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88 local programs run in Vermont, 41 of them free or paid. Plus 210 nationwide programs open to anyone in the US.

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American Legion Auxiliary Department of Vermont
ALA Green Mountain Girls State
Leadership development program for rising high school seniors focused on Vermont town, county and state government, with simulated branches of government, floor debates and a culminating State House session.
📅 Varies🎓 Grade 11
Moderate
Burlington City Arts with Juniper Creative
BCA Youth Artist Apprenticeship Program
A paid four-week public art residency where Burlington-based youth work with professional artists to design and paint a mural, from concept development through installation.
📅 June🎓 Grades 10–12
Selective
Bennington Museum
Bennington Museum Curatorial Internship (High School)
A paid summer curatorial internship for high school students at the Bennington Museum, working mainly with the Collections Manager while also gaining experience in marketing, education and visitor services.
📅 April🎓 Grades 10–12
Selective
Bennington College
Bennington Young Artists Awards
A free competition for high school artists submitting two-dimensional work (paintings, drawings, photographs), three-dimensional work (sculpture, ceramics) or digital media (video, audio, animation up to 2 minutes), with cash prizes and scholarships for winners who enroll at Bennington.
📅 November🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Bennington College
Bennington Young Innovators Awards (AI)
A free competition for high school students with three AI-focused submission tracks: creating an original artistic work using AI with a reflective essay, writing a critical essay on AI's ethical, social or cultural impact, or building an AI solution to a real-world problem with a short video demonstration.
📅 November🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Bennington College
Bennington Young Musicians Awards
A free competition for high school musicians submitting one original composition of up to five minutes in any form (electronic, song or instrumental), with cash prizes and scholarships for winners who enroll at Bennington.
📅 November🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Bennington College
Bennington Young Scientists Awards
A free competition for high school students in the Natural Sciences category, submitting visual work such as field guides, scientific drawings, research posters or process diagrams that show their understanding of the natural world.
📅 November🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Bennington College
Bennington Young Writers Workshop
One-week residential writing workshop with Bennington faculty.
⏱ 1 week📅 April🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
Mountain Lake PBS
Beyond the Peaks Student Film Festival
A student filmmaking festival for ages 14-18 in New York, Vermont and Quebec, with documentary, narrative, thriller, open and 60-second categories and a Red Carpet Showcase each June.
📅 May🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Community College of Vermont
CCV Dual Enrollment and Early College
Free pathways for Vermont students to earn college credit before graduating, including up to six free dual enrollment credits for juniors and seniors, Fast Forward credit for technical center programs, and a full senior year of Early College.
📅 Rolling🎓 Grades 11–12
Selective
Champlain College
Champlain College Animation Academy
Two-week residential pre-college program creating 2-D animations in Toon Boom Harmony and working with Maya, ZBrush, Photoshop and After Effects, from character design to stop-motion.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 10–12
Moderate
Champlain College (Senator Patrick Leahy Center for Digital Forensics & Cybersecurity)
Champlain College Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics Academy
A two-week residential academy where students learn to construct and safeguard networks and investigate digital crimes in the Leahy Center, finishing with a team-solved forensic case.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 10–12
Moderate
Champlain College
Champlain College Filmmaking & Media Production Exploration Academy
Two-week residential pre-college academy covering screenwriting, directing, producing, editing and cinematography with Champlain faculty and film industry professionals.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 10–12
Moderate
Champlain College
Champlain Game Academy
A two-week residential game development program covering game art, design, programming in C# and Unity, production and sound, ending with a playable prototype.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 10–12
Moderate
Columbia Climate School (hosted at Vermont State University Castleton)
Columbia Climate School in the Green Mountains
A two-week residential pre-college program in Vermont where students work with Columbia faculty and researchers on climate science and solutions and climate leadership projects.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain
ECHO E-Team (High School Leadership Program)
A year-long paid internship for Vermont students in grades 9-12 who engage museum visitors with science and engineering activities and exhibit interpretation at ECHO in Burlington, with weekly shifts and Wednesday meetings.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Educators Rising Vermont (Vermont CTSO for future educators)
Educators Rising Vermont
Vermont's state affiliate of Educators Rising, a career and technical student organization for high school students interested in becoming teachers, with chapter curriculum, competitions and an annual Education Pathways Conference for students interested in education careers.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences / UVM Extension 4-H / FIRST in Vermont
FIRST Robotics in Vermont (FTC and FRC)
Vermont hosts FIRST Tech Challenge (grades 7-12) and FIRST Robotics Competition (ages 14-18) teams that design, build and program robots, with a state FTC championship and an FRC New England qualifying event at UVM.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium
Franklin's Guides Junior Docent Program
A six-week summer program where teens train as museum docents and work in the galleries, planetarium, Build It Lab and butterfly house, greeting visitors and assisting with programs.
