🥁 BIG Announcement 🥁

🥳 Applications Are Now Open for 2024! 🥳

Expanding the community...

🥳 New year, new GIV students, and new adventures await! 🥳

Applications are now open for our Summer 2024 Institutes!

If you know a Vermont student who is in 9th, 10th, or 11th grade, please share these opportunities with them 🫶🏼

Arts: June 23rd to July 7th

Engineering: June 23rd to June 29th

Entrepreneurship: June 23rd to June 28th

Environmental Science & Technology: July 19th to July 28th

Global Issues & Youth Action: July 11th to July 21st

Health & Medicine (Northern Session): July 7th to July 13th

Health & Medicine (Southern Session): July 14th to July 20th

Mathematical Sciences: July 21st to July 27th

Technology & Design: June 22nd to June 30th

Apply Here!

New for this year, there will be two sessions of the Health & Medicine Institute to accommodate the high demand.

👩‍💻 How to Apply 👨‍💻

Five Step Application

Students: submit by March 31st!

1️⃣ Create an account for the application

2️⃣ Fill in the student information form

3️⃣ Answer questions about your interests

4️⃣ Request two recommendations

5️⃣ Pay a $25 application fee*

*If the application fee is a financial hardship for you or your family, GIV will waive the fee.

We welcome donations to sponsor students' application fees.

Sponsor an Application

2024 Promotional Materials

🗣️ Help Us Spread the Word! 🗣️

Our new 2024 Promotional materials are on their way to schools and communities all over the state!

Click here to view our full 2024 promo package and download materials to help us spread the word. We want to make sure every student in Vermont knows about this incredible opportunity!

Alumni Voices

🫧 Summer '23 Students 🫧

Students sit in a dark room with their phone flashlights waving, singing along

Here's what students said about attending GIV in 2023...

"[GIV] gave me a sense of belonging and it made me feel at home."

- Technology & Design Student

"I want to be a marine biologist and seeing what people are actually doing/what I could be doing was really cool. [It's] cool to see all the innovation and possible hope for the future of the environment."

- Environmental Science & Technology Student

"The mentors worked so closely with us and really pushed us to be our most intelligent selves." - Health & Medicine Student

"The problem solving was spectacular. Combined with the social climate, it was an amazing time." - Mathematical Sciences Student

Many students say GIV is life changing.

Help us by spreading the word to local high school students!