ESL Summer Camp

ESL Summer Camp at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (HWS) is an on-campus residential camp for Vietnamese secondary and high school students from Vietnam (ages ranging from 10-17). It is a 2 week program that offers ESL classes 5 mornings each week with educational and recreational activities in the afternoons and evenings.

Located on 195 acres in the heart of New York State’s Finger Lakes Region, the HWS campus provides safe and ideal setting for variety of educational opportunities such as mini-college sessions in photography and environment taught by HWS professors, campus tours, and life skill lessons, and recreational summer activities such as soccer, swimming, football, zumba, tennis, and concerts.

A student exchange program is a program in which students from a secondary school or university study abroad at one of their institution's partner institutions. Student exchange programs may involve international travel, but does not necessarily require the student to study outside of their home country. For example, the National Student Exchange program (NSE) offers placements throughout the United States and Canada.[1]

According to the U.S. government, foreign exchange programs exist to provide practical training and employment and the sharing of history, culture, and traditions of the participants' home country.[citation needed]