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The Governor’s Honors Program is a highly regarded and highly selective summer program for students who are currently in 10th or 11th grade. The four-week program is held on the campus of Berry University in Rome and offers “academic, cultural and social enrichment.”

The program is funded by the State of Georgia, so selected students pay no tuition to attend.

To apply, a student must first be nominated by a teacher at their school, who teaches the subject area the student wants to study at GHP. Those nominations are due this fall.

Following the nomination process, students complete a rigorous application, after which they may be invited for interviews.

If your child is interested in GHP, they should reach out now to the GHP coordinator at their school. Home-schooled students should contact the GHP coordinator at the school they would be designated to attend if they were attending public school.

The University of West Georgia will offer a number of day camps this summer at its Carrollton and Newnan campuses.

Camps are offered for children as young as 5 (rising kindergarten) through teens. Camp themes include dinosaurs, STEM, ocean life, art and movie making.

The camps are described as fun with a touch of academic content.

The Gwinnett Alliance for Gifted Education (GAGE) will offer two weeks of its Summer Exploration Program this summer.

The camp is open to rising 1st through 8th graders. Campers choose a morning class and an afternoon class. Topics include brain teasers, event planning, food science, criminal justice, games, and more. Each class is taught by a certified teacher.

Summer Exploration Program camps will be held June 3-7 at Partee Elementary School in Snellville, and June 10-14 at Arcado Elementary School in Lilburn. The registration deadline is May 24, 2019.

Students don’t have to be enrolled in Gwinnett County Public Schools to attend the GAGE camps.

Spivey Hall at Clayton State University will offer a music camp this summer for students rising to grades 4-7.

Campers will sing in a chorus, play percussion and chimes, and learn folk dances, in addition to other social and artistic activities. Musical experience isn’t required to attend the camp, but campers should be enthusiastic about making music with others.

The camp will be held June 10-14, 2019, on the Clayton State University campus. Registration is open now. Enrollment is limited to 45 students.

This is a clarification of my earlier post about the Summer at the Circus program: The program staff informed me today that the January 18 deadline is only for the program in which students earn college credit. The deadline for students who aren’t seeking course credit has been extended until April 30, 2019. My original post has been edited to reflect this updated information.

The Creative Circus in Atlanta is now accepting applications to its 2019 Summer at the Circus program, which it calls “an in-depth and specialized crash course in advertising creativity.”

Summer at the Circus is an eight-week program that exposes students to the fundamentals of art direction, graphic design, creative strategy, typography, photography, and more.

Summer at the Circus is a joint program between The Creative Circus, a portfolio school that prepares students for careers in marketing communications, and the University of Georgia. It’s open to students who will be 17 or older this summer.

The program fee is $2,950; students may pay an additional fee if they want to earn college credit for their work.

Application deadline for students who want to earn college credit is January 18, 2019. Deadline for the non-credit option is April 30.

A few spaces are available in Georgia State University’s Saturday School summer camp, a day camp that will be held July 9-13 on the university’s downtown campus.

This year’s camp topic is simple and complex machines. The camp information flyer breaks down how students of different ages — from kindergarten through 8th grade — will approach aspects of physics and engineering related to machines and the work they do.

The Decatur Writers Studio will offer one-week writing camps for teens (rising 9th to 11th graders) and tweens (rising 6th to 8th graders) this summer on the campus of Agnes Scott College.

Campers will be immersed in the elements of written storytelling, including setting, characters, dialogue and descriptive language, under the guidance of a high-school creative writing teacher.

Class size is limited to 12 students.

The Gwinnett Alliance for Gifted Education (GAGE) will offer two weeks of its Summer Exploration Program this summer.

The camp is open to rising 2nd through 8th graders. Campers choose a morning class and an afternoon class. Topics include animals, storytelling, computer programming, model car building, weather, photojournalism, puzzles, and lots more. The instructors are teachers from Gwinnett County schools, most of whom have gifted certification.

Summer Exploration Program camps will be held June 18-22 at Arcado Elementary School in Lilburn, and June 25-29 at Partee Elementary School in Snellville. Registration deadline is June 1, 2018.

Students are not required to be enrolled in Gwinnett County Public Schools to attend the GAGE camps.

Local arts organization WonderRoot will offer summer art camp for ages 7 to 17 at its southeast Atlanta arts center.

Camp for kids ages 7 to 12 will be held June 25-29; ages 12 to 17 will meet June 18-23. Campers can register for the whole week, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily, or can drop in on a daily basis.

Art techniques and topics will include graphic design, zines, screen printing, yarn bombing, and public art.

WonderRoot is a non-profit arts group whose mission is to unite artists in using their art to spur social change.