Summer Academy at Jefferson
Jefferson Career Discovery
Explore career opportunities at the college level this summer with our pre-college experiences at Jefferson. Our Summer Academy programs offer hands-on courses taught by faculty and experts in the industry, with opportunities to connect with our current students and alumni.
Summer Academy Programs
- College of Architecture & the Built Environment Summer Academy for Architectural Disciplines - Jefferson’s award-winning College of Architecture & the Built Environment is offering a virtual summer design course for high school students to explore the architectural design and construction fields including architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, historic preservation and construction management. Juniors and seniors will learn from Jefferson faculty, alumni, and industry professionals, while participating in design projects, research projects and professional firm visits.
- Fashion & Textile Summer Academy - Explore the design process from concept research to designing a collection. Through this program, you will complete a week-long project involving aspects of textile design, fashion design and fashion merchandising. You will engage with the many different facets of fashion and be introduced to the collaborative and cross-disciplinary approach throughout fashion and textile industries. Members of the Thomas Jefferson University faculty will guide students through an immersive, career-focused curriculum that prepares students to contribute to aspects of the fashion value chain. The program runs from July 13 to July 17.
- Graphic & Web Design - Jefferson’s Graphic & Web Design Summer Academy offers high school students an immersive, studio-based introduction to professional design practice. Over one week at our East Falls Campus, you'll work alongside faculty, current college students, and like-minded makers to develop a complete design project—from initial research to final presentation.
- Readiness, Exploration & Application for Careers in Health (REACH) Program - The Jefferson College of Rehabilitation Sciences High School REACH program is a five-day summer program designed for rising high school juniors and seniors interested in health careers, such as athletic training, exercise science, occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech-language pathology. Gain insight into theses rehabilitation sciences professions and the critical role they play in the patient care team, guidance on traditional and accelerated academic pathways, tips for standing out on college applications and strategies for success in undergraduate education.
- STEM Summer Camp Experience - The STEM Summer Camp Experience exposes students through hands-on experiments to how engineers apply math, science, and engineering principles to improve people’s lives. Students will be introduced to emerging technologies in data analytics, 3D-printing, logical programming, engineering design process and logistics through hands-on experiments. Using projects that are appealing to their interest, the campers will experience how engineering is applied in our everyday lives. This summer day camp at Jefferson’s East Falls Campus runs from August 3 to August 20 for 6th-9th grade students in the Greater Philadelphia Area.
- SummerScience@Jefferson - High school students seeking a future in science can explore this 4-week virtual program offered by the Jefferson College of Life Sciences that fosters an appreciation of the role of science in everyday life. Students will learn from Jefferson science faculty through this program and engage with them in research projects conducted in an online environment. Working with faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars and current Jefferson students assists in building an understanding and proficiency in real-life research questions, methods and applications. To cap off the experience, students will present a topic explored throughout the program during the virtual Summer Science Symposium Day. This program runs from June 27 to July 25.