News & Blog

Welcome to the Summer Program and Teen Travel Blog !
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
SYLVIA PLATH, THE BELL JAR

It is our wish to provide you, our valued readers, with engaging and interesting information about the spectacular world around us, and, hopefully, the words you find here will also inspire you to get out, to learn, to live, and above all else, to travel!

Visiting Northeastern University

Today students got a chance to take a tour of Northeastern University here in the heart of Boston! This was one of six college visits that the students have gotten to experience during their time ...

Discover Philadelphia - from our students' perspective

by our own Jess Hoag, Abbey Road Student Correspondent Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is known as the place where independence was decided and where cheesesteaks and soft pretzels are the sole foods ...

Message from Austin: The City of Music, Festivals and Fun

Austin, Texas. Home to the University of Texas at Austin and place of the slogan, “keep Austin weird”. It is an eclectic city, and cited to be one of the most fun, fast growing, and desirable ...

Saying Goodbye to Leadership Academy

I can’t believe tonight is my last night with Abbey Road… I am going to miss everyone at my camp so much! I have made such amazing friendships with everyone that I can’t imagine leaving; ...

The Final Days in Palo Alto

Well, we leave tomorrow, and I’m going to miss everybody at Abbey Road! On Sunday, we went to the Great America theme park. This was one of my favorite excursions! We rode about a million ...

Berkeley Campus Tour

It’s almost the end of my Abbey Road experience, and I’m so sad to leave all the friends that I have made. Yesterday our group went on a tour of UC Berkeley, which is one of the schools that ...

Exploring San Francisco

So far, the other Leadership Academy kids and I have been enjoying the three day break we’ve had from classes. For our last day this weekend, we went to San Francisco on Caltrain. Once we ...

NorCal Done Right: Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco

Leadership Academy students got a break from their academic pursuits to visit the coastal town of Monterey. While the weather did not cooperate and relaxing on the beach was not an option, ...

Classes and Day Trips at Leadership Academy

This week, we started our new class with Camille, who is teaching us about clean water. In the beginning of class, we watched a movie called Flow, which informed us about water systems around ...

Seeing the Sites in Northern California

So far, the program is very interesting. I’m becoming close to all the people in the program as well as learning a lot from our professors. On Thursday, we had a seminar on clean water with ...

Go Abbey Road!

Attending an Abbey Road program is an opportunity that few kids my age can seize, and I can tell you, within the short time I’ve been here, it’s practically paid for itself! I’ve ...

Classes and a Break for Baseball

Leadership Academy students got their first taste of class yesterday in Lonjezo Hamisi’s course on international relations. In the afternoon, they explored Stanford’s campus and ...