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AUTHOR CAMP: STORYCON TEEN WEEK 1 (GRADES 7TH-12TH)Orem West Campus
Fee: $99.00
Item Number: 25SCYHBOR009
Dates: 6/2/2025 - 6/5/2025
Times: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: M Tu W Th
Sessions: 4
Building: National Guard Building
Room: NG167
Instructor: Heather Clark

Seats Available: 14

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Calling Teen Authors! Learn to up your story game this summer when UVU partners with Teen Author Boot Camp and award-winning author Heather Clark and bestselling virtual author guest instructors to teach you techniques and tricks it took published authors years to master. We've planned two weeks of incredible learning. Sign up for either or both, with no prerequisite! Week one will focus on whole-story concepts including idea generation, hooking the reader, character growth arcs, page-turning plots, and building tension using story goals and conflict. Come learn, write, share, critique, and build community with fellow authors as we improve our craft and celebrate story together.

Grades: 7th-12th

AUTHOR CAMP: STORYCON TEEN WEEK 2 (GRADES 7TH-12TH)Orem West Campus
Fee: $99.00
Item Number: 25SCYHBOR010
Dates: 6/9/2025 - 6/12/2025
Times: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: M Tu W Th
Sessions: 4
Building: National Guard Building
Room: NG167
Instructor: Heather Clark

Seats Available: 27

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Calling Teen Authors! Learn to up your story game this summer when UVU partners with Teen Author Boot Camp and award-winning author Heather Clark and bestselling virtual author guest instructors to teach you techniques and tricks it took published authors years to master. We've planned two weeks of incredible learning. Sign up for either or both, with no prerequisite! Week 2 will focus on polishing that prose with authentic character dialogue and reactions, building scene tension, and dynamic, descriptive word choice so you're ready to wow agents, editors and readers with your powerful writing techniques. Come learn, write, share, critique, and build community with fellow authors as we improve our craft and celebrate story together.

Grades: 7th-12th

AUTHOR CAMP: STORYCON TWEENS (GRADES 4TH-7TH)Orem West Campus
Fee: $99.00
Item Number: 25SCYHBOR011
Dates: 6/23/2025 - 6/26/2025
Times: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: M Tu W Th
Sessions: 4
Building: National Guard Building
Room: NG167
Instructor: Heather Clark

Seats Available: 34

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Have you dreamed of learning how to write a book from published authors? Tween Author Boot Camp is partnering with UVU to bring you award-winning middle grade author instructor Heather Clark, and some amazing virtual guests—Newbery winning and New York Times bestselling authors—to make all your summer camp writing dreams come true! We’ve planned a week of engaging lessons, fun activities, and hands-on practice to light up your writer brain and grow your skills. Learn about idea generation, hooking the reader, character growth arcs, page-turning plots, and building tension using story goals and conflict. Join us and come away confident, inspired, and ready to write your own book.

Grades: 4th-7th

CARTOONING FOR TEENS (GRADES 7TH-12TH)Lehi Campus
Fee: $109.00
Item Number: 25SCYASLE001
Dates: 7/7/2025 - 7/10/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: M Tu W Th
Sessions: 4
Building: Lehi Campus
Room: TG430/Loft
Instructor: Anthony Romrell

Seats Available: 9

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Want to expand your cartooning skills? Get into what makes cartoon characters aesthetically pleasing and how to bring out characters with strong personalities.

