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De Smet Summer Programs
2012 Summer Programs
Looking for an athletic or academic enrichment summer camp? De Smet Jesuit is the place for you! Brief descriptions of each of our summer camps are listed below. Check back in coming weeks for specific dates and registration information for all De Smet summer camps.
Athletic Camps
The De Smet Jesuit athletics department hosts a variety of athletic camps for grade
school boys, as well as incoming freshmen, throughout the summer.
De Smet Athletic Camps
DSI: De Smet Investigations
| June 4-8 | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. | 7-8 Grade Boys |
| $100 | For more information contact mbaxendale@desmet.org | Click Here to Register |
If you like science and
detective work, this is the course for you! DSI offers an introduction to crime scene investigation procedures and the scientific examination of crime scene evidence. Students will enhance critical thinking skills through laboratory analysis, applying mathematical principles, and forensic science techniques. Topics covered will include evidence collecting, fingerprinting, shoe prints, hair and fiber analysis, DNA typing, and blood evidence. Students will perform real-world techniques utilized by forensic scientists and find out how tested evidence can reveal the true events surrounding a crime!
Improv Camp
| July 23-27 | 9 - 11:30 a.m. | 7-9 Grade Boys |
| $100 or $175 when paired with Speech & Debate Camp | For more information contact sadams@desmet.org | Click Here to Register |
An introduction to improv, where boys entering grades 7, 8 and 9 learn to use audience suggestions to create dialogue, setting and plot into comedic performances. Led by instructors trained by The Second City and St. Louis' Improv Shop, this week-long experience can be paired with speech/debate camp. Limited to 15 attendees.
Speech/Debate Camp
| July 23-27 | 12:30 - 3 p.m. | 7-9 Grade Boys |
| $100 or $175 when paired with Improv Camp | For more information contact sadams@desmet.org | Click Here to Register |
Improve your public speaking and/or debating techniques during this one-week program for boys entering grades 7, 8 and 9. Camp will be held in the afternoons, following improv camp. Limited to 14 attendees.
iTech
| June 4-8 | 12:30 - 3 p.m. | 7-8 Grade Boys |
| $100 | For more information contact rsextro@desmet.org | Click Here to Register |
iTech is a camp for students who love computing! At iTech, students will actively engage in computing as an art and science. Students will take a computer apart piece by piece and explore the functions of each part. Working with HTML, students will make their own personal home pages, customized to link to their favorite web sites. Finally, students will get a taste of what computer programmers and animators do every day as they explore the engaging world of Scratch programming.
Spartan Leadership Institute
| June 11-15 | 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. | 7-8 Grade Boys |
| $100 | For more information contact jhawkey@desmet.org | Click Here to Register |
Be a Spartan. Be a Leader!
Attention current and future leaders! The Spartan Leadership Institute is a week-long camp that gives you practice in the methods and perspectives of leadership, aiming to make you a better leader in any of the roles you have or choose to play in your grade school or when you enter De Smet Jesuit High School. First, we develop a basic working definition of leadership. As the week continues, we watch movie clips that reveal leaders and their qualities, identify historical and biblical leaders, talk about the standard bearer, care for others, and being a man for others. We develop our own leadership platforms, talk about our circles of excellence, and make decisions. As the week continues, we hear from student leaders at De Smet Jesuit and make a commitment to participate in a leadership project that impacts the community. When the week is finished, together we will have a met a bunch of new friends from across the area and defined our leadership strengths and challenges. We will keep in touch throughout the coming year through an online leadership blog. Be a Spartan. Be a Leader. Come join the Spartan Leadership Institute!
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