This summer, join a community of young Vermonters as passionate as you are. Get inspired to think deeper and dream bigger!
Applications for GIV’s 2022 summer Institutes are now officially closed. Thank you to all the students who applied! The GIV team is currently hard at work reviewing applications – look for a GIV envelope in your mailbox in the next week or so!
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The Governor’s Institutes of Vermont is a collection of nine intensive, residential summer learning programs hosted at college campuses all over the state. Each Institute focuses on a unique area of interest, and introduces you to mentors and friends who will help you pursue your passions and create your future.
Arts
Sun, June 26th – Sun, July 10th at Castleton University
Amplify your creativity and artistic promise at GIV’s largest and most vibrant Institute! Join professional artists and talented students from throughout Vermont in an exciting learning community, overflowing with creative energy, collaboration, and inspiration. You’ll develop in-depth skills in the media of your choice (such as music, dance, writing, theater, painting, sculpture, film, and more!) and discover potential careers in the arts, surrounded by people who love to create as much as you!
Astronomy
Sat, July 16th – Fri, July 22nd at NVU Lyndon
Love the stars? Bring your intellectual curiosity and passion for STEM to this exciting Institute that combines art with math and physics. You’ll spend late nights exploring the skies with some of Vermont’s most powerful telescope equipment, conduct original hands-on research into the unsolved mysteries of space, develop an aesthetic, historic, and scientific context for your findings, and consider careers for people who love the sky!
Engineering
Sun, June 26th – Sat, July 2nd at Norwich University
Get hands-on with engineering for the future at this sustainability-focused Institute led by renowned Norwich University faculty! You’ll develop your own projects in energy, robotics, structural, or environmental engineering, working to create resilient technological solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. You’ll access professional equipment in Norwich’s engineering labs, tour industry leaders alongside expert mentors, and build bridges to your scholastic future and potential careers.
Entrepreneurship: Creativity & Innovation
Sun, June 26th – Fri, July 1st at Vermont Technical College – Randolph
This summer, spark your entrepreneurial spirit: bring your passion and curiosity to this one week deep dive into the creativity and innovation that goes into developing new products and services. You’ll have the guidance of proven entrepreneurs and experts, plus a network of peers, to propel you forward in brainstorming, evaluating, and acting on your ideas. It’s all there for you to delve in and explore: building a growth mindset, generating ideas, marketing, business strategy, storytelling and more – a great opportunity to have fun and use your imagination! This institute will have you leveraging your own unique talents and passions to propel you to future success.
College credits available.
Environmental Science & Technology
Fri, July 8th – Sat, July 16th at The University of Vermont
Investigate and help solve the mysteries of Vermont’s landscape in GIV’s week-long Environmental Science Institute. In this program you’ll spend the first four days collecting environmental data from your own community, and then bring your samples to UVM where you will stay on campus for the remainder of the week. You will spend your days analyzing and interpreting data: what’s in our air, water, and soil? What are the impacts for public and environmental health? What solutions will you propose? Take this week to be an Environmental Scientist, you never know what you’ll discover!
College credits available.
Global Issues & Youth Action
Wed, June 29th – Wed, July 6th at Landmark College
Join other motivated young people in addressing political, environmental, and social justice issues. Support each other together as you learn how we have the capacities to take on the COVID and climate crises, racism, sexism, and authoritarianism. We can mobilize our collective will in dialogue with young people from around the state and world to help lead movements for real change, deepening our hope with action.
Health & Medicine
Sun, June 26th – Sat, July 2nd at Norwich University
The world of health care is bursting with life-saving advances in science and technology. Step into this critically important field and dive deep into hands-on medical and health science skills. You can choose to explore the fields of emergency and sports medicine, neuroscience and psychology, or biomedical engineering and medical lab sciences, with opportunities for elective cross-over sessions to sample a huge number of health care occupations. You’ll learn clinical skills in patient care and diagnostics, lead your own laboratory work, participate in a mass casualty drill, and be mentored by health professionals and medical students.
Produced in partnership with Vermont AHEC.
Kenneth I. Gross and Tony Trono Mathematical Sciences Institute
Sun, June 26th – Fri, July 1st at The University of Vermont
Surround yourself with math-lovers like you at this week-long festival of mathematics! Theoretical and real-world applications of math will have you dazzled as you use your hands and brain to take on world-class mathematical challenges and enjoy advanced lectures by renowned mathematicians. You will also explore and discover exciting careers for people with strong backgrounds in mathematics.
Technology & Design
Sat, June 18th – Sun, June 26th at Champlain College
At the Tech & Design Institute, you’ll work in state-of-the-art computer labs with the most up-to-date software and tools, learning from professionals at the forefronts of their fields. Choose your own pathway while exploring the intersection between design and technology. Course offerings include game design, 3D modeling, interactive storytelling, graphic design, programming microcontrollers and more! Immerse yourself in emerging technologies and find out how your computer and design skills will change the world.
