All Articles In Summer Programs
Summer 2024
We will open our application for Summer 2024 sessions at Yale and Cornell on Friday Nov 17th at 5pm Eastern. Sc3 will begin accepting applications in early January. We will not be running a program at Dartmouth this summer due to extensive residence hall renovations that are impacting available summer housing. We expect to offer… Read More
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Final Pitches at Cornell
Yesterday’s final pitches showcased the hard work our student teams have put in over the last three days as they worked through the challenge of developing an original idea for a solution to an environmental problem into a minimum viable product or program. Our panelists for the event were Cornell’s Director of Campus Sustainability and… Read More
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A Lovely Week at Cornell
We’ve had a lovely week at Cornell to start of this Sustainable Summer program. In the classroom, we’ve been exploring energy while also learning a lot about innovative organizations working to address climate change. There has also been plenty of time for fun and some off-site excursions, including a trip to Treman State Park yesterday… Read More
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Final pitches and a recap of the weekend
Today’s final pitches showcased the hard work our student teams have put in over the last three days as they worked through the challenge of developing an original idea for a solution to an environmental problem into a minimum viable product or program. Our panelists for the event were Cornell’s Sustainability Manager and Cornell’s Executive… Read More
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Welcome to Cornell
Stormy weather, lost luggage, and epic flights delays can’t keep this group down. We are officially up and running at the 2023 Environmental Leadership Academy at Cornell. Kudos to everyone who powered through some tough times getting to campus and jumped right into the action. So far this week we’ve covered energy sources and uses;… Read More
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About The National Conservation Training Center
Sustainable Summer runs the Sc3 program in partnership with the Green Schools Alliance and The National Conservation Training Center (NCTC). In this blog post, we’ll talk a bit about NCTC. NCTC is a unique training facility located in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The center is operated by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and… Read More
Summer 2023
We are now accepting applications for Summer 2023 programs. Please click here to start an application.
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Final Pitches
Our student teams just finished pitching their concepts for a new social venture to our panelists from Dartmouth’s Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship and Dartmouth’s Irving Institute for Energy and Society. In no particular order we had… A community challenge-based environmental sustainability app. PlanEAT encourages users to reduce their meat consumption through community-based motivation, personal… Read More
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A Look Back At The Week
Here we are on Sunday. It has been one week since students from all across the globe gathered at Dartmouth to learn about sustainability. Much fun has been had. I dare say that we learned a few things along the way, too. We kicked off the program with a scavenger hunt around campus. We… Read More
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Climate Action Projects and Mount Moosilauke
On Wednesday afternoon students presented their climate action project to our panelists Rosi Kerr, Dartmouth’s Director of Sustainability, and Amanda Graham, the Academic Director at Dartmouth’s Irving Insitute for Energy and Society. Seeds of the Future is a community garden concept in Worcester, MA. Seattle Sewage Solutions aims to divert stormwater runoff from the Puget… Read More
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