Program Vitals
What: College-level courses on academic subjects.
When: Summer, six weeks, Monday-Thursday evenings.
Who: Students in grades 9-12.
Cost: $600 (includes dinner 3nights/week) (financial aid available)
ESP’s Junction program is a non-residential academic summer program for students entering ninth grade through freshman year of college who want to tackle a subject in depth. Classes are academic, challenging, exciting, and often a step beyond material that’s available in high school curricula. As well as a college-level focus class, Junction students take single- or multi-session seminar classes in a wide range of topics, both academic and non. Seminar classes are like a mini-Splash, spread out over the course of the summer.
The Junction program is unique for ESP in that a central part of the program is a single single class, a focus. The Foci for Summer 2010 have not yet been selected. Past focus classes include:
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Hands on Topics in Engineering
- Quantum Mechanics
- Molecular Biology
- Introduction to Computer Science
- Show Me the Money: Financial Economics
- Advanced Topics in Mathematics
- Multivariable Calculus
- Introduction to Chemical Engineering
Junction runs for six weeks in July and early August. Applications for Junction become available on this website in early spring, and are due in April. We use the applications to learn about students’ backgrounds, their interest in particular classes, and to let teachers assess whether students seem adequately prepared for their class. Financial aid is available for all of our programs on a need-based basis. You can apply for financial aid when registering for our program.
This page will be updated with specific dates and program details as they are set .
Last modified by ch3cooh on Oct. 13, 2009 at 06:54 p.m.