Trinity Access Programmes Summer School 2008

Posted on: 16 June 2008

Fifty-five students from nineteen Trinity Access Programme’s link secondary schools in Dublin took part in this year’s TAP Summer School. Five American students from the Next Generation Venture Fund Programme, administered by John Hopkin’s University and Duke University, USA and sponsored, along with TAP Summer School, by the Goldman Sachs Foundation, also participated in the programme.  

TAP Summer School aims to provide students from communities currently underrepresented in the third level education sector, with the unique opportunity to experience firsthand, the academic, cultural and social aspects of student life in Trinity College . Over the course of the week, members of the College community volunteered their time to deliver a range of workshops and laboratory sessions representing the broad spectrum of academic interests pursued in Trinity.

The Summer School’s closing ceremony took place Friday, 13^th June where each student received a certificate from the College. Also at the ceremony Students presented projects on film, photography, creative writing and web design, which they worked on over the course of the week, to each other, parents and volunteer tutors.