Future Health Care Leaders
North Surry High School, Whitney Collins

Students interested in a career in medicine or the healthcare field, or may want to explore this career path, engaged in this hands-on camp that explored healthcare opportunities in our community, and learned about healthcare careers. Students toured facilities, heard from experts in the field, learned and practiced hands-on skills, and participated in scenarios and more.

Jumpstart to Kindergarten
Copeland Elementary School, Sarah McHone & Emily Akers

Get excited to begin school in August and learn what school will be like! Students enjoyed 4 days of fun and learning about some letters and their sounds, numbers, how to write their names in fun ways, and started collaborating and forming relationships with new people.

Unveiling the Fourteenth Goldfish
Rockford Elementary School, Pattie Martin

Students embarked on a thrilling journey this summer with the innovative Golden Genius Camp, inspired by "The Fourteenth Goldfish"! 🐠✨ Imaginations soared as students delved into the world of art and a literary adventure!

Sharks and Minnows:  Aquatic Life
Pilot Mountain Middle School, Janna Blakeney

Students who are interested in things that live in the water, enjoy going to a creek and collecting specimens to study, and want to learn how to dissect marine organisms attended this camp to learn about organisms that live in both freshwater and saltwater environments, and how aquatic organisms are suited to their environment, as well as methods of researching them.  Students also performed in-depth research about a marine or freshwater organism of their choice.

Books and Brush Strokes
Westfield Elementary School, Billy Pell

Day 1: Our first day of Ignite Camp was loads of fun! We enjoyed making lighthouses and tie-dying towels as well as reading several great books. The fun continues tomorrow!

Day 2: We read Scribble Stones and painted rocks, read The Tie-Dye Disaster and tie-dyed towels, and used a variety of materials to create our own animals after we read Animalia.

Day 3: This morning we read Comet’s Nine Lives by Jan Brett and then made our own ocean landscapes. We painted our feet to “put our toes in the sand”.

Day 4: Today we read Elmer and created our own Elmer the Elephant.

Day 5: We ended our week with the book A Walk in the Woods. We then took a walk in the woods around school and created nature mobiles. We have had a busy and fun week.

.......We are thankful to the SCS Education Foundation for funding our camp!

Music, Music, All Day Long!
Mountain Park Elementary School, Susan Marshall

Students who just can't get enough music in their lives sang, played instruments, created new music, had free "play" time exploring various instruments in the classroom, and did visual art projects to celebrate their love of music! They also played various music games to build skills and have fun!  Students developed singing skills, and playing skills on several instruments:  recorder, ukulele, drums and other percussion instruments, piano, xylophones and bell sets, Boomwhackers (tubes that make musical sounds).  Students created their own poster to take home at the end of camp that celebrated the JOY OF MUSIC!  The students also gave a mini-concert on the last day to share what they had learned and created with their families and guests!

Riding on Waves of Music
Copeland Elementary School, Amy Hinson

At this camp students explored many different instruments from bucket drums to xylophones, and learned how different instruments work together as an ensemble to create beautiful music! Students also created their own musical compositions.

Cooking Fun
Surry Central High School, Bryson Key and Casey Puckett

Students learned to cook Peanut Butter Delight, Homemade Chicken Alfredo, Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast Casserole, and many more delicious dishes! Students also learned simple and meaningful cooking safety and procedures through a kitchen utensil scavenger hunt and using GloGerm to see how clean hands are after washing.

Summer Blast EC Adapted Camp
Susan Cromer, Julia Coe

Summer Blast EC Adapted Camps took place at several schools for all grade levels. Students said this was the highlight of their summer, and they loved going on the field trips. At the ESHS camp, the favorites were the Splash Pad, Movies, and Transportation Museum. We also prepared lunch, made care packages for the Children's Center, and rode the Transportation Museum train and roundabout.

I Like Spike
Meadowview Magnet Middle School, Paul Cummings

Students who like building with Legos imagined, and created, ways to make them do things by themselves. With Lego SPIKE Kits, students learned construction, operation, and programming of robots!

Surry County - Live and Learn
Crystal Folger-Hawks, Surry-Yadkin Works

Students learned about Surry County with fun field trips on tours of local businesses, community helpers, local farms, and more! Thank you to these great locations for hosting this camp:
- Altec
- Carolina Ink
- Elkin Parks & Recreation
- Surry County EMS
- Granny Ruth's Bakery
- Hugh Chatham Health
- Pilot Mountain State Park
- Mayberry Squad Car Tours
- Roger's Realty & Auction
- Scoops Ice Cream
- Ultimate Towing & Race Shop
- White Pine Farm

STEAMing Through Reading
Copeland Elementary School, Jolean Edmonds

Rising first and second graders who wanted to learn about science, technology, engineering, art, and math while building reading skills attended this camp! Each morning students participated in an ELA lesson, enrichment lesson, and vocabulary activities around one age-appropriate literary text. In the afternoon, students participated in STEAM challenge stations. Stations included building and creating, drawing or painting, experimenting, researching, and applying what they have learned to the literary genre and book of the day.

Wonderland Pen Adventures
White Plains Elementary, Loretta Shoaf

Draw, doodle, and writing for students! Participants created and built characters and told their stories. Students also explored the outside and then wrote a poem to tell about that adventure. While imagining using art to express what they think, feel, or see, students became the author and illustrator of their very own stories by using wonder and imagination to combine ink and art and find the magic of writing.

Express Yourself Art Camp , K-2 & 3-5
Rockford Elementary School, Melissa Simpson

“We had a blast at art camp!  We packed a lot into 4 days.  My goal was to introduce new experiences to my students that they can get excited about and use in their future art.  We learned lots of new techniques and processes.  Color theory, learned how we see color in light, recycling, and creating lines with threads (embroidery) were some of the things taught this week.  Appreciating each other’s differences in their art and in the art studio came easily for these campers.  Hopefully, everyone will find a way to incorporate art into their summer activities.” -Melissa Simpson

Cooking 101:  Back to Basics - FULL
North Surry High School, Clara Horton

Cooking 101: Back to the Basics journeyed back to the basics of cooking and preparing food. Students read recipes and cooked some favorite traditional food such as pizza, biscuits and gravy and many other items. The camp focused on measuring, preparing simple meals, snacks and desserts, as well as basic cake decorating skills. In this very interactive and hands-on camp, students incorporated team building activities, and were given an overview of manners and etiquette.

Junior Chef
Dobson Elementary School, Theresa Eure

Students were able to share Ms. Eure's passion of cooking, math, and reading with kids by sharpening reading skills using technical texts and having fun learning how to cook.  Also, students practiced math skills while measuring ingredients.  ​

Memory Making with Journals and Scrapbooks
Surry Central High School, Lori Creed

For those who have ideas, people, and events that you hope to never forget! Participants in this Ignite Camp worked with a dedicated journaler and scrapbooker who also has 7 years of high school yearbook experience.  The camp covered photography tips, how to lay out a spread for maximum impact, and ways to incorporate embellishments into your journal or scrapbook.  Students now have a journal and/or scrapbook full of special memories.

Dance Discovery
Dobson Elementary School, Allie Okruszko

Dance Discovery came back for a second year!  The dance discovery camp was filled with all things dance related. Children learned all about ballet, jazz, and acrobatics. Students were also introduced to different ballet stories through books and viewing ballet performances. A small performance was put on at the end of the camp for parents to see all that their children have learned through the week.