Please bring the following supplies to class:
- pencil
- eraser
- pencil sharpener
- sketchbook.
Grades: 7th-9th

CHESS: ADVANCED (GRADES 4TH-12TH)Orem Campus
Fee: $99.00
Item Number: 25SCYHBOR001
Dates: 6/2/2025 - 6/6/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: Daily
Sessions: 5
Building: McKay Education Building
Room: ME109
Instructor: Emily Hedrick

Seats Available: 1

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Want to learn a few new moves or more about the game of chess? Learn tournament rules and apply chess strategies to improve your game. Apply famous and proven chess techniques to your chess game. Each day you will play in small teams and focus on a new area of chess strategy. The final day of class you will compete in an Advanced Chess Class Tournament.
Day 1: Opening Moves
Day 2: Middle Game Techniques
Day 3: Closing Moves
Day 4: Advanced Chess Class Tournament

Grades: 4th-12th

CHESS: ADVANCED (GRADES 4TH-12TH)Orem West Campus
Fee: $99.00
Item Number: 25SCYHBOR002
Dates: 6/23/2025 - 6/27/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: Daily
Sessions: 5
Building: National Guard Building
Room: NG108
Instructor: Emily Hedrick

Seats Available: 6

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Want to learn a few new moves or more about the game of chess? Learn tournament rules and apply chess strategies to improve your game. Apply famous and proven chess techniques to your chess game. Each day you will play in small teams and focus on a new area of chess strategy. The final day of class you will compete in an Advanced Chess Class Tournament.
Day 1: Opening Moves
Day 2: Middle Game Techniques
Day 3: Closing Moves
Day 4: Advanced Chess Class Tournament

Grades: 4th-12th

CHESS: BEGINNING (GRADES 4TH-12TH)Orem Campus
Fee: $89.00
Item Number: 25SCYHBOR003
Dates: 6/2/2025 - 6/5/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: M Tu W Th
Sessions: 4
Building: McKay Education Building
Room: ME109
Instructor: Emily Hedrick

Seats Available: 14

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Check into the world of chess and learn the fundamentals of the game! Learn how the chess pieces move, game strategies, and how to achieve checkmate. All students will receive Passports to track their progress. They will complete a series of games and variants including team matches, creative playing, and lots of practice. Each day they will complete six major activities and receive stickers and stamps to track their progress. When they complete the Passport booklet, students will earn a chess pin. On the last day, each student will put their skills to the test in a friendly tournament as they become future grandmasters of the game of chess.

Day 1: Familiarize Chess Pieces and Moves

Day 2: Three Stages of Chess

Day 3: Game Strategies

Day 4: Chess Variations and Class Tournaments

Grades: 4th-12th

CHESS: BEGINNING (GRADES 4TH-12TH)Orem West Campus
Fee: $89.00
Item Number: 25SCYHBOR004
Dates: 6/23/2025 - 6/26/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: M Tu W Th
Sessions: 4
Building: National Guard Building
Room: NG108
Instructor: Emily Hedrick

Seats Available: 14

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Check into the world of chess and learn the fundamentals of the game! Learn how the chess pieces move, game strategies, and how to achieve checkmate. All students will receive Passports to track their progress. They will complete a series of games and variants including team matches, creative playing, and lots of practice. Each day they will complete six major activities and receive stickers and stamps to track their progress. When they complete the Passport booklet, students will earn a chess pin. On the last day, each student will put their skills to the test in a friendly tournament as they become future grandmasters of the game of chess.

Day 1: Familiarize Chess Pieces and Moves

Day 2: Three Stages of Chess

Day 3: Game Strategies

Day 4: Chess Variations and Class Tournaments

Grades: 4th-12th

DISCOVER MAGIC: GREEN WAND (GRADES 3RD-6TH) OREMOrem Campus
Fee: $179.00
Item Number: 25SCYHBOR005
Dates: 6/9/2025 - 6/12/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Days: M Tu W Th
Sessions: 4
Building: Health Professions Building
Room: HP119
Instructor: Jason Carling

Seats Available: 10

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Get ready to take an amazing adventure into the exciting world of magic. Learn how to cut a lady in half, give your friends superhero powers and make invisible objects appear in a magic pencil pouch. Learn 8 secret magic principles that make all magic tricks possible. Discover the real secrets to becoming a true magician as each lesson reveals an important life skill to help build confidence and communication skills. Graduate with your Green Magic Wand and Certificate of Advancement. Each lesson comes with a custom magic prop, a magic top secret file folder, and a secret word to unlock bonus magic videos in the online video vault.

