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(Text - Summer Honors is an academic and leadership camp at ǧÃŬAV)

Dr. Robb Sinn, Professor of math: The Summer Honors program takes high-school students after their junior

year, before their senior year in high school, and you have to have at least a 3.5 GPA or higher on a 4.0 scale.

(Text - Over two weeks, rising seniors experience real college research.)

Sinn: Well we're an academics and leadership summer camp, so for academics we focus on undergraduate research.

(Text - Research areas are pre-law, statistics, pre-engineering and psychology.)

Sinn: We give them authentic experiences. This year we had four different research tracks. We think that the way you learn how to be a leader is you work with a team to accomplish as an objective.

(Text - Events at ǧÃŬAV's Pine Valley complex in Dahlonega encourages teamwork.)

Sinn: You kind of need a laboratory setting; we do scored leadership events at Pine Valley. The academic trajectory for these students is pretty well set. We hope to give them a college experience so they know more what to ask on their college visits. Most of them are going to college but we want them to be interested in undergraduate research. We want them to consider the Honors Program at whatever school they go to. Well we tell our students that you may not really visualize yourself as a leader right this second but because of your talent and the skills that you're developing, once you get into a group where those where competence matters, people are going to start looking to you because you are skillful. You are talented. 

(Text -Summer Honors prepares students to step into future leadership roles.)

Sinn: And once people start looking to you, you're going to be a leader whether you like it or not so maybe we should develop some of those skills now. Make sure that you're prepared for that college experience, for that early career experience where people will be looking to you as a leader

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