Calling all animal lovers! From wild monkeys to hibernating cubs, your little one is guaranteed to have a blast this week! In this camp we will do bright and fun animal portraits in art and explore all the playful animal poses in yoga. Have a favorite stuffy? We love to have a cuddly friend from home join us each day! 

Grades: Pre-K–3

Dates: June 23-27

Time: 9 a.m.-noon.

Cost: $325

Instructor: Grace Ratchford, Balance Studios

Calling all adventurous artists! Don’t love glitter and tiny art materials all over your house? Don’t worry! We love to get messy and let children explore the materials they love most. In this camp we will have top of the line art materials that campers can explore new techniques with and find the fun in their own unique ways. Keep your house clean and send your camper to get messy with us! 

 

Mermaids, seahorses, and fish—oh my! This week is about all things in the ocean. We will explore different paint techniques to create water texture and unique paintings in art. In yoga we will learn about the water and organisms inside of our bodies and how to nurture them. 

Grades: 4th-6th

Dates: June 9-13 and July 14-18

Time: 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m

Cost: $425

Instructor: Meghan Smith and Liesl Neubert, GPS Middle School teachers

This camp is designed for girls who want to learn to develop their skills in baking, have fun, and take home some delicious creations to share with their families. Campers will learn how to make treats such as cookies, macarons, whoopie pies, cinnamon rolls, and more. Please note: We will be making treats that have wheat, dairy, and nuts, so campers who participate in this camp should not have food allergies.

Grades: 4-6

Dates: June 2-6 and June 9-13

Time: 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Cost: $525

Instructor: Andrew Arick, GPS Dean of Girls Leadership and Outdoor Education

Get ready for your girl to command the great outdoors in this new camp designed to hone her leadership skills. Campers will learn the basics of hiking, flatwater paddling, whitewater rafting, and climbing. Camp GOLE will give campers the opportunity to navigate new adventures together and rotate through leadership roles for each day's activity.

Grades: 4th-6th

Dates: June 16, 17, 18, 20 (note: 4-day week; no camp on Thursday)

Time: 9 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.

Cost: $425

Instructors: Jenny Bullard and Ginger Sillery, GPS Middle School teachers

Join a camp where H2O is celebrated! In and around Chattanooga, we will explore the ways in which water brings life to us all. From creeks to blue holes to waterfalls, we will swim, splash, and play to escape the summer heat. Among the fun in the pools and parks, girls might just learn a few things about water conservation and the science of water.

Grades: 5-8

Dates: June 16, 17, 18, and 20 (note: 4-day week; no camp on Thursday)

Times: 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

Cost: $425

Instructor: Natalie Eastman, Early-Childhood Music Educator 

Digital creators will learn to create fun, beautiful, and/or inspiring digital journals, puzzle books, planners, diaries, quote books, and other fun low-content items, which can be printed, bound, given as gifts, or used for themselves. We will take at least one field trip, if not a couple, to see low content items in use, for sale, and in other circumstances, as well as to create. This is NOT a class on how to publish and sell these kinds of books; but for those entrepreneurial and curious about that as a future possibility, we will touch on how she can do that in the future.

IMPORTANT: Each girl must provide her own fairly recent model (less than five years old) laptop, preferably, or iPad/other tablet (not a mini size; NO phones). Before camp/class, make sure she is well versed with how to use her device; we assume she knows how and is comfortable using it. Her laptop or tablet MUST: (1) have its proper charging cable(s) and plugs with her daily for class, (2) be able to HOLD its charge for taking with her on field trips, (3) have excellent internet-connection capability, and (4) be carried in a protective case that holds all of its gear.

Grades: K–3rd 

Dates: June 16, 17, 18, 20 (note: 4-day week; no camp on Thursday)

Time: 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. 

Cost: $425 (full day) 

Instructor: Olivia Dobbin and Jessica Fuqua, Catoosa County School Teachers

At Discovery Camp, she will have places to go and things to see and do! Your girl will find out more about Chattanooga through visits to local parks and while singing, crafting, and learning fun facts in her hometown! She won’t believe all there is to see, do, and discover in the Scenic City.

Grades: 6-8th

Dates: July 14-18

Time: 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

Cost: $425

Instructor: Jennifer Snyder, GPS teacher and Dungeons and Dragons Club sponsor

Have you ever wanted to go on a grand quest? Befriend a dragon? Find treasure? We’ll be doing all of the above and even more, all while playing Dungeons & Dragons. D&D is a tabletop roleplaying game where your imagination and a few rolls of the dice make anything possible. Camp is open to newbies and experienced players alike. Come join the adventure!

Grades: 6–10
Dates: June 2-6
Time: 9 a.m.-noon
Cost: $325
Instructor: We R CPR Instructors

Grades: 4–6

Dates: June 9-13

Time: 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

Cost: $525

Instructor: Sarah Clardy, GPS Swifty Club Host and Middle School Science Teacher 

Enter your Summer Swiftie Era! Join us for a Swiftie-themed week where we will spend time enjoying each Taylor Swift album and its era! Part of each day will be spent doing crafts and activities such as making friendship bracelets, painting vinyls and heart hand watercolors, TS trivia, and of course singing karaoke. In the afternoons, we will enjoy activities around Chattanooga such as swimming at McCallie Lake, bowling, skating, and painting pottery to our Swiftie-themed week!