadership Challenge Web Page: View website
Description: The Free Enterprise Leadership Challenge was established in 1995 to help educate students about the opportunities available to them within the free enterprise system. Historically, the summer program is held on the campus of Wingate University (Wingate, NC). But the program has also been successfully conducted at other national and international locations, both in five-day and shorter formats. Each year, hundreds of high school students participate in this exciting program. To date, over 5,000 young people call themselves graduates of the Free Enterprise Leadership Challenge.
Foundation for Teaching Economics programs Web Page: View website
Description: Economics for Leaders is a week-long, residential programs providing students (who have just completed their junior year in high school) with an exceptional opportunity to learn important leadership skills.
Junior Leadership Durham Web Page: View website
Description: Junior Leadership Durham (JLD), free to participants and spearheaded by alumni of the Leadership Durham program of the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce, gathers high school sophomores from public, private, and home school environments throughout Durham County for a
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series of daylong sessions throughout the school year. Students "interact with business, community and government leaders to gain an in-depth knowledge of Durham and to encourage them to explore ways in which they can contribute to their community." DA generally has a couple of applicants selected each year, and one from the Class of 2010 now serves on the Board. Mr. Clay is a former JLD Board president.
Morehouse Coca-Cola Pre-College Leadership Program Web Page: View website
National Student Leadership Conference Web Page: View website
Description: National Student Leadership Conference offers six and 11-day programs in Washington, DC and Palo Alto, California (Stanford University) on Law and Advocacy, Medicine and Health Care, International Diplomacy (including a United Nations simulation), and Mastering Leadership. College credit is available through American University in Washington, DC.
NCSU's Shelton Challenge Web Page: View website
Description: Participants are rising 9th-12th grade students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher, with previous leadership experience in clubs or other organizations. The Challenge Institute is an important program thrust of the General H. Hugh Shelton Leadership Center that also includes leadership scholarships and executive forums. This is a residential program, meaning that we require participants to reside on-site for the week.
School for Ethics and Global Leadership Web Page: View website
Description: The School for Ethics and Global Leadership is an independent semester school in Washington, DC for intellectually motivated high school juniors. Our rigorous academic program focuses on ethical thinking skills, leadership development, and international studies.
National Young Leaders Conference Web Page: View website
Description: The National Young Leaders Conference (NYLC) is designed to instruct and enrich promising students in a hands-on, experiential atmosphere while preparing them for a lifetime of leadership. NYLC offers students the opportunity to discuss current events and issues with top policy makers in Washington, D.C., analyze concepts and then put them immediately to work. This dynamic program features creative decision-making simulations that challenge young minds to solve problems and lead their peers through role-playing exercises in an energy-charged environment far from the traditional classroom experience.
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The Legacy Center Foundation's Teen Leadership Web Page: View website
Description: The Legacy Center Foundation's Teen Leadership Program "provides insights and tools for teenagers to enhance their self-esteem, improve their ability to communicate clearly, and to think critically about their problems in the context of the larger picture of life." The program teaches "emotional intelligence" during an intensive training weekend, a follow-up program with a series of coaching sessions with trained mentors, and a two-day completion retreat.
The National Youth Leadership Forum on Law Web Page: View website
Description: The National Youth Leadership Forum on Law is a Washington, DC-based, 6-day exploration of the legal profession. Activities include discussions with legal scholars and practitioners, seminars on current legal issues, visits to law schools, law firms, and local and federal courtrooms. The Supreme Court trip often includes a session with a sitting Justice. Students also participate in a Supreme Court simulation based on an actual case. The program is open to rising juniors and seniors.
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RELIGIOUS STUDIES Duke Divinity School Summer Youth Academy Web Page: View website
Description: Duke University Divinity School Summer Youth Academy is a two-week residential program for rising juniors and seniors of all Christian traditions. It encompasses morning prayer, plenary sessions, mealtime conversations with members of local faith communities, art and performance, worship, service, and mentor groups. All teaching sessions are led by Duke Divinity School faculty.
