Summer Camps

Explore a variety of athletic summer camps designed to help students build skills, stay active and have fun this summer. From strength and conditioning to sport-specific training, EMS ISD camps provide opportunities for students of all experience levels to learn from coaches, improve their game and connect with teammates.

Fine Arts and Special Interest Camps 2026 - Registration for Summer Camps is open! 

Please note: Academic, behavioral, and medical accommodations are not available for Fine Arts/Special Interest Camps. 

Please see the camp descriptions below and use this link to register: camp registration website. Select the "Fine Arts & Special Interest Camps" tile.

• Build friendships while exploring, creating, and discovering new adventures through reading. Bilingual support will be offered. 

• Come make your favorite foods in a professional kitchen with a real chef

• Incoming EMS ISD 6th, 7th, 8th grade students are invited to attend a Discover STEM Camp that combines design principles, hands-on-labs, engineering challenges, digital investigations and career exploration. The camp is for students currently attending EMS ISD only. Please sign up for ONE session ONLY.

• Kick off your Summer break with your favorite PE games!

• Join us for an amazing week of painting, drawing, sculpting, and more at Passport to Adventure Art Camp! Travel around the world through unique art projects that you create.

• Your child will learn watercolor techniques and create summer-y florals, fruits, and more in watercolor. Student gets to keep the supplies (watercolor paint set, brushes, and paper). 

• Taske around the World Cuisine in a class designed to teach the basics of culinary and baking techniques. No prior experience necessary.

• Students will use pencils and black markers to learn to draw shapes, characters, and backgrounds. Students will take home a collective coloring book on the final day.  

• Kick off your Summer break with your favorite PE games!

• Join us for an amazing week of painting, drawing, sculpting. You will design unique artistic creations featuring animals, birds, and insects!

• Location: Highland Middle School - June 22-25
• Location: Creekview Middle School - June 29-July 2
  • Elementary STEM camp is for students that will be in 2nd-5th grade in the Fall of 2026. The camp is for students currently attending EMS ISD only. Elementary STEM camp is offered at Highland Middle School and Creekview Middle School. Please choose one location, as space is limited. Academic and behavioral accommodations are not available for this camp. Students that are in 5th grade for the 2025-26 school year should register for our Middle School STEM Camp. 

• In this hands-on sewing class, students will learn basic sewing skills as well as take part in a service project, sewing items that can be donated to help others in our community. 

• Gifted and talented students will participate in a variety of challenging activities in the areas of science, math, and creative thinking skills. 

• This is an elementary theatre camp. Students will be exposed to all aspects of theatre, including the technical side, like sets, makeup, lighting, and costumes.

• Let your imagination run wild as you explore the science and artistry that is stage and movie makeup!  

• Beat the heat and have a blast with friends at Camp Champ! Compete with friends in dodgeball, kickball, parachute games, basketball, tag games, and more!

• This camp is for boys and girls grades 6th-12th looking to expand their world through story-telling and creative writing. 

• Students will learn an introduction to basic woodworking tools in a safe shop environment. Students will take home some small woodcraft projects. 

• In this hands-on summer camp, young artists will dive into the word of scuplture. Artists will explore "creative reuse" by reimagining discarded items. 

• This two-week camp is open to band students entering grades 7th & 8th in the Fall of 2026. Students will work in sectionals and in full band and perform a concert on the last day of camp. Campers will also enjoy a trip to the Main Event and a water park. They will also receive a camp t-shirt.   

• Do you love to sing, dance, and act? This two-week camp will take you from auditions to rehearsals to a final performance of a musical, where costumes, sets, props and lights will be combined to create a wonderful production. The final performance will be on July 17.  

• Travel the World Without Leaving the Library! World Traveler's Reading Camp is an engaging literacy and enrichment program designed to inspire a love of reading while exposing students to cultures around the globe. Through weekly themed books, hands-on activities, and dedicated makerspace time, students will explore new countries and perspectives in a fun, interactive way. No registration required.
  • Tuesdays at Hatley Elementary-June 2, 9, 16, 
  • Thursdays at Gililland Elementary-June 4, 11, 18
  • Camp hours: 8:30 a.m - 10:00 a.m.

• Inspire innovative thinking with fun-filled STEM experiences designed to spark creativity and a love for learning. Risking K-6th campers will collaborate with friends to tackle hands-on, open-ended challenges. They'll team up with robotic capybaras, ride the waves of entrepreneurship, uncover the power of protecting their ides and build their own DYI space rocket! Each experience is designed to spark confidence, build persistence and create unforgettable summer memories. Read more and register here: https://www.invent.org/program-search/camp-invention/tx25/1237

• Your child's curiosity, creativity and confidence will soar with our program, Illuminate! Campers rising in K-6th will team up with friends in hands-on, open-ended challenges designed to deliver an unforgettable summer packed with imagination-stretching fun. They'll design their own light-up ball game, explore the science of illumination, tackle global water challenges and star in a prototyping game show! Read more and register here: https://www.invent.org/program-search/camp-invention/tx25/04066