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SUMMER STUDY AT CU-Boulder offers 3-week and 5-week ENRICHMENT programs and 5-week COLLEGE CREDIT program for students completing 9th, 10th, and 11th grades. Students in the 3-week and 5-week enrichment programs take 2 or 3, of the non-credit enrichment classes. These “high interest & low pressure” classes include Creative Writing, Engineering, Computers, a Community Service program, the nationally renowned Kaplan SAT Prep course, Calculus, Speed Reading, Architecture, Law, ESL, Theater, Music, Art, Medicine, Business and other exciting offerings. Students enrolled in the college credit program will take 1 college credit class and 1 enrichment class.

Students in CU-Boulder program have full use of the extensive sports and recreational facilities of this spectacular campus at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, including tennis courts, an indoor ice skating rink, racquetball/ squash courts, an indoor pool, basketball, soccer, volleyball, baseball and lacrosse facilities.  Private tennis instruction is also available as are clinics in basketball, soccer, volleyball, and weight training.   In addition to sports, daily afternoon activities also include Tie-Dying, Jewelry-making, A Capella singing group, Dance workshop, Rock Band, Poets’ Corner and more.  Fun-filled evenings include shows, concerts, dance clubs, ice-skating, movies, broom-ball, bowling, skit/talent night and other great activities.

Exciting weekend adventures are included EVERY weekend!  We visit VAIL AND BRECKENRIDGE... Colorado’s finest resort towns! For the adventure minded: Choose an action-packed day with horseback-riding, mountain biking, hiking or an AERIAL TRAM RIDE overlooking the spectacular Vail Valley below. For the less adventuresome: explore VAIL and BRECKENRIDGE with friends and staff…  PIKE’S PEAK AND COLORADO SPRINGS…Explore the magnificent GARDEN OF THE GODS, where spectacular sandstone Red Rock formations have made this scenic paradise world famous. We continue on to PIKE’S PEAK, with it’s imposing size and snow capped mountain peaks providing an awesome backdrop to the bright blue summer skies. At night we’ll see a brilliant LASER LIGHT SHOW at the eerie CAVE OF THE WINDS…  WHITEWATER RAFTING ADVENTURE...Thrilling summertime fun! For the ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME we’ll "shoot the rapids" on either the COLORADO or ARKANSAS RIVER.  Enjoy the serene beauty of winding canyons and clam river flow, often interrupted by turbulent rapids which make this the WETTEST & WILDEST day of the summer!

5 Week students will also travel to …ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK AND ESTES PARK…At an elevation of over 14,000 feet, we explore the massive grandeur of ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, nicknamed "the park in the sky." Enjoy the panoramic vistas, an awesome array of mountain peaks, forests of spruce and fir trees, wide valleys, meandering streams, lakes and AMAZING WILDLIFE!. CHOOSE YOUR ACTION ADVENTURE! We arrange HORSEBACK RIDING, HIKING and BIKING excursions so everyone can participate and have the experience they’ll enjoy most.

...DENVER EXCURSION...students and staff will spend a day taking full advantage of this "Mile High" city in the sky. Walk the grounds of Union Station, LoDo, ball park, Central Downtown, Arapahoe Square, 16th street mall, Larimer Square, and spend time at the Denver Zoo.

OUR EXCLUSIVE CONCEPT of weekend travel is included in the program fee and completes “THE TOTAL PRE-COLLEGIATE EXPERIENCE” at The University of Colorado.

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