2014 Baruch Summer Leadership Academy - Application due May 2

"The Academy gave me the tools that I need to apply to Ivy League schools and made me realize I definitely want to be a doctor." — 2013 Pre-Med student

Explore New York City

The Academy takes place at Baruch College, a thriving, internationally ranked institution, located in the heart of New York City, midtown Manhattan. Academy students experience college as they have access to Baruch College’s state-of-the-art campus including the college’s library system and athletic facilities. The Academy takes students on relevant field trips throughout New York City, allowing them to explore their career field of choice and meet with successful industry insiders. Students at the Academy are able to experience the unique culture and customs of New York City, an international hub for finance, fashion, business, and the arts.

Discover Your Passions

Each specialized program at the Academy is specifically designed to prepare high school students for successful careers in a pre-professional study track of their choice. The 2014 Academy offers the following five Programs:

Programs	Participants
Global Finance & Economics	Rising 11th and 12th grade students
Pre-Med	Rising 11th and 12th grade students
Entrepreneurship	Rising 11th and 12th grade students
Financial Engineering	Rising 11th and 12th grade students
Sophomore Enrichment	Rising 10th grade students

Each track at the Baruch Leadership Academy involves intensive classroom workshops and lectures from distinguished university professors and accomplished professionals. Academy students travel to fieldtrips throughout New York City where they can connect the theories that they learn in the classroom to practice in professional settings.

Prepare for the College Admissions Process

Baruch Summer Leadership Academy students are at an advantage because they are able to develop their passions in an environment that fosters academic enrichment, cultural stimulation, and real world experience. Students receive intensive college preparation that truly gives them the edge that they need to get into America’s top colleges. Rising 10th grade students at the Academy receive daily PSAT preparation, while rising 11th and 12th grade students experience daily SAT preparation. Test preparation courses feature content in critical reading, mathematics, as well as writing sections of the exams.

Daily Schedule

Baruch Summer Leadership takes places from Monday through Friday from 9AM – 4PM. On Monday through Thursday students follow the following schedule:

Time	Course
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM:	Daily SAT Preparation
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM:	Focus Academy Course
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM:	Lunch
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM:	Focus Academy Workshop, Lecture, or Laboratory Activity

The Academy reserves Fridays for field trip exploration throughout New York City. During the 2013 Baruch Summer Leadership Academy, students visited landmarks such as Wall Street, Times Square, and Grand Central in addition to various museums, corporations, law firms, businesses, colleges, and professional schools throughout Manhattan.

Admissions

The application for the 2014 Baruch Summer Leadership Academy consists of a high school transcript, two letters of recommendation, an online application. International students must also submit financial support documentation for visa purposes. Competitive applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis beginning in January 2014.

CLICK HERE TO BEGIN YOUR ONLINE APPLICATION!

See more : http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/studentaffairs/academy/admissions.html

SUMMER COLLEGE ACCESS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

sSUMMER COLLEGE ACCESS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

SUMMER COLLEGE ACCESS 

LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

The fourth annual New York University College Access Leadership Institute (NYU CALI) is designed to demystify the often daunting college admissions process.

This program will include workshops and small group sessions on a variety of topics:

• college admissions
• college entrance test preparation
• essay and resume writing
• interviewing and presentation skills
• financial aid literacy

Program graduates will be certified College Access Ambassadors and will be required to act as mentors and advisers in their respective high schools by conducting their very own college application workshop.

Successful applicants to the NYU CALI program come from underrepresented communities and are academically strong high school students from the New York metro/tri-state area. They also demonstrate exceptional leadership abilities within their schools and communities. If selected, students are awarded a full scholarship to the institute, and they are only expected to cover travel expenses to and from the NYU campus.

Space in NYU CALI is limited, so please submit your application as soon as possible! 
The application deadline has been extended to April 18.

 

Click here for the online NYU CALI application.

 

Or, download the paper application, which can be printed and mailed in.

 

For guidance in submitting the components of the online NYU CALI application, feel free to refer to the chart below.

CALI Application Materials	Submission Method
Application	Online
Activities List/Resume	Online (part of application)
Essays #1 and #2	Online (part of application)
Recommendation Letters (2)	Online as part of application OR mailed by recommendor
Test Scores	Varies by type of test score*

*SAT or ACT scores should be submitted directly from the testing organization. (NYU Code for SAT: 2562; NYU Code for ACT: 2838.) PSAT scores should come directly from your guidance counselor or principal. You may also print PSAT scores directly from the College Board website and send them via postal mail to our address, on the right.

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Students who are unable to submit the online application may contact the NYU Office of University Programs for assistance by emailing university.programs@nyu.edu or calling 212-998-4282.

Two Week Summer Programming Camp

 

Registration is open until May 1 for Flatiron School's high school summer programming day camp. Visitwww.summer.flatironschool.com to register now.

 

Computer programming jobs are growing at 2x the national average, but in NYC, only 100 of the 75,000 teachers here teach computer science. This fact might help explain why 9 out of 10 schools in the US don't offer computer programming classes.

