Lawrenceville's Harkness Travel Program uses creative and holistic approaches to experiential learning in order to promote the development of responsible leadership, global citizenship, self-awareness, and interdisciplinary knowledge in our student travelers.
Harkness Travel is back! Here's where we're going this year...
Engage the complex realities and politics of life at and around the border while connecting with the people, environments, exchanges, and issues that arise when countries and cultures meet!
Develop your leadership and immerse yourself in the culture and landscape at the “edge of the world” while you travel by foot through a remote and stunning environment of jagged glaciers, snow-topped peaks, glittering turquoise lakes, lively beech forests and wildlife.
Conduct a botanical inventory of diversity through specimen-based research in various rainforest ecosystems while developing remote travel and survey skills in partnership with the local community.
Live history through a robust exploration of culture, mythology, and archeology to discover ancient contributions to philosophy, language, and politics.
Expand your environmental curiosity through sustainability and ecological engineering, developing a love for the outdoors and the unique and vibrant spiritual culture through the arts and food.
Gain a deeper understanding of the science, craftsmanship, design and engineering of sports cars, motorcycles, boats, and race cars at the factories and laboratories where the next generation of performance breakthroughs are being developed.
Explore the rocky desert cliffs and rich underwater world of the Sea of Cortez by sea kayak while sleeping under the stars, paddling at dawn, and growing your leadership skills.
Abandon well worn tourist routes to explore a land shaped by conquests, colonization and occupation through the varied lenses of language, religion and cultures while trekking through mountains and desert, forging links with local families and exploring novel ways of living.
Inspire your creative energy to artistically capture your travel through painting, drawing, photography, or creative writing, culminating in a public group exhibit.
Roll up your sleeves for a service-learning project while experiencing a homestay, rich culture, beautiful landscape and many adventures.
Seek to understand all sides of a complex and historic conflict that has reverberated for generations while expanding your own perspectives on what it truly means to build peace in the world.
Navigate a volcanic and glacial landscape that feels like few other places on Earth to discover a culture and storytelling that evolved out of the land and that fuels new ideas about sustainability, energy, and climate change.
The Keio School, just outside of Tokyo, in a two-decade relationship with Lawrenceville, offers students from both schools the opportunity to study at each other’s institutions. The Keio School Exchange is a classroom-to-classroom and home-stay program, providing students from both Schools the opportunity to experience life abroad in the host country and within the respective institutions.
Lawrenceville partners with a number of semester and year-long programs that immerse students in a particular area of study while providing them with the tools they need to prepare for college, including standardized testing and college counseling.
While traditional classroom instruction is important, we recognize the unique benefits of experiential study programs. Students who study in these immersive programs return transformed to better meet global challenges, to speak another language, to grasp pressing socio-economic concepts, and to become informed and seasoned citizens of the world.
Students must declare their intent in January to study away for a semester or for a year in order to receive School approval in support of their program application. There are a limited number of approvals awarded each year.
Students and families must be mindful that semester programs do not align with Lawrenceville’s trimester calendar. Students choosing semester study away programs may be required to change their projected academic plans, take summer courses, and/or repeat courses that are not offered by the study away programs.
Students must complete a Lawrenceville Study Away application for next Fall '23, Spring '24, or School Year '23-24 by January 9, 2023.
Our membership in the School Year Abroad (SYA) program allows students to experience another language and culture through total immersion in France, Italy, or Spain. Participants live with host families and pursue a course of study in both English and the language of their host country under the guidance of SYA’s experienced teachers. SYA provides academic credit in addition to college testing and guidance, enabling students to graduate from Lawrenceville with their own class while helping to prepare them for selective colleges and universities. Students apply in their third or fourth form year to attend SYA in the fourth or fifth form year. The SYA year ends in time for fifth formers to return for their Lawrenceville graduation. Lawrenceville prefers students to attend the full year SYA program, but may allow semesters to be chosen.
The HMI Semester is a 17-week academic, wilderness, and residential program open to IV formers. The HMI curriculum focuses on building connections to the natural world and leadership skills while preparing students for college with a rigorous academic course load. The semester is divided between the HMI campus in Leadville, Colorado, and five weeks of wilderness expeditions in Colorado and Utah. Students are guaranteed one semester of transferable academic credit. HMI offers fall and spring semester programs and a summer program.
The Island School offers an intensive, 100-day semester program that focuses on real-world research, problem-solving, and sustainable living practices in Eleuthera, Bahamas. Using the island and ocean as their laboratories, students study history, literature, culture, ecology, and mathematics, guided by scientists and graduate students at the world-class Cape Eleuthera Institute research facility. Students explore the framework of Eleuthera's cultural and environmental landscape through student-centered academic, outdoor and community outreach programs. The Island School offers fall and spring semester programs and a summer program.
