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Camp Invention Summer 2025
Camp Invention: National
Inspire your child’s creativity and watch their confidence soar with our all-new Camp Invention® program, Discover! Campers in grades K-6 will team up with friends for hands-on, open-ended STEM fun. They’ll create their own claw machine, uncover the science behind optical illusions, rev up for the ultimate road trip and embark on an eco-expedition to investigate penguins in Antarctica! Each experience is designed to spark curiosity, build persistence and create an unforgettable summer. Visit invent.org/local to secure your spot! Register using CIFUN25 by 3/20 to save $25 or CIFUN15 by 5/15 to save $15 off the registration fee. Payment plans available.
Summer 2025 Session Dates at Independent Lake Camp in Thompson, PA
Independent Lake Camp
Independent Lake Camp is a premier overnight summer camp in the Poconos for ages 6-17 offering an impressive array of activities rich with integrity due to top-notch facilities, and talented staff. Established over 30 years ago, ILC is dedicated to celebrating diversity, promoting creativity, and empowering individual growth with our individualized, elective scheduling. Campers will learn worthwhile skills in 2-8 week sessions while making everlasting memories & friends. Each camper chooses from: Circus, Trapeze, Sports, Fitness, Archery, Art, Theatre, Dance, Magic, Music, Recording Studio, Skatepark, Digital Arts, Moviemaking, RPG, Rocketry, Climbing Wall, High Ropes, Water-ski, Wakeboard, Lake, Pool, Horseback, Nature & more! Choose from 2 or 3 week session options, or combine multiple sessions for 5, 6, and 8 week experiences, for a fantastic summer filled with unforgettable memories, lifelong friendships, and life skills that provide your child with independence, self confidence, and a sense of achievement!
Camp Hidden Meadows
Camp Hidden Meadows
Camp Hidden Meadows is an all gender overnight camp offering 1 and 2 week sessions for campers ages 7-17 in the beautiful Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. One or Two Weeks of Sleepaway Camp provides campers with a lifetime of community, confidence, independence, friendships, and memories.
Camp Twin Creeks
Camp Twin Creeks
A full sleepaway summer camp experience in 2 weeks! With nearly 200 acres in the cool Allegheny Mountains near the border of Virginia and West Virginia, 80 years of camping history, and a dedicated staff of 100, your camper can join a lifelong community at Camp Twin Creeks.
ACT ONE Theatre Summer Camp
Act One Theatre School
Filled with the promise of challenging classes, interesting material, sensitive teachers, and lasting friendships, ACT ONE summer camp offers refreshing relief from the Summer doldrums. Our summer camp curriculum is geared toward training the artist as creator and performer. Under the direction of professional directors, composers, choreographers, actors, and music directors, students will create and perform both original material and the classics. We offer customized camps through K-1st grade, 2nd to 4th grade, and 5th to 12th grade.
iD Tech On Campus Camps- Multiple locations (2025)
ID Tech Camps- Multiple locations
Register today for camps held at 75+ inspiring universities! Your child will walk the halls of their dream campus, bond with friends and mentors over legendary iD traditions, and experience the magic that’s made us the world’s #1 tech camp for 23+ years! Summer Fun on Your Child’s Dream Campus This is more than a camp. It’s a chance for your child to come face-to-face with friends and mentors who share their interests, all in an inspiring setting that excites them for the future. Between sessions of hands-on STEM fun, they’ll get the ultimate taste of collegiate life, from campus exploration and iconic architecture to meals in the dining halls and sweet dreams in the dorms. You get more. A LOT more. iD Tech is the very best experience built around your child—their interests, their skill level, their goals for the future. Our on-campus programs include an exclusive package designed for maximum inspiration and long-term success.
Little Farmers Day Camp at Blue Ribbon Farms
Blue Ribbon Farms
Kids cuddle fluffy bunnies, hold chirping chicks, play with whimsical goats on "goat mountain". Whip up culinary delights like ice cream, butter, homemade strawberry jam or pickles from items grown on the farm. Riding horses is often the highlight of the week, but it is hard to choose! Spend the hot sunny afternoons exploring the eco system of Raccoon Creek. Our farm has a unique blend of fun, education and adventure. This is experience that your child will never forget!
