The report describes the summer institute of the cooperative College-School Science Program, Prince George's County/University of Maryland, which met from June 21 to July 28, 1972 in Riverdale, Maryland. Participants consisted of twenty-five teachers who were enrolled for six hour credits from the University of Maryland. The overall objectives of…

Describes a four-week summer program designed to attract women into the engineering curriculum and ultimately into an engineering career. (MLH)

Discusses the Fermilab summer program for minority students, its evolution, selection of student participants, selection of student assignments, living arrangements, salaries, and the impact of the program. (SL)

Describes the Rensselaer Children's Summer Theatre (Indiana) which introduces children in grades 3-8 to the performing arts through experience rather than lecture. Examines how the program is run and discusses its applications to music education, emphasizing the benefits gained from incorporating performance experiences into classroom music…

A summer program developed by the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Kansas City, Missouri, School District was designed to acquaint high school athletes with information and skills that would make their transfer easier from high school to a college or university, and later to professional sports.

A summer fellowship program is described that was initiated at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University to provide an opportunity for interested faculty to interact with selected students who had used computers before entering medical school. (MLW)

Bowling Green's four-week summer preregistration program providing students with opportunities for individualized academic counseling and computerized preregistration is described, along with a fall follow-up for additional advising and suggestions for handling computerized registration. (MSE)

A summer work experience program for 10th and 11th graders with visual impairments includes a three-week residential-living experience in which students are evaluated in the areas of daily living, orientation and mobility, socialization, vocational abilities, and career planning and a six-week segment in which students work at paid jobs.…

This report reviews the research on summer school and demonstrates that summer school makes a difference in students' lives if it is done right. A survey of more than 1,000 schools in the southern United States found that one-third of the responding schools did not offer summer school, many programs being the victims of budget cuts. Of those…

Discusses the conduct of a supplemental services program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with emphases upon academic help in areas identified as major problems. Indicates that the understanding gained from this operation is helpful to evolve educational programs and admissions practices. (CC)

Describes a summer institute to give participants the working experience of being evaluators. (Author/MB)

Describes content and philosophy of a summer workshop for students and teachers on water pollution. (DS)

When he wrote this article, Mr. Dzurenda was principal of the Oaklyn Junior High School, Oaklyn, New Jersey. He has since been appointed to the New Jersey State Department of Education as a supervisor of the Introduction to Vocations program. (Editor)