Youth Camps

ArchiAdventure: 3D Printing in Architecture

Design and create a 3D model with an architectural theme in TinkerCAD. Model designs will be prepared and exported to a 3D printing software and then 3D printed.

Items Provided

• Supplies
• Shirt
• Certificate

Other Details

Participant Ages: 11 - 13
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 20
Cost: $150

Adventure Camps

The Adventure Camps are designated as a one-week camp or you can sign up your school-age children for the entire summer. Each week, the children will learn something different; from nature to recycling to water safe to music and games.

To enroll your child, please contact the Mid-Valley Campus Childcare Center at 956-447-1255 for more information.

Items Provided

• Food - Breakfast, Lunch, Afternoon Snack
• Supplies

Camp Descriptions

Sports Week - Children will participate and learn about different sports.

Backyard Bugs - Children will learn about nature while learning to how to recycle and protect the environment.

Water World & Summer Safety - Children will learn how to be safe while at the beach or pool this summer.

Camping Week - Children will explore camping with tents, music, art, books and games.

Other Details

Participant Ages: 8 - 12
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 25
Cost: $125 per student, per week
Other Cost: $25 one time registration fee, $20 one time supply fee

ArchiAdventure: Animating Architecture

Participants will explore the elements of animation specifically by creating an animated cartoon with Adobe Character Animator. This session will combine animation and architecture by creating an animated cartoon relating the history of an architecture masterpiece. Participants will not only explore animation, but architectural history, architecture elements and major concepts. Participants will be able to create a short final cartoon that can be exported to different platforms.

Items Provided

• Certificate
• Shirt

Other Details

Participant Ages: 11 - 13
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 20
Cost: $165
Other Cost: $19.99 per month subscription to Adobe Character Animator & Adobe Photoshop

Arduino Engineer Projects

This camp includes the assembly of different electrical and electronic projects using STEM concepts. Students will learn the basic and fundamentals of electricity and applications by working with on hand components.

Items Provided:

• Supplies
• Shirt

Other Details

Participant Ages: 10 - 14
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 20
Cost: $292

Aviation Camp

Get to know the theory of flight, airplanes, and more by participating in interactive activities, models and simulators with other students from around the area! Instructions will be provided by an FAA certified instructor. Our Aviation Summer Camps are the perfect place to get a taste for what college life has in store for you.

Items Provided

• Supplies
• Certificate

Other Details

Participant Ages: 11 - 17
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 12
Cost: $70 per student

Be The Boss Girl

Energetic camp for girls to find their personal magic within and discover their personal strengths, abilities and strive to become the boss lady and write your own rules in life!

Items Provided

• Certificate

Other Details

Participant Ages: 8 - 13
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 25
Cost: TBA

Cool Dissection Camp

Come see and learn about the insides of different animals and insects!! In this camp kids will learn the anatomical structures of organisms such as earthworms, sharks, rats and more. They will also learn the organs of humans and compare their function and location to the other organisms they will be dissecting.

Items Provided:

• Supplies
• Shirts
• Certificate
• Other: ID & Competition Gifts (incentives)

Other Details

Participant Ages: 11 - 13
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 8
Cost: TBA

Creativity via Clay

This 2 week camp will immerse your creativity while creating art with clay. Students will be investigate surface treatments via the acient pinch-coil combination on a moderate scale for sculptural and potentially functional vessels. Additionally, students will be able to glaze and finish their clay sculptural to take home. This fun, hand-on camp will be filled with "pinches and pokes, while delivering some serious jokes and with pieces and parts that blend craft with Art".

Please note: Students will come in close contact with chemicals and be exposed to high heat elements.

Other Details

Participant Ages: 14 - 17
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 16
Cost: TBA
Other Cost: $50 for Supplies

Close Encounters of the DNA Kind Camp

If you ever wondered what your favorite fruit is made up of and what makes it unique, then this is your summer challenge. You will get a chance to rise to the challenge by living a week as a biotechnology scientist; wearing the lab coat, googles, gloves, and using cool lab equipment. Your challenge to extract DNA from strawberries and come up with its' DNA sequence. No homework, just hands on fun. The team with the cleanest and closest results gets the ultimate jaguar biotech prize there own signature lab coat. 2nd place gets a DNA puzzle. Or DNA souvenir.

