Mesa Community College offers popular summer camps for students entering K-12. It is affordable and sometimes free. The camps provide opportunities to have fun while learning about music, theatre, multimedia technologies and basketball. All camps are held on MCC’s Southern and Dobson Campus, 1833 West Southern Ave. Mesa. Please check back for our 2021 Summer Camps

Free Summer Music Camp: Band, Jazz, Orchestra and Choir - CANCELED

Gather Around Directors Robert Hunter, Paul Brewer, Craig Peterson, and Brian Murphy

(Grades 9 through 12 vocalists or instrumentalists during Fall 2020) * see below
Dates: May 26-June 5, 2020
Cost: Free with successful audition

Description: This extremely popular music camp features educators and professional musicians to nurture young talent in Mesa Community College’s impressive Performing Arts Center. Required concerts will be the evenings of June 8 and June 9, 2019.

The 2019 MCC High School Band, Jazz, Strings and Vocal Music Camp will run from 9:00 am - 12:30 pm. Lunch will no longer be served on campus and students must make arrangements to be off site by 12:30 pm. Camp will be Tuesday - Friday for week one and Monday - Friday for week two.

Cost: The tuition is FREE. Students must provide their own lunch. Donations of MCC Performing Arts Center supporters, the College, faculty and staff have all provided general donations to make this activity tuition free.

* Eligibility: Open only to incoming 9th grade through 12th grade students who are band, jazz, orchestral musicians or vocalists. Camp placement is limited based on instrumentation and enrollment. Students 9th grade and older may participate with a successful audition and completed application packet.

Magic of Musical Theatre - CANCELED

Musical Theatre Director Sue Anne Lucius and Linsey Maxson

Description: Young, budding Broadway stars can take to the stage in two summer camps at Mesa Community College’s Magic of Musical Theatre during June 2020.

MMT Workshop I

(Grades 5 through 12 during Fall 2020)
Dates: June 1-13, 2020 Canceled
Cost: $300

MMT Workshop II
(Grades 5 through 12 during Fall 2020)
Dates: June 15-27, 2020Canceled
Cost: $300
Contact: Alma Quiros at 480-461-7575

Magic of Music Kidz - CANCELED

Kids learning together Director Sue Anne Lucius and Linsey Maxson

Description: Magic Music Kidz is a two-week musical theatre workshop for K–4th graders to explore singing techniques, choreographed movements and creative drama through Broadway tunes.

(Grades K through 4 during Fall 2020)
Dates: June 15-25, 2020 Canceled
Cost: $175
Contact: Alma Quiros at 480-461-7575

Multimedia Madness - CANCELED

Smart Kid Director Phil Waclawski
Note: Class size limited and fills quickly

(Grades 6 through 8 during Fall 2020)
Dates: June 1 - 4, 2020
Cost: $199
Register: CANCELED
Contact: Phil Waslawski, (480) 461-7468 or phil.waclawski@mesacc.edu

Description: Learn to be a wiz with photo editing and graphics creation for your best-ever Instagram memes. Plus, improve your video, audio and animation skills. MMM Camp delivers fun, interactive instruction about computer graphics, photo editing, 3D modeling as well as basic video/audio editing and animation. Use popular, free, open-source software including Inkscape, Blender 3D, Gnu Image Manipulation Program, Krita, Audacity and LMMS.

Kids App Camp - CANCELED

Building Fun Director Michelle Traveler
(Grades 6 through 8 during Fall 2020)
Dates: June 15-25, 2020 Canceled
Cost: $199
Contact: 480-461-7221 or michelle.traveler@mesacc.edu

Description: Learning to make apps can be exciting, empowering, and lucrative! At AppMaker Camp, kids will have fun creating a basic app, learn how to program a robot using Swift Code and each student will find out what it takes to submit an app to the iTunes App Store.

Thunderbird Basketball Camp - CANCELED

Director Sherman Forbes and Coach William Young

Description: A skills-development basketball camp for boys and girls to increase abilities in the fundamentals of ball handling.(Grades 6 through 9 during Fall 2020)
Dates: June 15–25, 2020 Canceled
Cost: $125
Contact: Sherman Forbes, (480) 461-7048 or sherman.forbes@meacc.edu