Grades: 3rd-6th

DISCOVER MAGIC: ORANGE WAND (GRADES 3RD-6TH) Orem Campus
Fee: $179.00
Item Number: 25SCYHBOR006
Dates: 7/7/2025 - 7/10/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Days: M Tu W Th
Sessions: 4
Building: Health Professions Building
Room: HP119
Instructor: Jason Carling

Seats Available: 11

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Get ready to take an adventure into the world of magic! Learn how to make a cup float in mid-air, make borrowed objects vanish, appear, and transform, find hidden treasure, and even read people's minds. Each lesson comes with a custom magic prop, a magic top secret file folder, and a secret word to unlock bonus videos in the online video vault.

Grades: 3rd-6th

EXPLORING HEALTH PROFESSIONS (GRADES 9TH-12TH)Athletic Facilities
Fee: $99.00
Item Number: 25SCYHBLE003
Dates: 6/2/2025 - 6/5/2025
Times: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: M Tu W Th
Sessions: 4
Building: UVU - Lehi Campus Building 2
Room:
Instructor:

Seats Available: 6

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Explore the many different options in today's health professions, from Occupational Therapy to Emergency Medical Response! Sit down with instructors for Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Respiratory Therapy, Fire & Emergency Services, and Nursing and get a firsthand look into these careers, the tools and technology they use, and what they are like! Visit learning facilities in Lehi and Orem, including the nursing simulation lab, the anatomage for a 3D view of the systems of the Human Body, and EMS training labs.

Grades: 9th-12th

Day 1 – Lehi Campus Building 2 East Lobby 2889 Ashton Blvd. Lehi

Physical Therapy Assistant – Explore ways that PT Assistants can help patients recover from injuries, surgeries, or manage chronic conditions.

Occupational Therapy – Get a look at how OT helps people perform daily activities by improving functionality, adapting environments, promoting independence, and enhancing quality of life while facing great challenges.

Respiratory Therapy – See the cutting-edge tools that help diagnose, treat, and care for patients with breathing and make RTs the unseen champions that make every breath count!

Day 2 – Lehi Campus Building 2 East Lobby 2889 Ashton Blvd. Lehi

Emergency Medical Services – Learn how the network of EMTs, AEMTs, and infrastructure help patients with immediate care in emergencies, transportation for treatment, and rescue operations. Practice recognizing emergency situations, performing basic first aid and building confidence in a crisis response.

Day 3 – Orem West Campus Health Professions Building Room HP117 987 S Geneva Rd. Orem

Explore Human Anatomy – Bring Biology to life like never before. Dr Stevens will take you on an incredible adventure to see how each structure of the body looks and interacts within the body systems with a layer-by-layer digital view using anatomage technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylc0cyhS79U

Day 4 – Orem West Campus Health Professions Building Room HP125-C 987 S Geneva Rd. Orem

Nursing – Victoria Ekpoma and Megan Spurlock will guide you through a hands-on exploration of the various rolls and branches of the nursing career, common nursing practices, equipment and the UVU Nursing simulation center.

MAGIC EXPLORERS: CRAZY CREATURES (GRADES K-2ND) OREMOrem Campus
Fee: $99.00
Item Number: 25SCYHBOR007
Dates: 6/9/2025 - 6/12/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: M Tu W Th
Sessions: 4
Building: Health Professions Building
Room: HP119
Instructor: Jason Carling

Seats Available: 13

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Learn how to make a bird vanish and how to magically put a mixed-up monster back together, and other fun tricks! Combine this with fun songs and games for a magic course like no other! This program is designed to help kids develop friendships, have fun, and learn cool things about themselves and the world around them.

