The Upward Bound Project is a year-round college preparatory program, providing individualized instruction in courses needed for graduation. This is a six-week residential program housed on Benedict College s campus. The program serves 75 students grades 9-12. The Youth Leadership Training Institute is a challenging program designed to provide practical hands-on activities to make math, science, language arts, reading, and computer technology more relevant. Students receive experiences designed to prepare them for the emerging high technological society of the present and future through a blending of applied academic and technological courses.
Special emphasis is placed on setting goals and career information.
This is a three-week residential program housed on the Benedict College campus. The program serves students in grades 6-8. Each year 24 economically disadvantaged students who have just completed 9th grade from three selected high schools in Greenville County are accepted. Students will receive academic enrichment during the summer, will be academically nurtured during the 10th and 11th grades, returning each summer for four weeks. Each summer an additional group of incoming 9th graders will be added.