The Leadership Center at Morehouse College. Summer 2013. Deadline: February 25, 2013

https://www.morehouse.edu/centers/leadershipcenter/pre-college.html

 

 

Program Dates: Saturday, June 15 - Saturday, June 21, 2013

Online Application Deadline: February 25, 2012

For additional information Contact:
LaKetha D. Hudson Project Coordinator
lhudson@morehouse.edu
Download 2013 PCP Brochure

Eligibility:
Male students completing their sophomore or junior year of high school by June 2013.
Male students completing their senior year in high school who have applied for admission to Morehouse College for Fall 2013.

Apply online for the 2013 Coca-Cola Pre-College Leadership Program

Since 1997, the Coca-Cola Pre-College Program at 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. Each day the program accentuates a leadership principle: love, integrity, courage, wisdom and hope.

The curriculum is focused on personal and interp

ersonal leadership skills emphasizing the development of character, civility and community. 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: from Tai Chi, a ropes team-building course and historical tours, to rituals and ceremonies such as truth-telling sessions, mask-making, and a "Cave of the Heart Ritual‚" derived from Plato's Allegory of the Cave. 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.

FREE! Bezos Scholars Program @ the Aspen Institute Due: February 8, 2013

http://www.bezosfamilyfoundation.org/scholars

Bezos Scholars Program @ the Aspen Institute

Now accepting applications for 2013! Apply today or learn more...

Bezos Scholars Program: Cultivating Big Ideas

This leadership development program inspires students and educators to put their passion into action. The Bezos Scholars Program @ the Aspen Institute selects 12 public high school juniors and 12 dynamic educators to receive a seven-day, all-expenses-paid scholarship to attend the Aspen Ideas Festival, June 25 - July 1, 2013. On the Aspen Institute campus, Student and Educator Scholars attend seven days of seminars, tutorials, lectures and debates. They share meals and Scholars-only roundtable discussions with some of the most provocative thinkers, writers, artists, entrepreneurs and change-makers from around the world. Each day, dedicated leadership trainings help them understand themselves as leaders and prepare them for the challenge ahead: Creating sustainable Local Ideas Festivals that will transform their schools and communities.

Local Ideas Festivals: Turning Passion into Action

The program is a journey that begins in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado each summer and continues throughout the following school year as Scholars return home with inspiration, tools and resources to launch their own big ideas. During the next academic year, Scholar teams apply for $1,000 seed grants for planning their Local Ideas Festivals. Scholars’ passions are mobilizing classmates and community members to conserve water, communicate across cultural differences, increase literacy and address critical global issues.

A Huffington Post feature recently lauded the Bezos Scholars Program for “incubating big ideas and model citizens—one high school at a time.” Learn more about how to Apply.
The application deadline for 2013 Bezos Scholars is February 8, 2013

FREE! COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCIENCE HONORS PROGRAM DUE: February 28, 2013

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/shp/

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
SCIENCE HONORS PROGRAM
2012-2013

The Columbia University Science Honors Program (SHP) is a highly selective program for high school students who have a strong interest in the sciences and mathematics. The SHP holds classes at Columbia from 10:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. on Saturdays throughout the academic year. Courses are primarily in the physical, chemical, biological, behavioral, and computing sciences; and instructors are scientists and mathematicians who are actively engaged in research at the University. During the past few years, the SHP has offered the following courses:

Organic Chemistry

Computer Visualization in Chemistry

Experiments in Genetics and Molecular Bacteriology

Eukaryotic Genetics and Genomics

Genetics and Biodiversity Conservation

The Cytoskeleton - Dynamic Scaffolding of the Cell

Principles of Immunology

Human Physiology

Neurobiology of Development and Disease

Psychology of Memory

Mind and Brain

Comparative Psychology

Computer Programming in Java

Number Theory

Groups and Symmetry

Topics in Topology

Calculus in the Complex Plane

Chaos and Fractals

Fossil Fuels and Global Change

Energy Use in a Modern Economy

Concepts in Biological Physics

Optics and Lasers

Electronics and Circuit Theory

Solid-State Physics and Engineering

From Nanoscience to Nanotechnology

Relativity and Cosmology

Exploring Black Holes

Quantum Theory and Its Applications

Elementary Particles - The Basic Building Blocks of Matter

Experiments in Atomic and Nuclear Physics

Introduction to Astrophysics

Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology

FREE Summer Arts Institute DUE: February 8, 2012

http://schools.nyc.gov/offices/teachlearn/arts/summerarts.html

Summer Arts Institute Summer Arts Institute: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007| Donate Summer Arts Institute 2013 If you are interested in applying for Summer Arts Institute 2013, please click here to download the 2013 application. Completed and signed applications should be returned by mail to the address listed below. Applications must be received by 6 p.m. on Friday, February 8, 2013. Summer Arts Institute 333 7th Avenue, Room 801 New York, NY 10001 Contact us at summerarts@schools.nyc.gov or 212-356-8573 for further information.

