ASCENT Tennis Camps are designed for players of all levels from beginners to national-level competitors and are built around high-level coaching and a clear development pathway. ASCENT tennis integrates the proven Spanish coaching methodology with the ASCENT philosophy, developing not only skilled players but resilient, adaptable individuals who understand that true success comes from the combination of drive, learning, strategy, technique, and the wisdom to adjust to life’s challenges. On the first day of camp, each participant receives a personalized development plan to establish goals and guide training throughout the week(s). ASCENT uses PlaySight Pro technology to enhance instruction through video analysis and measurable feedback. Campers are grouped by UTR level. Players without a UTR are placed using UTR-based performance metrics, ensuring appropriately matched training groups and competition. Our athletes then progress at their own pace in a positive, challenging environment that prioritizes improvement, confidence, and enjoyment. Whether they’re building tennis fundamentals, refining match skills, training for UTR match play, or leveling up their pickleball game.

ASCENT Tennis Camps are designed for players of all levels from beginners to national-level competitors and are built around high-level coaching and a clear development pathway. ASCENT tennis integrates the proven Spanish coaching methodology with the ASCENT philosophy, developing not only skilled players but resilient, adaptable individuals who understand that true success comes from the combination of drive, learning, strategy, technique, and the wisdom to adjust to life’s challenges. On the first day of camp, each participant receives a personalized development plan to establish goals and guide training throughout the week(s). ASCENT uses PlaySight Pro technology to enhance instruction through video analysis and measurable feedback. Campers are grouped by UTR level. Players without a UTR are placed using UTR-based performance metrics, ensuring appropriately matched training groups and competition. Our athletes then progress at their own pace in a positive, challenging environment that prioritizes improvement, confidence, and enjoyment. Whether they’re building tennis fundamentals, refining match skills, training for UTR match play, or leveling up their pickleball game.

Your camper's mission: rise to the challenge this summer. Designed for young men and women ready to push their limits, Commando Camp delivers a week of military-style adventure and teamwork across 288 acres of rugged terrain.

For five unforgettable days, 9-13 year-olds trade screens for stream exploration, classrooms for cottonwood forests, and textbooks for the real-life adventure happening right in their backyard. By Friday afternoon, they're not just kids who went to camp—they're young people who have explored the Missouri River and learned to call it home. 

Afternoon camp (1pm - 4pm): Nature Explorers: Wild and Free camp Waterfalls and wooded trails Meadows wide and mountain scales Paint the beauty nature brings From bubbling brooks to peaceful streams!

Morning camp (9am - 12pm): Japanese Art: Kawaii and Anime camp From adorable pets to action scenes Anime heroes and cute little dreams Spiky hair and eyes so wide, Cute or fierce? You decide! Afternoon camp (1pm - 4pm): Pop Art Eats and Treats camp Yum! Wow! Here we go! Pizza pops and donut holes! Delicious eats in colors bright, Pop art treats, a tasty delight!

Student helpers will participate in a training prior to art camp. No video game devices may be used at art camp. No cell phone use is permitted except for parent communication. Student helpers will have a fun and engaging time with campers! Volunteer hours at Art Camp count toward service hours for their middle or high school. Everybody wins!

Student helpers will participate in a training prior to art camp. No video game devices may be used at art camp. No cell phone use is permitted except for parent communication. Student helpers will have a fun and engaging time with campers! Volunteer hours at Art Camp count toward service hours for their middle or high school. Everybody wins!

Student helpers will participate in a training prior to art camp. No video game devices may be used at art camp. No cell phone use is permitted except for parent communication. Student helpers will have a fun and engaging time with campers! Volunteer hours at Art Camp count toward service hours for their middle or high school. Everybody wins!

Our Athletic Camps will run throughout June and July with options for most grade levels.

Join instructor and National Park Service paleontologist Alexandra Bonham for a two-week adventure in Utah exploring the fossils, geology, and modern biology of its amazing landscape. Alexandra worked for us in 2022 as a teaching assistant on Field Paleontology: Kansas while completing her Masters at University of Georgia. Since then she has worked as an NPS paleontologist in the Southwest United States, primarily in Utah.

In Field Paleontology: Kansas, students will get to investigate the paleontology and ecology of the ancient ecosystems out in the field, prospecting for and digging up fossils. Participants can expect to encounter a wide variety of fossil vertebrates and invertebrates during their fieldwork. Students will learn how to find and collect fossil material using the same tools and techniques as professional paleontologists. This will include learning to take field notes, set up a campsite, use GPS units, map and compass skills, and proper methods of fossil collection and transport to preserve as much information as possible. Collected fossils will return to the Sternberg Museum to be added to the research and education collections. Evening group discussion sessions will explore topics such as applying to college, starting a research project, and working with professors. This is our longest standing camp, with successful alumni flourishing in college earth and life science programs across the country. This camp is predominantly tent-camping and campgrounds with running water and showers. During the middle weekend the group will spend three nights in the FHSU dorms where they will be able to do laundry

Paleontology Academy California invites high school students to spend two immersive weeks exploring the dynamic intersections of marine life, geology, and deep time along the Northern California coast. This blended program combines field-based exploration with paleontological discovery in the Monterey and Bay Area regions. Students will examine living coastal ecosystems, compare extant species with their extinct counterparts, and investigate how shoreline environments have shifted through geologic time. Behind-the-scenes tours at institutions such as the UC Museum of Paleontology at Berkeley and the Monterey Bay Aquarium connect participants directly with active research, collections work, and the scientific community. Throughout the program, students build skills in observation, scientific reasoning, and conceptualizing long-term ecological and geological change.

Museum Academy Kansas invites students to step behind the scenes at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History to explore how cutting-edge paleontological research and fossil collections are transformed into engaging public exhibits. Participants will dive into real scientific literature, deciphering research articles to understand how discoveries about ancient ecosystems, biodiversity, and geologic history move from field notes and lab work into visual storytelling. Students will gain hands-on experience with authentic fossil specimens from the Sternberg collections, learning how museums care for, investigate, and interpret their material. With help from museum staff and guest presenters, the group will examine how scientific accuracy, narrative structure, and scientific artistry come together to create exhibits that inform, inspire, and spark curiosity in visitors of all ages.

Students will be introduced to a wide variety of professional tools and methods used to clean and stabilize fossils in the Sternberg Museum’s fossil prep lab facility. Emphasis is placed on practicing the cleaning, reassembly, and protection techniques for fossil material. Removing the rock surrounding fossil material, using combinations of small dental tools, airscribes, and pin tools is just the start. Preparators must also be experts with various glues and adhesives for reconstructing and reinforcing the fossils. All the work done in the fossil prep lab is extremely important to the science and work done on any collected fossil specimen. In week one students will focus on essentials of tools, techniques, and lab safety policies as they begin work on their first fossil preparation projects. In week two the students will move to larger fossil specimen projects to apply their new skills upon. In past years students have worked on large jacketed fossils such as mosasaurs, large fish, and mammal material of varying sizes.