{"id":6252,"date":"2011-02-15T21:57:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T05:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/flash\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2011-02-15T21:57:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T05:57:51","slug":"planning-your-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/planning-your-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning Your Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reasons why a <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Summer Enrichment Program\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong> or <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pre-College Program\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong> during your summer break is more valuable than staying home chilling on the recliner with the remote and a Mountain Dew:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chance to visit new places, meet new people, and learn new things<\/li>\n<li>Discover things you may not have even known existed<\/li>\n<li>Challenge yourself by getting out of your comfort zone<\/li>\n<li>Have a good reason, which your parents will understand, for traveling to far away places<\/li>\n<li>Grow &amp; mature, evolve as a person<\/li>\n<li>Explore ideas and interests that you are curious about<\/li>\n<li>Develop your skills in an area that you are already involved in<\/li>\n<li>Anything you do will look a whole lot better on applications than saying you spent your summer break kicking it watching Jersey Shore and catching up on your sleep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re one of the students thinking of what to do this summer I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve created a list of web sites \/ resources you may want to explore.<\/p>\n<p>Find information about: summer programs, community &amp; civic service programs, gap-year opportunities, jobs and internships, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Although this list by no means exhausts the possibilities out there, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a place to start and maybe get the process started; each of them has a number of unique and exciting summer programs that are available for high school students:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usummer.com\/\">U Summer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summerstudy.com\/pennstate\/index.cfm\">Summer Study<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enrichmentalley.com\/programs\/alphabetical\">Enrichment Alley<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teenlife.com\">Teen Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andover.edu\/StudentLife\/SummerOpportunities\/Documents\/Alphabetical%20Summer%20Ops.pdf\">Student Life: Summer Opportunities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, are you considering stretching and challenging yourself this summer?\u00c2\u00a0 If you think you need any help with getting the process started be sure to let me know.<\/p>\n<p>Counselor John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reasons why a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Summer Enrichment Program\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pre-College Program\u00e2\u20ac\u009d during your summer break is more valuable than staying home chilling on the recliner with the remote and a Mountain Dew: Chance to visit new places, meet new people, and learn new things Discover things you may not have even known existed Challenge yourself by getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}