Summer Start
2025 Dates TBD
Summer Start 2025 will offer an immersive campus experience designed for ISAP, USTEP and Transfer students new to the USask Saskatoon Campus.
Registration opens May 15th
Ready, Set… Go!
Held in late August at the University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon Campus, Summer Start includes three days of activities designed to launch your USask Student Journey.
Build Skills and Strategies for Success
Each day you can select sessions to attend that match your interests and meet students who share your academic goals. We’ll include lots of opportunities for team challenges, student networking, snacks, and fun.
Summer Start sessions include mock First Year lectures and lab- and studio-based activities that preview your Fall Term experience, while providing great opportunities to learn your way around our USask Saskatoon Campus, buildings, galleries, and tunnels!
Sessions hosted by the USask Library Learning Hub and Trish Monture Centre Academic Initiatives will focus on academic strategies that support success in specific programs:
e.g. Which note-taking methods are best for science courses, which for arts courses? What are exams like? How can I use the learning tools in Canvas to complete coursework?
Academic advisors will share advice on course selections, credit load, and navigating student life in Saskatoon.
Students new to Saskatoon (or new to the Transit system) can sign-up to join a City of Saskatoon bus tour!
View the Summer Start 2025 Schedule (Coming Soon)
Summer Start Keynote Lecture
Each year, program facilitators invite a faculty member to close Summer Start with a Keynote Lecture Held immediately before our Summer Start BBQ. Family and friends are invited!
Our 2024 Keynote Speaker was Dr. Robert Henry, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Justice and Wellbeing, Department of Indigenous Studies.
Our 2025 Keynote Speaker will be announced in May.
Celebrating Next Steps: Our Summer Start BBQ!
We’ll wrap up Summer Start with a Celebration of your entrance to post-secondary studies in the College of Arts and Science. Students, families, and friends are invited to join us for the annual ISAP Summer Start BBQ: 4-6pm Wednesday August 28th in the Arts Thorvaldson Greenspace
Attention Student Parents – Summer Start is partnering is Sci-Fi Science Camps!
Do you have school-aged children? During ISAP Summer Start we have 20 spaces available for youth, aged 5 to 14, to join us on campus! Sci-Fi Science camps will plan morning and afternoon activity sessions, and participating children will join the ISAP group for lunch and snacks.
What students say about ISAP Summer Start
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“Honestly, I loved it all. I can't wait to start school.” |
“Being at the university helped make me feel more comfortable.” |
“I am now no longer overwhelmed by the word chemistry.” |
“I really enjoyed all the tours and how we were introduced to all the help we can get on campus—and where to get it.” |
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Partners
ISAP Summer Start is offered by the College of Arts and Science in partnership with
