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Summer Opportunities
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The list is provided to inspire you to investigate your options. There are many additional opportunities out there!
Oregon-based Summer Programs
- BodyVox workshops and intensives for dancers (beginner-advanced)
- Building Camps for girls are sponsored by Oregon Tradeswomen
- Catlin Gabel Summer Programs including a workshop on college essay writing, the Elana Gold '93 Memorial Environmental Restoration Project and the PLACE urban studies programs, which use a social justice approach to experiential education and real-world learning to raise the stakes for children and youth to share their voice and lead.
- Cyber Camps offer a week of hands-on projects related to the growing field of cybersecurity, coed and a girls only options
- Fire Fighter Camp for Girls
- Free Geek’s volunteers bring home a computer after 24 hours of volunteering
- iDTech, a national tech education company, offers STEM education on the Lewis & Clark campus
- Mercy Corps Summer Camp: International Development 101
- Multnomah County Library, join Summer Reads or volunteer at the library
- My Voice Music offers music lessons, classes, Hip Hop Lab and an Artist Mentorship Program
- NW Film Center, Film Camps for kids + teens (animation, green screen, media arts)
- NW Youth Corps offer Epic Oregon Summer Camping Weeks for 14-15 year olds and five week work experience/camping and a community service focused day program for 16-18 year olds.
- Oregon Episcopal School Summer Programs (including writing, geometry and visual arts): OES Summer Offerings
- OMSI’s Youth Volunteer Program: Teen Youth Alliance Thinkineers (application due May 1)
- OMSI’s OMSI 9-12th Grade Summer Camps
- Open Signal offers media arts classes and workshops for teens
- Oregon College of Art & Craft offers pre-college intensives for artists in ceramics, metals, comics, fashion and more
- Oregon Department of Transportation’s Driver Education Teen Parent Resources
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s summer program for juniors
- Oregon State University’s pre-college summer programs
- Oregon State University’s Summer Experience in Science & Engineering for Youth provides education and research for girls and minorities interested in STEM fields
- Oregon Story Board’s Intro to Virtual and Mixed Reality Summer Courses
- Oregon Zoo has many volunteer opportunities for youth.
- Outward Bound's wilderness adventures (some Oregon rafting/mountain trips, most programs in other states)
- PDXtechies, iOS Programming Summer Camp
- Pendulum Aerial Arts' Recreation Classes and Contemporary Circus Summer Intensives
- PLACE, a youth civic engagement program with an urban planning focus
- Portland Center Stage, Summer Intensives
- Portland Community College, Summer Teen Program
- Portland Parks & Rec, Teen Force
- Portland State University’s Invention Bootcamp(free, four week program a foundation in the transportation industry and a chance to strengthen their STEM skills.
- Portland State University’s Transportation Institute (free, two week program for girls)
- Pacific Youth Rock Orchestra offers lessons and music programs for youth
- Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival (POWFest) offers POWGirls filmmaking classes for girls
- Process Institute’s Summer Youth Leadership Intensive Leadership & Conflict Resolution Camp
- Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls
- Saturday Academy, offers a wide variety of hands-on classes and camps
- The CENTER (Create Engage Notice Teach Empower Remember) offers 1 and 4 week civic engagement and leadership programs in the summer
- Strangeland Family Youth Choral Academy
- Trackers Portland offers teen adventure camps
- Tryon Creek State Natural Area, Summer Volunteer
- University of Oregon Summer Music Camps
- Youth Empowered Action Camp http://yeacamp.org/ in California
- Young Entrepreneur’s Business Camp, one week events at your choice of OSU, UO or the U of Portland
Volunteer Opportunities
- You can find summer volunteer opportunities at on the Service page of this RHS website.
- On the Hands-On Portland’s website you can type in your zip code or a keyword like computers or animals to find non-profits that need your time and talent.
- Volunteer Match is another great online resource for finding a cause or non-profit who needs your passion and drive.
College/Academic Summer Programs
Science Programs
- BU Research Internship Program
- Beaver Works Summer Institute
- Clark Scholar Program
- Carleton Computer Science Institute
- Carleton Summer Science Institute
- Garcia Summer Scholars
- High School Summer Science Research Program (HSSSRP)
- High School Honors Science/Mathematics/Engineering Program (HSHSP)
- International Summer School for Young Physicists (ISSYP)
- LaunchX at MIT
- LLRISE: MIT Lincoln Laboratory Radar Introduction for Student Engineers
- Navy Science & Engineering Apprenticeship Program
- Secondary Student Training Program (SSTP)
- Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program (SIMR)
- Student Science Training Program (SSTP)
- SSP (Summer Science Program)
- Science & Engineering for Minority Students at MIT - MITES
- RSI (Research Science Institute) at MIT
- University of St. Andrews International Summer Program
- Women in Technology
- WPI Stem Programs
Math Summer Programs
- Awesome Math
- Canada/USA Mathcamp
- Carleton Quantitative Reasoning Institute
- Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM)
- MathILy
- Mathworks at Texas State University
- Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS)
- Ross Mathematics Institute
- Stanford University Mathematics Camp (SUMaC)
- Texas State Mathworks Honors Summer Math Camp
Programs in Liberal Arts/Humanities
- Carleton College Summer Programs
- Duke Summer College
- Economics for Leaders
- Global Youth Village
- John’s College Great Books
- Lewis & Clark Fir Acres Creative Writing Workshop
- National Security Language Initiative for Youth through the Department of State
- Summer Language Academy at Middlebury
- School of the Arts Summer Institute
- Telluride Association Summer Programs
- US Department of State Student Internships
- World Affairs Seminar
Scholarship Programs
- Bank of America Student Leaders
- Girls on Ice
- Gettysburg Civil War Institute
- American Youth Leadership Programs through the Department of State
Visual Art Programs
- Cooper Union Summer Art Intensive
- Oregon School of Art and Craft
- Pacific Northwest College of Art
- Skidmore College Summer Studio Art
Programs Abroad
