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Start with an idea. Make the search yours.
Not sure where to begin? Start with one of our ready-made searches, then make it as specific as you want. Filter by grade, dates, budget and more, or simply tell Explore Summer what you have in mind.
See how a search becomes your search.
Start broad or start specific. Explore Summer searches thousands of programs, then lets you keep refining until you find the experiences that fit.
Video transcript
Explore Summer title card: What if you could just describe the summer you’re looking for?
The Explore Summer search opens. A family starts with a broad or specific idea — Italy — then keeps refining with grade, dates, budget, and a plain-English assistant.
Results update across thousands of programs until a shortlist of Italy experiences appears, with dates, cost, and day-to-day details on each card.
The family keeps searching their way until they find the teen summer programs that fit.
Start with something specific.
Already have an idea? Jump straight into a search and see what's out there.
By interest or experience
Or start with a broader search.
High schoolers
- Tech & AI summer programs for high schoolers
- Science & STEM summer programs for high schoolers
- Pre-college summer programs for high schoolers
- Marine Science summer programs for high schoolers
- Writing & Humanities summer programs for high schoolers
- Traditional summer camps for high schoolers
- Wilderness & Adventure summer programs for high schoolers
- Global & Language summer programs for high schoolers
- Leadership & Gifted summer programs for high schoolers
- Business & Entrepreneurship summer programs for high schoolers
- International Relations & Diplomacy summer programs for high schoolers
- Math summer programs for high schoolers
- Pre-Med & Life Sciences summer programs for high schoolers
- Arts summer programs for high schoolers
Middle schoolers
- Tech & AI summer programs for middle schoolers
- Science & STEM summer programs for middle schoolers
- Pre-college summer programs for middle schoolers
- Marine Science summer programs for middle schoolers
- Writing & Humanities summer programs for middle schoolers
- Traditional summer camps for middle schoolers
- Wilderness & Adventure summer programs for middle schoolers
- Global & Language summer programs for middle schoolers
- Leadership & Gifted summer programs for middle schoolers
- Business & Entrepreneurship summer programs for middle schoolers
- International Relations & Diplomacy summer programs for middle schoolers
- Math summer programs for middle schoolers
- Pre-Med & Life Sciences summer programs for middle schoolers
- Arts summer programs for middle schoolers
What other families are searching for.
Here are a few searches inspired by what other people are looking for.
- Programs with deadlines in the next 60 days
- Business programs for 12th graders
- Entrepreneurship programs for 10th graders
- Medicine programs for 10th graders
- Game design programs for 10th graders
- Dance programs for 10th graders
- Politics programs for 10th graders
- Cooking programs for 10th graders
- Forensics programs for 10th graders
- Journalism programs for 10th graders
- Economics programs for 10th graders
- Musical theater programs for 9th graders
- Filmmaking programs for 9th graders
- Robotics programs for 9th graders
- CIT programs for 11th graders
- Aerospace programs for 11th graders
- Astrophysics programs for 11th graders
- Cancer research programs for 11th graders
- Environmental science programs in the US for 11th graders
- Fully funded pre-med programs in Texas for 11th graders
- Free summer programs for 11th graders
- High school programs at the University of Pennsylvania
- High school programs at Georgetown University
- High school programs at Harvard University
- High school programs at Carnegie Mellon University
- High school programs at Columbia University
- High school programs at Loyola Marymount University
- High school programs at MIT
- High school programs at NYU
- High school programs at UC Berkeley
- High school programs at UCLA
- High school programs at the University of Michigan
- High school programs at the University of Oxford
- High school programs at the University of Texas at Austin
- High school programs at Vanderbilt University
- High school programs at Yale University
- COSMOS programs for high schoolers
Don't see exactly what you're looking for?
That's absolutely OK, and actually the point.
Explore Summer isn't limited to pre-defined categories. Tell us what you're interested in, a subject, destination, activity, experience, or combination of them, and see what you discover.
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