Camp IMPACT - This camp is now full!
This summer youth camp is open to rising sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. Preregistration is required. Space is limited. Call 919-989-2128 for information.
Comic Camp for Boys
Explore the frame by frame action and suspense of comic book art. This camp will instruct you on how to design a cover, develop a character, a series of events, create line work, work with color, and carry through a sequential theme for the making of your own comic strip. This camp is open to the first 12 rising fourth and fifth grade boys who preregister. Supplies needed include fine tip and bold tip black markers, color markers, a drawing pad, colored pencils, No. 2 pencils, erasers, and masking tape. The camp will take place from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Aug. 3-7. The cost for this camp is $50. Contact Dena Hatton at 919-989-2128 for registration information.
Crazy Fun Art Collages and Watercolors for Girls
Explore creative and inventive ways to make original works of art using collage and watercolor paints. Combine colored magazine paper, glue, paint pens and mat board to make art mosaics that you will love to hang on your walls or give as incredible gifts to friends. Be ready to experiment and play with color and fun ideas. This camp is open to the first 12 rising fourth and fifth grade girls who preregister. Supplies needed include sketch pad or drawing pad, watercolor pad (8x10 or smaller), 3 sharpened No. 2 pencils, glue stick, liquid Elmer’s glue, gridded 8.5x11 graph paper pad, masking tape, scissors, and old shirt or smock. The camp will take place from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Aug. 3-7. The cost for this camp is $50. Contact Dena Hatton at 919-989-2128 for registration information.
Drama Camp
The JCC Drama Camp is an intensive hands-on approach to the art of theatre for rising 6th -10th graders. The students will design and produce a theatrical production in one week. Students can participate as an actor or stage technician.
All participants will be required to attend auditions on April 4, 2009 at 10am. Actors should plan a 2-3 minute audition piece to demonstrate their potentials in singing, dancing, and or monologue. Technicians should plan on an interview the same day as auditions. Cost of the camp is $100. All camp activities will take place from 9am to 5pm in the Paul A. Johnston Auditorium on the Main Campus of Johnston Community College.
For more info contact: Shaun Braswell, Events Coordinator at 919-209-2508 or swbraswell@johnstoncc.edu.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE CAMPS
Johnston Community College’s Continuing Education Division is sponsoring environmental science summer youth camps. Enjoy a week at Howell Woods Environmental Learning Center focusing on the environmental sciences! Students will cover topics such as wildlife, water, ecology, soils, energy, forestry, and how humans impact the environment. Activities will include soil and water testing, nature walks on the trails, case studies, animal and tree identification, and energy studies. Students will have the opportunity to create tree identification booklets, design solar ovens, use models to study water runoff pollution, and participate in various other activities throughout the week.
The camps will be held on Monday through Thursday from 8am-5pm and on Friday from 8am-12pm at Howell Woods Environmental Learning Center, located at 6601 Devil’s Racetrack Road in Four Oaks. Each camp is open to the first 16 registrants. The cost of each camp is $100 and covers all text and lab resources, as well as all lab equipment and materials. All participants will receive a camp t-shirt. Participants are asked to bring bag lunches.
Camp #1 - Rising 4th, 5th, and 6th graders – July 13th-17th
Camp #2 – Rising 7th and 8th graders – July 20th-24th
Call 919-209-2034 for registration information. Registration deadline is Tuesday, June 30th.