A variety of camps to choose from

The camps are offering a variety of activities such as craft, science and technology, sports, music, French cuisine, drama among others activities.

Arts-in-Action (AiA) annual Discovery Camp Memories for children five to 12 years will be held at the Department of Creative and Festival Arts, UWI, Agostini Street, St Augustine from July 10 - 29 and August 7 - 19. Also starting Monday to Friday, August 4 is the Alliance Francais TT French Summer Camp at 17 Alcazar Street, St Clair, Port of Spain, where activities include French class, art and craft, tours and visits, French music/movies, sports and games and French cuisine. For the same period, the MIC Institute of Technology vacation STE M camp for forms four, five and six and secondary school graduates will be held at its centres in Macoya, Diego Martin, Penal, Pleasantville, O’Meara and Tobago, with participants being engaged in simulated welding, mechatronics, electronics/electrical, AutoCAD and computer literacy.

The Harvard Club Vacation Sports Camp for children six to 14 years will be held at club premises and Nelson Mandela Park, Serpentine Road, St Clair from July 10 to August 18, and simultaneously, another annual children’s vacation camp for ages five - 15 years will be conducted at the Flying Fish Swim Club in Federation Park, with activities including teaching national pride, team water sports, spoken work, dance, photography, nature walks, films, cookery and field trips.

However, the largest set of activities will be on offer at the Niherst Vacation Science Camps that begin on Monday at Costaat City Campus in Port of Spain, the National Science Centre in the East and the UTT Valsayn Campus in the north, UTT San Fernando Campus in South on July 14, and at Preysal Secondary School in Central from July 24, catering for children of varying ages.

There is the Funology camp for ages five to seven, the eMagination Level 1 and 2 camps for seven to 11 years, the Explorer camp for eight to 12-year-olds, Computer Constructors (nine - 12), and for those in the 13 to 17-years age bracket there are the Robotics, X-Stream, GrafX and App Builderz camps.

Niherst is also hosting Space Odyssey, Art Attack, Nature Detectives and Sports Elites camps for five to six years, seven to nine and ten - 12 years.

Costaat will host funology and explorer camps both from July 10 - 21, while at the National Science Centre kids can access Robotics and X-Stream Engineers camps (July 10 - 14 and 17 - 21), eMagination Level 1 (July 10 - 14) and Level 2 (July 24 - 28) camps, as well as App Builderz (July 17 - 21), Computer Constructors July 31 - August 4) and GrafX (August 14 - 18) camps.

Preysal Secondary will also conduct Funology (July 24 - August 4), X-Stream Engineers and Robotics (July 24 - 28 and July 31 - August 4) and Explorer July 24 - August 4) camps, and at the UTT San Fernando Campus, there will be Funology and Explorer (August 14 - 25), X-Stream Engineers and Robotics (August 14-18 and August 21 - 25) and GrafX (August 21 - 25).

UTT Valsayn Campus will be home to the Space Odyssey (July 10 - 14), Art Attack (July 17 - 21), Nature Detectives (July 24 - 28) and Sports Elites (August 7 - 11) camps, with the south campus also conducting Space Odyssey (August 14 -1 8) and Art Attack (August 21 - 25) camps.