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Summer Programs



  ~Summer Programs~

Please find below some information on summer programs.  Please note however that there are thousands of different summer programs available and to find the right one for you requires some time spent investigating on your part.  Most colleges in the US have one or more summer programs for high school students.

SITES WITH VARIOUS PROGRAMS

Summer Study Programs 2008: For more information, click here.  

PROGRAM SPECIFIC SITES

Academic
A wide variety of opportunities including French immersion, art, film, business, and many more
Academic
Pre-College programs on a variety of top U.S. college campuses including Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  It also includes cultural immersion programs in Spain, France and Italy.
Academic
A 10-day program about the college admissions process. It includes SAT prep, essay writing, college counseling, and an optional college tour.
Academic
A variety of enrichment courses for grades 1-12 including elementary country studies, SAT Verbal prep, art and music classes.
Academic
At Cambridge University, Trinity Hall.  The emphasis is on active learning, imaginative teaching, and cultural enrichment.
Academic
A five-week, academic enrichment program with over 50 courses in several disciplines.
Academic
Enrichment courses for students completing their sophomore year in high school with an emphasis on writing.
Academic
Programs include College Experience, Creative Writers’ Workshop, Young Writers’ Camp, Pre-college Program, Drama Workshop, Brightleaf Music Workshop. Duke also conducts sports camps in baseball, basketball, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, and wrestling. 
Academic
Pre-college programs for high school students grades 9-11 with classes and educational and cultural field trips throughout Washington, DC
Academic
Students learn from Chinese professors and speakers, visit neighborhoods, talk with artists, gov't. officials, workers, and business people.  They study Mandarin, try a variety of chinese arts, and do a short home-stay
Academic
Harvard Summer School offers social, recreational, and college preparatory activities.  Choose your courses and plan your own time.  Also offering Summer Seminars, which emphasize small-group instruction, and an expanded array of college preparatory activities.
Academic
A wide variety of academic courses
Academic
An independent, international college providing courses for up to 500 students throughout the year offering IB Diploma, Senior Classes, English Language
Academic
Academic programs at the historical campuses of Oxford and Cambridge
Academic
Five week pre-college experience at a premier U.S. boarding school.
Academic
Now available to rising seniors or 2005 graduates.  Take 2 courses in the School of comparative Cultures
Academic (IB)
Students are enabled to work, play and share experiences with other IB students and teachers from across the world. In a structured timetable of academic work, enrichment classes, sports activities and social events students will be able to learn more about themselves and others and gain an insight into college life.
Academic
Offers academic, social, cultural, and recreational opportunities on a variety of East coast college campuses.
Academic
A small, select group of rising high school seniors exploring the realities of college life. Earn up to 7 units of college credit, and develop academic and social skills.
Academic
An intensive academic enrichment program on top college campuses including UCLA, UC Berkeley, Princeton, Amherst, and Vassar.
Academic
A four week program for exceptional young women with strong interest in science, engineering, and medicine.  Do hands-on research with Smith faculty.
Academic
Full range of college courses including art, business, health studies, languages, media, and more.
Academic
Immersion programs in languages, writing, and pre-college,  as well as a Young Writers workshop
Academic
Mini-courses, leadership, and college life.
Academic
Visit the naval Academy and experience the academic program, physical training, and midshipman life.
Academic
An academic center for learning in an international context, and a forum for fostering intercultural understanding. Every summer it welcomes some 500 students from all over the world to its wide variety of graduate and undergraduate courses, mostly within the liberal arts and social sciences.
Academic
The curriculum is designed and staffed by faculty from the University of Pennsylvania.  Students will be able to select a different major and minor subject each week from a wide array of disciplines allowing them to sample five different fields of college-level study.  These are lively, fast-paced surveys that include guest speakers, field trips and real-world case studies created to give students a sneak preview of each subject. 
Academic
Young women's leadership Institute and co-ed programs.
Academic
A variety of courses in the arts, economics, international relations, history, and the environment.
