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Ages 13-17

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Advanced Programming Bot Builders Camp

Advanced Bot Builders Camps offer a week of applying the elements of robotics. Campers will put your new skills to the test in our competition at the end of the week using VEX V5 robotics platform! Campers will be placed in teams, led by Alumni of Butte Built Bots and Inspire Robotics in designing, building, and operating a robot in an exciting game at the end of the week! If you participated last summer, the game will be different so we would love for you to join us again! Campers should bring water, lunch, and snacks.

Ages: 12-15
Mon - Fri | 6/22 - 6/26 | 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Mon - Fri | 7/13 - 7/17 | 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Mon - Fri | 7/27 - 7/31 | 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
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Adventures in Art: Painting & Drawing

Join Chico Creative for a colorful, creative week of painting, drawing, and imagination! Young artists (ages 8+) will explore watercolor magic, bold acrylics, and expressive drawing techniques while creating vibrant masterpieces to take home. Led by artist Jessica Mae, campers will discover stories of inspiring artists, experiment with exciting materials, and build confidence in their own unique style. This camp is all about curiosity, color, and creativity — so be ready to make art, make friends, and make something amazing!

Ages: 8-16
Mon - Fri | 7/13 - 7/17 | 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
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Aerial Arts Class 

Get ready to fly, spin, and shine! Aerial Arts & Circus is an action-packed class where students explore the thrill of aerial movement using aerial hammock and Lyra (aerial hoop) while building strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Students will learn dynamic skills both in the air and on the ground, with additional circus arts such as tumbling, poi spinning, hula hooping, and creative movement woven into each class.

Ages: 7-16
Fri | 6/19 - 8/14 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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Assemblage Art Camp: Fun with Cardboard, Glue Guns + Paint!

In this hands-on summer art camp, young artists are encouraged to use their imaginations to create faces, houses, sculptures, or whatever their minds can dream up. Using cardboard, found objects, paint, and supervised low-temp glue guns, campers will explore assemblage and three-dimensional art through playful experimentation.

Ages: 5-15
Mon - Tue | 6/16 - 6/17 | 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mon - Tue | 7/15 - 7/16 | 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Cheer & Tumble Class 

Join us for an action-packed Cheer and Tumble class where all levels are welcome! Whether you're just starting out or looking to improve your skills, this class covers everything cheer. You'll learn, practice, and perfect tumbling, stunting, sharp motions, cheers, dances, and more. This is the perfect class to build strength, flexibility, and confidence while having tons of fun in a supportive environment. No matter your experience, you’ll leave energized and ready to cheer your best!

Ages: 5-14
Thu | 6/18 - 8/13 | 3:30 - 4:30 PM
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Cheer Camp

Our skilled cheer instructors are here to guide your beginner or experienced cheerleader to success! Campers will learn and review foundational skills, terminology, and techniques. For those with more experience, this is the perfect opportunity to focus on achieving their personal goals. Participants will practice motions, jumps, tumbling, and stunts while also building strength and flexibility through targeted exercises.

Ages: 6-15
Mon - Fri | 6/15 - 6/19 | 12:00 - 2:30 PM
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Fashion Design Camp

In this camp, we will explore different techniques used to create clothing and accessories. Projects will include drawing and designing clothes, making mixed-media fashion collages, basic sewing, basic pattern making, fabric embellishment techniques, and upcycling clothing. We’ll end our week with a fashion show!

Ages: 8-14
Mon - Thu | 6/15 - 6/19 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mon - Thu | 6/15 - 6/19 | 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Mon - Thu | 7/6 - 7/10 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mon - Thu | 7/6 - 7/10 | 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Gymnastics Level 2 (Beyond Basics) Camp

Working on a back handspring, back tuck or aerial? How about walk-overs on the beam or a kip on the bar. If you want to perfect those skills or continue to practice them, then this camp is for you. We’ll get serious with stretching, conditioning and focusing on those skills YOU’RE trying to achieve. With a bit of personalization this camp is like none other. Please bring water and a snack.

Ages: 6-15
Mon - Thu  |  7/20 - 7/23  | 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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Intermediate Bot Builders Camp

The Intermediate/Advanced Bot Builders Camps offer more creative freedom and are aimed at students who already have experience working with VEX IQ. The Intermediate/Advanced Bot Builders Camp often uses the current season’s challenge as the end of camp competition, to both expose campers to the current year’s game as well as allow campers a chance to come up with creative solutions to challenges posed in the current year’s game, which the campers could then take those ideas back and further develop if they participate in a league team.