📅 May🎓 Grades 9–11
Selective
Vermont Historical Society
Geiger Fellowship at the Vermont Historical Society
Paid summer fellowships in collections, library, museum and education work at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier and the Vermont History Center in Barre.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–11
Selective
Governor's Institutes of Vermont
GIV One-Day Adventure: Education for a Thriving Future Summit
One-day summit on school advocacy, education careers and community change initiatives for Vermont middle and high school students.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Governor's Institutes of Vermont
Governor's Institutes of Vermont: Arts Institute
Two-week residential arts institute where students choose two focus areas such as theater, music, writing, painting, film, dance and comics, with 108+ hours of arts training and an evening Artist Series.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–11
Moderate
Governor's Institutes of Vermont (GIV)
Governor's Institutes of Vermont: Engineering Institute
A one-week residential institute where students tackle design challenges in energy, electrical and structural engineering with professional equipment and software, including energy and hydrology strands and field trips to engineering companies.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–11
Moderate
Governor's Institutes of Vermont (GIV)
Governor's Institutes of Vermont: Entrepreneurship Institute
Students develop and market their own products and services under the mentorship of established entrepreneurs, build a team business plan and finish with an investor pitch.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 10–11
Moderate
Governor's Institutes of Vermont (GIV)
Governor's Institutes of Vermont: Global Issues & Youth Action Institute
A 10-day residential institute exploring social, political and environmental issues through discussion and activism, with policy or skills strands, guest speakers including legislators, and mock Supreme Court and legislature simulations.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–11
Moderate
Governor's Institutes of Vermont (GIV)
Governor's Institutes of Vermont: Health & Medicine Institute
Students explore health careers through hands-on medical training in patient assessment, surgical techniques and emergency response, and can earn VEFR, CPR/AED and Stop the Bleed certifications.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–11
Moderate
Governor's Institutes of Vermont (GIV)
Governor's Institutes of Vermont: Kenneth I. Gross and Anthony Trono Mathematical Sciences Institute
A one-week residential institute on statistics, programming, geometry and real-world applications of mathematics, with lectures, workshops, logic puzzles and an Amazing Race campus challenge.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–11
Moderate
Governor's Institutes of Vermont (GIV)
Governor's Institutes of Vermont: Technology & Design Institute
A 9-day residential institute with game design, information technology and digital media strands covering Python programming, microcontrollers, robotics, cybersecurity, animation, UI/UX design and virtual reality.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 10–11
Moderate
Governor's Institutes of Vermont (GIV)
Governor's Institutes of Vermont: Weather & Climate Science Institute
Students forecast weather, explore climate change impacts on Vermont communities and practice science communication, with weather balloon launches, storm-chasing simulations and trips to the National Weather Service and the Fairbanks Museum.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 10–11
Moderate
American Legion Department of Vermont
Green Mountain Boys State
Week-long leadership and citizenship program in which rising seniors take legislative, executive and judicial roles in a mock state government and debate at the Vermont State House.
📅 Varies🎓 Grade 11
Selective
Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department
Green Mountain Conservation Camps
Week-long residential camps for youth ages 12-16 on Lake Bomoseen and Buck Lake covering fish and wildlife, wetland ecology, forestry, first aid, fly-fishing, archery and hunter education, with Advanced weeks for past graduates.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 7–11
Moderate
Northern Vermont Area Health Education Center / UVM Larner College of Medicine
HERO Mentoring Program (Northern Vermont AHEC)
A no-cost online one-to-one mentoring program that pairs high school students with trained UVM medical students for health career exploration, goal setting and human biology modules.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
In-Sight Photography Project
In-Sight Photography Project Youth Classes
Photography classes for youth ages 11 to 18 in Brattleboro with all equipment provided; fall offerings include Photo Club, Digital Photography and Night Photography.
📅 Rolling🎓 Grades 6–12
Moderate
Kinhaven Music School
Kinhaven Music School Senior Session
Six-week residential chamber music program in Weston, Vermont for students in grades 8-12, with admission by audio sample and need-based financial aid.