Items Provided

• Supplies
• Certificate
• Shirt
• ID
• Competition Gifts (incentives)

Other Details

Participant Ages: 11 - 13
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 8
Cost: TBA
Other Cost: TBA

Cybercamp (Standard)

Students will be exposed to cybersecurity concepts including working with Windows 10, Linux, Ubuntu 16, virtual machines, basic graphical user interface security, and basic command line security. On the last day of camp, students will compete in a mini cyberpatriot competition.

Items Provided

• Supplies
• Certificate
• Shirt

Other Details

Participant Ages: 11 - 17
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 32
Cost: $167 per student

Cybercamp (Advanced)

Students will be exposed to cybersecurity concepts including working with Windows 10, Linux, Ubuntu 16, virtual machines, basic graphical user interface security, and basic command line security. On the last day of camp, students will compete in a mini cyberpatriot competition.

Items Provided

• Supplies
• Certificate
• Shirt

Other Details

Participant Ages: 11 - 17
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 32
Cost: $167 per student

Doing History 2020

How to Find and Keep Your Place in the Past, Present and Future

This camp will feature a series of hour-long sessions where over-arching themes like race, gender, place, sports, and politics will be used to teach young students about ways to actively engage with and preserve their past.

The emphasis will be on understanding the role of youth in important historic events, the ways in which young people can better engage with the present by knowing the past and preserving it, and the ways in which thinking about history properly sets our entire society up for a better future.

Other Details

Participant Ages: 14 - 17
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 28
Cost: TBA
Other Cost: TBA

Drama Camp

STC Drama Camp is a one week immersion focusing on an exploration of voice, movement, character development, and performance.

Items Provided

• Shirt

Other Details

Participant Ages: 14 - 17
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 20
Cost: $130

Drones Piloting Principles

Students will learn the fundamentals to pilot recreational and industrial drones including restrictions and regulations from licensed plane pilots. Camp will include drones to practice during class but excludes the Drones Pilot License fees.

 Items Provided

• Supplies
• Shirts

Other Details

Participant Ages: 12 and over
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 20
Cost: $290 per student

Environment Camp

The STC Environmental Science Camp is a week-long camp that focuses on learning about the world around us with a hands-on approach. Our students will learn about gardening, observe the local flora and fauna through nature walks, and learn about different environmental issues including on how we can help. This camp will help students learn more about the beautiful world around them and what we can do to support it.

Items Provided:

• Supplies
• Shirts
• Certificate
• Other: ID & Competition Gifts (incentives)

Other Details

Participant Ages: 11 - 13
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 8
Cost: TBA

First Tech Challenge FTC

This is an advanced robotics camp in which the students will build and program robots,  from assembling and wiring components from metallic brackets and wiring harnesses that together with the hardware will result in a more robust working robot.

Items Provided:

• Supplies
• Shirt

Other Details

Participant Ages: 12 - 16
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 20
Cost: $125 per student, per 20 hours camp

Guitar Camp Level 1

For beginners and intermediate level players. This camp will provide campers with guitar lessons focusing on classical/flamenco techniques and reading music. In order to get the most out of the camp, children must have a personal classical/nylon string guitar.

Items Required

• Guitar

Items Provided

• Certificate

Other Details

Participant Ages: 11 - 17
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 30
Cost: $120 per student

Guitar Camp Level 2

For intermediate to advanced level players. This camp will provide campers with guitar lessons focusing on classical/flamenco techniques and reading music. In order to get the most out of the camp, children must have a personal classical/nylon string guitar.

Items Required

• Guitar

Items Provided

• Certificate

Other Details

Participant Ages: 11 - 17
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 30
Cost: $120 per student

Lego EV3 Mindstorm Robotics

Using STEM concepts students will  build and program  robots to perform specific tasks. Skilled First RGV instructors will teach students to engage in the design cycle and use of digital tools to compare problem solving solutions.

