RIT/NTID offers educational summer camp for deaf and hard-of-hearing high school students
Hundreds of college-bound students from across the country attend each year
Mark Benjamin
High school students attend Explore Your Future summer camp at RIT/NTID and participate in hands-on activities related to careers in art, business, computers, engineering, health science, science and more.
The Explore Your Future program at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, N.Y., offers deaf and hard-of-hearing college-bound high school students who will begin their junior or senior year in fall 2019 a unique opportunity to experience life on a college campus, explore their interests and sample various careers. This six-day summer career-exploration program provides students with hands-on activities related to careers in art, business, computers, engineering, health science, science and more.
Mark Benjamin RIT/NTID Explore Your Future summer camp for high school juniors and seniors runs two sessions, July 6-11 and July 13-18. Explore Your Future sessions for summer 2019 run July 6-11 and July 13-18. On the final day of each session, parents/guardians attend a workshop that helps them prepare their student for life after high school.
Students who attend Explore Your Future receive an application fee waiver to apply to RIT and will receive a $1,000 scholarship if they enroll at RIT/NTID.
Students can apply online at www.rit.edu/ntid/eyf/. For more information, call 585-475-6700 (voice), 585-743-1366 (videophone), 585-448-9651 (text), 1-866-644-6843 (toll free in the U.S. and Canada), or email EYFinfo@rit.edu.
Recommended News
-
November 12, 2024
!['three college students sit in a classroom and look at a screen where numbers are displayed. Next to the screen, a professor gestures towards it.']()
New minor bridges gaps between property development and management
RIT’s new real estate in hospitality minor gives students the opportunity to connect real estate knowledge with hospitality management practices. Launched in fall 2023, this minor is designed to equip students with specialized skills for careers in both industries.
-
November 12, 2024
![two women sit on a gray couch in a white livingroom with art on the walls.]()
EchoMentor creates a new wave of sonographers
Hayley Bartkus and Christina Werth created EchoMentor as an educational platform for healthcare professionals working in sonography or ultrasound, a medical imaging method that uses sound waves to peer inside the body.
-
November 11, 2024
![RIT launches Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation appears in white text on a black background with yellow and orange arrows pointing from the upper right to lower left.]()
New Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation captures the startup spirit on campus
The Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in partnership with students, faculty, staff, alumni, industrial partners, and investors, will catalyze the development of successful ventures, and will strategically consolidate several existing departments and centers supporting the university entrepreneurial community, and beyond.
-
November 11, 2024
![the torso of an adult man in a blue suit is situated in front of 6 microphones in a park like setting.]()
Media coverage of the election & Trump's war on the press
KALW's Your Call’s Media Roundtable includes David Cay Johnston, Professor of Practice in the College of Liberal Arts, in its discussion about the election, Donald Trump's victory, and Kamala Harris's loss.