Family Camp Week
Camp Li-Lo-Li
Join us for a week of camp for the whole family of all ages! An opportunity to meet with other families enjoying God's Creation and teaching about God from the Bible! Camp Li-Lo-Li has a lot of activities available - something for everyone!
MusicMakers. June 23-27 2025
Luminari
Musicians, producers, and music enthusiasts will experience the art of creating and distributing music. Teens will have the opportunity to gain experience in all aspects of the process from writing, producing, engineering, recording, distributing, and marketing a record. They will not only have access to the latest in music technology, but also access to vintage historical audio equipment and instruments
Youth Summer Rowing Camp at SCRC
Steel City Rowing Club
Rowing Camp for ages 11-18 held at Steel City Rowing Club Boathouse in Verona. This rowing day camp is a program for those who want to learn or improve their knowledge and skills in the sport of rowing! Sessions available for both Development and Competitive instruction.
Oxford Athletic Club Summer Camp
Oxford Athletic Club
OAC Summer Camp offers unique, creative, and challenging programs focused in arts, sciences, and athletics designed to empower self-discovery and growth. We offer dozens of dynamic and inclusive activities for children ages 4 – 12 that are designed to bring children together while diversifying their interests to grow well-rounded families.
Summer Theater Camps - Gemini Theater Company
Gemini Children's Theatre
Creative Fun! Our 5-day workshops provide hands-on experience in a real theater. Under the guidance of theater professionals, each group creates, writes, produces, and performs their show on the last day.
River Day Camp at SCRC
Steel City Rowing Club
Steel City Rowing Club offers an outdoor day camp along the Allegheny River in Verona for kids ages 8-12! Campers can expect to explore the river and Sycamore Island, connect with the water via swimming, paddle boarding, kayaking, and having fun on the docks and around the boathouse. Indoor activities include games, crafts, and group activities.
Summer Serenade: A Music Institute for Young Artists
Seton Hill University Community Arts Program
The Summer Music Institute is a one-week day camp open to all band, orchestra, vocal, piano and guitar students from grades 6-12. Hosted at Seton Hill’s beautiful Performing Arts Center, students will work with Seton Hill faculty and students as well as members of the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra. The week will include group instruction, masterclasses, and small group performances.
Venture Outdoors: Outdoor Survival
Venture Outdoors
POV – you’re in the woods with your fellow campers, and it’s on you as a team to make it out. You will need to build fires, filter water, forage food, and build a shelter. Each “Survivor” will master campfire cooking (with basic fire safety woven in) and become fluent in Leave No Trace principles. You’ll also hike, geocache, and kayak through North Park. All of this PLUS the adventure, fun, and friendships cultivated at summer camp.
Play TGA Golf Camp Session 1 at USC
TGA Junior Golf of Pittsburgh
TGA Premier Junior Golf Camps are designed to teach your child all aspects of the game so that they will feel confident and successful out on the golf course.
Venture Outdoors: Ultimate Outdoor Survival
Venture Outdoors
POV – you’re in the woods with your fellow campers and everyone’s phone is DEAD. You’ll have to navigate using a compass (on land and while kayaking), build fires, filter water, forage food (and hang it in a bear bag!), construct a shelter, and survive until someone with a portable charger finds you. Campers will learn all the skills listed above while building relationships by completing a team survival challenge. You’ll do plenty of hiking and kayaking around North Park.
ASCEND Climbing Summer Camps
ASCEND
ASCEND's camps are designed to grow strong minds and bodies in our region's youth. Caring, experienced ASCEND counselors will guide children through fun and developmentally appropriate activities, such as bouldering, top-rope climbing, yoga, slacklining, and more!
