| 7 a.m. | Lights On |
| 7:45–8:55 a.m. | Roundtable Breakfast and Discussion |
| 9–11:55 a.m. | Major Courses (Monday through Saturday) |
| Noon–1 p.m. | Community Lunch |
| 1:05–1:35 p.m. | Siesta or School-wide Assembly |
| 1:45–3:30 p.m. | Physical Activities (Monday through Friday) |
| 3:40–5:55 p.m. | Major Courses (Monday through Saturday) |
| 6–6:55 p.m. | Community Dinner |
| 7–7:30 p.m. | Break and Social Time |
| 7:40–9:30 p.m. | Evening Activities |
| 10 p.m. | Lights Out |
Join your course instructor and the course assistant for a relaxed, roundtable breakfast in Darlington’s Dodd Dining Hall. Discuss, as a class, the lessons learned from previous meetings and devise goals for the new day. Ideas and questions pertaining to course material and community experiences will be addressed in an informal, conversational manner.
Spend the remainder of the morning in one of your major courses. Class time will involve experiential education at its best – laboratory exercises, rehearsals, multimedia presentations, hands-on art projects, visits with professionals, and field trips. Lunch and break times offer you the chance to mingle with students enrolled in other major subject areas and to wind down from the morning activities.
After lunch, all students participate in physical activities in Darlington’s A.J. Huffman Athletic Center or on campus athletic fields. Afterward, return to your dorm for a short break before returning to your next major course. This class session, which lasts for two hours, allows you ample time to complete your course lessons for that day.
Then eat dinner in Dodd Dining Hall with the rest of your Summer Scholar peers. After a relaxing social break, spend the evening working on group projects, rehearsing, reviewing materials for the next morning’s discussion, or participating in one of many planned social activities.
Forget about textbooks, tests and boring lectures. Each instructor has designed a curriculum that includes various day trips and adventures that reach beyond the normal classroom experience. Also, each course has a full day set aside for a field trip. See course descriptions for major field trips in each of the courses.
After exercising your mind all morning, report to the A.J. Huffman Athletic Center after lunch to exercise your body. Team up with campers from different courses and enjoy a wide variety of physical activities such as water polo, swimming, soccer, dodge ball and a few unique games designed just for Summer Scholars participants.
After dinner, you will have 30 minutes of free time to socialize, check e-mail and just relax. Spend the remainder of the evening (7:40 to 9:30 pm) in an informal study session, rehearsal, or in one of several planned social activities. Study time can be spent working on individual assignments for courses, group projects, rehearsing, etc. Summer Scholars organizers have planned at least five evening socials/activities each session. These program-wide events include a Rome Braves Minor League Baseball game, a movie on the chapel lawn, and various adventure games on Darlington’s 500-acre campus. On the last day of camp, the entire Summer Scholars community will head to the Nantahalla River for a day of whitewater rafting, hiking and swimming.
