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Academic Camps of Excellence (ACE) are summer camps for gifted middle school students in math, science, literature, computer science and economics. Sponsored by Calvin College and the Kent County Association for Gifted and Talented, the camp courses take place at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
http://www.amboyhood.com/kcagt/pub/acecamp04.htm
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"The Academically Talented Learners Achieving Success (ATLAS) Summer Program identifies these young scholars and provides them with a challenging and intellectually stimulating three-week summer academic program at a critical period in their educational lives. The ATLAS Summer Program is designed to work with the students' schools to address the unique and individual needs of these talented and gifted young people and hopes to become a valuable partner in this effort."
http://www.atlas-summer.com/
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The Blank Summer Institute for the Arts & Sciences is a two-week residential summer program held at The University of Iowa.
http://www.education.uiowa.edu/belinblank/summer/programs/6-8/bsi/
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High school juniors and seniors can spend six weeks at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the summer. These students have the opportunity to earn college credit in seven distinct precollege programs.
http://www.cmu.edu/enrollment/pre-college/
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The Civic Education Project (CEP) combines traditional education with community service to promote civic responsibility among young people. Through innovative spring and summer programs, CEP offers promising young people the chance to learn and serve in communities across the country and helps students gain the knowledge, experience, and leadership skills necessary to make a positive impact on society. CivicWeek, CEP's weeklong field experience program for outstanding high school students is open to 9th-12th grade students from across the ...
http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/cep
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"The Ross Program at the Ohio State University is an intensive course in math for pre-college students. This Program is sponsored by the University in partnership with the Clay Mathematics Institute. During the eight weeks of this summer program, students are immersed in a world of mathematical discovery."
http://www.claymath.org/programs/outreach/ross/
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The College Preparation Program at Northwestern University is designed for students like you who want new academic challenges and the experience of real college life before finishing high school. The College Preparation Program takes place for six to eight weeks as part of the regular Summer Session, and you earn Northwestern academic credit for the courses you take.
http://www.scs.northwestern.edu/collegeprep/about/index.cfm
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Since 1992, CC Summer Arts Camp has been offering classes in fine arts, performing arts, communication and media arts.
http://www2.colum.edu/affiliated/summerartscamp/index.html
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Cranbook Institute of Science offers several summer camps for children grades PK-6. The camps offer children an opportunity to meet new friends, explore the natural world and become creative problem solvers while learning how everything in the universe is connected. Fast-paced daily sessions are supervised by our museum educators and designed to ensure that every child has an extraordinary time. Choose from the following: Little Explorer Camp; Beginner Explorer Camp; Physics Explorer Camp; Anthropology Camp; Dinosaur Camp;Future Frontiers Camp...
http://www.cranbrook.edu/institute/camp.shtml
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Students in the Scholars Program come from across Indiana. Admission to the program is based on a student's interest in a particular field of study or topic covered by a course and her/his ability to work in an atmosphere that encourages higher order thinking and advanced ability in a subject area.
http://www.bsu.edu/outreach/scholars/
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"The Explorations in Engineering Workshop allows high school sophomore/junior minority and/or economically disadvantaged men and women who are academically talented in mathematics and/or science the opportunity to investigate careers in engineering and science. Practicing minority engineers from industry and the government, educators, and University faculty lead informational sessions and discussions. Each session includes a laboratory experience, a team engineering project, and time to interact formally and informally with role models and t...
http://youthprograms.mtu.edu/
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The Summer Residential Programs sponsored by the Gifted Education Resource Institute offer "accelerated and enriched learning experiences in mathematics, science, the humanities, and the arts" for academically talented youth in grades 3-12. The program also presents the opportunity for students to interact and establish lasting friendships with cognitive peers.
http://www.geri.soe.purdue.edu/youth/default.html
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We hope that a student who attends the program in one summer will come back the next summer to take additional courses from the expanded offering. Also, the students will be able to meet the many dedicated faculty members and see first-hand the excellent facilities available at the University of Louisville. This association with U of L gives these students the opportunity to take on other research projects during their high school years and excel in the regional and national competitions.