Emory University's Youth Theological Initiative Web Page: View website
Description: Emory University's Youth Theological Initiative, sponsored by the Candler School of Theology, is an ecumenical exploration of Christian theology and public issues.
Genesis at Brandeis University Web Page: View website
Description: Genesis at Brandeis University is a monthlong summer program for high school students integrating Jewish studies, the arts, humanities, and social action. Participants choose a "major" course (e.g. "Holy Envy: An Exploration in World Religions," "Internationally Speaking: The Mideast as a Boot Camp for Diplomacy," and "The US Founding Fathers vs. Moses—A Moot Court Experience") and an "elective" option (e.g. creative writing, music, photography, and shintaido martial arts).
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THE ARTS
America's Experiences in Architecture Web Page: View website
Description: Catholic University of America's Experiences in Architecture is an intense, three-week workshop for students interested in architecture or other related design fields. Participants have the opportunity to visit architects' offices and attend lectures and films in addition to individual instruction, group critiques, and hands-on design work.
Art & Architecture Summer at Penn Web Page: View website
Description: The University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design offers a four-week intensive studio program in art and architecture. Students may choose major courses in drawing, filmmaking, animation, photography, or sculpture and a selection of two-week projects in graphic design, web design, clay wheel throwing, printmaking and book arts, oil painting, experimental photography, video, or digital photography. Architecture students follow a studio intensive all day, every day.
BADA's Midsummer Conservatory Program Web Page: View website
Description: British American Drama Academy's Midsummer Conservatory Shakespeare Program is designed for serious theatre students at pre-college level and concentrates on three approaches to acting Shakespeare - namely text-based preparation, characterisation and movement. The program’s principal objective is to assist students in developing their skills as classical Shakespearean actors so that they are better able to meet the challenges of college, conservatory or drama school.
Berklee College of Music Web Page: View website
Description: Berklee College of Music (Boston) has weekend jazz workshops this summer for saxophone, bass, brass, keyboard, and percussion and other weekend programs on the business of music, music production, and songwriting. Other offerings include an intensive two day programs for the bass or saxophone, weeklong programs in guitar and strings as well as five-week and twelve-week programs.
Boston Pre-College Summer Studio Web Page: View website
Description: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Pre-College Summer Studio is an interdisciplinary four-week program in which 10th-12th graders explore drawing, painting, sculpture, and video for college credit.
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Boston University’s College of Fine Arts Web Page: View website
Description: Boston University’s College of Fine Arts offers serious high school students summer opportunities in the School of Theatre, the School of Fine Arts and the School of Music. All programs are residential and offer the opportunity to experience college lift. For music students there is the Tanglewood Institute (with programs in composition, orchestral performance, voice, and a wide range of individual instruments) and the six-week Theatre Institute. For Visual Arts students there is the Summer Arts Program for High School Students. For the serious theatre student there is the Summer Theatre Institute.
California College of the Arts Pre-College Program Web Page: View website
Description: California College of the Arts Pre-College Program provides a four-week opportunity for some 225 high school students to study in an art school setting, earn 3 college credits, and prepare strong portfolio pieces for college admissions. Participants choose one of fourteen courses: architecture, ceramics, creative writing, drawing/painting-sculpture, fashion design, graphic design, illustration-painting, industrial design, jewelry/metal arts, painting-drawing, photography-black and white, photography-color, printmaking-drawing, and video.
Camp Broadway Web Page: View website
Description: Camp Broadway, founded in 1995, offers a five-day, non-residential acting experience for students aged 13-17 in its Next Step program (the original Camp Broadway is for children 9 to 12). The program includes instruction in voice, dance, solo and ensemble singing while learning and rehearsing dialogue, musical numbers and dance routines for a featured musical of the week. The week concludes with a performance for family and friends.
