Pitt-Bradford to Host Variety of Camps and Events This Summer
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will play host to more than a dozen camps, gatherings and other events this summer.
The camps will take place between May and August and are open to the public. The summer will end with the Heart of the Alleghenies Music Festival from Aug. 7-9.
The summer season begins with two sessions of the Kinzua Fly Fishing School May 1-3 and May 16-17.
Beginning and intermediate fly fishers, male and female, age 12 to adult, are welcome to come learn fly tying, fly casting and fly-fishing techniques with nymphs, wet flies, streamers and dry flies. For more information, visit users.penn.com/~skvarka/ or e-mail Steve Skvarka at skvarka@penn.com.
Pitt-Bradford’s Science in Motion Camp will hold two sessions this year. The first session will take place from 8:30 a.m. to noon June 8-12 and is for students who have completed first, second or third grade. Students will participate in science labs pertaining to biology, the environment, physical science and chemistry. Special guests will help the children with fun labs such as papermaking, discovering our bodies, I Spy biodiversity and discovery bottles.
A second week of camp for children who have completed fourth, fifth or sixth grade will be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon June 22-26.
Children in this camp will visit Pitt-Bradford’s Crime Scene Investigation House with a guest professor and become CSI investigators by conducting different science labs such as a blood spatter, fiber and hair analysis, blood typing, fingerprinting and fuming, DNA profiling and bone identification.
The fee for each of the camps is $75 for one child and a $50 fee for each additional child in the family to attend. The fee includes a T-shirt. Registration and fees for the first camp need to be submitted by May 22, for the second camp by June 5. For more information or to register, call (814)362-7570 or e-mail simupb@pitt.edu.
Young swimmers will be able to develop and improve skills in all four swimming styles at the Swimming Clinics held by Head Swimming Coach Ed Bahan from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. June 8-12 and June 15-19 for the day camps; June 22-26 for the overnight camp. Day camp is for children 8 and older; overnight camp for children 11 and older.
Bahan was the 2009 Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year, coaching both the men’s and women’s AMCC swimmer of the year.
The cost of the day camp is $125 for each week. The overnight camp is $375 for those in 8th grade or younger, $410 for those who are older. For more information or to register, contact Bahan at (814)362-5034 or egb17@pitt.edu.
On June 13, Head Men’s Basketball Coach Andy Moore will hold a one-day College Basketball Prospect Camp for boys in grades 10 through 12 with the desire and potential to play college basketball. The camp will take place from 1 to 8 p.m. and include a camp jersey, a college practice, offensive-skill development, competitive games and situations, and information about college recruiting and admissions. Cost is $60.
Moore will hold three additional basketball camps in July.
The week of July 6-10 is Co-Ed Basketball Day Camp for ages 8 to 17 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The camp will teach the fundamentals of basketball to campers through individual and group instruction and provide competitive game situations to practice individual skills.
The Boys’ Basketball Camp will follow the same format and take place from July 20-24. Cost for the co-ed and boys’ camps is $125 and includes a T-shirt. There is a $10 discount for siblings.
Moore even has camp for the youngest players. Gym Rats Basketball Camp for children age 4 to 8 takes place from 9 to 11:30 a.m. July 27-30. The cost is $60 and includes T-shirt and daily snack.
Moore has been head basketball coach at Pitt-Bradford for 16 years and has a career record of 253-177. For more information on basketball camps, contact Moore at (814)362-5276 or ajm8@pitt.edu or visit the Pitt-Bradford athletics Web site to download a brochure and application: www.upb.pitt.edu/athletics.aspx.
On June 18-20, the 12th Penn’s Woods Jeep Jamboree rolls onto campus. The Jamboree is an off-road adventure weekend that brings together the outdoors, down-to-earth people and their Jeep 4x4s. Participants will travel through the Allegheny Highlands on trails that rarely see visitors. All ages are welcome, but drivers must have a valid license to drive Jeeps. For more information, visit www.jeepjamboreeusa.com.
