Harvard-Westlake School Presents its 2014 Summer Program

Harvard-Westlake Summer Program Visual Arts Camp

Harvard-Westlake Summer has taken the core elements of what the school does best during the academic year and opened that experience to everyone with its summer programs. With diverse offerings and the top notch faculty parents and students would expect, at H-W Summer students can choose to make a film, write poetry or news articles, design a website, learn leadership and debate, polish math and language skills, go outside or hit the gym playing their sports of choice.

Now in its ninth year, The Summer Film Program, led by Cheri Gaulke, has a peerless track record in teaching young, aspiring filmmakers skills in directing, cinematography, editing, production design, and acting. Students have been exposed to amazing guest speakers like director Jason Reitman (Juno), editor Dana Glauberman (Up in the Air), and screenwriter Matt Ember (Get Smart). The student films have rocked the festival world as official selections at NFFTY (National Film Festival for Talented Youth), Westport Youth Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, International Student Media Festival, Reel Youth Film Festival, CineYouth, Citizen Jane Festival among many others. This year Summer Film has two courses with an activist center: I Can We Can  – Films to End Domestic Violence, and Righteous Conversations Project, a public service announcement workshop connecting teens with Holocaust survivors. These are films that resonate!

New to H-W Summer this year is the World Youth Leadership Institute. This exciting program embraces the 21st Century global community of business, politics, scholarship, art and culture in a challenging and fun workshop setting. Students will learn to understand the dynamics that drive our ever-changing world and build practical leadership tools through discussion-based lectures, simulations, and student-led presentations. This program brings together both day students and boarding students, with activities in the morning, afternoon, and evening. This is not one to miss for students interested in playing a leading role in our evolving international landscape.

Are you a student who loves to write? Our award winning publications instructors offer up beginner and advanced level courses in print and digital news writing. Just take a look at The Chronicle (www.hwchronicle.com) or Vox Populi, Harvard-Westlake’s annual powerhouses of student news and yearbook to see what these students will be learning during our summer journalism courses. H-W Summer also offers fun and challenging Creative Writing courses for ages 10 – 15.

Forget the athletes? Never. Harvard-Westlake coaches bring their experience and expertise to engage the young athlete in everything from golf to fencing to football to water polo. Most sessions run for a week and strike the perfect balance of enjoyment and rigor.

Whatever a young person’s interest is, chances are excellent that Harvard Westlake Summer has an experience waiting for them.

For more information, visit http://www.hw.com/summerprograms/Welcome.aspx.

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