http://giftedsummer.louisville.edu/
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Michigan State University offers this Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) summer program for high school students who are interested in earning college credits over the summer. Tuition, textbooks and transportation are all the responsibility of the student. The program takes place in June and July for one month.
http://www.msu.edu/user/gifted/highachievers/
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IU hosts this residential summer camp for high school age students who enter 10th, 11th or 12th grade in the fall of 2006. The Achievers Summer Academy provides students with firsthand experience of what to expect in college and how to effectively prepare while in high school.
http://www.indiana.edu/~cpartner/programs/programsasa.htm
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This residential summer arts program provides students in grades three through 12 the opportunity to train with world-class instructors and work alongside over 2,000 of the world’s best and brightest students. Located in Michigan, Interlochen Arts Camp offers a variety of programs, varying in length and cost. The programs focus on the following seven subjects: creative writing, dance, general arts, motion picture arts, music, theatre arts and visual arts.
http://www.interlochen.org/camp/
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The Junior Scholars Program is much more than academic studies. "In addition to course work, Scholars attend a series of seminars on topics such as time management and study skills, college admissions, financial aid, interpersonal relationships, cultural awareness, and alcohol awareness. A full schedule of social and recreational activities complements the scholarly parts of the Program. Students and staff participate in swimming, ice-skating, broomball, and volleyball; and they enjoy use of Miami University's Recreational Sports Center. A popu...
http://www.units.muohio.edu/jrscholars/
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"The Governor’s Scholars Program is a stimulating, five-week, residential summer program for outstanding Kentucky students completing their junior year in high school. Established in 1983, the popular program provides academic and personal growth in a challenging, non-traditional experience that balances a strong liberal arts program with a full co-curricular and residential life experience."
http://www.kygsp.org/
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Kids on Campus is one of the programs offered at the McHenry County College. The students are offered accelerated classes for those academically talented students that meet the eligibility criteria of the program. Students must meet at least ONE of the following criteria: +/= 95% on at least one part of a standardized test or +/= 95% on a standard ability test. Please address questions about your child’s test scores to your child’s school principal or gifted resource teacher. An eligibility form must be on file at the Kids and College office b...
http://www.mchenry.edu/KidsandCollege/index.asp
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This one week day camp will allow you to develop your creativity as well as provide you with the opportunity to meet and speak with working engineers who will allow you to see for yourself that engineers are innovative designers and problem solvers for society. Forty student participants will be selected on a first-come, first-serve basis.
http://www.eng.uc.edu/prospectivestudents/summercamp/men/
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This Michigan State University (MSU) Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program is a residential week-long summer program that gives students in grades 10 and 11 the opportunity to study the arts and cultural expressions of Africa through team research projects, daily language classes in Swahili and seminar discussions with African graduate students in the humanities and social sciences. The program is held in July at MSU and limited financial aid is available, based on financial need.
http://www.msu.edu/user/gifted/exploreafrica/
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This Michigan State University (MSU) Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program is a two week residential program for academically talented students who are currently in Grade 7 or 8. The focus is on mathematics, science and technology. The goal is to match the intellectual abilities of talented adolescents with rigorous and challenging course work which provides enrichment, but does not duplicate or accelerate course work that is part of the regular K-12 school curriculum. The program is held in July each year and financial assistance grant...
http://www.msu.edu/~gifted/mst/mst.htm
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"The Michigan Summer Institutes cover a one-or two-week period during the summer months, where students engage in an intensive academic discipline plus a wide range of explorations, peer group discussions, field trips, project work, visits with professional artists, scientists and business people and social events."
http://www.inghamisd.org/schools/summer_camps.html
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Explorations in careers and knowledge for pre-college students cover such programs as Summer Youth Explorations, Women in Engineering, American Indian Workshop or Explorations in Engineering.
http://youthprograms.mtu.edu/programs.html
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This is a 23 day summer program sponsored by the University of Missouri Rolla, Rolla Public Schools and Missouri Academy for Science, Mathematics, & Computing. Students may choose one major and one minor. Examples of the concentrated programs include: algebra, algebra physics, speech/debate, fencing, volleyball. Credit for the course work is given through Rolla Public Schools and allows the students to accelerate at their home school.
http://maya.umr.edu/
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If you are a 16-18 year old girl, love adventure and want to learn about science in the outdoors, this course is for you! Discover the world of glaciers on Mount Rainier, an active volcano with 35 square miles of snow and ice. Experienced mountaineers and a glaciologist will lean nine women on a research expedition to the Emmons Glacier. We'll backpack to a remote campsite, sleep beneath the stars, and investigate glaciers as forces of erosion and indicators of climate change. To navigate the glacier safely, you'll learn basic mountaineering sk...
