Get Ready To Play: Gaming, Sports Highlight UTD Summer Camp Lineup

04.30.2025

The University of Texas at Dallas’ new Comets LANding gaming and esports center will host summer camps for the first time this year, while a variety of other in-person camps on campus for youths will feature activities from sports to speech.

Athletics

UT Dallas will offer three sessions of basketball skills camps for boys and girls age 6 to 16. Skills camp participants will work on shooting technique, ballhandling skills and team-play tactics, and will compete in contests throughout the week. Other athletics offerings include soccer camps, softball camps, basketball developmental camps and volleyball camps for a variety of ages and skill levels.

Callier Center

UTD’s Callier Center for Communication Disorders, which offers services to children and adults with speech, language and hearing disorders, plans four summer camps for children. The Summer Language Camp is a six-week language therapy program for children with language and learning disorders. It will focus on reading and listening comprehension, vocabulary development and narrative language development. The Summer Reading Camp is for children age 6 to 10 who are having difficulty learning to read. Also offered are Camp Interact for elementary children with social-skill difficulties and the Summer Listening Camp for children age 4 to 11 with hearing differences. Visit the Callier Center upcoming events page for more information.

Chess

The chess program is providing only in-person camps this year. There are three weeks available for students age 8 to 17 with morning and afternoon sessions. Participants are grouped from beginners to advanced by online assessment and prior tournament experience.

Esports

UTD’s gaming and esports program will host six weeks of summer camps in its new Comets LANding space. Comets LANding opened earlier this year with 16,000 square feet, more than 100 PCs and areas featuring stations with Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch consoles across two floors. Esports camps are open to youth age 8 to 15. Further details, when they are available, will be published on the esports website.

Other UTD summer camps for 2025 include:

Chinese Language and Culture: There will be weeklong sessions for children age 5 to 15.

Information Technology and Systems Exploration: It’s a weeklong camp for high school students.

Mean Green Comet Debate Institute: There will be numerous sessions for middle school and high school students.

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

–Jessica Good