SUMMER LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE 2019
FROM WITHIN This year marks the 29th year of the Summer Leadership Institute at Columbia College, a rich tradition since 1990 through which more than 2,750 young women have taken their first steps to becoming successful leaders. This year we are proud to expand our offerings to include ten unique programs serving rising 8-12th grade young women. These week-long, residential and immersive experiences provide undergraduate general education academic credit, plus a certificate and badge of completion. Tuition for each program is $595 and includes room, board, and program materials, as well as academic credit and badge opportunities. A limited number of financial need-based scholarships are available; application and interview required.
Step Up
The Story of Us
Hospitality Academy
ESTABLISH THE FOUNDATION OF LEADERSHIP
JOURNEY THROUGH THE LIVES AND WORKS OF THE PIONEERS OF HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
GO BEHIND THE SCENES, EXPLORING SOUTH CAROLINA’S #1 INDUSTRY, HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM
Offered for young women excited to embrace the courage to lead, learn about personal leadership styles, and work with their peers in creative and exciting ways. Designed to help young women make a seamless transition to high school.
Through our shared experiences, we will become acquainted with the lives of such giants as Freud, Erikson, and Piaget and understand how their distinctive life choices and times shaped their thoughts on human development. Explore fields and careers that emphasize human relations and welfare such as medicine, law, social work, psychology, teaching, religion, and therapy.
From start-up jobs in restaurants to high-level corporate management of multimillion-dollar hotel chains, hospitality and tourism offers engaging, people-oriented work in picturesque surroundings. Students will refine their personal values, strengths and interests, applying them to this profession, and get the opportunity to tour country clubs, hotels and event venues, meeting leaders in the industry.
June 16-21 | Rising 8-9th graders Faculty: Kara Simmons, M.A.
June 23-28 | Rising 10-12th graders Faculty: Dr. Joyce Fields
June 23-28 | Rising 10-12th graders
Serious Young Writers Academy
The Real DEEL: Diversity and Equity in Educational Leadership
Dance U(nique)
HONE YOUR WRITING CRAFT
EXPLORE AND PRACTICE EDUCATION IN UNIQUE CLASSROOM SETTINGS
EXPLORE YOUR UNIQUE IDENTITY THROUGH DANCE
Designed for young writers ready to take their writing to the next level. With personalized writing instruction, collaborative revision, visits with guest authors, and ample time to write, students will polish and publish their work, while learning tricks of the writer’s trade.
This distinct experience will focus on diversity and equity leadership in education as participants celebrate diversity in our community through outreach, engage with cultural events around Columbia, and participate in a book club with a focus on social justice and equity.
Centers on empowering young women to realize and celebrate artistic uniqueness and to build a confident sense-of-self through movement, experiencing the art of dance within a creative, inclusive environment.
June 23-28 | Rising 10-12th graders
June 23-28 | Rising 10-12th graders
Faculty: Marcy Jo Yonkey Clayton, MFA & Starlitt Miller
BizGirls
TechYGirls
Step In
Challenges and inspires young women’s abilities to identify problems, develop solutions, and lead change from within, while curating a set of solid business and communications skills.
Explore and learn how phones, apps, games, websites work. Design, tinker and code your own. Meet successful women in technology in a variety of careers and professions, visiting them in their workplaces.
June 23-28 | Rising 10-12th graders
July 7-12 | Rising 10-12th graders
Designed for young women ready to champion their unique talents and build a personal leadership model. Students reinforce their strengths and work together to make an impact in their community through meaningful volunteer projects.
Faculty: Dr. Ray McManus & Ashlynn Wittchow
TURN YOUR CEO DREAMS INTO REALITY... IN ONE WEEK!
Faculty: Katherine Swartz Hilton, M.A. & Shennice Cleckley
Faculty: Dr. Brennan Davis & Whitney Chick, M.A.
EMPOWER AND INSPIRE GIRLS IN STEM
Faculty: Travis Dalton, M.S.
Step Above
Faculty: Dr. Carole Sox
June 23-28 | Rising 10-12th graders
BUILD YOUR LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK
July 7-12 | Rising 10-11th graders Faculty: Kara Simmons, M.A.
BECOME A FUTURE-READY LEADER Offered for young women ready to apply leadership skills in the real world, shaping their future success in college, career, and citizenship. Hone your professional skills through a Walking Job Shadow on Main Street and network on a golf course.
July 7-12 | Rising 11-12th graders Faculty: Katherine Swartz Hilton, M.A.
Learn more,nominate or apply today! columbiasc.edu/summerinstitute
summer@columbiasc.edu
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