It is a four-week (formerly six-week prior to 2011, and originally eight-week) summer instructional program for intellectually gifted and artistically talented high school students of Georgia.
Rising juniors and seniors in Georgia's public and private high schools may be nominated for the free program by their teachers.
Tuition, room, and board are covered under appropriations made by the Georgia General Assembly.
Students are not required to take any exit exams or standardized tests regarding major courses of study.
However, this does not include the large number of students who were eliminated in school and county rounds or were not nominated.
[3] Major instructional areas are communicative arts (English), Spanish, French, Latin, German, Mandarin Chinese, mathematics, science, agricultural science, social studies, visual arts, theatre performance, theatre design, music (woodwinds, piano, brass, strings, vocal, and percussion), dance, and engineering (design, electromechanical, and software).
Staff in four support areas (Counseling, Fitness, Computers, and Library/Media) also work to assist the student body.