Exploration Summer Programs

Exploration: Cultivating Curiosity
Featuring more courses, activities, and trips than any other summer program, Exploration is a unique and supportive learning environment. Our students make friends from around the world, discover new interests and abilities, and have fun at every turn.

Tap into new interests, passions, + abilities
Explo is the perfect place to try something new. You can start your first business, edit your first TV news story, choreograph your first dance, or solve your first crime (and do it using forensic science). At Explo, you'll stretch yourself . . . and become more self-assured as you discover new abilities and new passions.

Choose from more courses, activities, and trips than at any other summer program
You'll be amazed at the unique range of options available to you at Explo. Construct a go-cart, dance the salsa, see a Broadway show, play lacrosse, design a model home, build a stock portfolio . . . the choice is always yours. At Explo, you get to choose how you spend your day, every day.

Make friends from more than 40 states + 50 countries
At Explo, you'll not only make new friends . . . you'll make new kinds of friends. Friends from California, South Korea, Texas, Italy, New York, Brazil, and more. As you live and learn in our global community, you'll be exposed to new ideas and new vantage points.

Have fun at every turn
Prepare to have a blast at Explo. Classes are fun, trips are fun, activities are fun . . . and yes, the people are fun too. Explo isn't like school – or anything else for that matter. We believe having fun is an important part of life and of learning, which is why we make fun a part of everything we do.

Feel safe + supported
Your safety is our number one priority while you're at Exploration. In the classroom, around campus, on the floors, and throughout the day, our faculty offer extraordinary support and supervision. At Explo, you will always feel comfortable growing and doing things you've never done before.

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
Visit our Summer Sites!
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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