Camp Curtain Call Web Page: View website
Description: Camp Curtain Call in Carroll County, VA offers magic and circus arts along with dance, acting, and music for students aged 10 to 18. The summer season, divided into two three-week sessions (participants can stay for both), includes dance and music concerts, magic show and juggling and stage combat performances, as well as plays and Broadway musicals. Sports activities are also available.
Carnegie Mellon University’s Fine Arts Programs Web Page: View website
Description: Carnegie Mellon University’s Fine Arts Programs allow students to explore serious studio- or conservatory-based programs in architecture, art, design, drama, or music at this beautiful Pittsburgh campus.
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Clemson University's Summer Architecture Program Web Page: View website
Description: Clemson University's Summer Architecture Enrichment Program accepts 15 rising juniors and seniors and exceptionally gifted sophomores. This two-week course involves theory classes, a design lab and field trips, including to Atlanta.
Converse College Summer Workshops Web Page: View website
Description: Converse College in Spartanburg, SC offers week-long summer workshops in forensic science, theater, visual arts and writing.
Corcoran College of Art and Design Program Web Page: View website
Description: Corcoran College of Art and Design Pre-College Summer Portfolio Development Program is a two-week intensive program of classes designed to prepare rising juniors and seniors for college admission in the field of art and design. Each morning the students participate in an intensive drawing and portfolio development class. In the afternoons, students will work in their two electives, chosen from digital arts, painting, photography, or sculpture. One week will be spent on each chosen elective. Students will develop a portfolio of work and exhibit their work on the final Friday of each session in the Corcoran’s White Walls Gallery.
Cushing Academy’s Summer Programs Web Page: View website
Description: Cushing Academy’s Summer Programs include a studio art and portfolio preparation option for students between ages 12 and 18. This six-week residential course involves hands-on practice of the fundamentals of color, composition, line, and space used in such media from pencil, canvas, metals, photographs, watercolor and oil.
Drexel University's Summer Programs Web Page: View website
Description: Drexel University's Summer program runs for two weeks at the Philadelphia campus and features a design studio, computer design instruction, lectures, field trips, and cultural events. Areas of study include Architecture, Fashion Design, Design & Merchandising, Interior Design and the Music Industry.
ECU's School of Music Summer Choral Camp Web Page: View website
Description: East Carolina University's School of Music Summer Choral Camp is open to rising 8th-graders through just-graduated seniors. The three-night program includes a festival chorus, a guest artist concert, and electives (computers in music, conducting, guitar, music theory, piano, and voice).
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Education Unlimited's Actor's Workshop Web Page: View website
Description: Education Unlimited's Actor's Workshop includes a high school option for rising 9th-12th graders and an intensive workshop for rising 10th-12th graders at the University of California-Berkeley.
iD Tech Camps Web Page: View website
Description: iD Tech Camps operate at universities in a number of states and in Spain. The closest is at UNC-Chapel Hill. Students aged 8-17 choose weeklong day and overnight programs in a host of technology-related areas, including cinematography, digital music editing, documentary filmmaking, multimedia and game creation, programming and robotics, stop motion animation, and web design and graphic arts.
Interamerican University Studies Institute's Artes Web Page: View website
Description: Interamerican University Studies Institute's Artes en Mexico program brings together teens with a passion for the arts in a four-week immersion in the language, culture, and arts of Mexico. Student live with a Mexican family, speak Spanish all day, and explore the arts with professional Mexican instructors. The four-week, eight-student Costa Rica--Pura Vida program includes a family homestay, intensive Spanish language classes, presentations by a Costa Rican biologist, jungle travel by boat, hiking in the Cloud Forest, a visit to the San Miguel Marine Biology Station on the Pacific Coast, and a tour of a coffee plantation. Applicants for either opportunity must be between 15 and 17 years old and have completed at least four semester of Spanish at the time of the program. IUSI also offers independent travel/study options year round in Querétaro, Mexico (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), and Costa Rica. Apply early as this fills up quickly! In addition, they offer independent travel/study/homestay options year round in Querétaro, Mexico (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), Ecuador, and Costa Rica. Intensive creative writing tutorials in Mexico are an example of more formal offerings.