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/People/Students/epettit/outreach.html
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"The Science Scholar Research Institute (SSRI) is an award winning program that provides laboratory research experiences in the sciences, engineering, computer science, social sciences, or mathematics with nationally known scientists at three major research universities, Saint Louis University, Washington University, and University of Missouri-St. Louis, including two medical schools and an optometry school. Students choose a topic of interest and then they are matched as close as possible to an internationally recognized research mentor. St...
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/ibc99/missouri/ssri.htm
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This summer programs gives students in 7th, 8th and 9th grade the opportunity to take accelerated courses and work with master teachers at Northwestern University in Illinois. These students will be able to learn in an environment with intellectual and age peers.
http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/summer/descspectrum.html
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"The future promises to challenge the knowledge and abilities of its leaders, scientists, and creators. You, the high school students of today will be the leaders, scientists, and creators of tomorrow. The University of Toledo's Summer Honors Institute for Gifted and Talented High School Students is designed to give you skills, challenge your thinking, add to your knowledge, increase your awareness of self and others, give you time to experience a college atmosphere, and just plain have fun."
http://homepages.utoledo.edu/rschult/shi.html
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VAMPY is a 3-week residential Summer Program for very bright students who are currently enrolled in grades seven through ten and is designed to provide a balance of educational, cultural, and recreational experiences for high ability young people.
http://www.wku.edu/gifted/vampy.html
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This three-week summer honors institute provides students with the opportunity to explore the areas of mathematics, physics and computer science in a college setting. This program is offered to gifted Ohio high school students (specifically, rising sophomores and juniors). College credit may be available for participants.
http://mc.msj.edu/SSA_2005/index.html
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Be a part of a Summer Sleuths team that searches for solutions to a real-world problem integrating math, science, social studies, and language arts. Gather information from experts, experiments, the Internet, and other resources, and present your solution to a panel of people affected by the problem." Includes past problems on the program's website.
http://www.imsa.edu/team/cpbl/ipbln/sleuths/signup/index.html
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STEPS (Summer Technology Engineering Preview Summer camp for girls) is a one-week residential summer program girls entering the 10th or 11th grade. STEPS was developed by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) in 1997 to encourage young women to consider engineering and manufacturing as a career. UDM camp’s main sponsor is Ford Motor Company, with additional support from Visteon and Daimler Chrysler.
http://eng-sci.udmercy.edu/precol/steps.html
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The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Workshop is the best known and most highly regarded science fiction writing workshop in the country. Now in its thirty-seventh year, the Clarion Workshop is discussed frequently in science fiction publications and has national and international visibility. Clarion attracts some of the most highly acclaimed science fiction and fantasy authors as teaching writers. Admission to the workshop is based upon the promise of the applicant's writing at its present stage.
http://www.msu.edu/~clarion/
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"This course will provide the gifted student the opportunity to be both introduced to the fundamentals of engineering and immersed in a robotics experience that will serve as an exciting, popular vehicle for the delivery of those fundamentals. While the focus will be on robotics, the course will introduce the student to the various engineering disciplines and teach him or her some engineering fundamentals."
http://feh.eng.ohio-state.edu/simain.html
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"The agricultural sciences address many challenges of life in the 21st century: renewable resources, environmental studies, genetic engineering, food development and management, water quality, veterinary medicine, plant science, robotics, remote sensing, forestry, wildlife management, and more. As a leading agricultural state, Pennsylvania stands ready to take advantage of expert scientists and technologists in these fields, and the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Agricultural Sciences (PGSAS) provides a program of activities to stimulat...
