The list is provided to inspire you to investigate your options. There are many additional opportunities out there!

Oregon-based Summer Programs

• BodyVox workshops and intensives for dancers (beginner-advanced)

• Building Camps for girls are sponsored by Oregon Tradeswomen

• Catlin Gabel Summer Programs including a workshop on college essay writing, the Elana Gold '93 Memorial Environmental Restoration Project and the PLACE urban studies programs, which use a social justice approach to experiential education and real-world learning to raise the stakes for children and youth to share their voice and lead.

• Cyber Camps offer a week of hands-on projects related to the growing field of cybersecurity, coed and a girls only options

• Fire Fighter Camp for Girls

• Free Geek’s volunteers bring home a computer after 24 hours of volunteering

• iDTech, a national tech education company, offers STEM education on the Lewis & Clark campus

• Mercy Corps Summer Camp: International Development 101

• Multnomah County Library, join Summer Reads or volunteer at the library

• My Voice Music offers music lessons, classes, Hip Hop Lab and an Artist Mentorship Program

• NW Film Center, Film Camps for kids + teens  (animation, green screen, media arts)

• NW Youth Corps offer Epic Oregon Summer Camping Weeks for 14-15 year olds and five week work experience/camping and a community service focused day program for 16-18 year olds.

• Oregon Episcopal School Summer Programs (including writing, geometry and visual arts): OES Summer Offerings

• OMSI’s Youth Volunteer Program: Teen Youth Alliance Thinkineers 

• OMSI’s OMSI 9-12th Grade Summer Camps 

• Open Signal offers media arts classes and workshops for teens

• Oregon College of Art & Craft offers pre-college intensives for artists in ceramics, metals, comics, fashion and more

• Oregon Department of Transportation’s Driver Education Teen Parent Resources 

• Oregon State University’s pre-college summer programs

• Oregon State University’s Summer Experience in Science & Engineering for Youth provides education and research for girls and minorities interested in STEM fields

• Oregon Zoo has many volunteer opportunities for youth.

• Outward Bound's wilderness adventures (some Oregon rafting/mountain trips, most programs in other states)

• PDXtechies, iOS Programming Summer Camp

• PLACE, a youth civic engagement program with an urban planning focus

• Portland Center Stage, Summer Intensives

• Portland Community College, Summer Teen Program

• Portland Parks & Rec, Teen Force

• Portland State University’s Invention Bootcamp(free, four week program a foundation in the transportation industry and a chance to strengthen their STEM skills.

• Portland State University’s Transportation Institute (free, two week program for girls)

• Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival (POWFest) offers POWGirls filmmaking classes for girls

• Process Institute’s Summer Youth Leadership Intensive Leadership & Conflict Resolution Camp

• Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls

• Saturday Academy, offers a wide variety of hands-on classes and camps

• The CENTER (Create Engage Notice Teach Empower Remember) offers Exchange for Change , an exchange between urban and rural communities.

• Strangeland Family Youth Choral Academy

• Trackers Portland offers teen adventure camps

• Tryon Creek State Natural Area, Summer Volunteer

• University of Oregon Summer Music Camps

• Young Entrepreneur’s Business Camp, one week events at your choice of OSU, UO or the U of Portland

Volunteer Opportunities

• You can find summer volunteer opportunities at on the Service page of this RHS website.

• On the Hands-On Portland’s website you can type in your zip code or a keyword like computers or animals to find non-profits that need your time and talent.

• Volunteer Match is another great online resource for finding a cause or non-profit who needs your passion and drive. 

College/Academic Summer Programs

Science Programs

• BU Research Internship Program

• Beaver Works Summer Institute

• Clark Scholar Program

• Carleton Computer Science Institute

• Carleton Summer Science Institute

• Garcia Summer Scholars

• High School Summer Science Research Program (HSSSRP)

• High School Honors Science/Mathematics/Engineering Program (HSHSP)

• International Summer School for Young Physicists (ISSYP)

• LaunchX at MIT

• LLRISE: MIT Lincoln Laboratory Radar Introduction for Student Engineers

• Navy Science & Engineering Apprenticeship Program

• Secondary Student Training Program (SSTP)

• Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program (SIMR)

• Student Science Training Program (SSTP)

• SSP (Summer Science Program)

• Science & Engineering for Minority Students at MIT - MITES

• RSI (Research Science Institute) at MIT

• University of St. Andrews International Summer Program

• Women in Technology

• WPI Stem Programs

Math Summer Programs

• Awesome Math

• Canada/USA Mathcamp

• Carleton Quantitative Reasoning Institute

• Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM)

• MathILy

• Mathworks at Texas State University

• Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS)

• Ross Mathematics Institute

• Stanford University Mathematics Camp (SUMaC)

• Texas State Mathworks Honors Summer Math Camp

Music Summer Programs

• Camp Interlochen

• Boston University Tanglewood Music Institute

Programs in Liberal Arts/Humanities

• Carleton College Summer Programs

• Duke Summer College 

• Economics for Leaders

• Global Youth Village

• John’s College Great Books

• Lewis & Clark Fir Acres Creative Writing Workshop

• National Security Language Initiative for Youth through the Department of State

• Summer Language Academy at Middlebury

• School of the Arts Summer Institute

• Telluride Association Summer Programs

• US Department of State Student Internships

• World Affairs Seminar

Scholarship Programs

• Bank of America Student Leaders

• Girls on Ice

• Gettysburg Civil War Institute

• American Youth Leadership Programs through the Department of State

Visual Art Programs

• Cooper Union Summer Art Intensive

• Emerson College Summer Academy (Acting/ Theatre/Design, Animation, Journalism, TV, Film, Writing)

• Oregon School of Art and Craft

• Pacific Northwest College of Art

• Skidmore College Summer Studio Art

Programs Abroad

• Abby Road Programs Abroad

• Andeo International Homestay

• Carpe Diem

• Broadreach College

• National Geographic Student Expeditions

• New York Times Student Journeys

• Putney Student Travel

• Rustic Pathways

• Where There Be Dragons