Intern Exchange International Web Page: View website
Description: We established Intern Exchange International (IEI) in 1987 as a way to encourage high school students to make an informed career choice. Our 22 years of experience make us the oldest and most experienced Internship programme of this kind, but more importantly, they’ve given us insight into how to create an experience that is worthwhile during the summer, in the college admissions process, and long after.
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Lesley College Pre-College Summer Program Web Page: View website
Description: Art Institute of Boston at Lesley College Pre-College Summer Program is a four-week program for high schoolers to study art in a college environment with professional artists. The 25 courses in the Pre-College Summer Program include animation, clayworking, drawing, fashion illustration, graphic design, mural painting, painting, portfolio prep, sculpture, and video production. Founded in 1912, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Design, Fine Arts, Illustration, Photography, and combined majors.
Maryland Institute College of Art Web Page: View website
Description: Maryland Institute College of Art’s Pre-College Studio Residency Program in Baltimore brings together some 200 students from across the country and around the world to earn three college credits, enhance their portfolios, and expand their art experience through in-depth studio instruction, workshops, and an art history seminar.
New York Film Academy Web Page: View website
Description: New York Film Academy offers acting and filmmaking workshops where students write, shoot, direct, and edit their own films. There are four, five, and six-week summer programs in several locations including Hollywood, New York, Orlando, Savannah, the Harvard and Princeton campuses, Amsterdam, Florence, London, and Paris. (The Academy also offers year-round workshops and full-year programs in acting and filmmaking.)
New York University’s Summer Programs Web Page: View website
Description: New York University’s Summer Programs at the Tisch School of the Arts include locations in New York City, Dublin, and Paris and programs in acting, musical theatre performance, musical theatre writing, dramatic writing, experimental theatre, and filmmaking. Rising juniors and seniors may take advantage of these residential programs that also offer six college credits.
North Carolina School of the Arts’ Summer Session Web Page: View website
Description: North Carolina School of the Arts’ Summer Session is a five-week experience in dance, drama, filmmaking, music, stage combat, or visual arts.
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North Carolina State University's Design Camp Web Page: View website
Description: North Carolina State University's Design Camp, sponsored by the College of Design, gathers some 80 rising 10th-12th graders for a week (day or residential) of work with faculty on projects from each of the College's disciplines--architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design, art and design, and graphic design.
Northwestern's National High School Institute Web Page: View website
Description: Northwestern University's National High School Institute of Theatre Arts offers five-week programs in “theater arts and design/technical” and musical theater. Classes and rehearsals make for an intense schedule, seven days a week. (Northwestern’s National High School Institute also offers programs in debate, journalism, Junior Statesmen, music, and media arts.
Otis College of Art and Design's Summer of Art Web Page: View website
Description: Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles Summer of Art is an intensive, four-week, pre-college program for students, ages 15 and older, in an art college environment. Serious young artists seeking to strengthen and enhance their art skills, as well as students with limited art training, are invited to participate. Participants take hands-on studio classes in am Area of Concentration and Foundation Studio courses. Each student, with help from the faculty, selects his or her best work for the culminating exhibition displayed throughout the campus.
Oxbow School Summer Camps Web Page: View website
Description: Oxbow School Summer Camps are three-week experiences in the Napa Valley for students 12 to 16 years old. In the SFX (Special Effects) program, students apply their art-making and storytelling skills to create fantasy characters, situations, and imaginary worlds and then tell those stories in media from cartoons and storyboards to 3-D models and digital media. The Serious Art, Serious Fun program focuses on project-based art in computer, drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture.
Parsons School of Design Summer Intensive Studies Web Page: View website
Description: Parsons School of Design’s Summer Intensive Studies offers New York or Paris-based programs in animation design, architecture, design and management, drawing and painting, fashion design, graphic design, interior design, photography, product design, and robotics.