📅 Rolling🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
Landmark College
Landmark College High School Summer Program
A three-week residential pre-college program in Putney for rising high school juniors and seniors, combining an executive-function seminar, a writing class and an elective with a traditional or social pragmatics track; students do not need a diagnosed learning disability.
📅 Rolling🎓 Grades 11–12
Moderate
Southern Vermont Area Health Education Center
MedQuest (Southern Vermont AHEC)
A three-day hands-on health careers day program in a real hospital setting with job shadows, clinical skills practice, career panels and mentoring from UVM Larner medical students.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 10–12
Moderate
Middlebury College
Middlebury Monterey Language Academy
Four-week language immersion for grades 8-12 (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Spanish).
⏱ 4 weeks📅 Spring🎓 Grades 8–12
Highly Selective
North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition
NACLO Open Round (Vermont high school site at U-32)
Linguistics olympiad in which students solve puzzle problems drawn from many languages using only logic and reasoning; Vermont's only listed site is U-32 Middle and High School.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
UVM Extension 4-H and Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department
Natural Resources Management Academy (NRMA)
A weekend camp where students network with natural resource professionals through hands-on workshops on sustainable trails, watershed science, composting and owl observation, plus canoeing, fishing and hiking.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 7–11
Moderate
New England Newspaper & Press Association
NENPA Journalism Scholarships
Scholarships of up to $2,000 for New England high school seniors, including Vermont residents, who plan to study journalism, plus the MacGregor Fiske Award for an exceptional student journalist.
📅 Varies🎓 Grade 12
Selective
New England High School Journalism Collaborative (NEHSJC) / New England Newspaper & Press Association
New England High School Journalism Collaborative Summer Workshop
A one-week, all-expense-paid summer workshop at Simmons University in Boston where high school students learn reporting, writing, editing and multimedia production and produce their own newspaper under deadline pressure with professional journalists.
📅 April🎓 Grades 9–12
Highly Selective
Manchester Community College (hosting the NH/VT VEX Robotics state championship)
NH/VT VEX V5 Robotics State Championship
The combined New Hampshire/Vermont state championship for the VEX V5 Robotics Competition, where high school teams compete in qualification and elimination matches, skills challenges and judging for a spot at the VEX World Championship.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
Norwich University School of Architecture + Art
Norwich High School Architecture Design Competition (Story Space)
Free design competition for high school students to design an outdoor performance structure for storytelling gatherings of five and fifty people.
📅 November🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Norwich University
Norwich University Artificial Intelligence (AI) Academy
A residential summer week where high school students use interactive coding labs, Raspberry Pi hardware builds and team challenges to design, train and test beginner machine-learning models while exploring AI bias, privacy and ethics.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Highly Selective
Norwich University
Norwich University Cyber Immersion Camp
A week-long residential camp in cybersecurity, coding, digital forensics, ethical hacking and artificial intelligence, with 2027 sessions on AI and on intelligence and drones for high school students in grades 10-12.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 10–12
Highly Selective
Norwich University
Norwich University Future Leader Camp
A nine-day military-style leadership camp where rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors do rappelling, rock climbing, wilderness survival skills and team problem-solving, ending in competitions and a graduation ceremony.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 10–12
Highly Selective
Norwich University
Norwich University Leadership Challenge Weekends
Weekend programs for high school students in grades 9-12 with outdoor challenges, team leadership training and an introduction to the Corps of Cadets lifestyle, including a dedicated women's weekend.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Highly Selective
Norwich University Cyber Institute
Norwich University Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Academy
A week-long immersive camp teaching media literacy, open-source intelligence and cognitive security, with labs in Norwich's War Room, a Vermont Intelligence Center field trip and individual research projects ending in student briefings.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 10–12
Highly Selective
Norwich University School of Architecture + Art
Norwich University Summer Design Academy
One-week immersive architecture and design program with sketching, drafting, model building and seminars, culminating in a small building design and public virtual exhibit.
📅 Rolling🎓 Grades 10–12
Highly Selective
Vermont Department of Health Tobacco Control Program / Vermont Cooperative for Practice Improvement & Innovation
Our Voices Xposed (OVX) Vermont Youth Tobacco Prevention Movement
A statewide youth leadership initiative for Vermont high school students who research tobacco advertising, run community events, testify to legislators and attend the annual 802 Youth Leadership Summit with tracks in storytelling, justice and policy.
