Greenville Technical College’s Adventure TECH summer day camps for middle schoolers returns for its third season with its most popular camps in 3D printing, game design, culinary, drones, advanced manufacturing, and pet care. Three new camps – two in game design and another in etiquette and manners – join the 2020 season.
Adventure TECH camp sessions will run June 15 through July 30. Registration begins Tuesday, March 3, and Early-bird Registration begins today, Feb. 17.
To receive access to the exclusive Early-bird Registration and 10 percent per camp discount through March 2, visit www.GTCSummerCamps.com and sign-up for the mailing list.
New camps this year are:
- “LEGO® Films and Stop Action!,” which allows students to bring their favorite action figures to life in a short film they create.
- “Rocket Kart Racers: Design a Mario Kart® Style Game”, which uses professional 3D game development software to customize karts and characters in a video game students can play with their friends and family at home.
- “Royal Dining and Manners,” taught by local protocol and etiquette expert Sybil Davis, builds on soft skills that future employers expect in tomorrow’s workforce and includes how-to's in proper greeting and introductions, business etiquette, and practice in fine dining (and which fork is which!).
Most camps are offered in a half-day, four-day camp session. This format allows students and parents to choose a morning and afternoon session to create a full day’s adventure. Greenville Tech faculty will teach the majority of the camp sessions, which are offered at three GTC campuses across Greenville County.
“As we’re entering our third year of camp, we’ve been excited to see how these middle school age students are really learning beyond the classroom during the camp, too. The relationships they build with our instructors, as well as our high school interns who assist during the camps, help build that confidence in this future career path, showing them that they can be successful one day. Some of these students are coming onto a college campus for the first time,” said Jessica Allendorf, summer camps coordinator.
More about the camps
Northwest Campus
- Junior Vet Camp, Parts I & II
- Drone Academy
- Royal Dining & Manners
- Culinary Academy with the Culinary Institute of the Carolinas
Center for Manufacturing Innovation
- LEGO® Films and Stop Action!
- Battle Royale: Make Your First Fortnite® Style Video Game
- Make Your First Video Game!
- Rocket Kart Racers: Design a Mario Kart® Style Game
- 3D Printing & Design (For rising 7th & 8th graders)
- Metal Masterminds! (For rising 7th & 8th graders)
Brashier Campus
- Virtual & Robotic Welding
Culinary Academy sessions include both basic and advanced cooking and baking weeks that feature the skills of flavoring with herbs and spices and learning how to make basic sauces and roasted chicken, Danish pastry, rolls and braids of breads and candies and chocolates. “Empowered Eating!” introduces healthy flavorful snacks, vegetables and alternatives diets, and “Sweets, Treats, and Super Fun Eats” plays around with carnival foods and macaroni and cheese variations.
Camp session costs range from $139 to $189 per student. A “passport” registration option gives parents a $10 per camp discount if registering for more than one camp session at the time of registration. Scholarships are also available for the STEM camps. Registration is first-come, first-served and is limited to 12-15 campers per session.
Parents and their student(s) are invited to attend an open house and info session at Northwest Campus (March 10) and CMI (April 2) to learn more about each camp before registering.
To learn more about Adventure TECH, its sessions and camp rules for parents and campers, and to sign-up for an information session, visit www.gvltec.edu/summer-camps/.