Summer Opportunities

Journalism camps, workshops & programs
for high school students and advisors

Arizona

• Arizona State University offers a variety of educational programs in print and broadcast journalism for high school students and teachers around the country through its Cronkite Institute for High School Journalism.

California

• The California Scholastic Press Association Journalism Workshop is a 50+-year-old two-week program for high school juniors and seniors held at California State Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo. It offers partial scholarships.
• The Digital Media Academy program at Stanford University offers hands-on learning for students in the areas of digital photography and Photoshop, Web design, animation and video.
• Newspaper by the Bay at Stanford University is a week-long journalism camp for students and advisers focusing on 21st century journalism skills. Contact Beatrice Motamedi and Paul Kandell, workshop co-directors, at newsroombythebay@gmail.com.

Connecticut

• The Yale Daily News staff offers a free week-long Summer Journalism Program at Yale University for Connecticut high school students.

Florida

• The University of Florida's Summer Journalism Institute is a weeklong progam for students and advisers. It offers student workshops for: newspaper editors, yearbook editors, photographers, broadcasters and Web designers. Rising sophomores, juniors and seniors may attend; graduating seniors may not. Students participate in daylong classes and live in a campus dorm under the supervision of the SJI staff.

Georgia

• The Georgia Journalism Academy is a weeklong program for students and teachers at the University of Georgia. Student courses have included advertising, design, leadership, opinion writing, photojournalism and more.

Illinois

• Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism holds its competitive National High School Institute for Journalism for a month during the summer to teach journalism to about 85 students.

Indiana

• Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., hosts the Summer Journalism Workshops for students and advisers interested in writing, editing and design, plus special sessions for people interested in specific computer programs, magazines and the business side of things.
• The Indiana University High School Journalism Institute is for students and teachers. It includes a series of intensive journalistic workshops for high school media staff members with concentrations on yearbook, broadcast news, newspaper and photography.

Iowa

• The University of Iowa holds Summer Journalism Workshops for High School Students. It includes sessions on photography, desktop publishing, Web site design and newspaper and yearbook design.

Kansas

• The University of Kansas' Kansas Journalism Institute teaches scholastic journalists to better meet the needs of their school publications. Ten academic sections are offered, including design, writing, digital photography, leadership, electronic journalism and beginning and advanced newspaper.

Louisiana

• The Louisiana State University - Shreveport offers a Young Journalists Mentoring Program, a summer camp for middle school and high school students interested in journalism.

Massachusetts

• New England Center for Investigative Reporting holds two-week long investigative journalism workshops during summer for high school students at Boston University.

Maryland

• The University of Maryland and the Maryland Scholastic Press Association sponsor a Summer Journalism Program at the university for students and advisors.

Mississippi

• The University of Mississippi's Summer Journalism Institute has a real college-level journalism course. Students also take another 3-hour course to complement their studies.

Missouri

• The University of Missouri in Columbia offers a Summer Media Workshop for yearbook and newspaper students. It has units for beginners and advanced students with special sections on photography and desktop publishing.

Nebraska

• The Nebraska High School Press Association's Summer Journalism Workshop in Lincoln, Neb., hosts about 125 student journalists each summer on the University of Nebraska campus, offering students instruction in yearbook production, newspaper layout and design, photography, graphic design, newswriting and editorial leadership.

New Jersey

• Princeton University offers a free 10-day Summer Journalism Program where economically-disadvantaged high school juniors are taught about journalism by journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, New Republic and The New Yorker.

New York

• Columbia University hold a summer program for high school students in journalism. It is an intense program in broadcast or print journalism.
• The Columbia Student Press Association will hold its Summer Journalism Workshop a workshop with eight sequences in either newspaper or yearbook.
• NY Colleges: Creative Writing Programs in New York State on New York college campuses. Represented colleges include Alfred University, Sarah Lawrence College, Pratt Institute, Ithaca College, NYU, Union College, Emma Williard School, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Ohio

• Kent State University's Scholastic Media Program helps high school journalists and their advisers with summer workshops, weekend short courses, programs at special media sites and regional campuses and distributed learning programs.
• Ohio University holds its High School Journalism Workshop in journalism for student editors and writers.

Pennsylvania

• Penn State's Communication Institutes offers hands-on summer programs in film, journalism, TV news, radio broadcasting, sports journalism or media.

South Carolina

• The South Carolina University's Carolina Journalism Institute is an intensive five-day regional workshop at South Carolina University devoted to helping junior high and high school students and advisers enhance their knowledge of editing, writing, designing and production techniques for all scholastic publications and productions.

Texas

• The University of Texas at Austin hosts the ILPC Summer Workshop for students and advisers. Students with a variety of skill levels and interests will have a chance to attend specific sequences.

Virginia

• Washington and Lee University offers its Summer Scholars program, which include a journalism curriculum, focusing on electronic journalism, print and media lab.

Washington

• The Seattle University offers an all-expenses paid week-long Journalism Summer Workshop for high school students. It will include sessions in production, leadership, photojournalism, writing and more.

Wisconsin

• The Kettle Moraine Press Association Summer Journalism Workshop gives high school students and advisors instruction on writing, layout, design and photography.