Accelerate U Summer Camps

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.

Advanced Baking

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!

• Laminated dough
• Production
• Artisan breads
• Production/pizza day

ACF Mystery Basket

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!

• Knife Skills, chicken breakdown, introduction to mystery basket
• Skill work – Chef-led mystery basket
• Practice round – Student-led mystery basket
• Final competition

Cooking for Life Bootcamp

Dates: July 24-27, 2023 – 1 to 5 p.m.
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.

• Breakfast
• Lunchbox
• Snacks/Desserts
• Family Meals

Please refer to the Camp Rules and Policies page for details.

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!

How to Register

• ONLINE: Browse program information for each camp and click the link to the session’s registration page.
• BY PHONE: Call (864) 250-8800
• IN PERSON: Visit the Greenville Tech Dreisbach/Anderson Student Success Center on the Barton Campus

Registration Notes

• Provide the camper’s information – name, date of birth, school attended.
• Payment must be made at the time of registration. Make sure the college has the correct email and telephone number on file when you register. If we need to contact you in event of an emergency or cancellation, this is the information we will use.
• Make sure the email that you register with is the parent or guardian's. Do not register with the student's email address. This is our primary method of contact and we need to be able to contact you directly.

Keep summer camp alive all year long with these four-hour culinary camp options for current 9^th through 12^th graders at the Truist Culinary and Hospitality Innovation Center.