Join 24 fellow students for intensive advising and additional programming and enrichment opportunities. Participants meet privately with advisors as well as in groups for regular check-ins. Advising topics include:

• 9^th grade: Pathways – peer spotlight and cohort building
• 10^th grade: Pathways – career exposure, fit, and research
• 11^th grade: Postsecondary pathways – pathway plan
• 12^th grade: Postsecondary pathways – application, selection, and placement

Tap into FAFSA support, college trips, and career days. Participants benefit from preparation for the SAT and ACT.

Heights offers targeted, strategic academic enrichment opportunities to help build critical thinking and reasoning skills, strengthen writing abilities, and introduce students to the academic rigor and pace of college-level work.

• Dual enrollment: Experience higher education curriculum and accumulate transferable college credits that reduce cost and time to degree, as well as ensuring better preparation for career-connected college majors.
• Blended Learning Initiative: Learn to use Arduino-based robotics and coding, and apply advanced math and science concepts plus design thinking to complex problem solving. Offered alongside the University of Pennsylvania, these year-round college-level enrichment courses allow students to attain computer science certifications for a strong start in STEM fields. Spaces in the program are reserved for students from partner high schools.
• Inveniam: Get free educational programming in computer science. Launched alongside Penn Engineering, this first-of-its-kind STEM equity and innovation lab gives socioeconomically underserved students a pathway to the college program — and the technology careers that will define the 21^st century.
• Robotics: Join a thriving program engaging students from the 6^th to 12^th grades. Designed to support Black, Brown, and female students in a field in which they’re commonly underrepresented, this program allows high school scholars to take their STEM work to the next level.

Through 1:1 counseling, résumé preparation, interview skills, job search strategies, and financial planning, Heights helps students create a roadmap to their career. We also connect students to industry-specific programs and internships in high school to build a pipeline to postsecondary jobs.   

• Internships: 11^th and 12^th graders can join paid internship opportunities for greater career experience and exposure. More than 270 Heights participants are engaged in paid internships with partners including The Pennovation Center, Comcast, the Philadelphia Housing Authority, and Temple Health.