UW-Green Bay ignites the imagination with creative, hands-on summer camp options for kids
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 17, 2023
Green Bay, Wis. – Local youth entering grades 2 through 12 are invited to participate in the fun of a summer camp at UW-Green Bay! Faculty and regional experts work together to keep young minds and bodies engaged and active this summer with more than 20 in-person youth programs, designed to inspire and enrich the lives of youth in our community.
This summer, UW-Green Bay will offer select camps in partnership with departments across campus, including Video Game Programming, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), Camp Lloyd, Pride, specialty camps for Oneida Nation youth, partnerships with Einstein Project, GEAR UP, WSMA, and more!
Registration for Summer 2023 Camps is open now, and many are available with the help of scholarships. More information including specific session dates, cost, applications and registration deadline can be found on the website.
“Our camp experiences allow youth to safely engage, enrich their lives, and become inspired, these are our top priorities for our programming,” said Patti Schevers, Education Outreach Executive Manager for UW-Green Bay. “Camps offer a hands-on learning experience that is high-quality, due to our dedicated and passionate faculty and staff who facilitate our camps.”
Camps are offered in June, July, and August take will take place at three of the four Green Bay campus locations for summer 2023.
June Camps
WSMA Honors Camp- (System-wide & Green Bay Campus)
Camp Lloyd (Green Bay Campus)
Pride Camp- High School (Marinette Campus)
Pride Camp- High School (Sheboygan Campus)
Pride Camp – High School (Green Bay Campus)
Aquatics Robots (Green Bay Campus)
Video Game Programming 1 (Green Bay Campus)
Video Game Programming 2 (Green Bay Campus)
July Camps
Design Tech Intro Skills – Middle School (Green Bay Campus)
Design Tech Intro Skills – Elementary (Green Bay Campus)
Pride Camp – Middle School (Green Bay Campus)
GEAR UP Comic Book Illustration- (Green Bay Campus)
GEAR UP CSI & Foodie Camp- (Green Bay Campus)
GEAR UP Design Tech- (Green Bay Campus)
August Camps
GEAR UP Summer Scholars- (Green Bay Campus)
Design Tech Advanced Skills- (Green Bay Campus)
Exploring the Natural World of Oneida- (Green Bay Campus)
Tiny Earth- (Green Bay Campus)
Camp Lloyd has been offered at UW-Green Bay every summer for the past eighteen years. It is a week-long camp for grieving children to explore their feelings and benefit from the support of their peers, professional grief counselors, and trained student interns from UW-Green Bay.
UW-Green Bay’s nationally recognized Pride Center helps run Pride camps for middle school and high school students. Students will meet LGBTQ+ peers and allies and work toward expanding their personal awareness of the LGBTQ+ community.
UW-Green Bay is proud to collaborate and partner with the Oneida Nation in the creation of programming and camps for youth. More information and how to register for Oneida Nation camps can be found on at http://www.uwgb.edu/oneida-camps.
Camps and Youth Programs are now part of the Office of Housing & Residential Education at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. If you’re looking to plan your Camp or Youth Program at UW-Green Bay campus locations, please contact Patti Schevers, Education Outreach Executive Manager at camps@uwgb.edu or call (920)465-2843.
About UW-Green Bay
Established in 1965, UW-Green Bay is a public institution serving more than 9,600 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students and 95,000 continuing education learners each year. We educate students from pre- college through retirement and offer 200+ degrees, programs and certificates. UW-Green Bay graduates are resilient, inclusive, sustaining and engaged members of their communities, ready to rise to fearlessly face challenges, solve problems and embrace diverse ideas and people. With four campus locations, the University welcomes students from every corner of the world. For more information, visit www.uwgb.edu.
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