Summer Program Blog

With gifts in hand and memories to cherish, the students on the California High School Summer Program have enjoyed an afternoon and evening of celebration and farewells. 

With the completion of today’s classes, we have just about reached the end of the 2022 California High School Summer Program!

We have reached the point in the California High School Summer Program when people begin to speak of “lasts.”

Proving that they truly are tireless — or, at least, that they will sleep for the first 24 hours when they get home — some 30 programmers and prefects arose extra early this morning for a sunrise hike.

Although the California High School Summer Program continues, the New England program is just four days away, and so the Summer Blog is taking a moment to introduce Head Women’s Prefect Norah O’Brien (’24).

Inspired by a classic scene from the 1981 film Chariots of Fire — in which Harold Abrahams successfully completes Cambridge University’s Trinity Great Court Run before the King’s Gate Clock strikes 12 — the California High School Summer Program staged a quad race of its own.

Now, with math in its more organic state, students saw the inter-connectedness of nearly every mathematical concept.