Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
—Marianne Williamson, from Akeelah and the Bee
CBK is proud to announce the new home for our Summer Programs at
We are looking forward to this new relationship with a top Barron's-rated school. For information regarding the Catalogue, please see below or go to "Summer Programs."
Summer Programs Catalogue and Hiring
If you would like to receive a Summer Programs Catalogue, please email us your full mailing address - catalogues will be mailed in late February, but the Catalogue will be available in full on the web prior to that time.
We are currently interviewing for our primary summer leadership position, the Residential Director. For more information on this position, please check our job posting. CBK is also seeking Residential Assistants for all summer programs. Please see the job ad for more information on this hiring on a rolling basis pending enrollments. Please call 303-428-2634 for more information on applying.
Western Academic Talent Search
Current Deadline Information
The 2009-2010 Academic Talent Search is drawing to a close!
If you are interested in late registration, please give us a call at 303-428-2634. To change a testing site or date or to inquire about a missing admission ticket for Feb 20th, please contact EXPLORE at 319-337-1369.
Recognition Ceremony invitations do not go out until April and will be sent to the email address you provided on your WATS application, should your student qualify. The top 25% of all scorers in ceremony states are invited to these ceremonies, being held this year in Colorado, Nevada, and Utah in May. Please do not inquire as to qualification until this time, as we must wait until the end of March for the final scores to be received from Feb testers before we have this data.
Please scroll below for other late testing deadlines and information:
You may still choose to test for SAT on May 1st or ACT on April 10th, although these scores cannot be considered for recognition ceremonies. All other program benefits remain in place for these late testing dates and dates can be written in on the application below the original test dates.
We are no longer accepting applications for this year’s EXPLORE testing. If you have registered for the Feb 20th testing, admission tickets continue to mail from Iowa for this test until Feb 8th. If you do not have your admission ticket by Feb 12th, please contact the company directly at 319-337-1369.
EXPLORE does not send out testing confirmations until as late as two weeks prior to the test. Mailings for Feb testing go out from Iowa Jan 19-Feb 8th.