📅 Rolling🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
The Putney School
Putney School Summer Arts Teen Program
Two- or four-week residential arts workshops for ages 14-17 in visual arts, filmmaking, animation, creative writing (fiction and poetry), acting, dance and songwriting.
📅 June🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
River Gallery School
River Gallery School Teen Studio
Weekly open studio for ages 12-18 where teens choose their own project and medium, including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, clay and weaving.
📅 Rolling🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
SkillsUSA Vermont
SkillsUSA Vermont
Vermont's SkillsUSA state association holds a fall leadership conference and a spring conference with nearly 70 hands-on technical and professional contests for career and technical education students.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
SOCAPA (School of Creative and Performing Arts) at Champlain College
SOCAPA Summer Arts Camps at Champlain College
Residential and day precollege arts intensives for teens in filmmaking, screenwriting, acting and musical theater, photography, dance, and singer-songwriter and music, taught on the Champlain College campus in Burlington.
📅 Rolling🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
Sterling College
Sterling College Pre-College Program in Environmental Field Studies
A three-week residential program on Sterling's 130-acre Craftsbury Common campus with field ecology, plant and bird identification, sustainable agriculture, service learning and outdoor adventures, earning 3 college credits.
📅 Rolling🎓 Grades 11–12
Moderate
Vermont Principals' Association / Hearst Foundations
United States Senate Youth Program (Vermont delegate selection)
Two Vermont high school juniors or seniors with leadership and public-service records are chosen for a week-long Washington, D.C. leadership program and a college scholarship.
📅 October🎓 Grades 11–12
Selective
UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
UVM CEMS Makers II: Advanced Design and Prototyping Camp
A week-long camp on advanced CAD techniques and more complex mechanical assemblies using 3D printers and laser cutters.
📅 May🎓 Grade 9
Moderate
UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
UVM CEMS Robotics Design and Testing Camp (Grades 8 & 9)
A week-long camp on microprocessors, coding and mechanical design for building and testing robotic devices.
📅 May🎓 Grade 9
Moderate
University of Vermont Professional and Continuing Education
UVM Pre-College Courses (for-credit)
High school sophomores through seniors take for-credit UVM courses online or on campus in fields including psychology, economics, political science, history, philosophy, art history, film studies, music and English.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 10–12
Moderate
Vermont Music Educators Association
Vermont All State Music Festival
Audition-based festival where Vermont high school musicians perform in all-state band, orchestra, chorus or jazz ensemble under national guest conductors.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
American Legion Department of Vermont
Vermont American Legion High School Oratorical Contest
Constitutional oratory contest in which students deliver an original 8-10 minute oration on the U.S. Constitution plus assigned-amendment speeches, progressing from local to department to national finals.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Vermont Association of Broadcasters
Vermont Association of Broadcasters Judy Simpson Memorial Scholarship
A scholarship of up to $1,000 per year for Vermont residents and Vermont high school graduates accepted to college who are pursuing broadcast media or communications degrees.
📅 October🎓 Grade 12
Selective
University of Vermont Neuroscience Graduate Program
Vermont Brain Bee
An annual neuroscience competition and day of exploration for Vermont high school students, with a multiple-choice test, oral exam and brain-anatomy practical, plus a preparatory boot camp.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Vermont Principals' Association
Vermont Debate & Forensics League
Interscholastic Public Forum debate and eight individual public speaking events with weekly tournaments and VPA-sanctioned state championships at the State House in Montpelier.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Vermont Association of Conservation Districts
Vermont Envirothon
A hands-on natural resources competition where teams of five high school students are tested on forestry, wildlife, soils and aquatics, connecting with professionals in conservation, wildlife, forestry and agriculture.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Vermont Future Business Leaders of America
Vermont FBLA
Vermont's FBLA state association with 16 chapters and 300+ members, hosting a Fall Leadership Conference and a Spring State Leadership Conference with 70+ competitive events.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
Vermont FFA
Vermont FFA Association
The Vermont state FFA association runs career development events, a winter CDE day and a two-day state convention (forestry, ag mechanics, speaking, dairy, equine and more) for students in agricultural education.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
University of Vermont Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Vermont High School Prize Examination in Mathematics
A long-running annual mathematics contest open to all Vermont secondary students, with state and regional prizes and an awards celebration at UVM Math Day.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Vermont Historical Society
Vermont History Day
Annual National History Day affiliate contest where students research a historical topic and present it as a documentary, exhibit, paper, performance or website; top finishers advance to nationals.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Vermont HOSA
Vermont HOSA - Future Health Professionals
Vermont's HOSA state association for students in health science classes, offering competitive events and an annual State Leadership Conference.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
Vermont Humanities
Vermont Humanities Camps
Week-long, project-based humanities summer camps run by schools, libraries and community partners across Vermont, built around reading, writing projects, field trips and outdoor activities.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
University of Vermont Undergraduate Admissions
Vermont Pitch Challenge
A business pitch competition for high school students worldwide, with a full UVM tuition scholarship for the grand prize and cash prizes for runners-up; entries are a written proposal, video or audio pitch.
