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Family Feast
July 24-28 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 3-8
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Campers will learn how to make some summer staples for your family to enjoy for dinner each day. Prep meals and learn the cooking techniques to finish preparing dinner for your family at home. A fresh meal every night and essential skills to last a lifetime!
Instructor: Amanda Killen (Center for Excellence Co-Director and family chef)
Cost: $225
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Artist Workshop
July 17-21 | 1:00-4:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 1-4
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Campers will explore a variety of artistic mediums, such as painting, drawing, sculpting, collage, and more. Campers learn new techniques and are encouraged to tap into their creativity throughout the week.
instructor: Martha Berge (lower school art teacher)
cost: $200
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Basketball Skills & Drills
June 1-2 (TH-F) | 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
For girls entering grades 1-5 and 6-8
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Instructor: Coach Thomas Jones (Varsity basketball coach, AAU coach, and basketball trainer)
Cost: $75
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Castle Design
June 26-30 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 1-4
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Will you create a space fit for fairies and unicorns to call home? A hideout for your favorite action figures? – the choice is up to you! Each camper will be designing, building, and decorating their very own wooden castle to take home at the end of the week. Campers will learn about blueprints, and architectural planning and spend each day customizing both the exterior and the interior of their castle. We will weave carpets, create custom furniture, decorate houses with fabric accents, and more. DIY Castle Camp is a ton of fun for everyone!
date/time: Monday-Friday, June 26-30; 9:00 am-12:00 pm
instructor: Tanya Crump (early childhood teacher)
cost: $200, plus $40 dollhouse and supply fee
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Cheerleading
July 17-21 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys
entering grades 1-4
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instructor: Ashlee Marshall (former cheerleader and EC/LS cheer instructor)
cost: $200
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DIY SCI
June 5-9 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 3-6
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Make cool science projects that mom won't let you do at home! Chemistry rockets, exploding Mentos, elephant toothpaste, egg in a bottle, and smoke bomb launchers. Experiment with magnets, electricity, air pressure, eggs, and sound. Get ready to get messy and have fun!
instructor: Lucy Wesson (lower school science specialist)
cost: $200
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Fabulous Fibers Mixed Media Art
June 19-23 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 1-3
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This hands-on course will give students the opportunity to have a creative, in-depth experience working with mixed media, fibers (yarn, rope, twine, felt), and unconventional materials as artistic mediums.
date/time: Monday-Friday, June19-23; 9:00 am-noon
instructor: Martha Berge (lower school art teacher)
cost: $200
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Fairy Ballet
June 12-16 | 1:00-4:00 PM
For girls and boys
entering grades 1-3
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Learn how to create a ballet from the ground up. Dancers will learn how to tell a story by creating their own Fairy characters and choreography, costumes, and scenery in this week-long ballet experience.
date/time: Monday–Friday, June 12-16; 1:00-4:00 pm
instructor: Katy Stanfield (dancer, teacher, and choreographer)
cost: $200
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Fancy Nancy Camp Magnifique
July 17-21 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades K-3
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Calling all Fancy Nancy fans! Celebrate Fancy Nancy with a unique (that’s fancy for one-of-a-kind) camp. Imagine the adventurous fun you will have at this summer camp filled with fancy stories, creative crafts, pirouettes (that’s a fancy ballet name for spins), tea parties, fancy indoor campout, spa day, and other activities that are tres magnifique based on books from the Fancy Nancy series by Jane O’Conner.
instructors: Heather Fontana and Renee Grinder (kindergarten teachers)
cost: $200
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Fashion Week
June 26-30 | 9:00 am-noon
For girls entering grades 3-4
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Join Miss Emily of Bloom Studios for a fashion design experience like no other. Girls will learn about masters of French design including Chanel, Louis Vuitton, and Dior. Fashion illustration, elements of design, and producing their own “pièce de resistance” to model at the end of camp is certain to thrill little fashionistas!
date/time: Monday-Friday, June 26-30; 9:00 am-noon
instructor: Emily Cantrell (Bloom Studios)
cost: $300
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Food Science 4 Kids
Session I: June 19-23 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Session II: July 17-21 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 3-6
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Students learn the importance of our food system in their daily lives. Learn about agriculture, sensory evaluation, the science of cooking, and much more through interactive experiments and hands-on activities.
date/time: Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-noon
Session I: June 19-23
Session II: July 17-21
instructor: Ali Manning (Founder of FS4K)
cost: $250, per session
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Gold and Blue Lacrosse Camp
June 12-16 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades K-4 and 5-8
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The Bees and the Buzzards of Ridgeway Road are calling all youth lacrosse players in Memphis for the BEST week of the summer! This lacrosse camp will help players develop their overall skills and ability and build a balanced approach to the sport. During each session, campers will strengthen their leadership and sportsmanship while experiencing all the joy the sport has to offer! Campers will enjoy theme days, competitive small-sided games, and surprise summer activities.
