<p>I am currently in 7th grade and need a good, but kind of cheap educational summer program.</p>
<p>You started looking too late … and there aren’t many for seventh graders, anyway. Next year, look into Duke TIP or JHU’s CTY program. You’ll want to have completed an ACT and/or SAT test, first, though, for both (I think). Neither is exceptionally cheap, either.</p>
<p>Next year, start looking early (January or February) and have those test scores available. Also, ask your school counselor or teachers for suggestions.</p>
<p>What are you interested in?</p>
<p>@siliconvalleymom,</p>
<p>I kind of want something to do with science, as it is my weak point. But, I go to a performing arts school for violin/viola so that would be cool as well. Any suggestions??</p>
<p>Concordia Language Villages is a possibility. Do you like a language?</p>
<p>Do you have a local science museum? Ours offers summer classes. The middle school classes (day classes, not residential) have things like robotics. They are pretty inexpensive. The state university in our city also has day classes in some academic-type subjects (my kids never took science, but they took things like creative writing). So you might look into that.</p>
<p>If you live near a city, you might see if the newspaper has printed a list of summer programs in the area. Our paper has a special section they publish around March or April for the upcoming summer. If you search online at the paper’s website, you might find it.</p>
<p>Concordia Language Villages are also an option, not sure where you live. My kids did those for several years. This year CLV got a big grant to provide scholarships to Arabic camp. I think the deadline for them is past for this summer, but if you look early next year there might be some opportunities. They give away a few other scholarships usually (like this year I think there was some kind of video contest, with a free two week German session to the winner).</p>
<p>That sounds cool, as I speak French almost fluently.</p>
<p>You can go for French, or there are lots of other languages, too. Youngest D did French at Hackensack (it is a little bit more of a “campy” location than the one in Bemidji, I think). It did help her French grades during the school year, as she was not fluent! Older one spent many happy summers at Finnish camp, and has visited Finland a couple of time since then (summer program, then study abroad). You might try a language you don’t have a chance to study in school.</p>
<p>I googled it, and it’s in Minnesota? I live in California… So, maybe, but is there any good programs closer? Maybe within state??</p>
<p>I doubt it. I go there and a bunch of the campers fly in from CA just for camp.</p>
<p>No, no other locations outside MN at this time. So you do have to fly in (but if you can get one of the scholarships, it still might be possible).</p>
<p>Like I suggested above, you need to check out the newspapers in the major cities near you for listings of summer programs. Middle school programs outside the major talent searchs (which are usually expensive) probably aren’t going to be on the radar of most of the people on this board. Check with the local museums and universities. Go online and search for “summer program XX” where XX is your city. Or “summer camp XX” (sometimes even academic middle school programs are called camps). If school isn’t out for the summer, ask your teachers if they know about anything; sometimes they are tuned into the opportunities in their academic areas.</p>