Camp Grow is a day camp being held this summer at the Ag Hall in Bonner Springs.
Campers will experience 4-H in concentrated clubs during the camp.
According to sponsors of the event, opportunities to be in 4-H clubs have changed in recent years and include clubs for children who do not live on a farm.
Camp Grow has two-week interest groups that will allow the campers to enter their completed projects in the county fair.
The camp will be held at the National Agricultural Center, at 126th and State Avenue, Bonner Springs.
Dawn Gabel, executive director of the center, said the camp is a mix of several 4-H Spin Clubs and as far as they can tell, there is no other camp like it.
“A 4-H Spin club is a special interest club where five or more young people learn about a topic of interest,” Gabel said. “Topics vary and include interests, such as nature, heritage arts, science, engineering, gardening, technology. This type of club is not a year-long commitment, so you can try the experience out and see if you like it.”
The camp will start with a June 6 through 17 section on outdoors and nature. Planned activities for the first interest club include nature hikes, fishing, gardening and cooking.
Lee Sigley, education coordinator, said the day camp grounds were perfect for getting outside and having fund near the pond.
“We are all about letting your curiosity be the guide,” she said. “I have sports, bug collecting and chicken wrangling on the list of fun.”
The camp has a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) based curriculum that takes a topic and moves different experiences through the topic.
“You won’t just get to touch a chicken, you will have the experience of grooming the chicken for the fair, cooking with eggs and then photographing your assigned chicken for a photography entry in the fair,” Sigley said.
The day camp is open to any child in the first through sixth grades and allows children to explore their special interests into the many facets of the topics offered.
The second camp is June 20 through July 1 and is focused on plants and animals.
Session three is a special fair week July 5 through 8 where the topic of fair entries and judging is explored along with the carnival fun of the fair.
“We are making foods like cotton candy, funnel cakes and corn on the cob along with creating our own carnival games. The planning has been a blast,” Gabel said.
Rounding out the camps are a July 11 through 22 food and fitness camp that includes a cooking competition and sporting fun along with the final camp which is titled ‘Science’ and includes a chance to chase frogs, look at pond water under the microscope, and an understanding of our water and soil.
“We are not afraid to get our hands dirty at the Ag Center,” Sigley said.
Registration for camp is at www.aghalloffame.com or call the center at 913-721-1075.