Summer Academy at Jefferson
Jefferson Career Discovery
Explore different career opportunities at the college level this summer with our pre-college experiences at Jefferson. Our virtual Summer Academy program offers hands-on courses taught by our faculty and experts in the industry, with connections to our current students and alumni. These courses give high school students an opportunity to explore a variety of professional fields, while learning about different college and career pathways. These internship style experiences are a great way to explore multiple professional fields, while building your resume.
Summer Academy Programs
- Architecture & the Built Environment Academy - Jefferson’s award-winning College of Architecture and 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.
- 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.
- STEM Summer Camp Experience - The STEM Summer Camp Experience 2025 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, 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 July 28 to August 14 for 6th-9th grade students in the Greater Philadelphia Area.