The Friends of the Hanley Library will sponsor an exhibit of Bradford native Roger Hane’s illustrations from June 18 through July 10 in the KOA Art Gallery in Blaisdell Hall. Best known as the illustrator of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series, Hane also illustrated album covers and magazine illustrations and worked with advertising agencies and industry.
The exhibition will open with a presentation by R.C. Hunsicker, who has written a biography of Hane called “Roger Hane: Art Times and Tragedy,” at 7 p.m. June 18 in the gallery. The exhibit, which goes by the same name as the biography, will be open to the public during regular gallery hours from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness will present School Nurse Summer Trainings June 22-24. This training is for school nurses, crisis response team members, administrators or rural responders who have the responsibility to plan, respond or help with recovery in the event of a school or community disaster. For more information, visit www.prepare.pitt.edu/events/3daytraining.htm or call Laurie Dennis at (800)872-1787 or (814)362-5078.
Sixty community children will take to the Bromeley Family Theater stage the week of June 22-27 with Missoula Children’s Theatre, a theater workshop for children who are entering grades 1 through 12 sponsored by the Bradford Creative and Performing Arts Center. After just one week of practice, the children will present “The Little Mermaid” at 2 p.m. June 27 in the Bromeley Family Theater in Blaisdell Hall.
The cost of the workshop is $100. Applications will be available May 1 and spots are available on a first-come basis. For more information, visit www.bcpac.com/ or call (814)362-2522.
Autism Network International will bring its Autreat to Pitt-Bradford for the second year from June 29-July 3. Autreat is a retreat-style conference run by autistic people for autistic people and friends. It is an opportunity for autistic people and those with developmental differences and their friends and supporters to come together to discover and explore autistic connections and develop advocacy skills in an autistic-friendly environment. Family members and professionals are welcome to attend. For more information, visit www.autreat.com.
In July, Pitt-Bradford will host the Embraceable Ewe Knitting Camp from July 10-14. Beginners, intermediates and experts are welcome to work on a knitting project, learn techniques and share ideas and tips with other knitters. For more information or to register, call (716)646-6674.
During the week of July 13-17, students from Floyd C. Fretz Middle School in Bradford can explore careers at Camp Compass, which is sponsored by the TRiO Educational Talent Search office at Pitt-Bradford. The free day camp will take place offers career and college games and activities such as art projects, computer activities and a science lab experiment. Students will also hear presentations on topics such as “Careers in Law Enforcement,” “Working with Animals” and “Careers in Sports.” For more information or to register, call the TRiO Educational Talent Search office at (814)362-5115.
High school students from the Intermediate Unit 9 can spend the week of July 19-25 at Seneca Highlands Summer Academy exploring criminal justice and forensic science, entrepreneurship and technology, or drama and communications. Students should contact their guidance counselors for more information.
Pitt-Bradford Head Men’s Soccer Coach Darek Panol will hold two Soccer Camps in July. Overnight camp for children age 13 to 18 will take place July 23-26. The day camp for children age 6 to 12 will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 27-31. For more information or to register, contact Panol at (814)362-7537 or dap73@pitt.edu.
Also in July, the National Cheerleaders Association Cheer Camp comes to Pitt-Bradford from July 26-29 for children in grades 6-12. Resident camps are run by trained staff members from colleges and universities who teach stunts, new material and encourage team bonding. For more information or to register, go to www.nationalspirit.com or call 1-800-622-2946.
Finally, the season will wind down with the Sixth Annual Heart of the Alleghenies Music Festival from Aug. 7-9
Festival attendees will have an opportunity to attend instructional workshops, dances and open jam sessions featuring old time, bluegrass, dulcimer, autoharp, French-Canadian, Scottish and world folk music in an informal setting. An instrument exchange gives festival attendees an opportunity to buy, sell or swap used instruments. Spontaneous and open jam sessions will be capped off with a Saturday night concert headlined by Claudia Schmidt and Celticladda. For more information, visit www.hotafest.com.