*All players must bring their own sticks.
date/time: Monday–Friday, June 12-16; 9:00 am-noon
instructors: Joe Cummings (MUS Head Lacrosse Coach),
Jill Allen (Hutchison assistant athletic director),
and MeriTaylor Pickle (Hutchison middle school lacrosse coach)
cost: $300
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Hogwarts at Hutchison
July 10-14 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 3-6
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Join us for a fun and exciting magical experience this summer! Campers will enjoy various hands-on activities, such as Care of Magical Creatures, Potions, Charms, and more. Campers will also participate in special events such as Quidditch matches, scavenger hunts, and the art of the wand while reading and analyzing the original literature.
instructors: Lucy Wesson (lower school science teacher) and Robert Lofton (upper school science teacher)
cost: $200
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L.E.A.P.S 2: Language, Enrichment, Acquisition, and Phonics
July 17-28 | 1:00-3:00 PM
For Hutchison girls entering grades 3-4
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Language Enrichment, Acquisition, and Phonics (LEAPS) will reinforce letter-sound correspondences by offering multisensory (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile), systemic, evidence-based phonics instruction for students in rising 3rd and 4th grade. During our two-week classes, LEAPS will focus on blending and segmenting words, syllable division,
r-controlled vowels, hard and soft G and C, Y as a vowel, and
grade-appropriate vowel teams.
date/time: Monday-Friday, July 17-28, 1:00-3:00 pm
instructor: Alyson Ruby (lower school learning specialist)
cost: $300
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Lemonade Pop-Up Stands
June 5-9 | 9:00 am-noon
For girls entering grades 1-5
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X-STEAM Girl Pop-Ups is a summer intensive where campers engage in hands-on learning to build a brand, products, and pop-up designs through the curriculum using the design-thinking model. Additionally, girls will receive advice from leaders in the field to assist in completing their storefronts. Girls will walk away with their very own crafted lemonade recipe and pop-up shop as a functional and fun keepsake to use in their business. At the end of the experience, campers will host a fun and interactive showcase of their decked-out Lemonade Stand Pop-ups featuring artistically-designed artwork handcrafted by them. Parents and families of campers are invited to experience the Showcase.
date/time: Monday-Friday, June 5-9; 9:00 am-noon
instructor: Erika Cain (girl24 founder)
cost: $275
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Mad Math Skills
July 31-August 4 | 1:00-2:30 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 3-4
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Change your ADDitude about math with this fun, fast-paced skill-building experience. Improve math skills and gain confidence for the new school year. Speed and accuracy of math facts will be a focus.
instructor: Maggie Haire (lower school teacher)
cost: $150
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Make a Day of It With SPARK Day Camp
May 30-August 11
9:00 am-3:00 pm (early and aftercare available)
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Combine Center for Excellence summer camps with SPARK Day Camp for the best of both worlds - a full-day camp experience and specialty camp offerings.
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Make Em' Laugh: You Are Funny!
July 17-21 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 2-5
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Start clowning around with us! Clowning is high art and at the root of all comedy and tragedy! Playfully explore physical and verbal comedy using contemporary children’s stories or well-loved comedy sketches. Whether you want to be sad, happy, bumbling, or pompous, there is a role for you. Campers will show off in an antic showcase on July 21.
instructors: Tennessee Shakespeare Company teaching artists
cost: $200
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Mosaics
August 7-11
Morning Session: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Afternoon Session: 1:00-4:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 3-6
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Work with the local mosaic artist, Kristi Duckworth, and design your own mosaic tile art pieces. Space is limited.
instructor: Kristi Duckworth (ceramist and painter)
cost: $250, per session
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Packet Pacer
June 14 - July 26 (No class July 5th) | 1:00-3:00 PM
For Hutchison girls entering grades 1-2 and 3-4
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Need help getting all of your summer work done? Tired of haggling with your daughter to get it done? Send her to Packet Pacer! Summer work assistance for math packets, IXL, summer reading, and journaling. Each Wednesday afternoon from 1-3 all summer.
