Exploration Summer Programs

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A summer at Exploration is like nothing else you've ever done. In fact, that's the very idea.

When you explore, you chart new territory, you travel into the unfamiliar, you try something new . . . and you learn.

For each Explo student, their 'something new' is something different. For some, it's starting their first business or cooking their first meal or acting in their first play. For others, it's constructing their first go-cart or designing their first website or arguing their first court case.

And for others still, a summer at Exploration is a summer of other firsts: the first time away from home; the first time they've made a friend from another country; the first time they've done their laundry; the first time they've seen a Broadway show.

At Exploration, exploration is supported, nurtured, and taught – just like any other truly valuable skill. We light fires in our students and cultivate their curiosity so that they keep exploring, keep trying new things, keep wanting to learn more. Exploration is more than a summer program; it’s what students take with them when they leave.

2009 Program Dates
Residential Programs
First Session: June 28 - July 18
Second Session: July 19 - August 8

Day Programs
First Session: June 29 - July 17
Second Session: July 20 - August 7
Do You Have to be Gifted to go to Explo?
Articles + Stories From Our Alumni Site
the exploration center

Exploration was looking for a new office building for its year-round headquarters. What it found was a 47,000 square foot printing factory. And a dining room.

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on curriculum + teaching

Barb Trainor [Director of Curriculum + Instruction] discusses the role of curriculum development at Exploration.

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ambassador for the arts

Ramien Pierre [Sr Faculty '93, Jr Faculty '94-'96] talks about his role facilitating the arts at the Kennedy Center.

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