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Penn State The Excitement of a “Big Ten” Campus! 2011 Summer Study Programs For High School Students 1 • 6 ⁄2 -Week College Credit Program • 6-Week “Triple Play” Enrichment Program CELEBRATING 1 • 3 ⁄2-Week Enrichment Program 20 YEARS • 2-Week Intensive Workshop Programs OF EDUCATING For Middle School Students OUR YOUTH! • 2 and 4-Week Enrichment Programs Special Features • CSI: PSU Forensic Science Workshop • Internships O • Kaplan SAT/ACT Prep Course S N C A M P U • Earn College Credits • Fantastic Weekend College Trips • Community Service • Exciting Classes • The Ultimate College Town www.BestSummerEver.com Summer Study Programs conducted by Summer Study Programs, Inc. on the Penn State Campus “A World- Class Program with World-Wide Appeal” Summer Study Programs 900 Walt Whitman Road Melville, NY 11747 (631) 424-1000 Worldwide (800) 666-2556 Nationwide E-mail: [email protected] Internet Address: http://www.summerstudy.com 2011Summer Session Dear Pre-Collegians, Middle Schoolers, Parents and Friends, You are about to embark on the most exciting and educationally rewarding summer of your life! By joining our college credit, enrichment, or middle school program at Penn State University, you will experience a “SUMMER LIKE NEVER BEFORE”…a summer filled with challenging, yet exciting classes… a summer filled with new friendships from all over the globe…a summer filled with the finest sports and athletics available only on a “Big Ten” campus like Penn State…a summer filled with exciting nightlife in the “Ultimate College Town”…a summer filled with weekends off campus, the annual Central Pennsylvania Arts Festival and exciting events on campus…a summer that has “something for everyone”…a summer filled with activities, activities, activities! 1 Summer Study Programs offer 5 different programs at Penn State University. Our 6 ⁄2 -week, Summer Study at Penn State Program offers students completing 10th, 11th or 12th grade the unique opportunity to earn COLLEGE CREDITS as well as experience college life in a relaxed summertime atmosphere prior to entering college. With the “pressure off,” summer academic life permits time for successful development, personal growth and maturation, study skills, time management, self-confidence, community living and independence. Our 6-week “Triple Play” Program brings a unique blend of academics, internships and community service all rolled into one fantastic program. Students completing 9th, 10th or 11th grade will choose 1 intensive workshop for 2 weeks, get real-life work experience through a hands-on internship for 2 weeks, and give back to the community with 2 weeks of service. The Triple Play is sure to be a winner! 1 Our 3 ⁄2 -week, Summer Enrichment at Penn State Program and 2-week, Intensive Workshop Programs offer students completing 9th, 10th or 11th grade the ability to experience the “beat and pulse” of an up and run- ning university before they actually attend a matriculated university. This “head start” on college life per- mits each student an easy transition from high school to college. Students attend enrichment style classes where a heavy emphasis is placed on group interaction and discussion based topics. Our Middle School program offers students currently completing 8th grade the opportunity to learn in an environment where our directors, administrators, and staff work with all students on a personal level, ensuring the finest care, supervision and mutual respect. Learning this summer is easy in our 4-week or 2-week Middle School Programs. Class categories range from intellectual and creative pursuits (The Smarts and The Arts) to atypical classroom subjects (Physical Ways and Lazy Days). In the classroom, on the stage, on the dance floor, on the courts and on the ball fields, Summer Study students are engaged in activities all day. Our goal is for students to learn, both in and out of the classroom, to adjust to community-style living, and to set their sights on SUCCESS! Academic programs are NOT all the same. All of our pre-college programs offer Kaplan SAT Preparation (pg. 16), Special Features (pg. 9), and exciting enrichment classes (pg. 16-18). The summer calendar is packed with nightly events in the Ultimate College Town: shows, live concerts, dance clubs, ice skating, movies, broomball, skit night, water sports night, Minute to Win It, SSP Fashion Show, casino night, Summer Study Idol, go-karts, our farewell banquet and more. Creatively planned daytime events and activities revolve around the interests of students in the program: sports clinics, tournaments and pick up games, discussion groups, jewelry making, tie dying, poets corner, special events and more! All in all, these years are the most important and the most impressionable years of