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Penland School of Crafts Web Page: View website
Description: Penland School of Crafts is a national center for craft education located on 400 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Founded in the 1920s, Penland now offers one and two-week courses during the summer as well as eight-week courses during the fall and spring in ten craft media.
Pratt University's Pre-College Program Web Page: View website
Description: Pratt University's Pre-College Program features opportunities in architecture, art and design discovery, art history, creative writing, cultural studies, fashion design, fine arts (drawing and painting), graphic design, illustration (traditional or digital), industrial design, interior design, media arts/video, photography, and sculpture in New York City.
Rhode Island School of Design Pre-College Program Web Page: View website
Description: Rhode Island School of Design Pre-College Program introduces high school students to the curriculum of a college of art and design for six weeks. Nearby Brown University and RISD collaborate to offer the four-week multidisciplinary Thinking and Making - Philosophy, Art, and the Human Condition as a combination of the Humanities and Studio Art. The focus is on developing a deeper understanding of the foundation of Modern Day thought and how the involvement of the individual in those ideas shaped and still shapes the making of art.
Rocky Mountain School of Photography Web Page: View website
Description: Rocky Mountain School of Photography, based in Missoula, Montana, offers photography workshops of varying lengths at a variety of locations.
Sarah Lawrence College Web Page: View website
Description: Explore your passions with courses created just for high school students.
Sarah Lawrence College offers a full array of courses for high school students in the fall, spring and summer. With programs in the arts.
Savannah College of Art and Design Web Page: View website
Description: Savannah College of Art and Design offers two programs for students interested in pursuing education and career in the visual and performing arts, design, building arts, or the history of art and architecture. The five-week Rising Star program is for rising seniors and offers college credit. The several one-week Savannah Summer Seminars are open to rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
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School of Cinema & Performing Arts Web Page: View website
Description: School of Cinema & Performing Arts (SOCAPA) was founded by a small collective of New York artists in Greenwich Village in 1998. Their offerings include teen and youth summer programs ranging in length from two to six weeks on campuses in New York, California and Vermont.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Web Page: View website
Description: Explore the arts this summer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. School of the Arts Summer Session Web Page: View website
Description: Explore the arts this summer at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts! UNCSA is offering five-, four-, three- and two-week programs in Dance, Drama, Filmmaking, Visual Arts and a Chamber Music Institute among other programs.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Web Page: View website
Description: Join a diverse group of young artists who are devoted to the evolution of their artwork. The SMFA's five-week Pre-College Summer Studio is a unique and rigorous program focused on making art, sharing art, and living art. Individuals who have completed their sophomore year in high school are welcome to apply.
School of Visual Arts Web Page: View website
Description: SVA's Pre-College Program is designed for high school students who want to enhance their creative skills, learn more about a particular field of art, develop a portfolio, and/or experience the challenges and triumphs that exist at one of the most dynamic colleges. In courses taught by the same faculty of leading art professionals who teach in the undergraduate degree program of the college, students will explore the fundamentals of art & design at a level not readily available in high school.
Skidmore College's AP/Art Program Web Page: View website
Description: Skidmore College's AP/Art Program is designed for highly motivated and talented high school students who wish to augment their studio art experiences in a rigorous college environment.
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Snow Farm Web Page: View website
Description: Snow Farm, The New England Craft Program in Williamsburg, MA offers hands-on, intensive three and six-week programs in ceramics; drawing and color; glassblowing; flameworking, fused and stained glass; metalsmithing and jewelry constructions; photography; and textile art.
Spoleto Study Abroad Web Page: View website
Description: Spoleto Study Abroad, based in Raleigh, offers talented secondary school students interdisciplinary cultural studies in a European setting. A "Renaissance program for the Renaissance student" interested in studying instrumental or vocal music, drama, creative writing, photography, or visual arts.
