Virginia Commonwealth University offers concurrent STARTALK summer programs in Chinese and Arabic.
The six governor's academies maintain their individuality and offer activities to expand global awareness, multi-cultural understanding, and international education.
The three immersion academies provide an intensive experience and unique challenge for students who have excelled in language study to continue their study of that language in a total immersion environment, which is generally unavailable in the regular school environment.
French, Spanish, and German Academies will occur at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
Highlights of the programs include day trips, such as to Washington, D.C. to see various museums, academic, and/or cultural institutions that correspond to the respective foreign languages, outings to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, or the archaeological sites at Jamestown.