News Release

Summer Youth Program returning to campus

April 1, 2009

Each year, 500 or more schoolchildren participate in the region’s most extensive and ambitious summer educational opportunity – Penn State Harrisburg’s Summer Youth Program.

This year, an expanded lineup of nearly 100 age-group camps will greet children from 7 to 18 years of age during the weeks of June 15, June 22, July 6, July 13, and July 20.

With a mission of filling idle summer days with learning experiences offered with a focus on fun, the half-day and full-day week-long and two-week camps are conducted and organized by Penn State Harrisburg’s Office of Continuing and Distance Education.

The vast array of topics includes: mathematics, Broadway, history, technology, foreign languages, art, music, pottery, outdoor water studies, fashion design, crime scene investigators, musical theater, writing skills, scrapbooking, Harry Potter, Shakespeare, the new SAT Exam prep course, and sports instruction in lifeguarding, tennis, basketball, soccer, and baseball.

For information or a Youth Programs brochure, phone 717-948-6505, visit the web at www.hbg.psu.edu/ce/academics/kids.