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Local Summer Program Opportunities
Local Summer Program Opportunities
APS is excited to offer a wide range of engaging summer programs for students from Kindergarten through high school in 2026. From academic support like the Free Summer Reading Program and High School Credit Recovery to family-friendly activities like Story Time in the Park, there is an opportunity to keep every student learning and growing.
Explore events, programs, camps, and classes for youth in Albuquerque all summer long! The City offers low cost and free ways for our youth to learn and have fun. One ABQ Youth Connect brings together all City youth opportunities of various types offered by various departments.
A free 8-week program at branches of the Public Library of Albuquerque-Bernalillo County that encourages babies, children, tweens, teens and adults to read (or be read to!) throughout the summer. Get signed up and pick up a Reading Log at any of our Library branches beginning May 30, or signup online beginning May 8.
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Offering week-long "Science is Everywhere". Students Pre-K through 6th grade can enroll in one, two, or all week-long camps, and they will experience exciting science and fun activities at the museum.
Give your child a summer of music, stagecraft, and fun with the Opera Unlimited Summer Opera Day Camp in Albuquerque. Students of all experience levels will learn the ins and outs of theater as they prepare to take the stage for a full public production at the end of the session.
In partnership with the National Inventors Hall of Fame®, the nationally acclaimed Camp Invention program has arrived for children entering kindergarten through sixth grade. This inspiring, weeklong summer experience provides opportunities for open-ended, hands-on exploration of science, technology, engineering and more
With Bosque Summer, you can build your own adventure with the flexibility of our weeklong half and full-day programs for students entering grades K–8. Whether you seek academic enrichment, creative adventures, skill development, meaningful movement, or just plain fun, Bosque Summer has you covered!
SummerPrep, Sandia Prep's summer program, offers enriching and creative classes – and an opportunity to learn new skills or build on existing talents. More than 100 tech, art, athletic, and academic classes are offered every year for students in Pre-K through high school.
Online & Residential Summer Programs
Online & Residential Summer Programs
Academic & Creative Arts Summer Camps
Public speaking camps, science camps, acting camps, creative writing camps, computer camps, video production camps and more!
Offers a residential program, and an online program for high school students.
Jump into new genres of writing, connect with campers across the globe, and learn from notable authors, editors, and educators in Write the World’s Virtual Writing Camp. Open to all levels of writers, ages 13 – 19.
At Lighthouse, we offer a variety of in-person and virtual creative writing workshops, in all genres, on weekends, after school, and during school-closure days, including the Young Authors Collective for teens, summer camps, and more.
A 3 week residential summer program for gifted students ages 13 to 16. Located on the University of Nevada, Reno campus, where students take two college courses taught by university faculty for college credit. Also see this list of Summer Programs: Listed by Topics of Interest
Offering a number of elite summer courses specifically designed with gifted high school students in mind. Students attending will be taught by world-leading scholars from around the globe while attending courses in a broad range of studies grouped with their exceptional peers.
Programs are set up into blocks of two-week durations, giving children in grades 5th through 11th the opportunity to visit as a day camp or as a sleep-away camp.
Students with exceptional ability entering grades 4-12 or ages 8-17 are offered a varied selection of accelerated courses on campus at the University of Colorado Boulder.
(Online in 2021) Choose from exciting new course offerings for grades 2-12 in our LIVE, Problem-Based, session-based, and independently paced formats, each tailored to your child’s needs. Summer students will also have access to our new online social activities program, so they can talk, learn, and bond with like-minded peers over topics they love all summer long.
(Online in 2021) Courses are designed to help students advance academically in engaging, hands-on ways; connect with peers and expert educators; and develop skills beyond the classroom.
(Online and In-person Options) Half-day, full-day, week-long, and sleep away programs are available as “science camps” for gifted students starting from pre-k through senior year of high school. Programs focusing on coastal ecology and wildlife biology are particularly popular here, though there are a lot of more traditional STEM-focused programs available.
The kids who attend these camps listen to and speak only the language of a particular "village." A village is a camp devoted to one of 15 different languages, including French, German, Finnish, Japanese, Russian, and Arabic.
Camps are available for children as young as seven and can last from one to four weeks in a few different locations, including some overseas. However, most are located in Minnesota.
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