 

The Flatiron School (www.flatironschool.com), which offers full time technical training programs in web and mobile development, is offering a special 2 week high school program this summer. This course is designed to have students doing real work that could be production code for any company. Students will be armed with an arsenal of real world developer tools. All new technologies will be presented with the historical context and creators of these tools.

 

We teach Ruby. The Ruby programming language is a terrific language to use to introduce students to programming. The Ruby community at large invests a lot of time supporting open source software, which generates amazing tools that are freely available, allowing for fast application development. Developers no longer have to reinvent the wheel with every application. Open source software enables easy integration with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other popular websites, as well as typical behavior for sites such as user authentication. Ruby also strips away the syntactic complexity of other languages. Students are able to focus on understanding programming concepts and learn how to approach problem solving rather than searching for an accidental additional space or missing semi-colon.

 

Sessions are offered from June 16-27, July 7- 15, July 18- August 1, August 4- 15. Each session runs Monday-Friday from 9am-3pm. Tuition is $1,895.

To find out more about the dates, learn more about the program, and register visit www.summer.flatironschool.com. Questions can be emailed to hs@flatironschool.com

 

 

It's chic to be geek.

Scholarship Opportunity for High School Juniors

The Richard and Mica Hadar Foundation, established in 1993, offers college scholarships to high school students who demonstrate talent in any of the creative arts. 

By providing scholarships, seminars and a mentoring program, the foundation supports young scholars who might not otherwise be able to attend college. The scholarship amount varies depending on financial need.

We invite you to nominate students for our 2015 Class by May 15, 2014.

WE ARE ONLY LOOKING FOR JUNIORS—meaning, we are asking you to nominate students who are currently juniors in their spring semester. These students will then be seniors in September 2014.

We have created an ONLINE NOMINATION PORTAL atwww.hadarfoundation.org where you can nominate students. You will be receiving the username and password to this portal this week in a separate email. Once you have received your username and password, please go towww.hadarfoundation.org and enter it in the upper right hand corner; on the bottom of the screen the nominator forms will appear. Please fill out one nomination form per student. All nominator forms must be submitted digitally by May 15, 2014 through this new submission process. Once you have submitted your nomination per student, that student will receive a username and password on the Hadar Foundation website to submit their application which is due by June 30, 2014. We’ve gone completely digital! 

Any questions, please email: beth@hadarfoundation.org

The selection criteria for the scholarship is:

· FINANCIAL NEED: Students who do not have the satisfactory means to attend college may apply. Please email our Finance Director, Ann Feminella with any questions about financial aid: ann@hadarfoundation.org.

· RESPONSIBLE/INTELLIGENT & INTERESTING STUDENTS: Students who have passed all their regents and who have a good high school transcript along with a demonstrated interest in their particular creative discipline.

· DEMONSTRATED TALENT IN EITHER THE PERFORMING, LITERARY, OR THE VISUAL ARTS: Students must be proficient in their art discipline—i.e. if they want to be an actor; they must be working toward that goal in school/out-of-school time. No samples of work needed except from writers; writers must submit up to 5 pages. We are counting on the nominators to select the most talented students.

If you know of any other organizations with strong art programs that might be interested in nominating talented young artists to us, please let us know and we will contact them directly.

What are your kids doing for SPRING BREAK??

What are your kids doing for SPRING BREAK??

They are invited to join us for the ART EXCEL Program (Ages 8-13) or YES! Youth Empowerment Seminar (14-18). Both are dynamic programs that interactively engage kids to do something fun, educational,  extremely valuable, and potentially life-changing at the same time.  

Over 40,000 kids from all across the country (and more around the world) have gone through these programs, and we're still growing!!

When:

Spring Break: Mon-Thurs April 14-17: 10am-3pm each day.

Where:

Our venue is currently set to be at 30th and 5th Ave in Manhattan.
However, if substantial registrations come from Brooklyn families, we will have a Park Slope venue (TBA)!

About the Course:

These initial 20-hour seminars are comprehensive. They include practical tools for stress management, relaxation, problem solving strategies, leadership training, social skills development, and creative projects. 

Courses will provide:
Breathing techniques
Games
Fun yoga
Socially engaging processes
A take-home daily practice 

Free follow up sessions for participants
Group of close friends

Such vital skills enable children (people) to nurture greater inner strength for managing negative emotions, conflict, peer pressure and criticism, while fostering better child-parent relationships, friendships, and academic achievement.

For more info about ART EXCEL, including a VIDEO, visit: http://www.artofliving.org/art-excel
Direct link to video: http://youtu.be/Rv6dr0JGFMs

Recently published study about the effect of the YES! course on teen impulsivity: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23601502

About Us:

The Youth Empowerment Seminar and the ART Excel courses are projects of IAHV (International Association for Human Values), a humanitarian NGO and The Art of Living Foundation.

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Click below for registration:*

Ages 8-13: aoljgd.org/artexcelspringbreak

Ages 14-18: aoljgd.org/yes!springbreak 

*Register by March 31 and get the Early Bird Discount!
If you have any questions at all, please contact:
Angela Hanna: 610-762-0822 or angela.hanna@iahv.org.

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We are looking forward to two wonderful courses!

The YES! and ART EXCEL Teams 

Art Excel - All Round Training in Excellence - Art of Living