Registration for 2024 Ignite Camps Runs April 8th - May 24th

Here's how to register:
1 - Choose the camp that's best for your child in our Find A Camp section.
2 - Read the Frequently Asked Questions for Parents before signing up.
3- Complete the Registration Form [available April 8th - May 24th] to sign your child up for one of our camps.
4 - If a camp you want to register for is not listed in the form, it means that camp has already filled.  Please consider another camp.
5 - After May 24th, you will be contacted with details about your camp by the facilitator.  If a camp does not have 10 students registered by May 26th we will not be able to offer it.
If your child is not a Surry County Schools student (you can use the link above to pay your child's $100 registration fee.  (Surry County Schools students are free.)
Dance Discovery - FULL
Dance Discovery is back for a second year!  The dance discovery camp will be filled with all things dance related. Last year children learned all about ballet, jazz, and acrobatics. Students will also be introduced to different ballet stories through books and will be shown ballet performances as well. A small performance will be put on at the end of the camp for parents to see all that their children have learned through the week. 
Target Audience: Rising K - 8th Grade Students
Date:  July 15th - July 18th
Location:  Central Middle School
Facilitator:  Allie Okruszko
STEAMing Through Reading - FULL
Want to learn about science, technology, engineering, art, and math while building your reading skills?  This camp is for you!
Each morning students will participate in an ELA lesson, enrichment lesson, and vocabulary activities around one age-appropriate literary text. In the afternoon, students will participate in STEAM challenge stations. Stations will include themed building and creating, drawing or painting, experimenting, researching, and applying what they have learned to the literary genre and book of the day. This camp will be geared toward students who have just completed Kindergarten or first grades. 
Target Audience: Rising 1st-2nd Grade Students
Date:  June 17th - June 20th
Location:  Copenland Elementary School
Facilitator:  Jolean Edmonds
Jumpstart to Kindergarten - FULL
Are you excited to begin school in August? Do you want to know what school will be like? Come join us for 4 days of fun and learning! We will learn about some letters and their sounds, numbers, how to write our names in fun ways, and start collaborating and forming relationships with new people.

Target Audience: Rising Kindergarteners
Date:  June 10th - 13th
Location:  Copeland Elementary School
Facilitator:  Sarah McHone and Emily Akers
Sharks and Minnows:  Aquatic Life
Are you interested in things that live in the water? Do you enjoy going to a creek and collecting specimens to study? Do you want to learn how to dissect marine organisms? Then this camp is for you! We will be learning about organisms that live in both freshwater and saltwater environments. Learn how aquatic organisms are suited to their environment, and methods of researching them.  We will also do in depth research about a marine or freshwater organism of your choice. Come spend a week of your summer learning how the organisms that swim in lakes, rivers, and the oceans survive! 

Target Audience: Rising 6th - 8th Grade Students
Date:  June 10th - 13th
Location:  Pilot Mountain Middle School
Facilitator:  Janna Blakeney
Books and Brush Strokes [FULL]
Do you love books?  Art?  Crafting? Just plain having fun?  If you answered, yes to any of these questions then Camp Books and Brush Strokes is for you!  Over the course of four days you will not only enjoy hearing some amazing stories, but also get to have some fun experiences that relate to each story shared!  Here are just a few examples of the books and activities that we will complete! We will read about a brave lighthouse keeper and you will then have the opportunity to build your very own solar-powered lighthouse!  We will read a book called SPLATTER and then you will go outside to splatter paint, creating a masterpiece of your own.  After reading some fractured fairy tales you will have the opportunity to make your very own fairy garden.  We will read A Walk Through the Woods and then take a walk in the woods to find materials for nature mobiles. We will read The Tie-Dye Disaster and then make our own tie-dye beach towels.  Participants will also have some studio time and be able to choose from a variety of additional activities. 