Academic. Outdoor
Offers a superb academic curriculum in a range of subjects from which two or three are chosen. The on to one tutorial method of teaching, favored by Oxford and Cambridge Universities, is one of the distinctive features of the course, Supporting this is a full calendar of cultural visits including London, Stratford, Stonehenge, and Warwick Castle, plus social activities and sports.
Academic, Outdoor
5-week sessions with academics and recreation.  
Academic, Travel
Live, study, play, and travel in China for one month, experiencing both new traditions and the changes that make China so distinctive and so important.  Lecture series, Mandarin, and traveling.
Academic, Outdoor
Study in Scotland. Academics plus canoeing, sailing, climbing and abseiling
Academic, Sports
Offers the “Total Pre-Collegiate Experience” at Penn State University, the University of Colorado at Boulder and The American University of Paris. Combines stimulating academics with unforgettable sports, recreational, social and cultural activities.  
Academic, Sports
Academic enrichment programs with college experience, on 6 different campuses; UCLA, University of Michigan, Georgetown University, University of Vermont, Cambridge University and UC San Diego.  
Academic, Sports
A wide variety of academic, enrichment courses with a variety of recreational activities at UCLA and UC Berkeley.
Academics
Every summer Phillips Exeter Academy welcomes to campus some 590 students for five weeks of academic study, athletics, and exploration that carry participants far beyond the classrooms and the playing fields.
Architecture
If you are a high school student interested in architecture as a career, you can learn about the study and practice of the profession during an intensive two week program at Washington University’s School of Architecture.
Business
Courses range from traditional core Economics and Finance subjects to contemporary politics and management practice. 
Business
From Inthinking in Oxford, England.  For outgoing, open-minded students interested in a career in business or management.
College
Explore colleges, meet with admissions reps, take tours.  A full college tour program for students.
Creative Arts
"Make Music in Boston This Summer" is offering several weekends for students musicians over 15 years of age. Programs are available for those who play bass, percussion, brass, and saxophone.
Creative Arts
Summer programs in computer science, fine arts, engineering, business and the humanities. 
Creative Arts
Hundreds of ballet and dance programs
Creative Arts
More than 1,500 children, teens, and adults attend Idyllwild's workshops under the pines, pursuing interests in creative writing, dance, music, theatre, and visual arts-and taught by some of America's finest artists.
Creative Arts
A rigorous, pre-professional, month long training program in visual and performing arts, creative writing, animation and film for talented artists of high school age. 
Creative Arts
The world's oldest and most successful fine arts camp for students age 8 to 18.  Since 1928, Interlochen has meant magic to young dancers, actors, writers and visual artists. 
Creative Arts
Summer of Art provides instruction in painting, fashion design, photography, computer design, architecture, sculpture, video, and Life drawing.  
Creative Arts
Four-week courses for serious musicians, dancers and musical theater students will find a summer home in the Performing Arts Institute. Sports Camps and Clinics will keep young athletes in great shape over the summer.
Creative Arts
Intensive four-week college-level program, choose one course from architecture, fashion design, graphic design, illustration, fine arts/painting & drawing, photography, sculpture, interior design, and creative writing.
Creative Arts
Pre-college program offers an intensive six-week experience designed to provide a strong foundation of skills and understanding in the visual arts. 
Creative Arts
An early college program for high school students offering a variety of courses such as painting and drawing, sculpture, fashion design, computer graphic design, ceramics, etc. 
Creative Arts
Create art while engaging in exciting seasonal events In Florence, Italy.
Creative Arts
Study art or creative writing and earn college credit while developing your art portfolio
Creative Arts, Theatre
Rated the #1 Theater program in the U.S. One of our new offerings is our Hip Hop Theater Camp, founded in the hip hop culture of this generation. 
Creative Arts, Theatre
Offers talented and motivated high school students college-level courses in the visual, media, and performing arts, as well as writing, with dedicated master teachers on an exciting urban campus.
Creative Arts, Theatre
Intensive, short-term courses which fully immerse students in the craft of writing, directing, casting, shooting, acting in, and editing.
Creative, Performing, Theatre Arts
Study ballet, music, theatre, writing, music, and the visual arts in Boston.
Creative, Performing, Theatre Arts
music, college prep, enrichment
Creative, Business, Technology 
 