http://www.cas.psu.edu/docs/CASHOME/ACAPROG/
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The Pennsylvania Governor's School for Global Entrepreneurship takes place at Lehigh University in Bethlehem and takes advantage of the Iacocca Institute, the Colleges of Business and Education and the commerce resources in the greater Lehigh Valley. Students pursue one core course in depth each week for four weeks: Understanding the Marketplace, Industry Infrastructure, Ideas to Design to Market, and Going Global. They select elective courses on a rotating basis which include but are not limited to E-commerce, Leadership Style, Virtual Modelin...
http://www.pde.state.pa.us/excellence/cwp/view.asp?a=3&Q=58999&excellenceNav=|5065|&excellenceNav=|5065|
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The Pennsylvania Governor's School for Health Care (PGSHC) is a five week program held in July and August for 110 students from across the state who are interested in learning more about health care and health care careers. The program focuses on exposing students to the health care delivery system, learning about the importance of primary care, and understanding how to serve as a community advocate to address Pennsylvania's health care needs.
http://www.pitt.edu/~pgshc/
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"In this age of information explosion, scientific research is constantly developing new frontiers and the technology with which to conquer them. It is understandably difficult in terms of budget, scheduling, and heterogeneous talents among student bodies for local schools to deliver the front line in science and mathematical experiences to students with special abilities and talents in these fields. The Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences (PGSS) meets this need by providing a program in the discrete sciences, mathematics, and comput...
http://pgse.cis.drexel.edu/pgss/index.html
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Robert E. Cook Honors College's Summer Honors Program is a place where talented high school students come together for one to two weeks and form a community of scholars who explore academic and collegiate living in a real college setting. Working closely with dedicated professors offers promising students the unique opportunity to experience college life while still in high school. Students will live with counselor-in-residence in one of IUP's residence halls, share meals in the dining hall, and learn with senior IUP professors during each day'...
http://www.iup.edu/honors/summer/summer.html
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Academically talented middle school students can spend two weeks of June at Western Kentucky University through this program. There is a residential and nonresidential program, accommodating gifted students in the area and throughout the nation. Students will choose four courses in subjects ranging from computer science to foreign language.
http://www.wku.edu/gifted/scats.html
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Transylvania is a distinguished liberal arts college of approximately 1,100 students that is consistently ranked and praised in the leading national college guides. They offer summer camps for:
- Academic and Computer Camp (For Junior High, High School Students)
- Computer Camp (For High School Students)
- Academic Camp (For High School Students)
http://www.transy.edu/about/content/camps.asp
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University for Youth (UFY) offers science, math, humanities and art classes with emphasis on hands-on learning, problem solving, and aesthetic expression. ... Creativity Camp program that is designed to teach team building, problem-solving strategies and a variety of hands-on skills... There are several one-week half-day classes to choose from for six weeks. The classes are semi-academic, with real information and learning supported by traditional arts and crafts. UFY goes in depth about the dynamics and history of flight as well.
http://www.du.edu/education/ces/ufy/
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Talented high school juniors and seniors learn what it takes to meet the challenges of college life in Penn's Pre-College program. Students are offered a wide range of regular undergraduate courses in the arts and sciences. With certain exceptions (lecture/lab courses, microeconomics and intensive Spanish), most students are encouraged to take two classes, which is considered a full academic load. In addition to their coursework, students meet new people, participate in stimulating discussions, special events and workshops and experience living...
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/CGS/summer/highschool/precollege/
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Five week residential program of collegiate study with other rising seniors from every part of the United States and all over the world. Live in college residence halls and take college-level classes, earning transferable college credit. WU designates a broad range of regular summer school courses for this program. WU attempts to provide instructors for these classes with an eye to the fact that many of the students will be high school students attending their first college courses.
http://ucollege.wustl.edu/hssp.html
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"Young Writers is an intensive two-week workshop for intellectually curious, motivated high-school students who value writing. Our goal is to help students develop their creative and critical abilities with language—to become better, more productive writers and better, more insightful thinkers. For more than ten years, Young Writers has provided a lively, supportive environment where students can stretch their talents, discover new strengths, and challenge themselves in the company of peers who share their interests."
http://www.kenyonreview.org/workshops/ywinfo.php
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