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Our academic programs extend beyond the classroom to provide the best experiential education, from having one-on-one interviews with admissions counselors to walking Civil War battlefields to conversing with legislators. Students collaborate with a committed and creative faculty and enjoy a wide range of special events and social opportunities. During the day, immerse yourself in your chosen program of study. During the evenings, nights and weekends, enjoy spending time with the entire camp and exploring all that campus offers.
http://www.gettysburg.edu/homepage/academiccamps/index.html
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"Explore the complex problems faced by our society today and assume the role of scientists wo will meet the challenge. As an aspiring scientist, you will acquire the skills you will need to succeed in your future education and career. At the Academy of Applied Sciences, you'll look at the world through the eyes of a scientist as you learn applied science research, collaborate with your peers and develop greater self-awareness. Students participate in different laboratory courses depending on faculty, past courses have included astronomy, bio...
http://www.towson.edu/csme/summercenter.htm
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Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island offers a Pre-College summer program specially designed to expand that tradition to exceptional high school students who desire to challenge themselves both intellectually and emotionally. Our summer classes for high school students and our approach to learning are unique. We have designed our summer program to allow high school students to grow as people and as learners while exploring academic and career paths that may not currently be available to them.
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Continuing_Studies/ug/summer/index.php
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This program allows students entering grades 7-9 an opportunity to learn about math, science and technology from a nautical perspective. While living and studying aboard a fleet of historic ships, students can gain experience in naval architecture, marine engineering, nautical science, etc. These week-long summer seesions are also valuable in teaching logical, creative thinking.
http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/NR/rdonlyres/A2E8114E-B553-4ECD-9437-8DA44AA42B66/8937/Page17.pdf
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Instructors will use archaeology sites, surviving period structures, historic landscapes, battlefields, and a series of museums to guide students in a search for the American past. "From the Founding of Jamestown through the American Revolution" begins where the old world societies of Europe and Africa collided with the new world society of Native Americans on the banks of the nearby James River early in the seventeenth century and follows the American saga for nearly two hundred years through the Revolutionary Era at the end of the eighteenth ...
http://www.wm.edu/niahd/precollegiate.php
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Summer College for High School Juniors at Georgetown University offers outstanding high school students the opportunity to expand their studies with college courses taken in an intensive yet supportive college environment. Juniors live on campus, attend class with undergraduate Georgetown students, and are encouraged to take advantage of the many resources available in our nation's capital. Students in Summer College for High School Juniors enroll in one or two lower division undergraduate courses appropriate to their interests, background...
http://www.georgetown.edu/ssce/spp/hsj.htm
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Global Youth Village (GYV) is an international summer training program for young people ages 13-18 located in Bedford, Virginia. GYV is a micro-model of the world community filled with the music, laughter, food, arts and aspirations of our one diverse humanity. The program offers stimulating workshops that provide instruction in music, dialogue and conflict resolution, global issues, environmental issues and mass media. Here future leaders expand their minds, skills and horizons. With trust, cooperation and enthusiasm, they cross barriers of ...
http://www.globalyouthvillage.org
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The Governor's School of New Jersey is a unique summer program committed to meeting the educational needs of artistically or academically talented high school students who completed their junior year. Emphasis is placed on problem solving of complex issues that exist on a local, state, national, and international level, leadership training, and creative expression though the medium of fine and performing arts. The Governor's School is an intensive four-week residential learning experience held on four college campuses throughout the state.
http://www.tcnj.edu/~njgovsch/index2.htm
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A two-week, college-level interdisciplinary program for talented high-school students entering their junior and senior years, ESSYI provides exceptional opportunities to explore the scientific, social, and humanistic perspectives of environmental issues. This program is designed as an introduction to a variety of environmental issues and perspectives on nature and our environment.
http://academic.hws.edu/enviro/
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Intensive English Language, ESL and other summer programs are only a few of the Pre-Summer College Programs offered at Johns Hopkins University.