Syracuse University’s Summer College Web Page: View website
Description: Syracuse University’s Summer College for High School Students offers six-week programs in acting and musical theater, architecture, art and design, engineering and computer science, fashion and textile design, law, liberal arts, management, and public communications. Students can earn college credit.
The Putney School Summer Art Workshops Web Page: View website
Description: The Putney School Summer Art Workshops include visual and performing arts options and take place over three weeks at this Vermont boarding and day school. Professional artists, performers, and teachers lead all workshops. After learning and reviewing approaches to the field, students undertake a project to be completed by the end of the session. Faculty, assisted by teaching apprentices, work individually with each student. Workshops offer field trips to local artists’ studios, galleries, performances and museums. Each session culminates in exhibits and performances on the final evening and closing day.
University of the Arts Pre-College Programs Web Page: View website
Description: University of the Arts Pre-College Programs take place on the Avenue of the Arts in the heart of Center City Philadelphia and are open to students ages 15 to 19. Those 16 or older may choose to stay in UArts dorms and take part in a full program of evening and weekend activities. The four-week Summer World of Dance program includes African-American, ballet, Brazilian, hip hop, modern, tap, and other courses. The Summer Institute includes: Acting Studio (acting, movement, stage combat, mask, and speech), ArtsSmart (visual arts), Jazz Workshop (instrumental and voice), Media Workshops (animation, computer game design, screen directing and writing, and video production), Musical Theater (acting, dance, and voice),
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and PREP (visual arts for recent high school graduates). US Performing Arts Camps Web Page: View website
Description: US Performing Arts Camps offer residential programs in the arts around the country. This program includes dance, film/media, musical theater and acting.
USC's Exploration of Architecture Web Page: View website
Description: University of Southern California's Exploration of Architecture for more than 20 years has offered summer programs, now ranging from one to three weeks. Students explore architecture as a career but also learn about the design process and how cities are built. They experience lectures, site visits to significant buildings, and architectural office tours.
Walnut Hill Web Page: View website
Description: Walnut Hill Summer Youth Visual Art is a 2-week program offering instruction in a variety of 2-dimensional mediums: Drawing, Painting, and New Media (Photoshop in our Mac Lab). Young students with a passion for visual art will have the opportunity to learn and experiment with the fundamentals of composition, perspective and color theory. Students will engage in the exciting and fun techniques of making art in our fully equipped facility with our experienced faculty offering classes at a high artistic level and expectation.
Washington U. in St. Louis Summer Programs Web Page: View website
Description: The Architecture Discovery Program is an exciting introduction to architecture and design for high school students between junior and senior year. Design studio, the heart of the program, focuses upon how creativity and discovery can foster passion and compassion in design. Or, you may be interested in Art! Are you passionate about it? Would you like to spend the summer building and documenting your portfolio? Can you see yourself studying and making art in a real studio? If you are 16 or older and have completed your sophomore year in high school, come join other students from across the country for a five-week introduction to the study and practice of making art.
Wolfeboro - The Summer Boarding School Web Page: View website
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Description: Academic Program Each student's program is developed to support individually established Primary Goals. Any three-course combination will promote improved study habits, study skills, organization, motivation and confidence. Sustained focus and improved productivity are fostered comprehensively by the
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school's computer and cell phone free classrooms, study halls and campus. The emphasis is on step by step procedure, neatness and attention to detail in all written work. A summer at Wolfeboro is far more than academic. The focus on afternoons and weekends turns to a wide range of sports, recreational and entertainment opportunities both on campus as well as within the surrounding summer resort area.The absence of computers and cell phones sets the stage for active and enthusiastic participation.
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ActionQuest Web Page: View website
Description: ActionQuest offers adventure summer camps for teens. For over 30 years, AQ has offered sailing, scuba diving, community service and marine biology camps that include hands-on learning and adventure travel throughout the world.
