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Aspen RanchAspen Ranch
Aspen Ranch offers programs for troubled teens that are based on teaching four core values: Respect, Responsibility, Relationships, and Integrity. The Ranch provides adolescents with a supportive structure and therapeutic activities, which are goal-oriented and address specific developmental skill and knowledge deficits as well as emotional and behavioral problems.

Living in a therapeutic environment, attending an individually paced school designed for success, participating in individual and group therapy, and involvement in a life-changing Equine Program, allows Aspen Ranch students to experience success, and rediscover a sense of self worth.

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Lone Star ExpeditionsLone Star Expeditions
Lone Star is a licensed therapeutic intervention that combines traditional therapy with a wilderness setting to engage students in exploring their character in a safe, but challenging environment. Located about one hour outside Houston, Lone Star helps teens struggling with behavioral and emotional problems and also has specialization in addiction treatment and school phobia, and issues such as ADHD, high-functioning autism, and attachment disorders related to adoption.

This summer, your child can take part in a therapeutic wilderness program AND earn accredited academics. Lone Star also offers a wide range of educational and psychological testing.

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Teens Optimistic that They Can Solve Problems like Global Warming

A majority of teens believe that science and technology can solve environmental problems, and that they would be the ones to invent some of these solutions themselves.

The Lemelson-MIT Invention Index gauges American attitudes toward invention and innovation. This year 72% of American teens told researchers that new inventions could solve even the worst environment problems such as global warming and water pollution. Two-thirds believe that they could be the inventors of these solutions. That percent was lower among girls (67%) and African American teens (64%).

Another majority (70%) told researchers that hands-on and project-based science and math courses in high school are very valuable.

"Today's teens are inheriting our society's environmental challenges, so their confidence and optimism that problems are solvable is promising and exciting," said Josh Schuler, director of the Lemelson-MIT program, a non-profit organization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Bromley Brook school for girls helps get Girls Involved in Math, Science and Computer Science which in turn, helps them realize their potential as scientists, mathematicians and computer scientists.

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