Thunderbirds Youth Pro Ultimate Frisbee® Camps
Pittsburgh Thunderbirds
Ultimate Frisbee® campers will learn how to catch, flick, hammer, and scoober like a Pro! Coached by former and current Thunderbirds players, coaches, and Pittsburgh ultimate community members, your kid will experience Ultimate Frisbee® at the next level. All camps are open to all genders. We recommend that your child be between the ages of 8-17 to participate in these camps. All participants will receive lunch each day, a t-shirt, a Free Frisbee, and tickets to a home game!
Venture Outdoors: Leadership
Venture Outdoors
Teens: The skills mastered during our Outdoor Leadership camp are what recruiters are looking for. Learn to lead and facilitate successful outdoor activities experientially – nothing theoretical here. You’ll be kayaking, fishing, and outdoors-ing your way to a useful new skill set. Outdoor Leadership camp will make your resume or college application POP!
National Aviary Summer Camp: Where in the World? Ages 6-8
National Aviary
Rainforest, Wetland, Grassland, or Ocean? Birds can live in all kinds of places - discover how birds adapt to living in different environments by solving the mystery of where in the world.... does this bird species live? Meet Animal Ambassadors, explore habitats with Aviary experts, get crafty and take home some birdy mementoes, and learn how we can all help protect the different places that our feathered friends call home.
Tuolumne Family Camp
City of Berkeley, CA
Tuolumne Family Camp offers an unforgettable adventure nestled in the stunning Sierra Nevada mountains, where families can connect with nature and each other. With activities like hiking, campfire stories, and swimming in Tuolumne Meadows, it's a perfect escape for outdoor lovers of all ages. Experience the magic of the high country in a cozy, community-oriented setting that makes every moment feel special.
Sharks and Mermaids Camp with Amazing Athletes at N. Strabane
Amazing Athletes of NW and SW Pittsburgh
Dive into a week of water themed fitness games and activities. Some of these activities include bucket brigade with sponge bombs, musical shark attack, mermaid water balloon toss, relay races, and so much more.
Multi Sport Summer Camp
Sewickley Sports Arena
Keep your kids active and engaged this summer by having them join us for an unforgettable week of fun! Summer Sports Camp is packed with a variety of fun and games for your children ages 5 – 10.
Young Writers Summer Camps
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Lighthouse offers a wide array of full and half-day summer camps from June through August for young writers ages eight to 18. Whether they've got a few novels under their belt, are new but curious about poems, or are a reluctant writer, our camps offer a fun, creative, and challenging way for young people to explore and express who they are, build new friendships, and create truly beautiful works of art.
Baierl Family YMCA Discovery Day Camps
Baierl Family YMCA
This summer, campers will dive into amazing adventures that spark curiosity, creativity, and BIG fun! From exploring nature to creating masterpieces, every week is packed with exciting activities that make learning and growing extraordinary! Our theme, Journey Into the Extraordinary: A Summer of Discovery, invites campers to explore, learn, and create unforgettable memories.
Summer Camp - Pine Community Center
Pine Community Center
Camp Pine is the Township's comprehensive summer camp program with both weekly full-day and half day options available. Each week, Camp Pine embarks on a unique theme that helps guide the weekly activities and fun. Daily activities include arts and crafts, games, field trips, special visitors from the Zoo, Phipps Botanical Gardens, MAD Science, Weird Eric Magic, and so much more!
History Explorers Camp
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
Step back into the past and discover what life was like over 150 years ago! Explore how people historically traveled long distances, such as with sailboats crossing the rivers and oceans, covered wagons traveling the Oregon Trail, and riding from the country into the big city aboard an electric streetcar. Play popular games from days of old, then get hands-on with traditional arts and crafts. Make historic recipes for different foods and candy and grow your own fruits and vegetables!
Art Camp Summer Sessions at AR Workshop Gibsonia
AR Workshop Gibsonia
Calling all parents! Register your child for a hands-on crafting experience in one of our Youth Series! Check out our calendar for individual Youth or Family Friendly workshops.
Little Lake Theatre Summer Camp 2025
Little Lake Theatre Company
​ Dive into a summer of fun at Little Lake! Registration for our Acting, Be a Star, and Musical Theatre camps are now open. Little Lake Summer Camps are known to sell out, so register today!