Camp Flintrock Web Page: View website
Description: Camp Flintrock allows youngsters who’ve completed the third grade through age 15 to discover life during the Revolutionary War in one, two, or three-week residential programs in Four Oaks, NC or St. Mary’s, MD. Participants learn to shoot muskets, throw tomahawks, cook over a campfire, make leather crafts, and write in their journals with quill & ink. A student from DA's Class of 2009 participated as a camper and then as a counselor.
Durham Mayor's Summer Youth Works Program Web Page: View website
Description: The Durham Mayor's Summer Youth Works Program offers youth the opportunity to gain work experience and develop skills while connecting with city government. Summer job opportunities are available in Parks and Recreation, Workforce Development, and Impact Team. Private sector positions are available through a partnership with the Durham Chamber of Commerce. At the kickoff event, youth ages 14-21 pick up applications, learn more about the employment opportunities, receive help on completing applications, and get interviewing tips.
Free Enterprise Leadership Challenge Web Page: View website
Description: The Free Enterprise Leadership Challenge was established in 1995 to help educate students about the opportunities available to them within the free enterprise system. Historically, the summer program is held on the campus of Wingate University (Wingate, NC). But the program has also been successfully conducted at other national and international locations, both in five-day and shorter formats. Each year, hundreds of high school students participate in this exciting program. To date, over 5,000 young people call themselves graduates of the Free Enterprise Leadership Challenge.
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GrandWestern Tour Web Page: View website
Description: Spend a month with other high school students touring the western United States! Based out of Winston-Salem, this company has been offering tours for high school students for 45 years. "Our trip has been carefully planned to give your teenager a complete and delightful tour of outstanding points of historical and picturesque interest in the United States. We have arranged a fun, educational, and broadening experience. Every effort has been made to make the tour a memorable one for the students. "
Meredith College's Looking Toward College Web Page: View website
Description: Meredith College's Looking Toward College: A Residential Seminar for High School Women is a four-day, residential program at the Raleigh campus. This personal skills seminar for rising sophomores, juniors and seniors focuses on topics such as communication skills, making decisions and setting goals, study skills, values clarification, college selection, and career planning.
State Games Youth Ambassador Program Web Page: View website
Description: The State Games Youth Ambassador Program is open to students in grades 9-11 in an effort to reach athletes at the annual State Games of North Carolina (held each summer since 1986) about tobacco use prevention and cessation. Youth Ambassadors have opportunities to build leadership skills while advocating tobacco-free lifestyles. They may record public service announcements for radio and television, write letters to local newspapers and policy makers, and speak during youth tobacco-free media events.
UNC's Nursing Exploration Week Web Page: View website
Description: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Nursing Exploration Week is available for 36 rising 11th and 12th graders considering a career in nursing. Students experience firsthand what nurses do in hospitals, business, and research.
US Coast Guard Academy Introductory Mission (AIM) Web Page: View website
Description: The US Coast Guard Academy Introductory Mission (AIM)--three one-week summer sessions--allows rising seniors to meet Coast Guard Academy faculty and staff; learn about academic, military, and athletic programs; talk with cadets; and meet with Coast Guard professionals.
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US Naval Academy Summer Seminar Web Page: View website
Description: US Naval Academy Summer Seminar offers three one-week sessions for rising seniors. Students will experience all aspects of the Naval Academy including academics, physical training, and midshipman life. Lt. Christopher Bugg '92 attended and comments, "I did the summer seminar before my senior year at DA. It was an invaluable experience for me and my decision of whether or not to attend the Academy. It's a great program, and if you have any current juniors who are the least bit interested in any service academy, they should apply for this program."
West Point's Summer Leaders Seminar Web Page: View website
Description: The United States Military Academy hosts the Summer Leaders Seminar (SLS) for high school juniors going into their senior year. The weeklong program of academic classes, military training, physical fitness training and intramural athletics gives students the opportunity to experience cadet life and to see first-hand what West Point has to offer.
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