Academic Summer Camps



Looking for a great camp for your gifted child to attend this summer? There are many camps in and around Tennessee that offer academic and artistic acceleration and enrichment. TAG has put together a partial listing of these programs for your convenience.

Note: a listing on this page does not imply an endorsement of the program or camp by the Tennessee Association for the Gifted.

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  • Tennessee’s Governor’s Schools provide rigorous summer programs for gifted and talented high school juniors and seniors in 12 different academic areas. More information can be found here.

East Tennessee​
  • UT Knoxville offers many more summer camps through its Kids U program. For a full list of camps and applications, click here.
  • UT Chattanooga’s Challenger Center offers Space Camp for children aged 4 through rising 8th grade. 
  • Chattanooga’s Bright School offers its Bright Summer Funstitute for youth from preschool to 5th grade. Activities include science, technology, culinary skills, and language immersion.
  • The Creative Discovery Museum in Chattanooga offers a wealth of summer and spring break camp opportunities for curious students ages Pre-K through 5th grade!
Middle Tennessee
  • Programs for Talented Youth at Vanderbilt offers summer academic programs for gifted students from rising first graders through seniors in high school.
  • Cheekwood Summer Camps: Cheekwood Botanical Gardens in Nashville offers a variety of art- and gardening-focused day camps for students aged 2-16.
  • Nashville’s Adventure Science center hosts Science Quest, a series of summer day camps for students in grades K-9. Topics include robotics, chemistry, and engineering.
  • iD Tech Camps holds summer day and overnight computer programming and video game design camps at Vanderbilt University for children aged 7-17.
 
West Tennessee


Outside Tennessee
  • Students in grades 4-12 can attend Space Camp at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama!
  • SEMO in Cape Girardeau, Missouri offers Horizons, a summer enrichment program with many possible areas of focus for students ages 5-14.
  • Gifted Atlanta has a comprehensive list of gifted programs in and around the Atlanta area on its website.
  • The Center for Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University offers two summer options for gifted students:  
  • Purdue University--GERI (Gifted Education Resource Institute)--has been providing gifted programs for 40 years. They include academic programs for teachers as well as youth program such as Super Saturday, Super Summer and Summer Residential. 
  • SIG (Summer Institute for the Gifted)--is offering 12 residential camp program scholarships for this summer to students who reside in Tennessee and are in need of assistance.  Sacha and SIG are providing this amazing opportunity for qualified area students to experience a 3-week academic enrichment summer camp. SIG programs combine academics with social, cultural, and recreational opportunities for a truly engaging summer.  To apply, please submit the SIG program application and financial assistance form. Students must be ages 9-17 and meet SIG's academic eligibility requirements.
 
If you know of other camps that should be included, let us know!

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