Summer Camps

Be a Trep! Youth Entrepreneurship Camp is back! This summer join your local Small Business Center for a week-long youth entrepreneurship camp. 

Student objectives:

~Gain insight into the entrepreneurship and business fields

~Learn what it takes to turn an idea or passion into a product or career

~Meet and learn from real entrepreneurs

~Create and develop business ideas in a fun environment

~Pitch a business idea to a panel of judges

~Make new friends

The purpose of this camp is to teach entrepreneurship as a viable career option, teach business skills, and give students the opportunity to explore the world of entrepreneurship. Through fun games, activities, group projects, and a business simulation, students will learn business and marketing strategy, teamwork, and essential problem-solving and leadership skills.

Every day is filled with interesting and challenging activities to help students learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and creating a startup business. Each student develops an idea for a business that he or she can start individually or as a group, and on the final day will pitch the idea in front of a panel of judges in the form of a contest.

Parents will be invited to the student's ‘Business Pitch Party’ on the last day of camp Thursday, July 11 at 1 pm. Lunch will be provided each day, but please bring refillable water bottles. Parents will be responsible for providing transportation.

Open to middle school students. Students will do a variety of activities and challenges, including NASA engineering problems and a dissection. Students will work in teams to earn badges while learning fun, new skills. Includes breakfast and lunch. 

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Open to middle school students in public, charter, private and home schools in Jackson, Macon, Swain Counties and the Qualla Boundary.

Do you like challenges? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to feel the warmth of another star or breathe the air of a different planet?   Campers will stretch their problem-solving skills, learn space science, and work with real data to find planets around other stars. They’ll then plan a mission and strive to send their team to a planet beyond our solar system in this combination of role-play and academic camp with a focus on engineering and identification of exoplanets.

Campers will prioritize mission goals, design spacecraft and instruments, choose a capable and diverse crew, and navigate funding and ethical challenges in this scenario to choose their planet and launch their Exoplanet Exploration.

Above and Beyond is PARI’s signature camping experience designed to immerse high school students in the world of space science and research while building confidence and critical thinking skills. The process followed by scientists and researchers who’ve made space science their career is modeled to show how new discoveries are made about the universe.  Campers are provided the tools and guided through the process by professionals who have made space their life’s work. From determining the expansion speed of a supernova remnant, to characterizing an exo-planet or finding evidence of dark matter; your data will reveal and your conclusions will add to humanity’s knowledge of the universe!

For rising 9th and 12th grade students. Sponsored in partnership with SCC and Jackson County Public Schools, explore health science careers in an immersive hands-on experience with a focus on patient simulation activities. This camp will follow four patient scenarios from diagnosis through the entire health team through emergency medical science, medical assisting, sonography, nursing, physical therapy, respiratory therapy and others! Learn from real SCC instructors about treating simulated patients in healthcare!

* Lunch will be provided

*Parents will be responsible for providing transportation