http://www.jhu.edu/summer/
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This program is a summer workshop open to all high school students of all experience levels. It is designed for beginning students who want to learn how to debate in the classroom or in competition as well as for intermediate and advanced debaters who want to sharpen their debating skills and knowledge while getting a head start on preparing for the competitive debate season. Students can improve their speaking, debating and argumentation skills as well as their knowledge of debate theory.
http://www.liberty.edu/academics/communications/debate/
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Marine Quest runs numerous camps for all different age groups. All camps provide exploration of local marine habitats, laboratory activities, quality instruction, complete supervision, recreation, and the opportunity to develop friendships with peers from across the US.
http://www.uncw.edu/dpscs/marinequest/
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Montclair State University offers a Summer Camp for gifted youngsters. Students accepted into the Summer Camp Program will take three (3) non-credit academic course. Since the program's purpose is to provide balanced enrichment, each student is required for one course in humanities, one in mathematics and one in science. In addition each student will register for one cultural/recreation course.
http://www.montclair.edu/pages/gifttalent/summercampinfo.html
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Students will do apprentice work with industry- or university-based mathematics, science, and engineering (MSE) professionals and participate in "hands-on" research. They will live on a college campus, participate in enrichment activities and meet other NASA SHARP apprentices from diverse backgrounds. NASA SHARP aims to establish individual working relationships between students and active researchers in aerospace-related fields, and to strengthen the nation's and the government's efforts to recruit and sustain underrepresented students in scie...
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2003/03-123.html
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"The New Jersey Scholars Program provides a dynamic learning environment at the Lawrenceville School where 39 able and motivated high school students experience the life of the mind as they have never done before. Scholars plunge into an inter-disciplinary college-level five-week summer program, expanding their intellectual abilities by approaching the summer's topic from many different directions. The Scholars learn and live together, stimulating and supporting each other as they wrestle with the challenges posed by this new approach to learni...
http://www.lawrenceville.org/njsp/
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The Seidenberg Scholars Summer Experience is a 5 day fully-funded program sponsored by the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems at Pace University. Alumnus Ivan G. Seidenberg, the CEO of Verizon, recently gave our School of Computer Science and Information Systems a $15 million gift to help endow the school. A portion of his donation goes towards continuing an exciting initiative called the Seidenberg Scholars Program.
Starting Fall 2007, this program will enroll some of the most talented and creative students in ...
http://www.seidenberg.pace.edu/summerscholars/
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Sponsered by the Center for Excellence in Education, this Summer program involves focused content on advanced theory and research in mathematics, the sciences and engineering. RSI is open to students who have completed the third year of high school or the equivalent. Refer to this informative web page for application deadline details.
http://www.cee.org/rsi/index.shtml
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Two-week summer residential programs for gifted and talented students who are currently enrolled in grades 4-10 are available. Curriculum focuses on extending a student's capabilities in problem-solving, creativity and critical examiniation, and evaluation of content-rich fields of study. Financial Aid is available. Saturday Enrichment Programs are offered to gifted and/or high ability students from K-5th grade.
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=713&Itemid=67&Itemid=
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High school students can enjoy workshops in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction during this residential summer program. Other highlights include lectures by the university's English faculty.
http://www.sewanee.edu/ywc/
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This pre-College summer experience is where 7th and 8th grade students live on campus, take courses and participate in activities related to their interest and abilities in science. The courses are designed to provide an exposure to intellectual concepts. A sample of courses include: Forces of Nature: Monster Storms, Global Warming, and the Science of Weather; Animals that Listen in the Dark: Echolocation in Dolphins and Bats; Programming a Microcomputer-Controlled Rover; Where Rivers Meet the Sea: Ecology of Narragansett Bay.
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Continuing_Studies/pc/spark/index.php
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Students who are currently enrolled in grades 4 - 10 may apply to attend a two-week session in our program where curriculum emphasis will be on extending a student's capabilities in problem-solving, creativity and critical examination and evaluation of content rich fields of study. Areas that are new or of special interest to students will be investigated through hands-on simulations, demonstrations, lectures, discussion and/or individual or small group investigations. The 9th - 11th grade program will also emphasize the acquisition and practic...