Specialty Summer Camps - Pine Community Center
Pine Community Center
Check Out the Unique Specialty Summer Camps!
La Escuelita Grade School Summer Camp 2025
La Escuelita Arcoiris
La Escuelita Summer Camp, partnered with Carnegie Mellon University, is offering campers the opportunity to advance their Spanish language & STEM skills while strengthening their connection with nature! Sign up 1-7 weeks; 3 or 5 days/week. This outdoor focused camp runs Jun 16- Aug 1, from 9-4pm, for campers entering 1st-4th grade.
Summer Art Camps - Artissima Studio
Artissima Studio
Add a splash of color to the summer months. From June to August, all artists, ages 4-18, are invited for week-long camps where they can express their creativity and imagination while developing new skills. Our summer art camps are designed around fun and unique themes that inspire the artwork for the week. The experience is loaded with fun and high quality art projects that explore different techniques using 2-D and 3-D media. Get prepared for an awesome summer adventure.
Summer Science 2025
ALCOSAN (Allegheny County Sanitary Authority)
ALCOSAN Summer Science is a FREE week-long summer day camp for students who have completed 4th - 8th grade and live or attend school in the ALCOSAN Service Area.
Assemble Summer Camp 2025
Assemble
Assemble Summer Camps are STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) camps for youth entering grades 1-9 who are ages 6-14. Each day, camp runs from 9am-4pm, with pre and post care available from 8am-5pm.
Fizz, Boom, Bang! at the Mad Science Lab
Mad Science of Pittsburgh
Shake up a flask of fun in the lab as a junior chemist! This hands-on and interactive program of chemistry for children ages 5-12 is packed solid with cool reactions. Students put on goggles and change liquid to solid and back again. They get to handle laboratory tools, build and break molecules, and pick up some tricks on chemical changes.
RMU Boys Basketball Day Camp 1
RMU Basketball Day Camp
Boys entering grades 2nd - 9th. Camp runs 9am - 4pm each day. This camp is designed to provide campers with skill development and instruction directly from the RMU coaching staff and players, all within RMU Basketball facilities. Campers will have opportunities to compete in drills, work as a team in 5-on-5 competitions, and win contest prizes. Each camper will receive a T-Shirt and Basketball.
2025 Summer Camps at Sunburst School of Music
Sunburst School Of Music
Summer camp at Sunburst is all about having a blast with music! Campers will explore the wide world of music, including playing in a band, writing and recording songs, drum circles, beatmaking, art projects, and more. Whether they’re picking up an instrument for the first time or working on more advanced skills, there’s something for every young musician. Each week culminates with a live performance on stage at Sunburst for friends and family.
2025 Summer Camps - Animal Friends
Animal Friends
Teaching the next generation of animal advocates! Grade levels listed indicate which camp is appropriate for your child based upon the grade they complete in the spring of this year. Youths must be registered for the appropriate camp that matches their grade.
Forces and Flight at the Mad Science Lab
Mad Science of Pittsburgh
Long before our skies were filled with superheroes saving the day, there were birds, there were planes, and there were… Mad Scientists! From the earliest flying machines to the first rocket flights, this hands-on program will allow campers to build many different flying devices. Junior test pilots will launch a variety of flying machines. You are cleared for takeoff!
Under the Sea Kids Crafty Creative Summer Camp
The Crafty Shack- Jeannette, PA
Kids Creative Summer Camp at The Crafty Shack is all about self-expression, creativity and fun! During Kids Crafty Creative Summer Camp we will learn a variety of art forms, such as ceramic painting, canvas painting and more.
FutureME: Discover, Create, Lead,
Shady Lane School
"FutureME: Discover, Create, Lead!" is a transformative summer camp where children ages 7-12, explore their passions, develop creativity, and build leadership skills. Through hands-on activities, guest speakers, and real-world experiences, participants gain confidence and clarity for their future careers and personal growth.