PRECOLLEGE PROGRAMS

The Global Wisconsin Idea Program is a University of Wisconsin-Madison summer institute for academically-talented high school students to engage in one of the world’s most interesting challenges: understanding the changing relationships between human actions and earth’s complex environmental systems.

Our understanding of sustainability – based on decades of research and learning – emphasizes two major trends that are changing the way we live:

The emergence of new technology that is smarter and more intuitive.

The ability to learn from real-life situations, through strategy and games.

Our Gifted Approach

The next level of challenge for outstanding students.

These trends underpin the future – and we have developed a summer program to engage young leaders in the search for solutions.

Program design and content is developed by faculty and researchers from:

• Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
• Department of Computer Sciences Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
• School of Education, Division of Educational Technology and Communications

Students in this exciting program will learn how to integrate the latest science into real-world decision-making and creative problem solving, with the ultimate goal of sustainably managing our planet’s natural resources – the air, water, land and biological diversity upon which all life depends.

For the most current information and updates on this program please click here: http://gwip.wcatyweb.com