Summer Program Blog

We have reached the point in the California High School Summer Program when people begin to speak of “lasts.”

Proving that they truly are tireless — or, at least, that they will sleep for the first 24 hours when they get home — some 30 programmers and prefects arose extra early this morning for a sunrise hike.

Although the California High School Summer Program continues, the New England program is just four days away, and so the Summer Blog is taking a moment to introduce Head Women’s Prefect Norah O’Brien (’24).

Inspired by a classic scene from the 1981 film Chariots of Fire — in which Harold Abrahams successfully completes Cambridge University’s Trinity Great Court Run before the King’s Gate Clock strikes 12 — the California High School Summer Program staged a quad race of its own.

Now, with math in its more organic state, students saw the inter-connectedness of nearly every mathematical concept.

With only one class that morning, students on the California High School Program found themselves with plenty of free time Tuesday afternoon.

Geometry with Euclid, theology with Fr. Sebastian