Adventures of the Mind

Adventures of the Mind
	Adventures of the Mind Logo
Formation	2003
Founder	Victoria Gray
Type	Non-Profit
Legal status	Active
Purpose	Youth empowerment
Website	Adventures of the Mind

Adventures of the Mind is an achievement-focused mentoring camp for talented high school students.^[1] Educators from across the nation nominate students whom they believe, with guidance and nurture, can maximize their potential and make important contributions to society. Honored guests share their life stories that can serve as a road map to the students on their own personal paths to success.

History

Founded in 2003, the Adventures of the Mind achievement mentoring camp brings together, on a college campus, high potential teens from across the country with accomplished mentors from a variety of fields: artists, astronauts, athletes, entrepreneurs, inventors, journalists,

Pulitzer prize winners, scholars, and more. Adventures of the Mind provides the students — who are the great thinker and achievers of tomorrow — with an opportunity to interact with some of the great thinkers and achievers of today. The camp runs for 7 days and is developed by student achievement and advocacy services. Murray Gell-Mann

who was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics and a Mentor at the 2011 summit, is quoted as saying:

"Adventures of the Mind is like Davos or TED but with outstanding high school students"
— Murray Gell-Mann

Past camps

Previous Adventures of the Mind Summit
Year	Summit Location	City & State
2015	Rosemont College	Rosemont, PA^[2]^[3]
2014	Occidental College	Los Angeles, CA
2012	New York University	New York, NY
2011	University of Montana	Missoula, MT^[4]
2009	Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University	Princeton, NJ^[5]
2007	Morehouse College	Atlanta, GA
2005	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Googleplex	Stanford, CA
2003	Chihuly Boathouse	Seattle, WA

Student selection process

Student attendees are selected through a highly personalized and rigorous search that goes beyond traditional measures of achievement — grades and test scores — by asking teachers to personally nominate an exceptional teen. Attendees are chosen regardless of learning disabilities, socioeconomic factors, or other obstacles that may obscure real potential. Additionally, participants are chosen from runners-up in national competitions ranging from the

Intel Science Talent Search to the National Poetry Slam

. Adventures of the Mind targets high potential students who may not yet garner the same level of recognition as their peers, but would benefit just as much from the experience the camp provides.