Unleashing Potential's Summer Enrichment Program is a unique program that focuses on socio-emotional success, STEAM, and cultural diversity.

Unleashing Potential's Summer Enrichment Program is a unique program that focuses on socio-emotional success, STEAM, and cultural diversity.

Unleashing Potential's Summer Enrichment Program is a unique program that focuses on socio-emotional success, STEAM, and cultural diversity.

The exciting, behind-the-scenes camp with Police, Fire, Public Works, and Parks is back for another year of adventure!

Come join us at the Olivette Parks & Rec Camp O for enhanced Programming, including outdoor adventure and non-directed play for eight weeks of fun!

Come join us at the Olivette Parks & Rec Camp O for enhanced Programming, including outdoor adventure and non-directed play for eight weeks of fun!

This ever popular theme is coming back for another summer! Drawing inspiration from movies and games, this session will focus on building obstacle courses, problem solving, riddles, games, and improvisational engineering. We will utilize several indoor and outdoor spaces to design and create fun and exciting initiatives that foster creativity and movement.  Activities may include creating obstacle courses, improvisational engineering challenges, Among Us game initiatives, paper airplane / airplane design and contests, golf shot challenges, frisbee trick shots, scavenger hunts and orienteering. 

Campers will explore the state park system in Missouri and southern Illinois. We will investigate and highlight the unique geological features and ecosystems within these parks and conservation areas. Additionally, campers will visit a state park where they will have the opportunity to play, hike, and explore. At the end of the session, campers will create a personal list of state parks that they want to visit with their families after camp has ended. They will develop an itinerary complete with park locations, attractions, and directions to share with their families.

Campers, bring your spirit for adventure as we explore our natural environment and learn how to build primitive shelters and forts, and use specific plants as cordage, connectors, and supports for these structures. Activities may include basic nature/environmental education such as plant identification and animal tracking/study, to age-appropriate survival skills and primitive shelter building. Campers will gain confidence and comfort  being outdoors, while having a great time and staying active. 

Join us for a week of archery, sports, games, and accuracy challenges! Voyager campers will learn the basics of the Genesis compound bow before heading to the range for practice. If you did this camp last year, we have an extra instructor that will help you improve upon the skills gained last summer. Explorers and Adventurers will engage in individual and cooperative games. Sports and games may include soccer, basketball, bowling, bocce, putt putt challenges, soft/magnetic darts, pool noodle tag, and more.

During this shortened, four-day week, campers will head to various locations on campus to play classic backyard and indoor party games. The field, gym, and, dining room, and theater, will all be utilized to play games like croquet, frisbee golf, badminton, bags, washers, hot foot, and ping pong, to name a few. Although there will be no off-campus field trip this week, campers will swim on Wednesday and Friday.

Choose to be funny, silly, or dramatic, and show off your unique talents in this fun, upbeat, and supportive environment. Utilizing our theater and stage,  campers will have the opportunity to perform skits, engage in dramatic play, improvisation, dance, and comedy routines. Additionally, campers will record and edit their performances to share with family and friends. This is a challenge by choice activity and other opportunities will be available during stage time. 

Join us for an experience you will never forget, as we chase the spirit of America’s favorite pastime through the heartland! We’ll head north and catch a minor league baseball game in Peoria, IL. Next, we’ll travel to Iowa to watch two classic movies about baseball (“The Sandlot” and “Field of Dreams”) at one of the two remaining drive-in theaters in the state. The following day we’ll play a baseball game on the actual baseball field that was built and featured in the “Field of Dreams” movie. In addition to our baseball focused activities, we will also break up the drive by stopping to explore caves at Maquoketa Caves State Park as well as taking some leisurely breaks at various swimming holes along the route.

Unleashing Potential's Summer Enrichment Program is a unique program that focuses on socio-emotional success, STEAM, and cultural diversity.

Unleashing Potential's Summer Enrichment Program is a unique program that focuses on socio-emotional success, STEAM, and cultural diversity.