Target Audience: Rising 2nd - 5th Grade Students
Date:  June 10th - June 13th
Location:  Westfield Elementary School
Facilitator:  Billy Pell
 Surry County - Live and Learn [FULL]

Learn about where you live with fun field trips in and around Surry County! This camp will be jam packed with tours of local businesses, community helpers, local farms, and more! We will visit 2-4 different places daily and really get to know Surry County!  Please note this is a 3-Day camp Monday-Wednesday.

Target Audience: Rising 3rd - 5th Grade Students
Date:  June 17th - June 19th (3 Day Camp)
Location:  Franklin Elementary School
Facilitator:  Crystal Folger-Hawks
Music, Music, All Day Long! [FULL]
Just can't get enough music in your life??  Well, "Music, Music, All Day Long!" is for you!  We will sing, play instruments, create new music, have free "play" time exploring various instruments in the classroom, and do visual art projects to celebrate our love of music! We will also play various music games to build skills and have fun!  Students will develop 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 are encouraged to bring their own instruments (recorders, ukuleles, piano keyboards, or others!), or they are welcome to use the school instruments.  Students will create their own poster to take home at the end of camp, that will celebrate the JOY OF MUSIC!  The students will also give a mini-concert on the last day, to share what they have learned and created with their families and guests!

Target Audience: Rising 2nd - 5th Grade Students
Date:  June 10th - June 13th
Location:  Mountain Park Elementary School
Facilitator:  Susan Marshall
Junior Chef [FULL]
I want to share my passion of cooking, math, and reading with kids.  We will sharpen our reading skills using technical texts while having fun learning how to cook.  Students will practice their math skills while measuring ingredients.  ​

Target Audience: Rising 2nd - 5th Grade Students
Date:  June 24th - June 27th
Location:  Dobson Elementary School
Facilitator:  Theresa Eure
Sing!  Sing!  Sing!
In this camp, we will SING songs from different genres.  We will start with folk music, concentrating on the bluegrass, old time, and gospel genres that are so popular in Surry County, moving into their relationship with more modern music.  Students will be introduced to the history of Song Catching, especially in how it pertains to the music of the Appalachians.  Vocal performance is the emphasis, with students learning how to "hear" themselves and "match" tones.  They will also be introduced into harmonic structure, learning to hear and add their own harmonies.  We will also work on "how to read" music and practice 'sight' singing.  If possible, we hope to have different local musicians visit and play, too.  We will finish camp with a short public concert that showcases our work.   ​
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Target Audience: Rising 6th - 12th Grade Students
Date:  June 10th - June 13th
Location:  Pilot Mountain Middle School
Facilitator:  S. Renee Henry
Riding on Waves of Music!
At this camp we will be exploring many different instruments from bucket drums to xylophones! We will learn how different instruments work together as an ensemble to create beautiful music! You will also have an opportunity to create your own musical composition with the instrument(s) of your choice!

Target Audience: Rising 3rd - 5th Grade Students
Date:  June 10th - June 13th
Location:  Copeland Elementary School
Facilitator:  Amy Hinson
Cooking 101:  Back to Basics - FULL

Cooking 101: Back to the Basics is a hands on fun interactive camp. We will journey back to the basics of cooking and preparing food. We will read recipes and cook some favorite traditional food such as pizza, biscuits and gravy and many other items. The camp will focus on measuring, preparing simple meals, snacks and desserts. We will also learn basic cake decorating skills. There will be an overview of manners and etiquette. We will also incorporate team building activities. This camp is very interactive with lots of hands-on activities. 

Target Audience: Rising 6th - 10th Grade Students
Date:  June 24th - June 27th
Location:  North Surry High School
Facilitator:  Clara Horton
Memory Making with Journals and Scrapbooks
Are there ideas, people, and events that you hope to never forget?  Let's get them all together in one special book!  Participants in this Ignite Camp will work with a dedicated journaler and scrapbooker who also has 7 years of high school yearbook experience.  Together, we will cover photography tips, how to lay out a spread for maximum impact, and ways to incorporate embellishments into your journal or scrapbook.  At the end of the camp, you will have a journal and/or scrapbook full of your own special memories.

