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- Coding & Game Development
Registration opens on April 11th at 9:00 am. Please click the register now button above to register.
Young anglers will get hooked on the sport of fishing during this experience. Due to the popularity of this camp, participants are allowed to register for only one Fishing Camp session per summer. Bring your own lunch, snacks, and drinks.
Fishing Camp
Young anglers will get hooked on the sport of fishing during this experience. Due to the popularity of this camp, participants are allowed to register for only one Fishing Camp session per summer. Bring your own lunch, snacks, drinks, and sunscreen.
Date:
Week 1: June 5-9, 2023
Week 2: June 19-23, 2023
Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Cost: $200
Location: The Buzz
Ages: 9-13
Registration Dates: April 10th – June 2nd | April 10th - June 17th
Contact: Adam Fussell, cafussell@cherokeega.com
Registration opens on April 11th at 9:00 am. Please click the register now button above to register.
Enjoy a week with fun-filled outdoor activities. Camp activities will include hiking, archery, fishing, kayaking, and climbing. All equipment is included. Bring your own lunch, snacks, and drinks.
Outdoor Camp- Spring Break
Enjoy a week with fun-filled outdoor activities. Camp activities will include hiking, archery, fishing, kayaking, and climbing. All equipment is included. Bring your own lunch, snacks, and drinks.
Date: April 3-7
Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Cost: $200
Location: The Buzz
Ages: 9-12 Contact: Contact: Adam Fussell, cafussell@cherokeega.com
Registration Dates: February 6th – March 30th
Outdoor Camp
Enjoy a week with fun-filled outdoor activities. Camp activities will include hiking, archery, fishing, kayaking, and climbing. All equipment is included. Bring your own lunch, snacks, and drinks.
Date: July 24 - 28, 2023
Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Cost: $200
Location: The Buzz
Ages: 9-12
Contact: Adam Fussell, cafussell@cherokeega.com
Registration Dates: April 10th – July 21st
Outdoor Adventure Camp (Teen)
Join us for a daily dose of adventure! Camp activities include climbing, hiking, archery, kayaking, ropes course, and white water rafting. Bring your own lunch, snacks, and drinks.
Date: June 26 – June 30, 2023
Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Cost: $250
Location: The Buzz
Ages: 13-16
Contact: Adam Fussell, cafussell@cherokeega.com
Registration Dates: April 10th – June 23rd
Water Adventure Camp (Teen)
Join us for a daily dose of adventure that contains water! Camp activities include water-based theme parks, kayaking, and white water rafting Bring your own lunch, snacks, and drinks.
Date: July 17 - 21, 2023
Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Cost: $250
Location: The Buzz
Ages: 13-16
Contact: Adam Fussell, cafussell@cherokeega.com
Registration Dates: April 10th – July 14th
Registration opens on April 11th at 9:00 am. Please click the register now button above to register.
Put on your swimsuit, lather on the sunscreen, and grab your towel! We are heading to various water activities throughout the week. This includes hours of supervised fun with friends, transportation to and from all trips as well as various lunches included on certain trips. Great water-based field trips daily!
Waterlogged Camp
Dates:
Week 1: June 12 – 16, 2023
Week 2: July 10 – 14, 2023
Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Cost: $250
Location: The Buzz
Ages: 9-12
Contact: Adam Fussell, cafussell@cherokeega.com
Registration Dates: April 10th – June 23rd
Please click the register now button above to register.
Power up your engineering skills with Play-Well TEKnologies and tens of thousands of LEGO parts. Apply real-world concepts in physics, engineering, and architecture through engineer-designed projects such as airboats, and double-decker bus rides through London, Minecart, & Nether Portal. Participants will design and build as never before while exploring their craziest ideas.
All Lego Camp sessions will be held at the Bridgemill Fire Station Community Room, 9550 Bells Ferry Road, Canton, GA 30114.
Drop-off is located inside the community room.
For more information, contact Jessica Ascenzo at jnascenzo@cherokeega.com.
