Welcome to the New York State Summer Institutes Office

Our mission:

• To administer the eight component schools of the State Summer School of the Arts (NYSSSA): Ballet, Choral Studies, Dance, Jazz Studies, Media Arts, Orchestral Studies, Theatre and Visual Arts. The schools offer intensive training, provided by nationally recognized artists and companies, to gifted high school students who represent the wide diversity of ethnic, social, cultural and economic backgrounds of all New Yorkers. Information for the 2010 programs is now available.
• To provide statewide leadership and develop networks in the area of education for the gifted in order to build local capacity and align gifted education initiatives with state education standards.
• To administer the federally funded Advanced Placement Fee Waiver program that provides funds for low-income students to take College Board AP and International Baccalaureate examinations.
• To provide statewide leadership and develop ongoing networks and partnerships in the area of arts in education, aligned with all of the Standards areas and as a critical component of every student’s education pre-K-12.

Summer Opportunity for Students and Teachers from the Appalachian Regional Commission