Where Learning Meets Passion Our Summer Scholars (On Campus) and Summer Scholars Online programs give students the unique opportunity to study academic tracks not offered in traditional high school curricula. Courses are taught by Notre Dame faculty and participants learn with students from across the globe.  Here are some of our favorite courses being offered in Summer 2021:   Engineering and Inventing the Future: Making Things Smarter for a Better World On Campus When you think of the future, do you see a world with flying robots, virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, sweat-powered personal devices, internet for everyone, cancer-detecting smart needles, or pollution-free energy? In this course, students work in teams to explore the technologies needed to make these ideas a reality.  Photography: Seeing Creatively On Campus This course is designed to help talented high school students find their photographic voice and explore new techniques to express it. You'll use the latest in digital cameras, imaging software, inkjet printers, and studio lighting, along with learning traditional darkroom techniques. Entrepreneurial Immersion Online Ever wonder how a great idea gets to the marketplace? This online course focuses on three key elements: developing early stage concepts, testing customer interest, and understanding how to pitch for funding to develop your ideas and make them a reality.  Introduction to Philosophy: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Human Online What does it mean to be human? What is beauty? Why does art matter? Those with curious minds, always searching for answers to big questions, can explore the immemorial issues of life’s meaning together in our introductory philosophy course!  Restorative Justice and the New Jim Crow Online This seminar examines the potential of restorative justice ethics, practices, and community-led initiatives to challenge, and potentially transform, the structurally racist features that form the retributive culture of the U.S. justice system, and its devastating impact upon minority and marginalized neighborhoods.   Students earn a college credit upon completion of our in-person and online courses.