| Camp Title | Dates | Time | Ages | Cost | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adventures in STEM with LEGO® Materials | June 12 - 16 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm | 5 - 6 | $180 | Let your imagination run wild with tens of thousands of LEGO® parts! Build engineer-designed projects and use special pieces to create your own unique designs! Projects are rotated seasonally to ensure that both new and returning students can explore endless creative possibilities of the LEGO® building system. |
| STEM Explorations with LEGO® Materials | June 12 - 16 | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm | 7 - 12 | $180 | Master your engineering skills with Play-Well TEKnologies and tens of thousands of LEGO® parts!Appy real-world concepts in physics, engineering, and architecture though engineer-designed projects. Projects are rotated seasonally to ensure that even returning students get a new experience. so join us to design and build as never before and explore your craziest ideas. |
| Minecraft Engineering with LEGO® Materials | June 26-30 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm | 5 - 6 | $180 | Venture into the world of Minecraft in our unique LEGO® experience. Get ready to build your base, craft your tools, use your Minecart to harvest raw resources, and battle to stop the Ender Dragon from ending the world. Come explore the endless possibilities of LEGO® with a trained Play-Well instructor. |
| Minecraft Master Engineering with LEGO® Materials | June 26-30 | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm | 7 - 12 | $180 | Bring your favorite Minecraft adventures to life with our enthusiastic Play-Well instructors. In a Minecraft world powered by LEGO® resources, we will build shelters to keep out Creepers, craft mystical items that only true masters can wield, and protect our crossbow skills to stop the Wither from taking over! If you can imagine it, we can build it. |
| Mickey's Fairytale Adventures sing LEGO® Materials | July 17 - 21 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm | 5 - 6 | $180 | Come join our fun and knowledgeable Play-Well instructors as we use LEGO® materials to recreate our favorite animated friends and their worlds! After building our most beloved princesses, villains and sidekicks, get ready to rescue prices and princesses from towers, explore enchanted castles, and maybe even fly on a magic carpet or two. All we need is your creativity and a little magic to bring it all to life! |
| MARVELous Engineering using LEGO® Materials | July 17 - 21 | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm | 7 - 12 | $180 | LEGO® Builders Assemble! We need you to come join our experienced Play-Well instructors to save the world. We will use LEGO® to build our strongest Avengers to defeat Thanos, help Thor retrieve Mjolnir, swing through the city with Spider-man, and tell Hulk to...Smash! Our journey will take us to battles on this world and beyond: are youup to the challenge? |
Learn the closely guarded secrets of magic performances from one of Atlanta's best magicians; Jeffrey Williams, "THE GREAT IMPO." In this amazing class you will learn to make objects vanish in mid-air and reappear again in a different location, read a spectator's thoughts, predict future events, and many more miraculous feats of magic! Students will gain valuable social skills and develop the confidence to perform in front of a group of their peers. At the end of the week-long camp, there will be a special Magic Show where the entire family is invited to see the students perform their favorite tricks they have learned. All of the materials are included in the price, and the students make a special magic box that they can store their magic in and take home at the end of camp.
Location: Bridgemill Fire Station Community Room, 9550 Bells Ferry Road, Canton, GA 30114
| 6-10 Years of age | 9A-12P | June 5-9 | $150 |
| 10-15 Years of age | 1P-4P | June 5-9 | $150 |
This 5-day coed youth camp will teach Olympic-style rowing, Participants will spend time on rowing machines and in boats, practicing the rowing stroke and learning the details of how to move a rowing shell (boat) effectively. By the end of camp, participants will know the basics of rowing. All participants must be competent swimmers with the ability to remain afloat for 15 minutes, swim 50 feet, and put on a live vest. The first day of camp (Monday), will be held at Strive Health and Fitness on Towne Lake Parkway. The remaining four days of camp will be held on Lake Allatoona.
Dates: June 12-16, 2023 (Monday - Friday)
Times 7:30 am-9:30 am
Location: Monday's session will be held at Strive Health and Fitness, located at 2340 Towne Lake Parkway, Woodstock GA Cost: $210
Ages: 12-18
Contact: allatoonarowing@gmail.com
Registration closes: June 5th
The remainder of the sessions will be held in the Rowing Park within Cherokee Mills Park, located at 6900 Bells Ferry Road, Woodstock Ga. The entrance to the Rowing Park is a gated driveway located on Bells Ferry Road, approximately 50ft south of the entrance to the boat ramp parking lot. To reach the Rowing Park, continue driving down the driveway, through the woods, and to the waterfront.
| Title | Date | Time | Age | Price | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foundations | June 5-9 | 9A-3P | 8-11 | $200 | Aimed at ages 8-11, this camp focuses on teaching programming and problem-solving fundamentals using the free online resource Scratch. Students will be guided through completing one game each day of camp and will be shown how to share their games on the Scratch website. |
| Basics of Project Programming | June 12-16 | 9A-3P | 11-14 | $200 | This camp goes beyond simple 1-day games and has participants ages 11-14 developing a game that is uniquely theirs over the course of the whole week. Students use the 8-bit fantasy console PICO-8 to generate their own graphics and sound assets while also learning to write code in the popular Lua scripting language. On the final day, students publish their games online to Lexaloffle where they can be played worldwide and receive genuine feedback from the PICO-8 community. |
| Advanced Game Design and Development | June 19-23 | 9A-3P | 14-17 | $200 | This camp allows students ages 14-17 to unlock their potential by designing and developing a game all their own. Rather than step-by-step instruction, they receive guidance through the iterative process of game development. They learn good software development practices, adding a new tool to their kit each day. It is up to them to decide how to implement them in their project. By the end of the week, students publish their games online on the popular game website itch.io. |