STARTALK Chinese Immersion Program (Appalachian State University)
A free, NSA-funded STARTALK program for rising 9th-12th graders with little or no prior Chinese exposure, combining virtual pre- and post-camp activities with a three-week residential immersion in Chinese language and food culture at Appalachian State University.
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A residential summer institute at the University of Mississippi offering intensive, college-credit-bearing Arabic and Chinese language courses for high schoolers through the university's Language Flagship programs, combining classroom instruction with cultural co-curricular activities.
National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y)
Fully-funded U.S. State Department scholarship that sends high schoolers to study critical languages (Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian) through immersive summer or academic-year programs abroad, or through a virtual option.
STARTALK
A National Security Agency-funded network of free or low-cost summer programs hosted at universities nationwide that teach critical-need languages such as Chinese, Russian, Arabic, and Korean to K-12 students.
Adventist Health Central Valley Healthcare Pathway Program
A selective 4-week healthcare exposure program run by Adventist Health Central Valley in which a physician personally selects two small cohorts of high school students for hands-on exploration of healthcare careers and clinical environments.
American Anthropological Association Virtual High School Internship
A four-week virtual spring internship run by the American Anthropological Association in which high school students research contemporary anthropological scholarship and adapt it into public-facing content for a 6th-12th grade audience, alongside a rotating secondary project focused on accessibility or public education.
Arthur M. Blank School Summer Program (Babson College)
A pre-college summer program at Babson College, the top-ranked school for entrepreneurship education, offering high schoolers residential, commuter, and online options to take hands-on courses across business, entrepreneurship, technology, and finance taught by Babson faculty and practitioners.