UP Summer Enrichment Camps are held in various locations in St. Louis City and County. Each camp provides fun and educational activities that challenge children mentally and physically.
ENROLLMENT CONTACT INFORMATION
Leslie Jacobs
Accounts Receivable/Enrollment
ljacobs@UPstl.org
(314) 383-1733 (main)
(314) 361-6873 (fax)
PROGRAM CONTACT INFORMATION
Angela Jordan
Director of School Age Services
ajordan@UPstl.org
(314) 383-1733 (main)
(314) 361-6873 (fax)
Unleashing Potential Summer Enrichment Programs are located at various partner sites in St. Louis City and County to ensure parents have affordable and safe options for their children during the summer months. The programs include fun and enriching activities, while providing an experiential approach to joyful summer learning.
Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis. Children must be entering 1st-6th grade. Child must have completed kindergarten.
Unleashing Potential’s Summer Enrichment Program at Immanuel United Church of Christ
221 Church Street, Ferguson, MO 63135
June 10-July 26 8AM-6PM
Scholars: 1st-5th grades
Scholars: 6th-8th grades
Unleashing Potential’s Summer Enrichment Program at Delmar DivINe
5501 Delmar Blvd, St. Louis, 63112
June 17-July 26 8AM-6PM
Scholars: 1st-5th grades
Unleashing Potential’s Summer Enrichment Program at Caroline Mission
2828 Caroline St, Saint Louis, MO 63104
June 10-July 26 6:40AM-5PM
Scholars: 1st-5th grades
Unleashing Potential’s Summer Enrichment Program in University City
Located at Jackson Park Elementary
7400 Balson Ave, Saint Louis, MO 63130
July 8-July 26 8:00AM – 6PM
Scholars: 1st-5th grades
Fee: $100 per week
Unleashing Potential’s Overnight Summer Enrichment Program – Camp MOVAL
One week of adventurous activities like archery, hiking, canoeing, campfires, s’mores, paddle boats, swimming, stargazing and more!
2659 Camp Mo Val Rd, Union, MO 63084
*Campers must be at least 8 years old.
Elementary School-Aged Campers: July 22-26, 2024
Middle School-Aged Campers: July 22-26, 2024
Contact:
Niesha Nelson
Associate Director of Strengthening Resilient Families
nnelson@upstl.org
(314) 561-3338 (direct line)
During summer enrichment, students get to engage lots of fun and education activities like, swimming, local field trips in our community, and our STEM-enhanced program activity, GeoQuest.
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Led by professionally-trained counselors and youth development specialists, UP Enrichment Camps combine education and team building as core fundamentals of its camp experience.
Led by professionally-trained counselors and youth development specialists, UP Enrichment Camps combine education and team building as core fundamentals of its camp experience.
UP Enrichment Camps are affordable for most families. There is limited scholarship support to assist families not able to pay the camp fees.
Faith’s dream is to be a famous artist. She is very talented at drawing, and particularly enjoys painting.
In Unleashing Potential’s summer enrichment program at Church of the Master, the leaders have helped her find her voice in that. This summer, the focus at Church of the Master has tended toward STEAM – science, technology, engineering, cultural arts and math. Faith has enjoyed those activities, and she’s especially loved the hands-on activities.
“The teachers really support what I do,” she said.
One day at lunch, Tyrone traded a Pokémon card. The way he saw it, trading was an aspect that came with playing Pokémon. Once the trading was over, he assumed, everybody would get their cards back. But then Tyrone asked for one of his cards back, and the other person wouldn’t return it. At first, Tyrone was upset. But, after speaking with the site manager, they realized together this could be an opportunity for Tyrone to manage conflict for himself, and also set the tone for how the younger kids could manage conflict as well.
Working with a team, Bryson engineered an obstacle as part of a drone STEM activity. They taped two cardboard boxes together, into almost a chimney shape. The drone would fly in at the top and come out of the chute at the bottom, like a candy bar being dispensed.
JaRon held a stethoscope to his dog’s chest, listened for a heartbeat. The dog was showing signs of sickness. It had swallowed a spoon.
Luckily, the dog was only a stuffed animal. It was going to be all right. The exercise was from Little Vet School, an organization that had come out for the week to work with the children at Delmar DivINe, one of Unleashing Potential’s summer enrichment programs.
The instructor began to share next steps for the class. One of JaRon’s friends continued to speak. But JaRon focused his attention on the instructor, and soon his friend followed suit. This was one of the ways JaRon served as a role model for younger kids in the program – by modeling how to appropriately express emotions and behaviors.
Outside, the children gathered on the sidewalk, facing a field. They’d just spent the past few hours engaged in rocket science. They’d built the rockets, and now they were ready to launch them.
“All the way to space!” said Luna.
Well, not quite. But it did make it to the far end of the field.
Kaden enjoyed playing video games during Unleashing Potential’s summer enrichment camp in the Ferguson-Florissant area because it was a chance to engage in friendly competition and make new friends.