(Photos courtesy of Pitt-Bradford)
The camps will take place between May and August and are open to the public. The summer will end with the Heart of the Alleghenies Music Festival from Aug. 7-9.
The summer season begins with two sessions of the Kinzua Fly Fishing School May 1-3 and May 16-17.
Beginning and intermediate fly fishers, male and female, age 12 to adult, are welcome to come learn fly tying, fly casting and fly-fishing techniques with nymphs, wet flies, streamers and dry flies. For more information, visit users.penn.com/~skvarka/ or e-mail Steve Skvarka at skvarka@penn.com.Pitt-Bradford’s Science in Motion Camp will hold two sessions this year. The first session will take place from 8:30 a.m. to noon June 8-12 and is for students who have completed first, second or third grade. Students will participate in science labs pertaining to biology, the environment, physical science and chemistry. Special guests will help the children with fun labs such as papermaking, discovering our bodies, I Spy biodiversity and discovery bottles.
A second week of camp for children who have completed fourth, fifth or sixth grade will be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon June 22-26.
Children in this camp will visit Pitt-Bradford’s Crime Scene Investigation House with a guest professor and become CSI investigators by conducting different science labs such as a blood spatter, fiber and hair analysis, blood typing, fingerprinting and fuming, DNA profiling and bone identification.
The fee for each of the camps is $75 for one child and a $50 fee for each additional child in the family to attend. The fee includes a T-shirt. Registration and fees for the first camp need to be submitted by May 22, for the second camp by June 5. For more information or to register, call (814)362-7570 or e-mail simupb@pitt.edu.
Young swimmers will be able to develop and improve skills in all four swimming styles at the Swimming Clinics held by Head Swimming Coach Ed Bahan from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. June 8-12 and June 15-19 for the day camps; June 22-26 for the overnight camp. Day camp is for children 8 and older; overnight camp for children 11 and older.
Bahan was the 2009 Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year, coaching both the men’s and women’s AMCC swimmer of the year.
The cost of the day camp is $125 for each week. The overnight camp is $375 for those in 8th grade or younger, $410 for those who are older. For more information or to register, contact Bahan at (814)362-5034 or egb17@pitt.edu.
On June 13, Head Men’s Basketball Coach Andy Moore will hold a one-day College Basketball Prospect Camp for boys in grades 10 through 12 with the desire and potential to play college basketball. The camp will take place from 1 to 8 p.m. and include a camp jersey, a college practice, offensive-skill development, competitive games and situations, and information about college recruiting and admissions. Cost is $60.
Moore will hold three additional basketball camps in July.
The week of July 6-10 is Co-Ed Basketball Day Camp for ages 8 to 17 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The camp will teach the fundamentals of basketball to campers through individual and group instruction and provide competitive game situations to practice individual skills.
The Boys’ Basketball Camp will follow the same format and take place from July 20-24. Cost for the co-ed and boys’ camps is $125 and includes a T-shirt. There is a $10 discount for siblings.
Moore even has camp for the youngest players. Gym Rats Basketball Camp for children age 4 to 8 takes place from 9 to 11:30 a.m. July 27-30. The cost is $60 and includes T-shirt and daily snack.
Moore has been head basketball coach at Pitt-Bradford for 16 years and has a career record of 253-177. For more information on basketball camps, contact Moore at (814)362-5276 or ajm8@pitt.edu or visit the Pitt-Bradford athletics Web site to download a brochure and application: www.upb.pitt.edu/athletics.aspx.
On June 18-20, the 12th Penn’s Woods Jeep Jamboree rolls onto campus. The Jamboree is an off-road adventure weekend that brings together the outdoors, down-to-earth people and their Jeep 4x4s. Participants will travel through the Allegheny Highlands on trails that rarely see visitors. All ages are welcome, but drivers must have a valid license to drive Jeeps. For more information, visit www.jeepjamboreeusa.com.
