<p>are there any that would be worth doing?</p>
<p>Um…we need more information. What are your interests? What length of program are you looking for? How far are you willing to go from camp? How much can you spend? Etc.</p>
<p>However, if you have a close group of friends, I’d recommend spending the summer at home to decompress and begin your college years off right. If you balance your summer between chilling at the pool/partying/road tripping and buying dorm accessories/any summer assignments/mentally preparing to leave home, you’ll be much better equipped to start the school year off on the right foot. And your parents will probably be much less emotional if you haven’t been gone all summer.</p>
<p>That being said, I have a friend who’s now a freshman at Cornell who spent last summer backpacking around Alaska, in Canada, and otherwise occupied almost every week until she drove up to school. She’s incredibly happy from what she’s told me.</p>
<p>My D applied for and got an internship teaching through the Breakthrough Collaborative the summer after her senior year:</p>
<p>[Welcome</a> to Breakthrough Collaborative](<a href=“http://www.breakthroughcollaborative.org/]Welcome”>http://www.breakthroughcollaborative.org/) </p>
<p>Note that these are quite difficult internships to get, but they do hire some high school seniors for the summer. If your city has one or or more of these programs, I’d say apply for one if you have any interest in being a teacher (or even if you don’t, but you think you would be good at this). She got paid, too 
Went back last summer and plans to this summer one more time.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t count on it as your only summer option because it is so competitive to get into, though.</p>