Summer and Pre-College Programs

Choosing the Right Summer Programs

The college-planning workshop, “Choosing the Right Summer Programs” hosted by the Turner Chapel AME Church Education Ministry is taken from the book, “A High School Plan for Students with College-Bound Dreams”:

“Your experiences, such as where you have traveled, the type of communities where you have lived, the organizations with which you have been involved with, and the programs or camps in which you have participated contribute to your intangibles (p. 101). The summer months between 8th grade and your senior year of high school should not be squandered. Take advantage of the many opportunities to explore your talents, interests, and abilities. Some of the many opportunities that you may explore, experience, or become involved in are:

  • Traveling
  • Working in a meaningful job related to an area of interest or through an internship
  • Participating in a summer learning opportunity in an academic, artistic, or community service
  • Participating in pre-college summer camps/programs
  • Participating in a AAU, USATF, or club sport
  • Participating in summer practice for a high school sport such as football, cross country, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, etc.
  • Volunteering as a counselor, life guard, coach, or art instructor at a parks and recreation, Boys & Girls Club, or community program
  • Taking some of your non-academic classes or electives in summer school to open your schedule for more honors or advanced classes during the regular school year

There are many summer enrichment, internship, and college program opportunities. The first two stops are your high school counselor’s office and the web. Research programs related to your areas of interest and utilize the opportunity to increase your academic or athletic skills. Try to concentrate first and foremost on those areas that related directly to your college interests, whether in your major field or study or in sports that you intend to pursue on the college level (pp 163-164).”

The workshop also expanded parents’ and students’ understanding of the importance of taking advantage of summer program and enrichment opportunities to enhance students’ résumés and expand students’ gifts. To begin identifying summer program opportunities, do an Internet search of your area of interest, e.g., music summer programs, sports camps, pre-college programs.

Click onto the follow images for links to some of the many summer program opportunities shared in the workshop.

 

Morehouse College Summer Programs

Morehouse College offers a broad range of summer programs:

  • Coca-Cola Pre-College Leadership Program
  • “Creating the Beloved Community: An Orientation to Ethical Leadership”
  • Pre-Freshman Bridge Summer Science Program
  • Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program
  • NNSA-DoE Sponsored Pre-freshman
  • Summer Enrichment Program in Physics Majors and/or Engineering
  • 2012 Thomas J. Blocker Pre-Freshman & 2012 J.K. Haynes Summer Science Program for High School Students
  • 2012 Pre-Freshman Summer Program (PSP)
  • HHMI-Undergraduate Science Education Program
  • Clayton County Schools Summer Program
  • Youth Entrepreneurship Summer (YES) Camp
  • Project Identity Summer Program for Youth
  • D.R.E.A.M.S. Discovery Research Education for African-American men in STEM

Click here for more details…

NASA Opportunity for Female High School Juniors

Women In STEM High School Aerospace Scholars

Engineer your dream job!  Your adventure begins in 2012 with an online community and culminates with a summer experience at NASA Johnson Space Center in Summer 2012. Collaborate with girls from across the country and female NASA engineers and interns.

Applicants need to:

  • Be a U.S. Citizen
  • Be a female high school junior
  • Be interested and excited about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)
  • Be committed to a one-year relationship with NASA’s Johnson Space Center, and
  • Have access to the Internet and e-mail (at home, school, or public library)

For specific project information, visit http://wish.aerospacescholars.org

Deadline to apply: February 22, 2012

State Bar of Georgia High School Pipeline Program

High School Pipeline Program

The State Bar of Georgia Diversity Program, in partnership with the Leadership Institute for Women of Color Attorneys and Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, presents an annual Pipeline, held at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School. This program presents a unique opportunity for diverse students to prepare for college and ultimately law school. The program is limited to 18 students and applicants will be considered on a “first come, first serve basis.”

Please contact Marian Cover Dockery, executive director, State Bar of Georgia Diversity Program at lexikonmcd@aol.com for more information.

 

21st Century Leaders Summer Programs

The 21st Century Leaders (21CL) was established in 1991 by a group of executives in response to two alarming trends: 1) a lack of people prepared to accept leadership roles, and 2) the difficulty of employees in crossing class and racial barriers to work together. The group realized the key to reversing these trends is the next generation; that is, providing young people with the training, guidance and encouragement necessary to enter college and the workforce with a highly developed set of leadership skills.

21st Century Leaders launched its first one-week summer program in the summer of 1991 with 31 students from eight high schools. Since that time almost 10,000 young people have been engaged in the leadership programs of 21st Century Leaders. Through a partnership with the Georgia Board of Regents, the summer program grew to multiple collegiate campuses and multiple “classes” of high school youth in 1996. The first co-branding of one if its programs, Leadership Unplugged: A CNN Experience began in 2006.

G5! @ GoizuetaBusiness-focused leadership development program.

Leadership UnpluggedMedia literacy focused leadership development program.

Leadership Plugged-InTechnology-focused leadership development program.

Terry Accounting Residency Program

Accounting Residency Program

As accounting is the language of business, this program is designed to provide exceptional high school students an overview of the many career opportunities in the accounting profession and a brief introduction of business.

ARP students will attend instructional sessions during the day, with fun activities scheduled in the evenings. The daytime sessions will provide insights into career opportunities in accounting and related fields through panel discussions with national and regional accounting firms and representatives from industry groups and government agencies.

Other sessions will introduce important job skills, including:

  • Resume writing
  • Workplace ethics
  • Business etiquette
  • Financial literacy
  • Leadership development

Students also get to sample “college life” by lodging in UGA residence halls, eating in the university’s award-winning dining halls, and attending lectures by UGA professors. The evenings are filled with fun outings, entertaining diversions, and time to enjoy the camaraderie of fellow ARP participants.

