Summer in Farmington
ChangeMaker’s Institute
The ChangeMaker’s Institute is an elevated leadership program, offering girls a personalized approach to passion-driven changemaking within their communities.
Dates: July 6 – 19, 2025
Tuition: $4000 (two week program, including weekend overnight retreat)
Prerequisite: Completing any two sessions of Sarah Porter Leadership Institute
Ages: Rising 7 – 9 graders
Registration for 2025 will open in late 2024.
Girls explore the legacy of female changemakers through history, unpacking how womanhood influences leadership and social impact. Girls then learn about and practice various tactics, strategies, and frameworks for user-centered problem solving and social change to navigate complex scenarios and real world experiences. This program includes a multi-day, weekend leadership retreat off site, where girls have the opportunity to apply these skills through hands-on challenges and experiences. The program will conclude with a cumulative capstone project, in which girls apply their new skill sets to developing and delivering a workshop for younger girls in the community.
The ChangeMaker’s Institute is designed for returning campers to build upon the foundation established in the Sarah Porter Leadership Institute (SPLI). Campers must have completed any two weeks of SPLI prior to enrolling in this program.
Learning Objectives:
Campers will develop an individual approach to passion driven changemaking based on leadership skills, passions, and interests.
Campers will interpret broad social issues by centering the experiences of girls and women, locally and globally.
Campers will acquire tactics and strategies for problem assessment and solving, including frameworks for social change, models of changemaking, and user-centered problem solving.
Campers will apply the skills and knowledge acquired to develop and deliver a workshop to younger girls in the community about the role they can play as community changemakers.
Summer Programs for Middle School Girls
Our summer programs for middle school girls are designed to provide girls entering grades 6 through 9 the opportunity to experience the Miss Porter’s School residential community while learning lifelong leadership skills from the leader in girls’ education.
Girls thrive in our supportive, collaborative environment where curiosity and confidence blossom. They complete their programs with a greater understanding of all they can accomplish as informed, bold, resourceful, ethical global citizens.
Summer in Farmington will run from Sunday, July 6 - Saturday, July 26, 2025
Programs fill on a first-come, first-served basis. A non-refundable deposit payment must be made to reserve a space at the time of registration in a program by check or credit card. All payments made after June 15 are non-refundable.
The TOEFL and English language proficiency are required for international students.
For more information, please contact summer-programs@missporters.org
Note: you will be taken to our registration website that requires you to create a login to access the Summer in Farmington registration forms.
A limited number of scholarships are available.
To be considered for a scholarship, please complete this form by March 1, 2024. Decisions will be communicated by April 1, 2024.
2025 Program Offerings
Sign up for more information about Summer in Farmington and access to the 2025 early bird registration window. You will also be notified about our NEW day program for girls in grades 3-5!
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