MSU Offerings
Child/Youth Programs
The following are MSU programs and camps that are offered to children and youth. Select one of the following categories:
NOTE: Visit the Spartan Youth Programs Web site for all programs and more details.
Music
- College of Music, Community Music School (music education—quality instruction, related music services, and educational programs—for interested individuals of all ages and levels)
- Performing Arts Camp for Drum Majors and Color Guards (four-day sessions)
- Jazz Kats -- Jazz for Kids (for grades 5-8, this program is modeled after Jazz at Lincoln Center's highly successful programs for youth)
Theatre and Dance
- Act One Series (program features nationally touring youth theatre production companies in one-hour shows designed to educate and entertain young audiences)
- High School Dance Clinics (an excellent chance for teams to learn new material together for games or other events they participate in during their season)
- Lil' Dancers Clinics (an excellent opportunity for young dancers to have fun while spending a day with the MSU Dance Team.)
- MSU Science Theatre (performances demonstrate basic scientific concepts and inspire audience members to develop an appreciation for science in their everyday lives)
- Seats 4 Kids (program provides free tickets to local youth who could not otherwise afford to attend a performing arts event)
- Young Playwrights Festival (high school students are invited to write and submit one-act scripts to a juried competition; finalists scripts are performed at the Wharton Center by MSU Department of Theatre students)
Multimedia, Film, and Design
- Digital Cinema/Game Design Day Camps (offered to high school students)
Art and Art History
- Summer Art Camps at the Kresge Art Museum (teens explore, enjoy, and create original art during the course of a week)
- Saturday Morning Art (SMArt) (opportunities for youth ages 7-18 to engage in the study of art across a range of media and methods including ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture)
Literary and Cultural Arts
- China Adventure (provides a three-week enrichment experience for high school students in contemporary Chinese culture and language)
- Confucius Institute Language and Culture Camps (offers Chinese language and culture camps for grades K-5, 6-8, and 9-12)
- Explore Africa (offers activities that give special attention to the arts and cultural expressions of Africa, such as art, music, dance, literature, and cinema. For students entering grades 10-12)
- MSU Museum's Folkpatterns Program (kids learn how to recognize architectural parts of a barn and farmstead as they photograph and document barns in a survey project)
- German Outreach Programs (offers short and long-term German language and culture programs for elementary, middle and high school students)
- Greenrock: High School Writers' Retreat (workshops are designed to encourage students to view writing as both personally meaningful and pleasurable as well as to improve student writing ability)
- Intensive English Program (instruction to international students who need to improve their English language skills before beginning academic coursework)
- Michigan-Shiga Student Exchange Program (designed to promote friendship and understanding among Japanese and American high school students)
- Spartan Debate Institute (a 2-week, 3-week, and intensive 4-week institute with judged tournaments)
- Spartan Writers' Camp (students meet other students from across the state while enjoying the campus facilities and improving their skill at expressing themselves in writing)
- Summer Adventure Series at the MSU Museum (kids spend 4 action-packed mornings exploring Michigan's fossils before the dinosaurs)
- Summer Journalism Workshop (gain cool skills, meet new people, experience a Big Ten campus and learn from outstanding instructors)
- World Languages Day Workshops (a free, all-day conference for high school students, teachers, and parents. Participants can choose from a wide variety of sessions on language, culture, globalization, and general information about MSU)
- Kids Classics Club (encourages children to explore the history, literature, and language of the ancient world)