📅 February🎓 Grades 10–12
Selective
Vermont Arts Council and the Flynn
Vermont Poetry Out Loud
Statewide poetry recitation contest for high school students; school winners advance to a spring state final and the champion goes to the national finals in Washington, DC.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Vermont Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Vermont regional affiliate of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for grades 7-12, with entries in 27 art and writing categories and Gold Key, Silver Key and Honorable Mention awards exhibited at BMAC.
📅 December🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
UVM Extension 4-H
Vermont Science Olympiad
A team science competition for Vermont students in grades 9-12 covering events across biology, chemistry, physics, engineering and earth science.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
Vermont Scholastic Chess
Vermont State Scholastic Chess Championships
Annual statewide scholastic chess championship with a USCF-rated 9th-12th grade section that also selects Vermont nominees for national invitationals.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
Vermont State University
Vermont State University 3D Technology Summer Institute
A residential institute in 3D imaging, 3D printing, modeling, animation, programming, virtual reality and CT scanning, with up to 9 college credits and a Certificate in 3D Technology.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 11–12
Highly Selective
Vermont State Youth Council
Vermont State Youth Council
Council of up to 28 Vermont youth ages 11-18 that advises the Governor and General Assembly on policies affecting young Vermonters, serving three-year terms.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Vermont Bar Association
Vermont Statewide High School Mock Trial
Annual statewide mock trial competition where high school teams argue prosecution and defense in courtrooms at Vermont Law and Graduate School, judged by attorneys and judges.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Vermont STEM Fair (hosted at Norwich University)
Vermont STEM Fair
Vermont's only statewide STEM fair, an inquiry-based poster presentation competition for middle and high school students judged by science and engineering professionals, with top winners advancing to the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
YMCA Youth and Government (Vermont)
Vermont YMCA Youth and Government
Model state government program for students in grades 6-12 who sponsor and debate bills in a simulated Vermont legislature and can advance to national YMCA youth government conferences.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
Vermont Youth Conservation Corps
Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Summer Teen Crews
Paid summer conservation and organic farm crews for teens doing trail work, habitat restoration, invasive species removal and sustainable agriculture across Vermont.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 10–12
Selective
Sundog Poetry (with Urban Word, the Flynn, Ruth Stone House and Young Writers Project)
Vermont Youth Poet Laureate
A statewide contest in which teen poets submit three original poems plus community and civic engagement information; the Laureate receives a cash prize, public readings in Vermont and an invitation to the regional competition of the National Youth Poet Laureate Program.
📅 February🎓 Grades 8–12
Selective
VFW Department of Vermont
VFW Voice of Democracy (Vermont)
Audio-essay scholarship contest for grades 9-12; entries are submitted through a local VFW post and Vermont department winners receive at least $1,000.
📅 October🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP), UVM Larner College of Medicine
VT RAYS (Vermont Youth Health Advisory Group)
VT RAYS is Vermont's youth health advisory group, where young people represent the youth voice in statewide projects, present to clinicians, and build tools such as a youth-led clinic assessment walk-through.
📅 Varies🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Young Writers Project
Young Writers Project
Free online community based in Burlington where teen writers and visual artists post work, answer weekly challenges and are published in The Voice and local media.
📅 Rolling🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Vermont 4-H, UVM Extension
Youth Environmental Science (YES!) Summit
A free, annual, youth-led day for high school students to explore science, career options and their connection to the natural world through hands-on workshops and networking with environmental professionals.
📅 October🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Education Justice Coalition of Vermont (with Outright Vermont)
Youth Organizer Training Program (Education Justice Coalition of Vermont)
A paid training program for Vermont students interested in social justice organizing, with five daylong retreats, an overnight coalition retreat and monthly Zoom meetings.