Program Tuition: $95. A limited number of need-based financial scholarships are available upon acceptance.

For more information, please contact program director Randy Groomes.

Online Application Process

A selection committee will review all applications. Whether you are applying to one or both programs,you only need to submit one application. Take your time and be careful with your application to ensure the best chance for admission. Do not rush.

Recommendations and Official Transcript

One letter of recommendation is required. Letter must be from your school counselor or teacher. (This requirement is waived for student already accepted and plan to attend the University of Georgia in the fall.)

You should select individuals who know you personally and can speak to your academic ability, conduct, initiative, character, extracurricular involvement, and potential for leadership.

Letters and Transcript should be mailed to:

Terry College of Business
Terry Summer Residency Programs
341 Brooks Hall, 310 Herty Drive
Athens, GA, 30602

Candidate Selection

Selection is a competitive process. All applications will be reviewed based on the quality of candidates’ essays, interests, demonstrated leadership ability, and academic transcript.


 

Terry Business Academy

Terry Business Academy

The Terry Business Academy is a highly selective, pre-collegiate program at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. This intensive one-week program will expose approximately 30 high school rising juniors and seniors to the various fields of business. Each student will gain practical experience developing and presenting a business plan. Participants will learn about different business majors and career paths, and will visit corporate headquarters to meet executives and professionals in various industries.

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Program Tuition: $495. A limited number of need-based financial scholarships are available upon acceptance.

For more information, please contact program director Randy Groomes.

Online Application Process

A selection committee will review all applications. Whether you are applying to one or both programs,you only need to submit one application. Take your time and be careful with your application to ensure the best chance for admission. Do not rush.

Recommendations and Official Transcript

One letter of recommendation is required. Letter must be from your school counselor or teacher. (This requirement is waived for student already accepted and plan to attend the University of Georgia in the fall.)

You should select individuals who know you personally and can speak to your academic ability, conduct, initiative, character, extracurricular involvement, and potential for leadership.

Letters and Transcript should be mailed to:

Terry College of Business
Terry Summer Residency Programs
341 Brooks Hall, 310 Herty Drive
Athens, GA, 30602

Candidate Selection

Selection is a competitive process. All applications will be reviewed based on the quality of candidates’ essays, interests, demonstrated leadership ability, and academic transcript.

If you have questions about the application process, please contact Program Director Randy Groomes.

 

Youth Theological Initiative 2012 Summer Academy

July 7 – July 28, 2012. The Youth Theological Initiative will host a summer program for high school Sophomores and Juniors at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

At YTI, we believe that young people need theology — the study of God and God’s relationship with the world — as one of the resources to draw upon as they explore their place in the world.  And we believe that the world needs young people to contribute their theological perspectives and their energy in order to promote social justice and the common good.  We gather approximately thirty-six rising high school juniors and seniors from across the country for the Academy, a three-week ecumenical experience in justice-seeking Christian theological education.  Our goal is to help you explore theological questions and perspectives in a supportive, mentoring community where your views, talents, and insights are respected and encouraged.

So what does this look like?  Kind of chaotic, actually, as we live out our commitment to practicing theology in the concrete situations of every day life.  We’ll make it possible for you to engage in academic exploration, service-learning, and community-building with a diverse group of “scholars” (as we call the participants) and staff.  You might take an exploratory course that focuses on a theological issue or topic (for instance, “Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People: The Problem of Theodicy”), ethics (“Nonviolence, Christianity, and Social Justice”), the Bible (“The Liberating Word: Reading the Bible around the World”) or world religions (“Faith and Dialogue: Exploration of World Religions”).  You’ll engage in service activities with a justice-oriented organization in Atlanta, which might include working with homeless people, refugees from countries torn apart by violence, or those who are mentally or physically disabled.  Because we bring together youth from diverse racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, national and denominational or religious backgrounds, you’ll learn about other people, and learn how to engage honestly and respectfully with people whose experiences, commitments, and perspectives are different from yours.  You’ll have opportunities to worship, both within the YTI community and with other faith communities around Atlanta.  And there will be time for relaxation and play, in activities like choir, our improv theatre group, basketball, creative writing, and ultimate Frisbee.

Click here to download an application…

University of Pennsylvania Summer Research Opportunity

This program is only open to students outside the University of Pennsylvania. Penn students looking for summer research opportunities are urged to look at: http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/.

The Undergraduate Research at The Nano-Bio Interface program at Penn’s NBIC is an REU that combines a rich research experience in nanobiotechnology with structured professional development focused on cross-cultural issues.  The focus of the research is molecular interactions at the interface of physical and biological systems organized around themes of molecular motion, opto-electronic function of biomolecules, and single molecule probes.  Faculties from two universities collaborate to provide a rich research experience for undergraduate students.  Our strategy is to constitute a student body that is 50% Hispanic and 50% non Hispanic so that role-playing, communications, ethics, etc can be developed around a specific cultural example.

Interested in Applying:

The 10-week REU provides nanoscale research opportunities across a wide range of disciplines from materials science, mechanical engineering, chemistry, physics, bioengineering, physiology, chemical engineering, and electrical engineering.

[APPLY ON-LINE]
(application deadline February 27, 2012)

Please contact Jim McGonigle, NBIC Program Coordinator for questions regarding these programs at 215-898-5151 orjmcgon@seas.upenn.edu.

Read about the Nano/Bio Interface Center’s REU program in this article from the alumni magazine, Penn Engineering. Information about similar Penn REU program and contact information are included. document to download:PennEngNew_F07_REU.pdf