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Summer Institute
To help with the transition to high school, the SLA offers a Summer Institute program, and we encourage all incoming 9th grades to attend. The Summer Institute is a chance for students to meet SLA faculty and experience the kind of project-based learning they will find at SLA. The Summer Institute students will also have the opportunity to work with the Franklin Institute Science Educators both at the museum and at the Institute's environmental research facility in Fairmount Park.
2007 Summer Institute Dates and Times:
August 20th - August 24th
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Meeting at Science Leadership Academy at 9:00 am on the 20th
At the Science Leadership Academy, we understand that the transition into High School can be a difficult one. We are pleased to offer a one week Summer Institute this August, to ease that transition and allow our students and faculty to begin forging bonds together as a learning community— before the "hard work" of the classroom begins.
This one-week orientation will be built around our philosophy of student-driven, hands-on, project-based learning. We want to introduce our students to SLA's core values of Inquiry, Research, Collaboration, Presentation, and Reflection from the start, and get them acclimated to the high expectations we have for their high school careers.
During this Summer Institute, students will work to ultimately create
a collaborative project to present to their classmates, while, at the
same time, establishing positive relationships and a sense of themselves
as first-year SLA students. It will be an exciting, enriching, and
energizing way to gear up for the year.
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