Summer Programs
If you haven’t decided how to spend your summer, you may want to think about the possibility of participating in a summer program. Not only is it an exciting way to spend your summer, but you’ll get to experience life on a college campus, explore new and exciting fields you may want to pursue as for college majors, and make friendships with students from around the globe. If summer programs interest you, you should act soon! Application deadlines come early in the year. To get you started on the process, check out the following list of summer program websites.
Birmingham Southern Entrepreneurship Program : Birmingham-Southern is pleased to offer the BSC Entrepreneurship Scholars Program, generously endowed by BSC alumni Jane and Kevin Stump in recognition of the college’s mission to cultivate a shared vision of business savvy and public responsibility. The program is for students who have demonstrated an exemplary entrepreneurial spirit through their work—both inside and outside of the classroom. Such work could include initiating a business plan or activity, developing a non-profit or service learning project, implementing a program in the fine arts, theatre, or music, or other creative endeavor.
Discovery Hall Programs Day Camps (Dauphin Island)
McWane Science Center : Volunteers! To apply, students must submit an online application, a resume, a character reference letter and an educational/professional letter of recommendation.
National Youth Science Center (West Virginia)
Samford Pharmacy Camp: McWhorter School of Pharmacy at Samford University is offering a one week Pharmacy Camp this summer for high school students that are interested in investigating a career as a Pharmacist. We would like to invite your students to participate in this McWhorter School of Pharmacy Camp. During the week of pharmacy camp they will experience hands-on learning about health careers in pharmacy, participate in tours of local health care facilities and local pharmacies, participate in compounding activities and hands on demonstrations in the McWhorter School of Pharmacy science laboratory. Students who attend the camp will have the unique opportunity to spend time on the Samford campus and experience campus life with us, spend time with pharmacy professors, and have a lot of time to interact with other students also interested in careers in pharmacy.
Summer Reading Program through Auburn University : Summer reading programs are available in Auburn, Birmingham, Dothan, Fairhope, Mobile, Montgomery, Prattville, Tuscaloosa, and other locations throughout the area.
UAB Summer Science Institute : Summer Science Institute is a multi-summer research experience for high school students interested in learning what it is like to do “real” science. During the first summer in Fundamentals of Cellular and Molecular Biology (formerly Student BioTeach), students are offered a “smorgasbord” of short, 2-3 day, introductory molecular biology experiments. The following summer in Advanced Principles of Biology and Neurobiology (formerly ChemTeach) these same students are invited back to participate in extended, 5-6 day, more focused biochemical investigations on different aspects of a specific, biologically important protein. Finally, during the last summer as Student Research Interns, students are placed in a research laboratory to work on their own original project under the supervision of premier UAB faculty and staff.