“Adventures” - Achievement Mentoring Summit WHAT IS ADVENTURES?
EVERY TWO YEARS, we bring together some of America’s most promising high school students — the great thinkers and achievers of tomorrow — with some of the great thinkers and achievers of today. For four days, these exceptional young people explore their potential with 50 or so mentors who are both doers and dreamers: accomplished artists, astronauts, athletes, cancer-fighting scientists, dinosaur wranglers, entrepreneurs, inventors, journalists, Nobel laureates, novelists, playwrights, poets, poker players, programmers, public servants, Pulitzer prize winners, scholars, trailblazers, and world changers.
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The Summits are based on the belief that getting to know great achievers and sharing their interests and experiences can serve as a road map for talented young people just starting out. The Junior Achievers inducted into the Adventures class of 2011 will learn firsthand not only that excellence is possible, but also that the path to it lies right before them.
HOW ARE STUDENTS SELECTED?
We search nationwide for the smartest students, digging deep by going beyond the traditional measures of achievement – grades and test scores – and asking teachers to nominate a teen whom they know to be exceptional, regardless of learning disabilities, socioeconomic factors, or other obstacles that may obscure their real potential. We also look for the runners-up in national competitions, ranging from the Presidential Scholars Program to Intel Science Talent Search to the National Poetry Slam, who are just as talented as the winners – they just don’t receive the same level of recognition.
WHO ARE THE ADULT ACHIEVERS STUDENTS MEET AT ADVENTURES?
Participants are a select group of accomplished individuals who are invited by the Achievement Advisory Council to mentor at each summit as: • Alumni mentors (speakers who are invited to return) •
Honored Speakers who share their life story from our stage
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Student Sponsors
Attendance is limited so that we may maintain a ratio of one mentor for each three students.
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– Rose Ann Cima, 2005 Google Scholar
Missoula, Montana
Top: Junior Adventurers with Operation Smile’s Bill & Kathy Magee, 2009 host Charles Simonyi, artist Dale Chihuly, Leslie Chihuly, WABC’s Melanie Lawson, and Intelius’s Naveen Jain. Bottom: RISD President John Maeda with Junior Adventurers.
June 23-26, 2011