Items Provided:

• Supplies
• Shirt

Other Details

Participant Ages: 8 - 12
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 20
Cost: $315 per student

Tips and Techniques to Pass Your AP Exams

Are you prepared to pass your Advanced Placement courses? This camp will cover the necessary materials needed to assist you with preparing and passing your Spanish AP, English AP, and Art AP exams. Our dedicated college faculty will show you tips and techniques need to ensure a passing grade in these three areas. Are you ready?

This camp will be hosted via Zoom.

Items Provided

• Certificate

Other Details

Participant Ages: 14 - 17
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 50
Cost: TBA

Philosophy Camp

This Philosophy camp will introduce students to some of philosophy's most influential ideas and questions. Campers will have the opportunity to discuss basic philosophical questions, learn and practice critical thinking, expand their imagination, and reflect on the world around them. Join us and think outside the box on topics such as:

• What does it mean to be you -- and how does that change over time?
• How can we best live together in our society?
• How should we treat animals?
• How do the stories we tell ourselves create our world?
• Why are we fascinated by the supernatural?

Campers will work collaboratively with STC philosophy faculty and each other to tackle these important questions. Join us to challenge yourself and have fun exploring the ways we can think about the world!

Items Provided

• Certificate
• Shirt

Other Details

Participant Ages: 11 - 13
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 20
Cost: TBA
Other Cost: TBA

Airplane Piloting Principles

Students will learn the basic techniques to pilot a plane before taking flying lessons  and becoming an airplane pilot. Camp will include a field trip to the McAllen Airport and becoming familiar with the control in a real plane.

Items Provided:

• Supplies
• Shirt

Other Details

Participant Ages: 12 and over
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 20
Cost: $290 per student

Raspberry Pi Camp

Do you enjoy building and working with electronics and computers? Week summer camp course focuses on hands-on projects where students construct several gadgets using the newest Raspberry Pi. This low cost, credit-card sized computer and is a capable little device that enables people of all ages to explore pc hardware and software, all while learning how to integrate the two in a fun and exciting way. In this course, we will be using the Raspberry Pi to create your own internet radio, a private VPN router, and a phone system.

Items Provided

• Supplies
• Certificate

Other Details

Participant Ages: 14 - 17
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 9
Cost: $264

ArchiAdventure: Technical Rendering and Animation

This camp will focus on technical renderings and animation in the architectural field. Students will learn how to create realistic 3D views with animations of an architectural project. High quality renders and video will be created using professional software. Upon completion students will understand how rendering and animation are utilized in the architectural field.

Items Provided

• Supplies
• Shirt
• Certificate

Other Details

Participant Ages: 14 - 16
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 10
Cost: $167

Sewing Camp

This camp introduces participants to the basics of sewing. Participants will learn the parts of a sewing machine and how to set it up. Participants will then create small projects that will help them get comfortable with using a sewing machine. Additionally, participants will learn how to use a needle to stitch by hand.

Items Provided

• Supplies
• Certificate

Other Details

Participant Ages: 11 - 17
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 10
Cost: $109

Welding Career Exploration

Camp would include one day students learning about the welding industry, another day learning to cut with oxy-acetylene torch, one day welding SMAW, another day welding with GMAW, and one day learning basics of fabrication. Safety would be paramount and students would need to have all PPE upon attending the lab.

Items Required

• Denim Pants
• Long Sleeve Cotton Shirt
• Work Boots

Items Provided

• Safety Glasses
• Pair of Work Gloves
• Students would be allowed to borrow:
  • Helmet
  • Welding Jacket
  • Face Shield

Other Details

Participant Ages: 11 - 13
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 14
Cost: TBA

Understanding Your New Automobile

This camp will be about the systems in new automobiles . How to understand, function and adaptability in todays vehicles. Todays vehicles have multiple computers that communicate at light speed . You will learn to familiarize and the functionality of these complex systems in todays Automobiles.

Other Details

Participant Ages: 14 - 17
Maximum Capacity Per Session: 9
Cost: $191.18 per student