PAVE is a six-week summer course of study designed to strengthen the academic skills of students who are planning to enter a college engineering, pre-medical, science, or technology program. If you are an eleventh grader and planning to take advanced placement or honors mathematics and science courses, the pre-college PAVE program will fortify your senior year and potentially improve your ACT, AP, SAT and TOEFL test scores while increasing your chances for admission when you apply to college. If you are a graduating high school student and are planning to attend any institution, this program not only exposes you to campus life, but also provides you with the experience to overcome the rough spots you may encounter.

In addition to strengthening your background, PAVE can help you decide if a technology-based degree is really the field for you. As a participant, you have the opportunity to improve your problem solving skills, technical writing skills, computer application skills, and laboratory skills by performing experiments in the sciences, pre-med and engineering disciplines. If, after your undergraduate degree, you are considering obtaining a business, economics, engineering, journalism, law or medical degree, you will benefit from having the experience that PAVE provides.

The 2010 PAVE program is open to high school students who will be in the 11th grade (class of 2011), 12th grade (class of 2010) or PG year during the 2009-2010 school year and runs from June 21, 2010 to July 30, 2010.

We enthusiastically encourage you to call our friendly staff to discuss how the PAVE program meets your specific goals and objectives. Please note that admission is on a rolling basis.

Founder's Program Objectives: "To provide a superior academic foundation for an undergraduate degree, comprehensive career insight for a bachelor degree and beyond, a non-summer school atmosphere, a diverse student body, and a well rounded program for one of the best summers of your life." John Veillette, 1990.

To learn more about PAVE or to request an application, please fill in the Application Request Form and mail or fax it to the PAVE office.