2010 DATES: 7/10/2010 - 7/17/2010
Hyde Schools recognizes the unique challenges young teenagers face in today’s “iCulture Society.” To support young teenagers and their parents with this challenge, Hyde has developed and designed an individualized summer program specifically to help young teenagers (ages 12 - 15) develop self-understanding, self-confidence and enthusiasm to prevail.
Our transformational summer program for early teens begins with one week of specific Teen Leadership Prep programming. At the end of the week, students can choose to enter the Summer Challenge Program or enter one of several week-long Summer X options, where they can begin to use the skills and attitudes they have begun to develop.
Program Offerings:
- Athletic, performing arts, wilderness, community service and other work activities and challenges
- Individual mentoring by a Hyde upperclassman “big brother/big sister”
- Veteran Hyde faculty staff the program with a 5:1 ratio
- Opportunity to join Hyde’s signature character development program, Summer Challenge…LEARN MORE
- Opportunity to engage in one or several Summer X options…LEARN MORE
DAILY SCHEDULE
- 7:30 AM: “Early to Rise — makes one healthy, wealthy and wise!” (B. Franklin)
- 8:00 AM: “When you Have Something for Breakfast……you’re not going to be starving by lunch.” (B. Barton )
Breakfast: Eggs, bacon, cereal and fruit - 8:50 AM: “Someone’s Sitting in the Shade Today….because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” (W. Buffett)
Campus Jobs: Each student is assigned a job on campus, which they are responsible for overseeing. - 9:00 AM: “Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way” (L. Iacocca)
Morning meeting: “leader of the day” runs the meeting; discusses something they learned from the prior day’s events and runs down the schedule for the day. - 9:30 AM: “Great Geniuses….have the shortest biographies.” (R.W. Emerson) Work on leadership autobiographies.
- 10:45 AM: Break
- 11:00 AM: “Confidence is Contagious…so is lack of confidence.” (V. Lombardi)
Group challenges-high and low ropes course initiatives - 12:00 PM: “Ask Not What You Can Do for Your Country. Ask What’s for Lunch.” (O. Welles)
Lunch: Grilled Ham& Cheese Sandwiches, Chips, Salad bar - 12:35 PM: “I Find the Harder I Work…the more luck I have.” (T. Jefferson)
Dish Crew! Work with five other students to clean up from lunch - 1:00 PM: “A Community is Like a Ship…everyone should be prepared to take the helm.” (H. Ibsen)
Off-campus community service project - 3:00 PM: “My Performances…have finally caught up to my ego.” (A Boldon)
Performing Arts - 4:00 PM: “If Bread Is the First Necessity of Life, Recreation Is a Close Second.” (E. Bellamy)
Athletics: Ultimate Frisbee, soccer, track - 6:00 PM: “All Great Change in America Begins at the Dinner Table.” (R. Reagan)
Dinner: Cube Steak, Fried Shrimp, Mashed Potatoes, Vegetables - 7:30 PM: “It Was Impossible to Get a Conversation Going. Everyone Was Talking too Much.” (Y. Berra)
Camp-fire, debrief the day, set goals for the rest of the week - 9:00 PM: “A Hero is Someone Who Understands the Responsibility that Comes with His Freedom.” (B. Dylan)
Free-time: socialize and catch up on the day - 9:30 PM: “Three Meals Plus Bedtime…Make Four Sure Blessings a Day.” (M. Cooley)
Dorm check-in
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
- Day hike in the Appalachian Mountains, where every step you take will bring you closer to your personal heights.
- Community service projects, where you and your friends learn about yourselves and your ability to lead through helping others.
- High- and low-ropes course, where thrill, excitement, and butterflies in your stomach meet, shake hands, and motivate you to reach beyond your grasp.
- Sea kayaking trip on the coast of Maine, where porpoises will dance around you, the morning ocean mist will envelope you, and distant crashing waves will await your arrival.
- Beach trip to Popham, where three rivers meet the Atlantic and offer you, in their profound beauty, the meaning of true depth.