Ages: 10-15
Mon - Fri | 6/15 - 6/19 | 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Mon - Fri | 7/6 - 7/10 | 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Mon - Fri | 7/20 - 7/24 | 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
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Introductory Bot Builders Camp

The Introductory Bot Builders Camps are designed for students who have some or no VEX IQ experience. The camps will be very structured, with more building and programming instruction for the students. Campers will build a set robot and be guided through having it perform set tasks. In the Introductory Bot Builders Camp the end of camp competition may be the current season’s challenge or may be a previous season’s challenge. Campers should bring water, lunch, and snacks.

Ages: 9-14
Mon  - Fri | 6/22 - 6/26 | 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Mon  - Fri | 7/13 - 7/17 | 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Mon  - Fri | 7/27 - 7/31 | 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM 
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Musical Theatre Dance Camp 

Step into the spotlight! Musical Theater Dance Camp introduces dancers to the exciting world of Broadway-style movement, storytelling, and performance. Campers will learn expressive choreography inspired by popular musical theater styles while building confidence, musicality, and stage presence. Dancers will learn key theatrical elements such as character development, facial expression, musicality, spacing, and storytelling through movement.

Ages: 6-15
Mon - Thu | 6/29 - 7/2 | 12:15 PM - 2:45 PM
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Musical Theatre Dance Camp 

Step into the spotlight! Musical Theater Dance Camp introduces dancers to the exciting world of Broadway-style movement, storytelling, and performance. Campers will learn expressive choreography inspired by popular musical theater styles while building confidence, musicality, and stage presence. Dancers will learn key theatrical elements such as character development, facial expression, musicality, spacing, and storytelling through movement.

Ages: 6-15
Mon - Thu | 6/29 - 7/2 | 12:15 PM - 2:45 PM
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Musical Theatre Voice, Dance, and Acting Intensive 

Join us for an amazing day of young artists gathering to grow their voice, acting, and dance skills and celebrate their unique selves. Students will study proper musical theatre voice technique from credentialed and certified vocal instructors, observe master classes led by musical theatre professionals, and explore musical theater styles! Solo and ensemble techniques will be learned. The camp will end with students performing in a concert featuring their newly learned techniques and songs. This week-long musical theater intensive is sure to give you all the tools you need to take your stage skills to the next level. Come ready to sing!

Ages: 12-17
Sun | 3/29 | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Pedal Press Youth Print Shop

Design, print and sell your own T-shirts with Pedal Press! Workshop participants will learn in our Fair St. studio, fundamental graphic design concepts, how to design for screen printing, how to prepare screens, and print their own t-shirts! Each participant will print a small run of T-shirts to sell at a local pop-up/Thursday Farmers’ Market. Campers can keep their remaining shirts or sell them on our Youth Art web store!

Ages: 13-18
Mon - Fri | 6/15 - 6/19 | 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Mon - Fri | 6/22 - 6/26 | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Slime & Mess Making Art Camp

Get ready for a week of ooey-gooey fun! In this hands-on camp, participants will dive into the world of slime and sensory-based art projects, creating a variety of textures, colors, and interactive experiments that ignite all the senses.

Ages: 5-15
Mon - Wed | 6/8 - 6/10 | 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mon - Tue | 6/15 - 6/16 | 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mon - Wed | 6/22 - 6/24 | 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mon - Wed | 6/29 - 7/1 | 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mon - Wed | 7/6 - 7/8 | 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mon - Tue | 7/13 - 7/14 | 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mon - Tue | 7/20 - 7/21 | 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mon - Wed | 7/27 - 7/29 | 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mon - Wed | 8/3 - 8/5 | 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mon - Wed | 8/10 - 8/12 | 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Summer Nutcracker

Step into the magic of The Nutcracker this summer! Dancers will explore classical ballet technique while learning choreography, inspired by the beloved holiday tradition. Camp focuses on musicality, performance quality, artistry, and age-appropriate technique in a supportive and inspiring environment. The final day of camp, Friday, will include a short, informal performance for family and friends and auditions for an exclusive intensive to be held later in the summer.

Ages: 6-17
Mon - Fri | 7/6 - 7/10 | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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Tie-Dye Camp

Tie-Dye Camp offers the ultimate summer fun experience! Campers will begin by exploring color theory and experimenting with color mixing techniques of their choice. Next, they’ll dive into various folding and tying techniques, manipulating different materials through wet dyeing, dry dyeing, and ice dyeing methods. Each day, campers will create their own colorful masterpieces, which they’ll get to take home and share with friends and family.

Ages: 5-14 Morning Option
Mon - Fri | 6/22 - 6/26 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mon - Fri | 6/29 - 7/3 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mon - Fri | 7/20 - 7/24 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mon - Fri | 8/3 - 8/7 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ages: 5-12 Afternoon Option
Mon - Fri | 6/29 - 7/3 | 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Mon - Fri | 7/20 - 7/24 | 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Mon - Fri | 8/3 - 8/7 | 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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