Engage @ EMU

About this Program

Knowledge and Adventure Await

Encourage your kids to step out and explore a new interest or potential career in a fun and relaxed environment at Eastern Michigan University. EMU faculty, staff and students will be on hand to ignite imaginations and open up a variety of topics from intellectual pursuits to athletic achievement. Available camps will be listed below as they are open for registration.

Engage@EMU produces camps in two ways:

• Partnership Camps - These camps are partnership camps in which an external entity such as Wayne Westland Schools, Lincoln Middle School or Girls in Engineering employ Engage@EMU in designing, developing and implementing a high-quality camp. These camps can be week-long residential or month-long non-residential programs.

• Open Enrollment (Community) Camps -Community camps are open enrollment camps put on in collaboration with the REC/IM, EMU esports, Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan, and the Ann Arbor YMCA to name a few. These camps are promoted and all are welcome to register!

2024 Camp scholarships are available, contact [email protected] 

• Girls in Engineering Academy Residential Camp

  Eastern Michigan University and Engage@EMU reopened their doors to host the Girls in Engineering Academy (GEA) Residential Camp. This camp will be in person, 57 - 7th and 9th-grade girls have had an on-hand experience in taking the next steps toward building a career in STEM and engineering. Click here to learn more about our partner, The Engineering Society of Detroit and their academy. 

• Flights of Imagination Summer Camp 2024

  The Flights of Imagination Summer 2024

  Flights of Imagination 2024 is a program provided by the Children's Institute at Eastern Michigan University. The summer program at EMU Children's Institute is a theme-oriented, play-based program utilizing the Creative Curriculum. The program will reflect the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) grade level expectations for children going into Kindergarten and First Grade. Our program is supervised by professional teachers from the Institute. Experienced and energetic students at Eastern Michigan University oversee the activities. The program is divided into ten sessions with exciting activities every day. You have the option of enrolling your child in as few as one weekly session or as many as ten weekly sessions.

  The Children's Institute was awarded an Out-Of-School-Time grant through the Michigan Dept. of Education that allows us to provide a 15% tuition discount per child for Flights of Imagination.  This discount will be reflected on your billing statements. 

  Special Features

  • Full-day or half-day sessions
  • Morning breakfast, noon lunch and mid-afternoon snack provided
  • Themed activities every week, virtual field trips, and more!
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  • For more information and to register, visit

    Children's Institute, Flights of Imagination 

• Inkstains Summer Writing Camps 2024

  Inkstains Summer Writing Camps 2024

  All 2024 camps will be hosted on the campus of Eastern Michigan University.

  ELEMENTARY (Incoming grades 3-6)

  July 22-26, Monday - Friday, 9am to 12pm

  $90 for the first student, $80 for siblings

  MIDDLE SCHOOL (Incoming grades 6-9)

  July 22-26, Monday - Friday, 9am - 2pm

  $150 for the first student, $140 for sibilings

  HIGH SCHOOL (Incoming grades - recent 2024 graduate)

  July 15 - 19, Monday - Friday, 10am - 2pm

  $150 for the first student, $140 for siblings

  REGISTER BY JUNE 1, 2024    Scholarships Available!

  Click Here to Register!

  Questions? Contact: [email protected]

• Computing Programs for Girls 2024

  Sponsored by Michigan Space Grant Consortium, funded by NASA

  Bits & Bytes

  Summer Computing Camp for Middle School Girls

  June 24th - 28th, 2024 @ EMU, 9am - 4pm

  Bits and Bytes is an all-day, week-long, summer computing camp for middle school girls. It introduces computing and technology from theoretical concepts to applied projects. Coding is introduced through educational software and robots with the support of student mentors. The camp concludes with a hackathon and a career discovery event. It is staffed by the Women in Computer Science (WICS) club members at Eastern Michigan University and led by a faculty member.

  This camp is free of cost.  Camp Registration Fee is $25 

  (some scholarships are available)

   

  Click Here to Register!

  Gigabytes

  Summer Computing Program for High School Girls

  July 22nd - 26th, 2024 @ EMU, 9am - 4pm

  Gigabytes is an all-day, week-long, summer computing program for high school girls. It introduces computing and technology through robot-based programming. Coding is introduced through educational robots with the support of student mentors. The program concludes with a hackathon and a career discovery event. It is staffed by the Women in Computer Science (WICS) club members at Eastern Michigan University and led by a faculty member.

  This camp is free of cost.  Camp Registration Fee is $25

  (some scholarships are available)

   

  Click Here to Register!

• Other EMU Camp Options

  EMU Sports Camps

  Eastern Michigan University annually sponsors summer youth camps in multiple sports. All EMU Camps and Clinics are open to any and all entrants who meet the appropriate age, gender, or grade requirement for the specific camp or clinic. For a complete list and dates, visit the EMU Sports Camps page.