Target Audience: Rising 6th - 12th Grade Students
Date:  July 8th - July 11th
Location:  Surry Central High School
Facilitator:  Lori Creed
Wonderland Pen Adventures [FULL]
Do you like to draw or doodle? Or, maybe writing is more your style. If so, this summer you can choose! Create and build your own character and tell their story. Explore the outside and then write a poem to tell about your adventure. Imagine using art to express how you think, feel, or what you see. Join us for wonderland pen adventures where you can be the author and illustrator of your very own story. You can use your wonder and imagination to combine ink and art to find the magic of writing.

Target Audience: Rising 2nd - 5th Grade Students
Date:  June 24th - June 27th
Location:  White Plains Elementary School
Facilitator:  Loretta Shoaf
I Like Spike - [FULL]
If you like building with Legos imagine if you could make them do things by themselves. If you have played Minecraft, you might be aware that you can automate Minecraft tasks. Lego is real life Minecraft. Learn Construction, Operation, and Programming of Robots Using the Lego Spike 

Target Audience: Rising 5th - 7th Grade Students
Date:  June 17th - June 20th
Location:  Meadowview Magnet Middle School
Facilitator:  Paul Cummings
Cooking Fun - [FULL]
​Want your kids to cook supper for you? Want your kids just to learn how simple and meaningful cooking safety and procedures? Then let them attend and be a part of our exciting cooking camp this Summer!

Target Audience: Rising 3rd - 12th Grade Students
Date:  June 10th - June 13th
Location:  Surry Central High School
Facilitator:  Bryson Key and Casey Puckett
 Express Yourself Art Camp (K-2) - [FULL]
Express Yourself will provide an opportunity for kids to create in an environment that promotes self-expression. Camp will include drawing, painting and much more. Camp will end with a Fun Finale Art Show where their art work will be proudly displayed for their family to view.

Target Audience: Current K - 2nd Grade Students (8:30am - 11:30am)
Date:  June 24th - June 27th
Location:  Rockford Elementary School
Facilitator:  Melissa Simpson
 Express Yourself Art Camp (3-5) - [FULL]
Express Yourself will provide an opportunity for kids to create in an environment that promotes self-expression. Camp will include drawing, painting and much more. Camp will end with a Fun Finale Art Show where their art work will be proudly displayed for their family to view.

Target Audience: Current 3rd - 5th Grade Students (12:00pm - 3:00pm)
Date:  June 24th - June 27th
Location:  Rockford Elementary School
Facilitator:  Melissa Simpson
Future Health Care Leaders - FULL

Interested in a career in medicine or the healthcare field? Not sure yet? Join us for an engaging and hands-on camp that explores opportunities in the community learning about healthcare careers. Students will tour facilities, hear from experts in the field, learn and practice hands-on skills, participate in scenarios and more. Lunch will be provided each day.

Target Audience: Rising 6th-12th Grade Students
Date: June 3rd - June 6th
Location:  North Surry High
Facilitator:  Whitney Collins
Ag Adventures Camp - [FULL]

We will be exploring Surry County through various field trips and classroom projects in order to experience the extensive field of Agriculture in Surry County.   It will be a fun filled week of adventure and learning experiences for the students attending the camp.  

Target Audience: Rising 4th - 8th Grade Students
Date:  June 10th - 13th
Location:  North Surry High School
Facilitator:  Lauren Murphy and Michael Culler
Unveiling the Fourteenth Goldfish

​Embark on a thrilling journey this summer with our innovative Golden Genius Camp, inspired by "The Fourteenth Goldfish"! 🐠✨ Let your imagination soar as you delve into the world of art! Embark on a literary adventure as we journey through "The Fourteenth Goldfish" and other captivating tales.

​Target Audience: Rising 4th - 5th Grade Students
Date:  June 10th - 13th
Location:  Rockford Elementary School
Facilitator:  Pattie Martin​