Summer Honors

Ascend: A Summer Honors Experience

Summer Honors is a unique and life-changing twelve-day experience for rising seniors that centers on academics, leadership, and team building through college courses and high and low rope course challenges paired with intentional introspection. In addition to our curriculum, we introduce college life and the UNG Dahlonega campus to help our students prepare for the transition to college.

We work with students to lay a strong foundation of trust and safety, on which we can build and pace our leadership and curriculum strategies to coax students into their unique growth zones. We provide unmatched academic instruction in a short, intense time - students receive one-on-one instruction from college professors with feedback on how to improve their college writing skills, public speaking, and engagement in various academic disciplines. We weave intricacies of mindfulness, courage, and forging community into each element we ask the students to embrace. Students return to their schools with an even more robust sense of themselves, what they can accomplish, and an understanding of how to strengthen their existing connections and build new ones as they embark on productive senior years.