Designed for rising 9th through 12th graders, Accelerate U summer camp program is designed for teens interested in exploring careers in the culinary and hospitality industry. Whether you’re an experienced ProStart® student, a budding chef or a complete newbie, these programs will give you a fun and exciting glimpse into life in a professional kitchen.
Saturday Culinary Pop-up camps are also available for current high school students year-round.
Held at GTC’s Culinary Institute of the Carolinas at the Northwest Campus, these four-day programs take place in CHI’s beautiful training kitchen and focus on building your confidence and skills for a variety of culinary adventures. Join our chefs to have fun while learning the techniques you need to cook a variety of delicious recipes from different cultures. These include Asian Pacific cuisine, dishes from Italy, Greece and Morocco, and also common pastries of Italy and France. Cobblers, bread pudding and other southern sweets are on the menu!
At the end of each class day, you’ll learn important culinary life skills to prepare you for cooking on your own, including how to create a food budget, how to repurpose leftovers into new dishes, and how to shop for the ingredients you need. This program also teaches essential skills like safe food handling and sanitation.
Dates: June 26-29, 2023 – 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Truist Culinary & Hospitality Innovation Center (CHI), 556 Perry Ave Ste B114, Greenville, SC 29611
Cost: $349
Come explore regional cuisines and the ingredients, techniques, and history that make them unique. The camp will cross between both baking and cooking skills!
Dates: July 10-13, 2023 – 8 a.m. to noon
Location: Truist Culinary & Hospitality Innovation Center (CHI), 556 Perry Ave Ste B114, Greenville, SC 29611
Cost: $349
This camp takes our high school students to new heights of baking. We’ll knead, roll, leaven, proof, fill, and more! Let’s get those skills sweetened and refined!
Dates: July 17-20, 2023 – 8 a.m. to noon
Location: Truist Culinary & Hospitality Innovation Center (CHI), 556 Perry Ave Ste B114, Greenville, SC 29611
Cost: $349
Ready, set, go! This technical summer camp will teach students the skills they need to plan and execute culinary creations with surprises along the way. We will finish the week with a thrilling competition. Who knows what you’ll find inside yourself and your basket!
Dates: July 24-27, 2023 – 8 a.m. to noon
Location: Truist Culinary & Hospitality Innovation Center (CHI), 556 Perry Ave Ste B114, Greenville, SC 29611
Cost: $349
Whether you're going to college, looking forward to living on your own or just need to learn how to cook on a budget, enlist in this boot camp to get prepared with fundamental culinary skills. During this course, CHI's Chef will teach you essential life skills in the kitchen, from creating a real-world budget to making a delicious meal with what's in your cupboard.
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Parents are asked to have their children wear apparel that is appropriate for summer camp activities. We require all campers to wear tennis shoes each day. All registered campers will receive an Accelerate U shirt on the first day of camp. They will be expected to wear that shirt each day. The dress code requires long pants, closed-toe shoes, and hair pulled back (minimal jewelry please).
No seats in the camp you are interested in? Place your child on the Summer Camps waiting list. The waiting list option will appear in lieu of the “add to cart” option when a class is at capacity.
GTC does not guarantee an allergen-free environment, if a student has food or other allergies, please notify the camp administrator or staff.
NOTE: Culinary camp recipes may contain nuts, nut oils, shellfish, gluten, dairy, produce and other food allergens.
Please notify staff during check-in.
Do not call or text your children during camp hours because this may disrupt the class or cause an accident. GTC is not responsible for the loss of personal items such as video games and cell phones.
Campers engaging in disruptive behavior will be sent home after an initial warning and will not be allowed to return. This includes inappropriate behavior, fighting, shoving and inappropriate language.
If a student has any physical, emotional, or educational special needs that would require special accommodations by camp staff, it is the responsibility of the legal guardian to disclose that information at the time of enrollment so camp staff are aware. Note: GTC does not guarantee all special accommodations can be met, but will attempt to provide reasonable accommodations with advanced notice.
Each Accelerate U site is managed by a qualified staff of GTC Instructors and Teacher Aides. Summer Camp instructors are highly qualified educators from our local area who are selected for their abilities and expertise. They have years of experience and are excited about working with children and teens, along with providing a creative and stimulating learning environment. All camp staff has completed a screening process that meets the requirements set forth by Greenville Technical College and all staff members are required to attend an in-service training orientation. All staff members have obtained successful criminal background checks.
Summer camps early registration will open on February 28, followed by open registration beginning March 14.
Don’t wait until the last minute to register. Make sure your child has a summer to remember!
Keep summer camp alive all year long with these four-hour culinary camp options for current 9th through 12th graders at the Truist Culinary and Hospitality Innovation Center.
Learn about Accelerate U Pop-up Camps »Josh Jones
Program Coordinator
Josh.Jones@gvltec.edu
(864) 250-8246
Lyndia Chiles
Lyndia.Chiles@gvltec.edu
(864) 250-3617
Do you have a student in another age group who would like to participate in camps at Greenville Tech?
Learn more about Adventure Tech summer day camps for middle school ages.
Learn more about Adventure Tech Junior for elementary school ages.