Listen Up for New Summer Camps Coming to Campus

04.03.2023

UT Dallas licensed speech-language pathologists, with the support of graduate student clinicians, lead a number of language and audiology programs as well as summer camps.

This summer, The University of Texas at Dallas will host a wide variety of both in-person and online camps for children and teens. Sports, communication and artificial intelligence are just some areas of focus. Here are some highlights:

Callier Center

In person. UT Dallas’ Callier Center for Communication Disorders offers support to children and adults with speech, language and hearing disorders. The center offers several summer camps for children and teens. This year, the camp previously known as the Cochlear Implant Camp is refreshing its name to Summer Listening Camp in order to include children who use hearing aids in addition to those who have cochlear implants. The weeklong day camp gives children ages 4-11 who have hearing loss and wear cochlear implants or hearing aids an opportunity to receive listening and speech-language therapy while participating in fun camp activities. Other offerings include Camp Interact, a therapeutic one-week day camp for children finishing first through fifth grade who have social communication difficulties, and Summer Reading Camp, a twice-weekly offering to help 6- to 10-year-olds who have difficulty learning to read. New this year is a twice-weekly Summer Language Camp for elementary-age children who are fluent readers. It is designed to improve reading and listening comprehension and vocabulary skills. Visit the Callier Center camps webpage for more information.

Chess

Online. Presented by the UT Dallas chess program, one of the top collegiate programs in the U.S., the weeklong camps provide high-level training for beginning, intermediate and advanced players ages 8-17. For more information, visit the summer chess camps webpage.

Chinese language and culture

In person. The Center for Asian Studies presents the “Become a Gong Fu Panda!” Chinese language and culture summer camp for kids ages 5-15. The three-week all-day camp includes Kung Fu, calligraphy, painting, Tai Chi fan, folk dancing and crafts. Daily language immersion classes include reading and singing to enable campers to learn the language quickly. Visit the program webpage for more information.

Information Technology and Systems

In person. The Naveen Jindal School of Management’s Information Technology and Systems (ITS) Exploration Summer Camp will break down the complexities of ITS into modules that make sense and introduce the field’s many career possibilities to high school students through two corporate field trips. The weeklong program takes place in June, and on-campus lodging is available for out-of-town students or those who would like to experience college life. For more information, visit the program webpage.

Computer Science

In person and online. The Department of Computer Science is offering an intensive eight-week artificial intelligence workshop for advanced high school students. The all-day camp takes place in June and July. Students will receive a recommendation letter based on their performance. Prerequisites include familiarity with Python programming and high-school level math. In addition, there are 28 coding and programming camps offered throughout the summer in morning and afternoon sessions for third through fifth graders, middle-school students and beginner to advanced high schoolers. For more information, visit the program webpage.

Esports

In person. UT Dallas’ celebrated esports program will offer three weeklong camps in July and August for students in kindergarten through ninth grade. Campers will have access to UTD’s esports facility with state-of-the-art gaming PCs and get hands-on experience in a professionally equipped broadcast studio. For more information and to register, visit the esports summer camp website.

Other UT Dallas summer camps and clinics for 2023 include:

• Mean Green Comet Debate Institute (in person) for middle-school and high-school students.

• Youth soccer – weeklong, full-day sessions for 5- to 12-year-olds.

• Basketball shooting – weeklong, full-day sessions for 6- to 18-year-olds.

For the most up-to-date information on summer camps and classes, visit UT Dallas’ Programs for Minors webpage.

–Jessica Good