As most SB teachers did not attend public schools themselves, this experience challenges their stereotype of what public school children are capable of achieving. Summerbridge teachers are idealists who want to change the world and this program gives them a tangible way and a set of tools to begin to do so.

• Dynamic high school and college students
  
  
• Recruited locally and nationally
  
  
• Trained and supervised by professional teachers
  
  
• Committed to students year round