adolescent life. The security and confidence gained through our programs will prove to be invaluable for success throughout high school and the college years. There IS a difference in programs!!! We are proud that more high school students choose a summer program at PENN STATE UNIVERSITY than any other college campus. We invite you to ask previous participants why! Sincerely, SUMMER STUDY PROGRAMS, INC. AND Summer Study Programs OUR COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE Pre-Collegiate Programs RECEIVED NATIONAL ACCLAIM ON CNN NEW S SUMMER STUDY PROGRAMS , USA TODAY 2 A Summer THE NEW YORK TIMES. AND IN Like Never Before ... At a Glance Table of Contents Program Dates Pages 1 6 ⁄2-WEEK COLLEGE CREDIT June 28 - August 13 4-18 Completing 10th, 11th or 12th grade 6-WEEK TRIPLE PLAY July 3 - August 13 4-11 & 14-19 Completing 9th, 10th or 11th grade 1 3 ⁄2-WEEK ENRICHMENT July 3 - 26 4-11 & 14-18 Completing 9th, 10th or 11th grade 2-WEEK INTENSIVE WORKSHOP July 3 - 16 Completing 9th, 10th or 11th grade July 17 - 30 4-11 & 19 July 31 - August 13 2 OR 4-WEEK MIDDLE SCHOOL July 3 - 16 4-5 & 20-25 Completing 8th grade July 17 - 30 Administrative Staff Bill Cooperman, BS, MS Executive Director Years of Summer Experience... Table of C ontent s Mike Sirowitz, BA Jordan Zucker, BA David Wolk, BS, ATC Julian Fowler, BA Jack Kelley, BS Director of Programs Director of Student Director of Personnel Director of International Director of Student and Operations Enrollment and Staffing Programs Activities Prof. Dan Sykes, BS, PhD. Tom Cook, BS Diane Strumlauf, BA Parris Smith, BA Alli Herbaugh, MSED, NCC Forensic Sciences Program Coordinator Director of Guidance Director of Sports College Counselor and Recreation SUMMER STUDY PROGRAMS 3 “Before coming to Summer Study at Penn State, we were“ afraid that we would not be able to make friends easily. At Penn State That was NOT the case at all…making friends was amazingly easy. Summer Study was a truly life-changing e experience for us both. Everyone should be able to experience and participate in a program like this at “least once. ” Morgan Kaiser, Warren, NJ and Brittany Rizika, Wayne, NJ 2010 Summer Study Roommates Dining ur attractively furnished dining facility serves 3 Omeals per day during the week with brunch and dinner served on the weekends. Your residence hall is just steps away from the dining hall where students will have access to delicious “all-you-can-eat” meals. All meals are prepared fresh daily and creatively planned by nutritionists. In addition to the hot About Penn State entrees served at every meal, students may also ituated in the center of Pennsylvania and choose from salad bars, veggie bars, pasta bars, Ssurrounded by the cooling Appalachian deli meats, cereals and plenty of other food choices. Mountains, The PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PARK Our community of middle school students, high campus is one of the nation’s most beautiful school students, staff members, directors and campuses. The central campus of 540 acres is administrators will mingle and socialize with one only part of the total 15,500 acreage that includes another during mealtimes. While at meals, be sure 2 Championship Golf Courses, 48 Tennis Courts, to try the FRESHEST and CREAMIEST ice cream in and a 72 Acre Lake! the East…made daily at the Penn State Creamery Penn State is one of America’s premier institutions on campus (where Ben & Jerry got their start). of higher learning. Nearly every state in the United States and most countries worldwide have students Exciting Nightlife presently enrolled at Penn State. Home to the oth the town of State College and the Penn State Nittany Lions and part of the “BIG TEN” conference, Bcampus make a dynamic setting with unlimited Penn State receives continuous publicity on opportunities for exciting evening activities. As television, radio and in national media coverage. collegiate social life continues after classes end, our The exciting “RAH, RAH” atmosphere, richly nightly program of planned events assures you of supported by all students, faculty and alumni, the Total Summer Study Experience. Included are: is electrifying and contagious. “Broadway” Shows (in past summers we’ve seen “Grease,” “West Side Story,” “Evita,” “The Wizard of The Ultimate College Town Oz,” “A Chorus Line,” and “Dracula”), a show with Campus Lif Campus ocated directly across the street from the Penn TV’s funniest Hypnotist/Comedian, Tom DeLuca, LState campus is the quaint, yet upscale college the fabulous Mezzanine and Indigo dance clubs, town of State College. This fabulous college town fast-paced Ice-Skating, action-packed Roller- revolves around the university and enthusiastically Skating, Go-Karts, Ice Broomball, Indoor Pool caters to the needs of its student population. From