Summer Resources

Use your summer productively!  Whether that means immersing yourself in another culture, building homes for the poor, exploring your creative writing skills, or learning how to manage a sports team, take advantage of what your summer as a teenager can offer!

To visit an organization's website, click on its name.  Every week that I update this page, I will mention it on the blog update.



Teen Ink
An organization that has reviewed summer programs and recommends the best of the best programs for acting, arts, camps, travel, language, writing, college courses, computer skills . . . it goes on!

INTERNATIONAL
Rustic Pathways
- Offers adventure, community service and language immersion programs
- All over the world
- A former client LOVED her trip to Thailand with them.

Intercultura
- Two-week language immersion program in Costa Rica
- Stay with a host family for a week and at a beachfront hotel for a week
- Offers college credit
- I DID THIS PROGRAM!

Language Liaison
- Rich and exciting experiences all over the world
- A client LOVED her trip to Spain with them. (http://www.languageliaison.com/Program.htm?008800=522)
- Host family and dorm stay available

Global Works
- Offers adventure, community service and language immersion programs
- 2-4 week programs all over the world

AFS
Offers language immersion and community service and hosting programs
- Summer programs 4-7 weeks long
- Host a foreign student!
- "Go-to" organization for international travel, study and work for many years

Where There Be Dragons
- summer youth programs in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East
- small-group 4-week to 6-month programs
- home-stays and what they call "rugged travel"

ACADEMIC/COLLEGIATE/ARTISTIC
University of Miami's Summer Scholar Programs
- A client really enjoyed this program and earned college credit!
- Program choices include: Forensic Investigation, Marine Science, Sports Administration, Sports Medicine, Writer's Symposium

School of Visual Arts Pre-College Program for High School Students
- Enhance your existing artistic skills (no matter what level you are)
- Build your portfolio
- Earn 3 college credits
- A former client used this program to build her photography portfolio, which later got her accepted into top art schools.

Bard College at Simon's Rock Young Writer's Workshop
- 3-week program
- Workshop in Language and Thinking encourages students to think through writing, try many genres, be sensitive to voice, and explore the world through fiction, poetry, and memoir as well as through exploratory essays
- Ah, if I were in high school now . . .

Brandeis Institute of Music & Art for High School Students
- offers programs in Film, Music, Visual Arts, Writing and Theater
- July 6 to August 5
Genesis at Brandeis University
- integrates Jewish studies, the arts, the humanities and community building