Flag teams practice during the Cutting Edge Auxilliary Camp.

Camps keep campus busy

Students in a construction technology camp work on a project.

Although far fewer full-time students are around during the summer, that doesn’t mean the Pitt State campus isn’t a busy place. An increasing number and variety of day and residential summer camps means the campus is almost always buzzing.

The summer kicked off with an Investment Casting camp for adults, held May 30-June 7.  During the month of June, the Housing Office oversaw the stay of campers visiting for Honors College camps, high school boys and girls basketball camps, and the Kauffman Foundation. This year, the university broke a record by offering four separate high school football camps in June, as well.

“Last year we had the Shrine Bowl and we sponsored a Lions Club group that came in,” said Connie Malle, director of student housing. “We didn’t have the Shrine this year, but we’ve picked it up in other areas like football camp.”

June also saw the visit of youth campers with Latter Day Saints, as well as the first of three rounds of girls volleyball camps. In July, the volleyball camps wrapped up, and well as a camp for UCA cheerleaders. The 14th annual Cutting Edge Auxiliary Camp filled the campus in late July with color guards and percussionists from 45 high schools across the Midwest. Summer camps wrapped up after the end of the Cutting Edge camp, which ran in conjunction once again with the Brass Spectacular performance featuring traveling professional drum corps at Carnie Smith Stadium.

“We’ve had thousands of people here this year,” said Malle. “We laugh that people think we don’t do anything with the residence halls this time of year, because we do. They’re full of campers. Our halls are busy all the time.”

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