This is for High School students who are interested in exploring new areas of interest, delving deeper into those areas they already have a passion for, or doing a little of both.  Students create their own schedule of courses in the arts, business, cooking, computers, and dozens of other fascinating subjects all taught by career educators and distinguished professionals in their
Engineering
Engineering program for high school students between their junior and senior years.   
Engineering, Business
Six distinct Summer Pre-College programs.  Study for Advanced Placement/Early Admission for college credit or explore a discipline in one of our fine arts programs in architecture, art, design, drama or music. 
Engineering, Science
National High School Institute - Sign up for classes in engineering science, debate institute, journalism, dance, leadership, Coon-Hardy debate, junior statesmen, Lincoln-Douglas debate, music, radio/TV/film, theater arts. 
Film
A five-week, hands-on program in the many aspects of media production. Create your own 16mm film; direct a live multi-camera TV program; write news and documentary scripts; produce a live radio web cast; edit projects on nonlinear editing system.
Film
Learn writing, directing, digital editing, acting and animation at the New York Film Academy.  Summer programs available for high school students.  U.S. and overseas locations
Film
Performance for the Camera, Broadcast, Sit Com and Digital Filmmaking. Outstanding faculty and award winning professionals. Learn the collaborative process of writing, producing, directing and being in front of the camera. 
Film
Classes in Sports Management, Filmmaking, International Affairs, Broadcast Journalism, Marine Science, and Health and Medicine.  
Film
Offered by the School of Cinema-Television in Directing/Cinematography/Editing, Producing, Screenwriting and Digital Imaging. Workshops are offered in Los Angeles and in Rome, Italy.
Language
An internationally recognized and respected world language and culture education program for young people ages 7-18.  Students may study Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish or Swedish in the U.S., or abroad.
Language
Learn French in Montpellier, France
Language
A unique fusion of experiential learning, classroom studies and goal-oriented recreation.  Programs include Guatemala Spanish Immersion, Montreal French immersion, Honduras, and Panama.
Leadership
The Camp Bentley Leadership Institute program offers an introduction to leadership in the world of private enterprise. Based at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass.
Leadership
Full-scholarship summer camps for youth the world over to promote cross-cultural understanding and effective leadership in service of humanitarian goals.
Leadership
An international nonprofit organization promoting intercultural learning through homestays, educational group travel, study abroad, language training, work exchange, and other cultural immersion programs.
Leadership
 A summer program to cultivate and empower student leaders. Creates role models and mentors for today's youth and inspires students to become active in their schools and community. 
Leadership
The forum seeks exceptional high school students who exhibit academic excellence, leadership skills and an interest in the field of law, medicine, or national security. 
Leadership
Offers opportunities for personal growth, self-discovery, friendship and fun.  It also has programs overseas in such locations as Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, England, Malaysia, Mexico, and Switzerland. 
Leadership
These seminars offer a unique perspective into the national and international issues and personalities of the day, all while gaining new insight into college life and career options ahead.  Two 1-week sessions, the Congressional Seminar, and the Diplomacy Seminar.  
Leadership
Students learn about the customs, traditions, aspirations and heritage of people from around the globe.  This seminar provides a forum for future international leaders to be introduced to some of the most perplexing global problems, at the University of Wisconsin.
Leadership
An in-depth exploration of subjects such as politics, government, law, and global business.  There are scholarships available for students with financial need.
Leadership, Outdoor
NOLs sets the standard for experiential, wilderness education. Every course includes a core curriculum emphasizing leadership through the development of judgment and decision-making.  
Local
A variety of enrichment courses for grades 1-12 including elementary country studies, SAT Verbal prep, art and music classes.
Outdoor
A guide to summer camps and wilderness programs in the U.S. and Canada
Outdoor