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/centers/enrich/Summer/Summer.htm
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This organization provides instruction in over eighty academic, arts, and recreational courses during its regular academic schedule as well as free choice recreational activities and special evening programs Monday through Friday. Up to 100 $500 Merit Scholarships are offered towards a residential program.
http://www.giftedstudy.com
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Located at colleges and universities throughout the nation, students take a three week long, in-depth study of a course. Students live on campus and participate in activities ranging from sports to arts and music.
http://cty.jhu.edu/summer/index.html
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"A summer regional Governor’s School in Warrenton, Virginia, designed to provide enrichment experiences to meet the needs of identified gifted learners currently in grades 5, 6, and 7. This program serves students in Fauquier, Culpeper, Rappahannock and Orange Counties and is housed at Emerald Hill Elementary School in Culpeper."
http://www.fcps1.org/index.cfm?pageID=684
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"The Alexandria Archaeology Summer Camp provides an opportunity for students, ages 12 to 15, to dig the past in historic Alexandria, Virginia. Participants work directly with City Archaeologists to excavate an historic site and discover evidence of earlier times. Choose a one-week or two- week session, and use science, history and geography skills to discover more about the town's history and how archaeological methods uncover the past. Participants excavate on a real archaeological site, work with their excavated artifacts in the archaeology l...
http://oha.ci.alexandria.va.us/archaeology/ar-programs-summercamp.html
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The Summer Math and Recent Technologies (SMART) Camp is a two-week residential, summer enrichment program for high school and middle school students. It is held under the direction of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore's (UMES) Department of Education. The camp is located on the UMES campus in Princess Anne, Maryland. SMART provides an array of courses aimed at engaging students in mathematical and scientific problem solving using various innovative techniques. Through participation in any one of the courses, you will better understand...
http://www.umes.edu/SMART2004/index.htm
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UD Summer College is a five-week residential summer program for academically motivated high school juniors.
http://www.summercollege.honors.udel.edu/
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Developed specifically for highly motivated rising high school juniors and seniors, this exclusive three-week summer program is a great way for a successful student looking ahead to college to test their academic interests, learn about campus life, study with the university's best and brightest, and get a jump on their college career. Earn three University credits and choose from 11 customized courses.
http://summer.umd.edu/s/ysp/
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The Young Writers Workshop of the University of Virginia, established in 1982, brings together a community of writers with a common purpose: to create a supportive and noncompetitive environment where teenagers can live and work as artists. Every staff member has a committment to writing. The faculty, professional authors interested in developing new talent, bring practical experience to the workshop setting. The staff counselors, who are graduates and undergraduates in related fields, broaden our instructional program as assisting workshop tea...
http://web.virginia.edu/yww/
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"Virginia Governor’s Schools provide some of the state’s most able students academically and artistically challenging programs beyond those offered in their home schools. With the support of the Virginia Board of Education and the General Assembly, the Governor’s Schools presently include summer residential, summer regional, and academic-year programs serving more than 6,500 gifted students from all parts of the commonwealth".
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Instruction/Govschools/acadyearchart.pdf
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The Virginia Governor's Mentorship for Engineering serves students selected from across the commonwealth in grades 11 – 12 through an intensive five-week program. Fill out Academic and Mentorship Summer Residential Governor’s School Application.
http://www.pen.k12.va.us
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The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) Governor's School is a five-week summer residential school provided in cooperation with Christopher Newport University. For 14 years, this program has been serving high achieving high school students throughout the state of Virginia and providing participants with exceptional, authentic experiences in marine research. Each summer, VIMS hosts six gifted/talented students who have demonstrated interest in and aptitude for marine science. The program is structured as an apprenticeship, and is adminis...
http://www.vims.edu/adv/ed/gs/index.html
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The School's mission will be to provide hands-on, cutting-edge scientific and academic instruction to these future leaders and scientists to develop their understanding of the scope, opportunities, challenges, and both academic and scientific rigor of the broad fields of agriculture and natural resources.
