The Athena Summer Innovation Institute is an intensive, 3-week boot camp that provides students with the practical skills and knowledge they need to develop ideas that will make a difference in the world. Students will work in teams to create a new venture — start-up businesses, non-profit organizations, or advocacy campaigns — that have the power to disrupt traditional ways of doing things and create lasting change.

A lecture and clinical case study course designed to help students gain an understanding of the fundamental concepts of the structure of the human body. The course will include regional study of the major organ systems. This course is designed to meet the needs of students interested in pre-health majors & allied health fields.

At Rose POWER, you’re not just dreaming about the future—you’re building it. This hands-on summer camp at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is designed to empower girls to explore innovation and engineering, as well as all students who want to build any widget or gadget they can imagine, but have not had experience in a makerspace. Rose POWER is a week-long, immersive camp that invites you to roll up your sleeves and build anything you can imagine—from creative gadgets and interactive projects to fully functioning prototypes. You’ll work in Rose-Hulman’s state-of-the-art innovation labs, guided by college mentors, engineers, and educators who are passionate about helping you explore your potential.

Calling all empowered influencers! This week-long overnight program is designed for high school girls who are interested in business and entrepreneurship. Campers will experience firsthand the process of bringing a marketing plan to life and create a mock-up of their product in the Saint Mary’s Spark Lab makerspace. During the week, campers will work closely with Saint Mary’s students and professors as they learn the process of creating a marketing campaign, strategize promotional materials, and create social media content to sell their product. Campers will hear from local women in the business field as they talk about their journey to becoming entrepreneurs. Campers will also experience what campus life is like at Saint Mary’s College as they sleep in dorms, eat in the dining hall, and attend sessions in campus classrooms.

Do you love true crime and want to experience detective work firsthand? This week-long overnight program is designed for high school girls interested in the fields of forensic science, criminal justice, or science in general. Campers will work together to solve a staged murder by analyzing physical evidence, interviewing suspects, and using deductive reasoning to identify the guilty suspect using all available information. Throughout the week, campers will work closely with Saint Mary’s students and professors as they explore the world of STEM and how it is used to analyze evidence. Lessons and guest speakers will allow campers to experience a variety of topics and show them that there is more than one way to be a great detective. Campers will attend a tour at the local police station and crime lab, and interact with professionals in the field. Campers will also experience what campus life is like at Saint Mary’s College as they sleep in dorms, eat in the dining hall, and attend sessions in campus classrooms.

Leave it all on the court this summer! Tennis participants will focus on fine-tuning and improving groundstrokes, serves, returns, volleys, and other specialty shots. Instruction on advanced shots as well as strategy and tactics used in both doubles and singles will be taught through competitive situations and point play. Participants will be instructed by Saint Mary's coaching staff and student-athletes. On the last day of camp, parents/guardians are invited to watch the final camp tournaments and award ceremonies. Additionally, participants will join in fun evening activities, meet new friends, and experience life on a college campus!

Summer fun starts HERE! Our camps keep kids moving, laughing, learning, and making memories all summer long. Let the adventures begin! Open play, crafts, themed games and activities, obstacle courses, quiet time, snack time, and more!

An admirer of Shakespeare once claimed that “Shakespeare cannot be measured.” At St. John’s Shakespeare’s immeasurability makes it impossible to predict where our conversations about his works will lead. Will we discuss how humans might best respond to suffering, or why romance makes fools of us? How to tell the difference between madness and sanity, or what conscience is? Or how gender works? Or…? With the gentle guidance of a faculty member, students themselves will shape their encounter with Shakespeare’s immeasurability, studying together one comedy, one tragedy, and several sonnets.

What can a poem accomplish that no painting can achieve, no matter how great the painting—and vice versa? Both forms of art can profoundly affect our minds and emotions, but in different ways, because each form or genre has its own peculiar possibilities and limits. Our project will be to study painting and poetry by comparing them, both experientially and philosophically. For experience, we will encounter and interpret particular poems (by poets such as Homer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth) and paintings (by painters such as Rembrandt and Bruegel). For philosophical insight, we will read a classic text on painting and poetry, Laocoon by Lessing. One strand of our inquiry will be to compare several works on the same theme: for example, Ovid’s poetic description of The Fall of Icarus, a painting by Bruegel inspired by Ovid’s description, and then a poem by Auden that comments on Bruegel’s painting.

In the Frontiers residential, overnight program for rising 10, 11, and 12th graders, students explore STEM through a collegiate lens, and prepare for their own college journey. Students are challenged to explore the outer limits of their knowledge in a STEM major and receive an introduction to a humanities, arts, or business minor such as entrepreneurship, digital imaging, or psychology!

The Engineering Design Lab (EDL) program will expose students to engineering, fabrication, robotics, and computation in the context of solving real world problems. Throughout the two weeks, guest speakers from across the university and industry representatives will discuss research and development happening within their labs/research groups, as well as issues and problems they face in the real world. These speakers will be a source of inspiration to the students for completing their engineering design projects.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the sub-field of Machine Learning (ML), are rapidly becoming an integral aspect of many different technological systems, and revolutionizing both computer science and engineering solutions to many everyday problems. Yet the general understanding of the fields, and the impact of these tools on society, is still not well understood by either the general public nor even fully appreciated by those developing the technology.

Mini Dental School: Explorations in Dental Medicine is an immersive journey that introduces high school students to the exciting world of dentistry and healthcare. Participants will delve into various dental specialties while gaining a solid foundation in human anatomy, with a particular emphasis on the oral cavity. The program emphasizes hands-on learning, allowing students to actively participate in procedures such as cavity fillings, plaque removal, and suturing under the guidance of experienced professionals.

Welcome to the Tufts Summer Research Experience! Conduct research at a nationally-ranked research university and gain exposure to large-scale research projects. Be immersed in the world of collegiate research at one of the premier research-focused universities in the Boston area in this 6-week, in-person program. Develop a variety of foundational research skills through workshops, guest speakers, field trips, and more during their time at Tufts. Students will show off all of their hard work at a closing research poster session with peers, family, and faculty!

The High School Summer Music Academy is an opportunity for talented band, orchestra and piano students from Colorado and around the country to receive world-class music instruction in a one-week summer session. Band and orchestra participants are placed into a wind ensemble or string orchestra with a nationally renowned conductor. Select students are divided into one of many small ensembles to gain invaluable chamber music experience. Students will also participate in electives that will serve as preparation for collegiate music degree programs.