Outdoor Environmental Education to children of all ages. Emphasizes activities that inspire personal growth, team building, and appreciation for the natural surroundings. 
Outdoor
A sports camp in the Swiss Alps, employing European traditions in the development of physical and intellectual achievement. The philosophy of the camp is to provide a healthy experience in outdoor living through sports in a creative and wholesome environment.
Outdoor
Adventure camp program for boys and girls from all parts of the world, featuring visits to Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo, nature studies, adventure tours and ESL programs. Located by the beach on Australia's Sunshine Coast, north of Brisbane.  
Outdoor, Language
Six camps in five countries, each with its own unique identity, drawing on the character of the country where it is based. In addition to English, the host country’s language is spoken at camp (French in Switzerland and France, German in Austria).
Outdoor, Leadership
Courses are designed for the newcomer to outdoor travel.  Each course is rigorous but highly rewarding, and motivation, commitment and a willingness to make sacrifices are essential. 
Outdoor, Theatre, Leadership
A variety of different programs are offered including Alpine challenge and Exploration programs as well IB Prep, ESL, Theatre, and Leadership Programs.
Outdoor, Creative Arts, Sports
Offers high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors an extraordinary chance to sample college.  Take part in social recreational, and college preparatory activities: a college fair, trips to other colleges, intramural athletics, dances, a trivia bowl, music groups, and a talent show. Please call or email Mr. William J. Holinger (Director, Secondary School Program), ssp@hudce.harvard.edu
Science
Classes in Sports Management, Filmmaking, International Affairs, Broadcast Journalism, Marine Science, and Health and Medicine.  
Science, Engineering
Open to exceptional young women (grades 9-12) with strong interests in science, engineering and medicine.  
Science, Space
A five-day program jam-packed with astronaut training for young people. Activities include simulated Space Shuttle missions, IMAX® movies, training simulators, rocket building, scientific experiments, and lectures on the past, present, and future of space exploration.
Service
Choose from cultural exchange programs, language exposure programs or language immersion programs in locales from Colorado to Fiji, Costa Rica to France, Ireland to Ecuador.  Each program includes a community service component. 
Service
A nonprofit summer service organization for high school students.  Spend two weeks working at one of several important historical, cultural, environmental, or social service institutions.  
Service
A cross-cultural, community service program for teens from all over the world. For 16 years teenage volunteers have participated in work activities addressing the needs of communities around the globe. 
Service
Volunteer for a variety of projects around the world.
Service
Work on the wild side!  Conservation Expeditions
Sports
3-Week sports camp including surfing/bodyboarding, baseball, basketball, radio broadcasting, snorkeling, riflery, soccer, and more.
Sports
Includes academies in Tennis, Golf, Soccer, Baseball, Basketball, and Hockey.  Stay at the luxurious Bollettieri Resort Villas and Lodges and relax by the pool or enjoy a massage. 
Sports, Film, Science
Classes in Sports Management, Filmmaking, International Affairs, Broadcast Journalism, Marine Science, and Health and Medicine.  
Travel
An all-inclusive look at colleges by region, generally 1-2 weeks.
Travel
Live, study, play, and travel in China for one month, experiencing both new traditions and the changes that make China so distinctive and so important.  Lecture series, Mandarin, and traveling.
Travel
Three- to five-week summer volunteer abroad programs focused on community service projects and volunteer teaching jobs abroad.
Travel
A unique fusion of experiential learning, classroom studies and goal-oriented recreation.  Programs include Guatemala Spanish Immersion, Montreal French immersion, Honduras, and Panama.
Travel
Remarkable learning opportunities through off-the-beaten path, intimate, small group expeditions to CHINA, THAILAND, VIETNAM, LAOS, CAMBODIA, TIBET, INDIA, MONGOLIA, MEXICO, GUATEMALA, PERU, BOLIVIA AND SENEGAL. Trips are rugged, creative, and engaging journeys that combine wilderness exploration, trekking to remote villages, introduction to traditional philosophy and artistic traditions, home-stays, service projects, language training, and cultural studies.
 
 
 


                                                         


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