📅 June🎓 Grades 7–12
Selective

Nationwide programs open to Vermont students

University of Pennsylvania
Academic English & University Readiness Academy
Two-week residential academy at Penn for non-native English speakers. Students do university-style work: reading, lectures, discussions, research and group projects, ending in a final presentation. Current 9th-11th graders; non-credit.
⏱ 2 weeks (July 26 - August 8, 2026)🎓 Grades 9–11
Highly Selective
Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP)
AEOP High School Apprenticeship Program
Students work alongside Army scientists and engineers on cutting-edge research projects in world-class laboratories.
⏱ 8 weeks📅 Early March🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
American Foreign Service Association (AFSA)
AFSA National High School Essay Contest
An essay contest designed to engage students in thinking about peace and conflict resolution.
📅 February 15🎓 Grades 11–12
Selective
Carnegie Mellon University
AI Scholars at CMU
Free AI-focused summer program for rising seniors underrepresented in computing.
⏱ 4 weeks (summer)📅 February🎓 Grade 11
Selective
AI4ALL
AI4ALL Open Learning
Girls in grades 6-12 learn AI and Python through interactive virtual classes.
⏱ 2 weeks📅 March 1🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Mathematical Association of America
AIME
Invitational round for top AMC scorers. 15-question, 3-hour exam that gates the USAMO. No fee for invited students.
⏱ 3 hours📅 February🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Freedom Forum
Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference
An all-expenses-paid journalism conference for one student from every US state and DC.
⏱ 1 week📅 February 15🎓 Grade 11
Selective
Amazon
Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship
Scholarship for high school seniors planning to study computer science in college.
⏱ 4 years scholarship📅 December 1🎓 Grade 12
Selective
Mathematical Association of America
AMC 10/12
The entry-level American Mathematics Competition. Top scorers qualify for AIME and the path to the USAMO. Open to all US high schoolers; school registration required.
⏱ 75 minutes📅 November🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
ACSL
American Computer Science League (ACSL)
A multi-division computer science competition covering both theory and programming.
⏱ School year📅 November 30🎓 Grades 9–12
Moderate
University of Pennsylvania
American Sign Language and Deaf Culture Online Seminar
Two-week online seminar (daily Zoom sessions) teaching basic ASL conversation and narrative skills in an immersion setting, plus Deaf community perspectives through vlogs, lectures and a panel of Deaf professionals. Current 9th-11th graders; non-credit.
⏱ 2 weeks (July 13 - 24, 2026)🎓 Grades 9–11
Highly Selective
Amgen Foundation
Amgen Scholars Future Track
Free online biotech simulations and pipeline programs preparing high schoolers for biomedical research.
⏱ Self-paced📅 Rolling🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Apple Inc.
Apple Swift Student Challenge
Swift coding competition hosted by Apple to showcase creativity and app development skills.
⏱ 1 month📅 February🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Berklee College of Music
Aspire: Five-Week Music Performance Intensive
The world's premier summer performance program for contemporary music, including jazz, rock, and pop.
⏱ 5 weeks📅 March 1🎓 Grades 10–12
Moderate
University of Pennsylvania
Astronomical Techniques Research Academy
Two-week residential academy at Penn. Students learn observational astronomy and data analysis, build simple cameras and spectrometers, observe the Sun and stars, and analyze data with Python. Current 9th-11th graders; non-credit.
⏱ 2 weeks (July 11 - 25, 2026)🎓 Grades 9–11
Moderate
NCWIT
Award for Aspirations in Computing (AiC)
Award for girls and non-binary students in computing, providing recognition and a cash prize.
⏱ One-time📅 April 15🎓 Grades 9–12
Selective
Bard College at Simon's Rock
Bard College at Simon's Rock Young Writers Workshop
A 3-week residential program where students engage in creative and analytical thinking through literature and history.
⏱ 3 weeks📅 April 1🎓 Grades 10–12
Moderate
MIT Lincoln Lab
Beaver Works Summer Institute (BWSI)
Free MIT-led project-based courses in AI, robotics, cybersecurity.
⏱ 4 weeks (summer)📅 Early February🎓 Grade 11
Selective
ELASH / Bebras US
Bebras Computing Challenge (US)
An international computational thinking and informatics competition. Students can take the test remotely or through a local school coordinator.
⏱ 45 minutes📅 Early February🎓 Grades 9–12
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Bennington College
Bennington Young Writers Awards
A prestigious creative writing competition for students to win cash prizes and publication.
📅 January 12🎓 Grades 9–12
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