From your Guidance and College Counseling Team!!

Interested in tech?! Amazing Scholarship opportunity!

The Horizons Scholarship is a fully-funded technology immersion program for top high school students from around the world. As technology continues to play a larger role on the world stage, whether it be in business, politics, art etc., it is encouraged students gain a solid technical foundation as they prepare to succeed in the college admissions process and in the world. 

Past Horizonites come from schools like Harvard, Princeton, UPenn/Wharton, Columbia, and more. Horizons was originally designed for students from the world’s best universities - and now the opportunity is available for high school students. The high school students who have been invited to spend a summer among the growing Horizons community have considered it to be a life-changing experience. 

The Horizons Scholarship 

The Horizons Scholarship supports outstanding high school students from any greade level on a fully-funded experience in San Francisco, in their pursuit to become leaders in the fast-growing technology sector. Our programs provide immersive software engineering and web/mobile development courses geared towards high-achieving high school students planning to attends the nation's top universities. The program requires no prior computer science or programming knowledge. 

The Horizons community attend the top business, engineering, and liberal arts programs in the country at The Wharton School, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Williams, Pomona and more. 

Interested students can start an application here! 

Academic Summer Camps at 

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg College is excited to offer several opportunities for high school juniors and sophomores to attend academic camps over the summer months. Subjects include psychology, American government, history, creative writing, or information technology. Please find information to share with your students about our academic camps below: 

• Camp Psych - Campers will get hands-on experiences that introduce them to research in psychology during this fun, challenging, and engaging introduction to the field.
• Campaigns and Elections Academy - This program is designed for highly-motivated students who have a strong interest in American campaigns and elections. Participants learn about the origins and evolution of democracy in America and gain hands-on experiences related to modern political campaigns. 
• Writing Camp - Students gain an in-depth introduction to all four genres of creative writing: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and writing for stage and screen.
• 3D Object Modeling and Printing Camp - Students will study 3D object modeling and printing starting with the basics of a 3D printer. After learning the fundamentals, they will practice designing objects.
• Coding for Robotics & Electronics Camp - Students will gain hands-on experiences in coding, wiring, hardware, and building robots through the open source software known as Arduino. Throughout this camp, campers will learn basic electrical engineering, the physics behind electricity, and how to think like a scientist.
• Civil War Institute Summer Conference - The High School Student Scholarship component of Gettysburg College's annual Civil War Institute summer conference provides high school students an opportunity to explore the history of the Civil War era on the site of the war's most decisive battle. 

http://www.gettysburg.edu/about/offices/fa/conferences/summer-camps.dot