☀️ Summer Lovin'... We Had A Blast! ☀️

2023 Summer Institutes Recap Slideshow

It’s finally here— the Summer 2023 Slideshow Recap!

This slideshow features hundreds of photos from one of the best GIV summers yet... but is still only a small glimpse into the magical experience of the GIV community coming together.

Thank you to every student, staff member, and supporter for making the GIV community as incredible as it is!

Institute Spotlight:

🧑🏻‍💻 Technology & Design 👩🏽‍💻

📍 Champlain College

📝 Coding, prototyping and design iterations

🎮 Digital painting and game design

🚌 Touring Beta Technologies & Emergent Media Center

📸 Tons of photos

🤩 64 students

😎 16 staff

Innovation, creativity, and trillions of 1's and 0's!

Students at GIV's Technology & Design Institute explored digital creativity using Champlain College's state-of-the-art facilities and faculty. With over a dozen classes that combined decades of industry experience, students studied Fortnite Creative Game Design, Microcontroller Programming, Cybersecurity, and more. In just one week, they were able to build robots, program websites and software, learn important cybersecurity measures, and create intricate digital designs! On top of that, they got to see the future of technology on their tour of Beta Technologies, a local cutting-edge electric aerospace company.

"My classes were awesome, and it was great to meet so many cool people!"

- 2023 Technology & Design Student

Interested? Applications will open in January for the summer of 2024.

🙏 Shoutout to the Institute Sponsors 🙏

We're so grateful for the generous donations of the Technology & Design Institute sponsors who help make this happen:

2023 Technology and Design Institute Sponsors

Dealer.com

Haystack Needle

STEM Challenge Initiative, Inc.

Interested in sponsoring an Institute?

Email us at hello@giv.org

Alumni Spotlight:

🪐 Jack Duranceau is out of this world 🪐

A man stands in front of a scientific poster, pointing at it

As a result of his senior thesis at Dartmouth College, Jack Duranceau (Astronomy, '16) discovered two exosolar planets.

We asked Jack about his experience at GIV:

"GIV was definitely one of the biggest motivators I had that led me to study astronomy. I thought the subject was cool, but it wasn't until attending the GIV astronomy camp that I got to experience first hand what being an astronomer actually entails. We engaged with astrophysical data, learning about the process from start to finish as we collected data, analyzed it on our computers, and then discussed our results. Once I had a taste, I knew I wanted to go further and do more research in astronomy, which led me to my honors thesis at Dartmouth College in which I discovered two exoplanets. I want to thank GIV for giving me the space to learn and the opportunity to explore potential career paths!"

- Jack Duranceau

Read the full story here!