The Friends of the Hanley Library will sponsor an exhibit of Bradford native Roger Hane’s illustrations from June 18 through July 10 in the KOA Art Gallery in Blaisdell Hall. Best known as the illustrator of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series, Hane also illustrated album covers and magazine illustrations and worked with advertising agencies and industry.
The exhibition will open with a presentation by R.C. Hunsicker, who has written a biography of Hane called “Roger Hane: Art Times and Tragedy,” at 7 p.m. June 18 in the gallery. The exhibit, which goes by the same name as the biography, will be open to the public during regular gallery hours from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness will present School Nurse Summer Trainings June 22-24. This training is for school nurses, crisis response team members, administrators or rural responders who have the responsibility to plan, respond or help with recovery in the event of a school or community disaster. For more information, visit www.prepare.pitt.edu/events/3daytraining.htm or call Laurie Dennis at (800)872-1787 or (814)362-5078.
Sixty community children will take to the Bromeley Family Theater stage the week of June 22-27 with Missoula Children’s Theatre, a theater workshop for children who are entering grades 1 through 12 sponsored by the Bradford Creative and Performing Arts Center. After just one week of practice, the children will present “The Little Mermaid” at 2 p.m. June 27 in the Bromeley Family Theater in Blaisdell Hall.The cost of the workshop is $100. Applications will be available May 1 and spots are available on a first-come basis. For more information, visit www.bcpac.com/ or call (814)362-2522.
Autism Network International will bring its Autreat to Pitt-Bradford for the second year from June 29-July 3. Autreat is a retreat-style conference run by autistic people for autistic people and friends. It is an opportunity for autistic people and those with developmental differences and their friends and supporters to come together to discover and explore autistic connections and develop advocacy skills in an autistic-friendly environment. Family members and professionals are welcome to attend. For more information, visit www.autreat.com.
In July, Pitt-Bradford will host the Embraceable Ewe Knitting Camp from July 10-14. Beginners, intermediates and experts are welcome to work on a knitting project, learn techniques and share ideas and tips with other knitters. For more information or to register, call (716)646-6674.
During the week of July 13-17, students from Floyd C. Fretz Middle School in Bradford can explore careers at Camp Compass, which is sponsored by the TRiO Educational Talent Search office at Pitt-Bradford. The free day camp will take place offers career and college games and activities such as art projects, computer activities and a science lab experiment. Students will also hear presentations on topics such as “Careers in Law Enforcement,” “Working with Animals” and “Careers in Sports.” For more information or to register, call the TRiO Educational Talent Search office at (814)362-5115.
High school students from the Intermediate Unit 9 can spend the week of July 19-25 at Seneca Highlands Summer Academy exploring criminal justice and forensic science, entrepreneurship and technology, or drama and communications. Students should contact their guidance counselors for more information.
Pitt-Bradford Head Men’s Soccer Coach Darek Panol will hold two Soccer Camps in July. Overnight camp for children age 13 to 18 will take place July 23-26. The day camp for children age 6 to 12 will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 27-31. For more information or to register, contact Panol at (814)362-7537 or dap73@pitt.edu.Also in July, the National Cheerleaders Association Cheer Camp comes to Pitt-Bradford from July 26-29 for children in grades 6-12. Resident camps are run by trained staff members from colleges and universities who teach stunts, new material and encourage team bonding. For more information or to register, go to www.nationalspirit.com or call 1-800-622-2946.
Finally, the season will wind down with the Sixth Annual Heart of the Alleghenies Music Festival from Aug. 7-9
Festival attendees will have an opportunity to attend instructional workshops, dances and open jam sessions featuring old time, bluegrass, dulcimer, autoharp, French-Canadian, Scottish and world folk music in an informal setting. An instrument exchange gives festival attendees an opportunity to buy, sell or swap used instruments. Spontaneous and open jam sessions will be capped off with a Saturday night concert headlined by Claudia Schmidt and Celticladda. For more information, visit www.hotafest.com.
(Photos courtesy of Pitt-Bradford)
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