The Great Debate tests and improves your written and verbal communication skills.  You will engage in discussions and debates about issues affecting today's Latino community.  The week long program helps you gain experience in public speaking and the role it plays in leadership.

Where:  Austin, TX
When: dates for one week in either June or July
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels:9

At the Lorenzo De Zevala (LDZ) Youth Legislative Session, students to envision themselves as a part of the future leadership of the 21st Century Latino Community. Students are asked to assess the potential and promise of a community rooted in a reality of dual cultures. Critical thinking, collaboration, and the ability to influence others emerge as essential skills to facilitate success as a leader at LDZ. Students are housed on a college campus and walk away from this intense week of running their own mock government with increased confidence and aptitude for building collaborative relationships in groups.

Where:  University of San Diego

When: June 2016-  July 
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels:10        GPA: 3.0 or top 20%

The Collegiate World Series (CWS) is a college-based leadership program focused on helping students identify and develop leadership skills for the long-term decision-making they will do as college students. The program supports the development of success behaviors that help students in the college application process, as well as throughout college life. Students are pushed to reflect on the cultural, moral, personal, and ethical values they want to define not only their collegiate studies but their life. Students walk away with a "strategic plan" for their long-term success, not to mention the opportunity to network with college reps from top universities around the country.

Where:  Cabrini College, University of Tampa, or University of North Texas

When: July 13 - July 17
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels:11        GPA: 3.0 or top 20%

The Clark Scholar Program is an intensive seven week summer research program for highly qualified high school juniors and seniors. The Program at Texas Tech University helps the Scholars to have a hands-on practical research experience with outstanding and experienced faculty. The Scholars will receive a $750 tax-free stipend and room and board.  The Program includes fun activities, weekly seminars and field trips.  This Program provides opportunities for research in all academic areas in the university.

Where:  Texas University, Lubbock, Texas
When: June 20th - August 3rd
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels: 11

The Step-Up Program provides hands-on summer research experience for high school and undergraduate students interested in exploring research careers.  This is a 8 to 12 week research experience and students receive a summer research stipend.  You will be paired with experienced research mentors at institutions throughout the nation and work on a research project.

Where:  Research Institute (local) TBD for 8 week internship and National Institute of Health in Bethesda, MD
When: Summer 2016 for 8 weeks (based on site) August 7th - 11th for Annual Step-Up High School Research Symposium held in Maryland.
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels: 11        GPA: 3.0 or top 20%

Our flagship program introduces 50 high school girls to the power of political leadership.  This six-day retreat includes workshops led by experts in the field on public speaking, networking, fundraising, on-camera media training, and advocacy.  Young women candidates and elected officials speak to the girls about what it is like to run as a young woman, how to get involved on a local level, and why they feel it is important to get more women elected.  The goal of the program is to encourage the girls to channel their leadership into politics.  

Where:  Washington, DC
When: June 19th - June 25th 
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels: 9, 10, 11        

The Bezos Scholars Program invites 12 of the country's top juniors to the Aspen Institute's Annual Ideas Festival. Here, Bezos Scholars meet visionaries from around the globe - international leaders, acclaimed thinkers, creative artists, bold entrepreneurs - and engage in seminars, tutorials, informal meetings, and debates.  It's a time of great discovery and intellectual stimulation that leads to the second phase of the program which begins when Scholars return to their campus and are provided with the opportunity to apply for financial support to execute a local Ideas Festival at their school campus.  Students involved develop the highest level of civic duty, leadership awareness, and more.

Where:  The Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado
When: June 25th - July 1st
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels: 11

Selected students participate in a five-week summer residency program engaging in one-on-one mentoring and first-hand research training with professors and graduate students at one of five Texas universities. The primary goal of WSSP is to expose talented and inquisitive students to professional researchers in professional laboratories giving them a glimpse into research and life on a college campus. Through assignments, authentic research projects, guest speaker series, tours of chemistry-based research facilities and presentations of personal research findings, students leave the program with a better understanding of basic chemistry and many with a desire to pursue science and engineering degrees in college.

Where:  Texas Tech University, The University of Texas-Arlington, The University of Texas at Dallas, The University of Houston, The University of Texas at Austin
When: June 5th - July 8th
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels: 10, 11   GPA: 3.5 or top 10%

Interested in exploring mathematics?  Interested in going to college and would like to learn more about applying to college and financial aid opportunities?  Interested in a career in science or math and would like to meet young professionals in the STEM fields?  Interested in interacting with Rice faculty and graduate students and meeting other students who like math?  Then apply for RPiM!