Student Application for the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute

Student Application for the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute

High schools / Deadline: January 18, 2013

 

Applications for the 2013 Angelo del Toro Puerto Rican/Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute (PR/HYLY) program are now available online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HYLI2013.

 

The institute begins in January and is open to juniors and seniors of any Hispanic background. The program provides students with an opportunity to learn how a bill is passed in Congress and culminates in a free weekend trip to Albany. Students also learn resume-writing, debating, and leadership skills. Please urge all eligible students to participate in this exceptional and free program. For more information, contact Miguel Cordero at Mcordero@schools.nyc.gov.

An opportunity at the American Museum of Natural History during NYS Regents week

http://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/grades-9-12/digital-learning-week




During January, 2013 Regents Week, AMNH is offering four new day-long programs. Each is designed using various digital tools to explore different museum halls. We invite you to help us test them out.

Space is limited and will be given on a first come, first served basis. Applicants can apply to more than one of the four programs but placements will aim to include the largest number over the course of the week. No previous experience is required around either the digital tool or content area. Participating youth will be invited to be the first to test out AMNH’s new digital badging system and contribute to the new AMNH Youth Advisory.

Digital Learning Week

Follow Me: Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples (an AMNH Youth Audio Guide Program)

January 22, 2013

In Follow Me: Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples (an AMNH Youth Audio Guide Program), youth participants will prototype the development of a hall-based audio guide as science journalists. Working with a wide-range of museum staff experienced in both audio production and museum content, youth will learn about the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples, use anthropological tools to conduct interviews with museum staff highlighting their unique perspectives on the exhibits, and use the social media app Audioboo to process and share their guides. This hall is important historically because of Margaret Mead and has become a recent draw for young visitors due to the popularity of the film character Dum Dum. By the end of the day, youth will have produced dozens of brief sound clips that will be aggregated into a prototype of an audio tour.

Digital Learning Week

Virtual Wonder Cabinets

January 23, 2013

In Virtual Wonder Cabinets, youth participants will design their own virtual museum exhibit. With a special focus on the Akeley Hall of African Mammals (and including the other halls featuring nature dioramas), youth will come to understand and appreciate the history, purposes, and wonder of a natural history diorama, learn how to arrange museum content into a compelling scientific narrative for public education, and present their work through an online multi-media presentation. This program aims to combine the power of objects and the importance of science with an inherent sense of wonder.

Digital Learning Week

Morpholution

January 24, 2013

In Morpholution, youth participants will be introduced to the practices used by evolutionary scientists in Morphobank, a web application for conducting phylogenetics or cladistics research on morphology. Youth will explore how the tool is used by scientists to document and communicate evolutionary data and will generate evolutionary trees based on their own data collected throughout the day.

Digital Learning Week

FoodCraft

January 25, 2013

In FoodCraft, youth participants will explore the science and politics of food through playing the video game, Minecraft (no previous experience required), and the new AMNH exhibit Our Global Kitchen: Food, Natute, Culture. More specifically, challenges to food production, preparation, trade, and transportation will be encountered in historical and present day simulations, such as a pre-Columbian Aztec marketplace, illustrating the vital and complex role that food plays in our lives.

 

Whitney Museum of American Art Artists and Writers Program... Due 1/25/2013

http://whitney.org/Education/Teens/GetInvolved

Whitney Museum of American Art

http://whitney.org/Education/Teens/GetInvolved

Youth Insights currently offers two free, semester-long after-school programs each spring and fall for 10th through 12th grade New York City high school students:

YI ARTISTS

The Youth Insights Artists program brings teens together with contemporary artists, providing opportunities to work collaboratively, discuss art critically, think creatively, and make art inspired by this exchange. YI Artists meet on Wednesday afternoons from 4 to 6:30 pm.

YI WRITERS

In the Youth Insights Writers program, teens work closely with contemporary artists to explore art and the connections between art and text through critical and creative writing. YI Writers meet on Tuesday afternoons from 4 to 6:30 pm.

DATES & DEADLINES

YOUTH INSIGHTS APPLICATIONS FOR SPRING 2013

Youth Insights (YI) is currently accepting applications for the Spring 2013 term, February-May 2013. Apply online here.

Applications are due Friday, January 25, 2013 by midnight.

YI Writers meet on Tuesday afternoons from 4–6:30 pm

YI Artists meet on Wednesday afternoons from 4–6:30 pm