date/time: Wednesdays, June 14 - July 26 (No class July 5th); 1:00-3:00 PM
instructor: Hutchison lower school teachers
cost: $200
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Pottery
June 12-23 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 2-4
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This two-week course includes hand-building and throwing on the wheel.
instructor: Kristi Duckworth (ceramist and painter)
cost: $450, two-week camp
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Renegades of Rhythm Quad/Tenor Camp
June 26-30 | 2:00-4:00 PM
More information coming soon.
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Renegades of Rhythm Summer Intensive
July 24-28 | 8:30 AM-1:30 PM
For students in elementary through high school
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Students will learn fundamentals of drumming as well as rudiments, proper technique. Students will also learn group beats and play as a full group while preparing for the upcoming performance season.
All equipment is provided.
instructor: Andrew Hatfield (director, Renegades of Rhythm)
cost: $275
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Renegades of Rhythm Tom/Bass Drum Camp
June 26-30 | 12:00-2:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades K-12
More information coming soon.
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Soccer Camp
July 10-14 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 1-4
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instructors: Clint Browne (Hutchison soccer coach)
Cost: $200
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Storybook Theatre
July 24-28 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 1-4
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Come explore the world of color and character! Based on the children’s book Dot Town: Where Are You Blue? students will improve their confidence and acting skills as they create characters and act out scenarios from this charming book!
date/time: Monday-Friday, July 24-28; 9:00 am-noon
instructors: Julia Hinson (theater teacher and director)
cost: $225
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Strong Girl, Strong Stories
July 10-14 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls entering grades 2-4
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From well-known strong girls like Nancy Drew to new ones like Princess Magnolia from The Princess in Black book series, students will share stories of smart, creative, and brave girls. Each day, we will have book talks, play games, make crafts, and try recipes that go along with the stories of two amazing characters. In the end, students will take home Strong Girl Silhouettes that show the qualities of the characters they admire.
date/time: Monday–Friday, July 10-14; 9:00 am-12:00 pm
instructor: Tara Thomas (lower school librarian)
cost: $200
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Superhero Costume Design & Fashion Show
June 19-23 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls entering grades 1-5
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X-STEAM Girl Pop-Ups is a summer intensive where campers engage in hands-on learning to build a brand, products, and pop-up designs through the curriculum using the design-thinking model. Additionally, girls will receive advice from leaders in the field to assist in completing their costumes. Girls will walk away with their very own branded and crafted hand-made costume that reflects their inner heroic personality. At the end of the experience, campers will host a fun and interactive fashion show of their Super Hero Costume designs artistically handcrafted by them. Parents and families of campers are invited to experience the fashion show.
date/time: Monday-Friday, June 19-23; 9:00 am-noon
instructor: Erika Cain (Founder girl24)
cost: $225
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Take Off For Third Grade
July 31-August 4 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For Hutchison girls entering grade 3
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instructor: Katie Davis (third grade teacher)
cost: $200
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The "Renegades of Rhythm" Snare Camp
June 26-30 | 8:30-11:30 AM
For girls and boys elementary through high school
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Students will learn proper technique, Rudiments, reading and playing beats.
instructor: Andrew Hatfield (director, Renegades of Rhythm)
cost: $150
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Young Chef
June 12-16 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
For girls and boys entering grades 3-6
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This weeklong camp will introduce campers to the basics of cooking and baking through fun, hands-on activities. This camp will allow young chefs to express their creativity through tasty and healthy recipes including snacks, desserts, meals, and international cuisine. Participants will be given their very own chef's hat and aprons that they will be able to customize! During this fun-filled week, participants will create their own recipes and their very own cookbook. Participants will decorate cakes and make cake pops. There is no better time for homemade ice cream than in the summertime and participants will whip up their own batch of ice cream and popsicles. Participants will make their own sushi rolls, healthy snacks, breakfast, and more! Participants will be introduced to new food items daily in daily taste-testing sessions. At the end of the week, there will be a mystery ingredient challenge where participants can showcase their newly learned skills!
date/time: Monday–Friday, June 12-16; 9:00 am-noon
instructor: Martella Thomas (chef and upper school teacher)
cost: $225, all supplies included