Where:  Rice University
When: June 13th - June 24th
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels: 9,10,  GPA: 3.5 or top 10%

Blue Stamp Engineering is an intensive 6 week program that teaches motivated high school students to perform hands on engineering.  Blue Stamp Engineering students build projects they are passionate about - from concept to prototype.  Similar to a real world technology setting, students' products are built stepwise with achievable milestones.  BSA sessions include short discussions based on where the students are in their build process. Students are given ample time to work on their projects, supported by hands on instruction from the lead instructor and teaching assistants.  Finally, students are pushed to think about how their products could thrive in the real-world market and how, as engineers, they can influence important developments in our society.

Where:  Houston, TX
When: June 13th - July 22nd
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels: 9,10,11

BSE offers a two-week introductory program.  This program is intended to provide students with basic project building skills.  SImilar to the 6-week program, students will select which projects they want to build and build them individually.  The projects completed in the 2-week program are less complex than the 6-week program, but still allow students hands-on experience with design and execution of engineering plans.

Where:  Houston, TX
When: June 13th - June 24th
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels: 9,10,11

SLOT is a three-day leadership development conference for high school juniors and seniors which takes place annually at Texas A&M.  Delegates are students who participate in the conference, and who will be grouped into "roundtables" led by facilitators (current Texas A&M students), as they move through the SLOT leadership curriculum.  Delegates will have the opportunity to learn from Keynote and Breakout speakers who will share their ideas of leadership and how the delegates can further develop their leadership skills.  Delegates will acquire the fundamental skills needed to become effective leaders, and will be provided the necessary tools to make an impact in their community and continue their leadership development journey.

Where:  Texas A&M, College Station
When: April 1 - April 3
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels: 11

At Concordia Language Villages, our approach to language teaching puts villagers into a grad simulation of a trip abroad and into a culturally authentic setting - similiar to what you might find in that foreign country - but filled with carefully designed learning opportunities and well-trained language teachers who help villagers understand what they hear, learn how to respond and converse, and practice new skills all day, every day.

Where:  Bermidji, Minnesota
When: multiple dates in July and August
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels: 9,10,11

Princeton welcomes about 20 high school students from across the country for an intensive, 10-day seminar in journalism.  Princeton wants students like you to become part of college and professional newsrooms because of the unique perspective you bring.  Classes are taught by reporters and editors from leading publications, such as but not limited to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The New Yorker, CNN, and ABC News.  You will tour the Times and CNN, cover a professional sports event, cover news events in the Princeton area, film and produce a TV segment, and report, write, edit, and design their own newspaper: The Princeton Summer Journal, which is published on the programs last day.

Where:  Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
When: August 5 - August 15
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels: 11              GPA: 3.5 or top 10%

Since 1997, the Coca-Cola Pre-College Leadership Program at the Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership (formally known as the Leadership Center) at Morehouse College, the first of its kind at a historically black college and university (HCBU), has been a beacon in providing leadership training to high school students and college pre-freshmen. For seven days each summer, students from high schools across the United States are introduced to the traits, skills and behaviors necessary for effective 21st century leadership.. Training sessions are highly interactive and diverse, including lectures, workshops, rituals, journaling and outdoor leadership focused activities. During the week long experience, each day accentuates a leadership principle (love, integrity, courage, wisdom, and hope), and the curriculum builds personal and interpersonal leadership skills using indoor and outdoor group activities. The activities emphasize self-awareness as a basis for better understanding of ethical leadership practices in the 21st century. For many, the experience is life altering.

Where:  Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia
When: June 11 - June 17
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels: 10,11              GPA: 3.0 or top 20%

The 2016 Procter & Gamble Leadership Academy focuses on the development of leadership using the 4Cs Socio-Ethical Leadership model; Character, Calling, Connection and Contribution. The overarching goal is developing students with disciplined minds to lead and serve in a technology-based global society. The highly interactive curriculum focuses on the development of intrapersonal and interpersonal skills and the dimension of 21st century leadership domains of sustainability and technology advances in a global society.

Where:  Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia
When: June 18 - June 24
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels: 10,11              GPA: 3.0 or top 20%

Are you curious about how weather predictions are made? Come to Penn State Weather Camp and find out!  During this week of camp, you will receive hands-on experience in many aspects of weather, including the actual process of making a forecast.  This camp will be held at the premier location for studying weather, Penn State's Department of Meteorology at the University Park campus.

Where:  State College, Pennsylvania
When: June 19 - June 24
Who:  Eligible Grade Levels: 9, 10, 11