The purpose of Freedom Summer is to expand our students' concepts of what it means to be a leader and a motivated student. We push our students academically, socially, and physically. Freedom Summer is difficult, hot, and life-changing.

For most of our students, Freedom Summer is their entry point into the Freedom Project and their introduction to the fellowship. Programming includes five weeks of intensive academic instruction in reading, math and rhetoric for our Fellows. Freedom Fellows also participate in other clubs that include visual arts, gardening, chess, photography, and fitness programming. We end our summer with camping trips to civil rights sites and one week spent on a college campus in a college-immersion experience.

For our 10th-12th grade students, Freedom Summer means taking college-bridge courses from real college professors! Fellows earn college credit by completing month-long courses in subjects that include logic, sociology, computer science and so much more. Freedom Summer also includes traveling for our older Fellows. Our 10th-12th grade students will fly to the east coast to attend rigorous summer programs. During these great adventures, they meet new people from around the world, visit new cities and colleges, and take classes on subjects not available in their schools!