Grades: K-2nd

MAGIC EXPLORERS: CRAZY CREATURES (GRADES K-2ND) OREMOrem Campus
Fee: $99.00
Item Number: 25SCYHBOR008
Dates: 7/7/2025 - 7/10/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: M Tu W Th
Sessions: 4
Building: Health Professions Building
Room: HP119
Instructor: Jason Carling

Seats Available: 11

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Learn how to make a bird vanish and how to magically put a mixed-up monster back together, and other fun tricks! Combine this with fun songs and games for a magic course like no other! This program is designed to help kids develop friendships, have fun, and learn cool things about themselves and the world around them.

Grades: K-2nd

PROCREATE: BEGINNING (GRADES 7TH-12TH)Orem Campus
Fee: $89.00
Item Number: 25SCYCPOR017
Dates: 6/17/2025 - 6/20/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Tu W Th F
Sessions: 4
Building: McKay Education Building
Room: ME150
Instructor: Anthony Romrell

Seats Available: 9

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Grab, your iPad and Apple Pencil and let’s get to work! Learn the basics of one of the best digital drawing programs out there. Focus on the basics: setting up files, how layers work, how to use different tools, and how to manipulate images. End every class making a fun image from scratch using Procreate. Download the Procreate app with your Apple ID BEFORE class starts. Bring your iPad to class.

Grades: 7th-12th

RHYTHM AND SOUND: THE DRUMMING CIRCLE (GRADES 5TH-8TH)Lehi Campus
Fee: $99.00
Item Number: 25SCMADLE001
Dates: 6/9/2025 - 6/12/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: M Tu W Th
Sessions: 4
Building: Lehi Campus
Room: TG430/Loft
Instructor: Heidi Mackay

Seats Available: 8

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Experience the magic of hand drumming and percussion. Develop rhythmic skills through meditative and directed drumming. Explore dynamic sound creation and build confidence in a collaborative, music-filled space. Unleash creativity through rhythm and movement.

Grades: 5th - 8th

TEEN DUNGEON BOOT CAMP (GRADES 7TH-12TH)Lehi Campus
Fee: $179.00
Item Number: 25SCYHBLE002
Dates: 6/17/2025 - 6/19/2025
Times: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Days: Tu W Th
Sessions: 3
Building: Lehi Campus
Room: 4th Floor
Instructor: Dax Levine

Seats Available: 44

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Enter the portal to an epic 3-day summer camp filled with tabletop role-playing games!
From the minds behind Teen Author Boot Camp comes a new immersive conference experience connecting teens with industry professionals. Join professional dungeon master Dax Levine of Dungeon Master Direct as he assembles a party of published authors, theater educators, and game designers to deliver the best training to level up your writing, acting, and gaming skills to make your D&D campaigns more epic than ever! Each morning, prepare for battle with instructional workshops on worldbuilding, improvisation, voices, puzzles, combat tactics, and more. Each afternoon, enter the dungeon with your friends or become the Dungeon Master yourself. Become the hero (or villain) of the world’s greatest roleplaying game!

Grades: 7th-12th
THE DATES FOR THIS CLASS ARE NOW: T/W/TH 6/17-6/19.

VIDEO EDITING (GRADES 5TH-8TH)
Fee: $159.00
Item Number: 25SCYASLE004
Dates: 7/28/2025 - 7/31/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: M Tu W Th
Sessions: 4
Building: Lehi Campus
Room: TG111
Instructor: Jay Jayaseelan
Seats Available: -1

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Discover the tools and tricks of video editing as you turn ordinary footage into extraordinary stories. Bring a USB storage device to download and take your project home.

Grades: 5th-8th

YOUTH BOOKBINDING AND REBINDING (GRADES 7TH-12TH)Lehi Campus
Fee: $129.00
Item Number: 25SCYHBLE001
Dates: 7/28/2025 - 7/31/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: M Tu W Th
Sessions: 4
Building: Lehi Campus
Room: T430
Instructor: Janiece Murray

Seats Available: 8

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Discover the art of creating your own books with two quick and easy designs, the Japanese Stab binding and a simple one-folio book or transform your favorite paperback stories into beautiful hardcover versions! All materials included.

Grades: 7th-12th

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