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Camps (Summer Sessions)
Healthcare Focus
SCRUBS Camp
Located in different AHEC sites around Appalachia. This camp provides students with a quick look into healthcare and the steps you must take to start the path to medicine. Includes hands on activites such as suturing, learning how to administer medicine, and learning from healthcare professionals.
**Available for 8th graders, high school freshman, sophomores, and juniors**
Arts Focus
Foster Music Camp
*Apply as an 8th grader, for rising high school freshman*
Offers multiple different camps focusing on a different area of the arts including vocals, piano, and band. This camp is residential or commuter style and is located on Eastern Kentucky University's campus.
Buisness Focus
Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute (ELI)
The Center for Rural Development’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute (ELI) brings high school students in Southern and Eastern Kentucky together to develop and strengthen their skills as future business leaders and entrepreneurs.
STEM/Research Focus
Appalachian Career Training in Oncology Program (High School Level)
*Apply as an 8th grader, for rising high school freshman*
The Markey Cancer Center’s Appalachian Career Training in Oncology (ACTION) Program offers Appalachian Kentucky high school and undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Kentucky the opportunity to gain cancer research, clinical, outreach and education experiences that will enrich their interest in pursuing a biomedical career with a focus on cancer-related careers.
**Available for high school rising freshman, sophmores, and juniors**
Leadership Focus
Rogers Explorers
*Apply as an 8th grader, for rising freshman
Rogers Explorers is a 3-day youth leadership program for rising ninth graders throughout Eastern Kentucky. Students spend three days where they will live and learn on a college campus during the summer between their 8th grade and 9th grade year.
Camp Nathanael - Resident Camp
Camp Nathanael’s Resident Camp in Emmalena, KY offers a week of faith, fun, and adventure for grades 1–12. Campers enjoy daily Bible lessons, swimming, horseback riding, team games, and classic traditions like campfires and Hilltop chapel. High schoolers get bonus activities like banquets, sports tournaments, and escape rooms—all in a Christ-centered, memory-making environment.
**Available to 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Graders**
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