Summer 2020 Enrichment Programs

Miami University Summer Scholars Program

Session I: July 5-17, 2020

Session II: July 19-31, 2020

Miami's Summer Scholars Program provides a rich, early college experience for academically talented, rising high school juniors and seniors from across the globe. Students join an engaged community of learners for an intensive, two-week program on Miami’s campus and explore a topic of their choice alongside our leading faculty and professional experts. Participants who later choose to apply to Miami will also receive an admission application fee waiver and priority consideration for Miami merit scholarships and honors programs.

If you have students who would be interested in this opportunity, I hope you will encourage them to learn more about the Summer Scholars Program; there is no application fee. Documents are required from counselors - please communicate with your counselor at least 2 weeks prior to the May 1 application deadline.

If you have any questions, please email summerscholars@MiamiOH.edu or call 513-529-2531.

Boston University College of Communication will continue to host its Summer Journalism Institute. By "making Boston their beat," students will have the opportunity to build a solid foundation in journalistic writing and become better storytellers while reporting the facts.

Students will attend a college-level writing class in the morning. In the afternoon, they are assigned to newsrooms to work with award-winning journalists such as Pulitzer winner, Rochelle Sharpe, as their editor to cover different stories – entertainment, politics, sports, metro, and investigations – in the Boston area. Students also have the option of selecting our photojournalism track with veteran photojournalist and Boston Globe journalist, Stephen Haines. Events range from special guest lectures with journalists at local news stations, such as WBUR and WGBH, to exploring historic sites and museums, including Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts.

Our two-week workshops begin on June 22, July 6, and July 20. At the end of each session, your student will walk away with:

• Articles to add to their professional portfolio
• A unique experience to write about in their college application essay
• An appreciation of journalism and the confidence to use their voice to tell stories in their own communities
• New friends

While we accept applications on a rolling basis, we strongly encourage students to apply early to secure their seat. To qualify for this opportunity, please have them apply.

If students are accepted to the program and pay the registration fee by April 30, they will receive a special discount of $500 off the tuition. Just pass along this discount code to them to use online: BUSUMMER20.
For more information about our program, visit our website and our FAQ section. 

THE VERMONT YOUNG WRITERS' CONFERENCE VENUE HAS MOVED AND EXPANDED! This year, we will be offering three separate residential weekends for emerging writers on Summer’s Gale Farm in Leicester, Vermont—formerly the Walter Cerf Homestead. Our 2020 agri-literary conferences will take place on May 28-31, June 25-28, and July 23-26, 2020, and each session will be limited to forty-eight participants. Students may apply via the Submittable platform on our website.

Now in our twentieth year, VYWC’s doors are open to high school students who wish to share their passion for story, drama, and song with their writerly brothers and sisters—and with celebrated New England authors. We offer three days of readings, improv, Moth storytelling, poetry slams, literary jazz/blues fusion & extended friendship on our agrarian campus. And this year, for the first time, our programming will include hands-on tutorials on sustainable growing practices and environmental stewardship.

Participate in over ten hours of intensive fiction, poetry, songwriting, creative nonfiction, and script writing workshops; exchange and critique manuscripts; attend faculty readings; and meet one-on-one with your workshop leader. Journal in the woods grove and get your hands dirty in the garden. As Gandhi suggested: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

The APPLICATION DEADLINE of March 26 is fast approaching and the blue lights are flashing. If you have a tale to spin, or a story to share, please visit our website: https://vermontyoungwritersconference.com/

It Girls at Syracuse University Presented by Syracuse University Summer College and the School of Information Studies (iSchool) June 27 - July 10, 2020 Please encourage your female students to apply to the It Girls Summer College program at Syracuse University! Deadline to apply is May 1, 2020 The program is expanding to a two-week non-credit course. Scholarships are available! The It Girls Summer College Program has a variety of scholarships available to help support the program. These scholarships are sponsored by the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) and our industry partners: Microsoft, GE, IBM, Synchrony Financial, and EY. It Girls Scholarships and reimbursement awards: Full scholarship for entire program up to $3,560 50% scholarship up to $1,780 Merit based awards Travel reimbursements To apply for any of these exclusive It Girls awards please follow these instructions: 1.     Apply to Summer College 2.     Please select “It Girls” as your program of choice 3.     To be considered for any award, please select in the application that you’re interested in "merit aid" and complete the essay prompt accordingly. All students that are chosen for any of the scholarships or reimbursements will be notified via email to the email address they provided in the Summer College application.  It Girls Application It Girls scholarship deadline is April 15, 2020 11:59PM EST 2019 It Girls Video 2019 Workshop Descriptions Data-Driven Decision Making Learn how businesses harness data and how talented individuals use the information to solve serious local and global problems. Google That Googling: a task that takes seconds. If you were asked to find something uniquely specific, could you find it? And, if your search generated endless results, would you be able to determine the best one? Information Security Information security is important to people, corporations, organizations - even to the cities we live in. Learn more about how to protect yourself online. Privacy and Ethics Many believe that the convenience of services like Uber, Spotify, and Twitter came at the cost of personal privacy. What data about yourself are you leaving behind on social networks? How fake is your finsta? User Experience Design People interested in User Design strive to build and create digital products and services that meet the needs of humans. Why will they want to use your product, what will it do for them, how will the product work and for whom? Could you design the next Snapchat or iPhone?  “The late night challenge was especially memorable! I went back to my math teacher at school and related the graphing designs to what we were learning in class. This overnight and my previous visits to Syracuse, have made me feel certain of my choice to apply early decision to the iSchool!” -It Girls 2018 participant