http://www.gsa.vt.edu/
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The Governor's School for Humanities and Visual & Performing Arts is a four-week summer residential program for rising high school juniors and seniors. It is sponsored by the Virginia Department of Education and participating schools. The University of Richmond School of Continuing Studies hosts the program.
http://www.richmond.edu/govschool/
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A Mentoring Team will consist of a public school science teacher and a medical or health professional student whose responsibilities would be to design and develop small group experiences, research projects and one on one opportunities for the students to obtain research and clinical exposure. The 30 students will be divided into 5 or 6 teams. Each team remains with the same teacher/student mentors throughout the experience. The curriculum consists of morning lectures provided by star clinical or research faculty in the fields such as genetics,...
http://www.vcu.edu/lifesci/centers/cen_lse_governors.html
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Governor’s School programs are summer programs that last for four weeks at different college campuses. The purpose of Governor’s School is to provide not only an academically enriching experience. but also one that fosters personal growth and development.
http://govschool2001.lynchburg.edu/
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"Summer Scholars is an academic program that allows a select group of rising American and foreign high school seniors to attend a month-long program that affords them the opportunity to experience college life. Through unique courses, co-curricular activities, field trips, and social activities, students develop their intellectual curiosity and prepare to meet the challenges of college. By the end of the session your perspective on life and academics will have been enriched by the faculty who taught you, by the counselors who assisted you in ma...
http://summerscholars.wlu.edu/
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A collaborative effort of education, business/industry and government, the West Virginia Governor's Schools provide an opportunity to develop the potential of future leaders of West Virginia. Designed to stimulate and support excellence in education through a multi-week summer program, the West Virginia Governor's Honors Academy was started in 1984 by Governor John D. Rockefeller IV. The mission of the academy is to operate an academically rich environment designed to honor high ability/high achieving students in an institution of higher educat...
http://wvgovschools.org/gha_home.htm
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Ten 6 -person teams will work with faculty mentors and college-level resident assistants to describe different aspects of the planning, development, and operation of a theme park, using scientific & mathematical operations. In turn, each of those solutions will be factored into the larger problem. Dr.Eric Pyle, Director of GSMS at WVU, describes the importance of such an experience for developing adolescents: "While individual effort and interest with respect to mathematics and science is a prerequisite, the fact that most working scientists an...
http://www.wvgovschools.org/gsms_home.htm
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Governor's School for the Arts is a three-week residential program providing individual and in-depth group instruction in the arts for current high school sophomores living in and attending school in West Virginia. Areas addressed are dance, theatre, vocal music, instrumental music, and visual art. Skilled artists/teachers will work with students who demonstrate potential in those areas. In addition, the Governor's School for the Arts attempts to broaden the students' understanding of the arts through interdisciplinary courses focusing on commo...
http://www.wvgovschools.org/gsa/
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The West Virginia Wesleyan Summer Gifted Program has been held since 1983. It is committed to fostering the development of gifted adolescents in the quantitative, verbal and social areas. The teachers are all college professors who possess special interest in gifted children. Classes are fast-paced and accelerated. Creativity, the ultimate expression of giftedness, is emphasized directly and indirectly in the Program.
http://www.wvwc.edu/summergifted/
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The William and Mary Chancellor Academy is an exciting summer program for high school students from around the country ready to explore the intricate boundaries connecting the natural sciences and math to other disciplines - sociology, art, philosophy, anthropology, and history. You will also have the opportunity to study science or math first hand - from a canoe on Lake Matoka or while scrambling over a rock bed. There will be class time, too - each of you will take 2 courses, but these will be different than most high school classes and even ...
http://web.wm.edu/wmca/index.php
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"The Rutgers Young Scholars Program in Discrete Mathematics is designed to encourage talented students to consider careers in the mathematical sciences. Selected students participate in an intensive four-week academic program that provides a challenging introduction to discrete mathematics- a new and growing area of the mathematical sciences with many applications on the cutting edge of modern research. During the program, you will develop and enhance your problem-solving abilities by applying mathematical concepts to a wide range of problems. ...
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/ysp/
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