2019 Summer Camp Information Now Available!

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.

Free Summer Music Camp: Band, Jazz, Orchestra and ChoirGather Around

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

(Grades 9 through 12 vocalists or instrumentalists during Fall 2019) * see below
Dates: May 27-June 6, 2019
Cost: Free with successful audition
Times: 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. weekdays: required concerts the evenings of June 8 and 9

Visit the Music Department Summer Music Camp page.

Register: mesacc.edu/bandcamp
Contact: 480-461-7575

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.

New for Summer 2019 - Summer Flute Project 

When: June 17 - 22, 2019
Where: Mesa Community College Performing Arts Center
What: This program is available to college, high school students, and adult flutists.
Visit the Music Department  Summer Flute Page.

Description: Mesa Community College and Desert Echoes Flute Project introduce the MCC Summer Flute Project, June 17-22, 2019.

Week-long participants will enjoy warm-up classes to start the morning before rehearsing in chamber ensembles with artist coaches and playing in the larger SFP Flute Choir. There will be 12:30 lunch-time concerts Tuesday – Thursday. Engaging flute classes and master classes are offered every day with the guest artists and artist faculty. Topics are selected from tone, breathing, articulation/tonguing, extended techniques, low flutes, world flutes, intonation, vibrato, acoustics of the flute, leadership skills, selecting a new flute, repair and maintenance, performance anxiety, reading sessions, and more. Major guest artists are Dr. April Clayton, Professor of Flute at BYU and Director of the Da Capo Alliance Foundation; Brian Gordon, Associate Principal of The Phoenix Symphony  and piccolo specialist; and Viviana Cumplido Wilson, Principal Flute of The Phoenix Symphony.

The program is available to college and high school students and adult flutists. 

Cost: Week-long registration: $250 prior to May 25; $290 after May 25

• Week Long Registration
• Single Day Registration
• MCC Release Packet

After Completing Registration

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Magic of 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 2019. 

MMT Workshop IMusical Theatre

(Grades 5 through 12 during Fall 2019)
Dates: June 3-15, 2019
Cost: $285
Times: 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

MMT Workshop II

(Grades 5 through 12 during Fall 2019)
Dates: June 17-28, 2019
Cost: $285
Times: 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Register:  Click here for online registration
Contact: Alma Quiros at 480-461-7575 Kids learning together

Magic of Music Kidz

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 2019)
Dates: June 17-26, 2019
Cost: $150
Times: 11 a.m. -12:50 p.m.

Register:  Click here for online registration
Contact: Alma Quiros at 480-461-7575 

Multimedia Madness

Director Phil Waclawski
Note: Class size limited and fills quicklySmart Kid

(Grades 6 through 8 during Fall 2019)
Dates: June 3 - 13, 2019
Cost: $199
Times: 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Register:  Registration information is available here. or go to www.mesacc.edu/cis-summercamp
Contact: Phil Waslawski at 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 CampBuilding Fun

Director Michelle Traveler
Note: class size limited and fills quickly.

(Grades 6 through 8 during Fall 2019)
Dates: June 17-27, 2019
Cost: $199
Times: 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Register:  Registration information is available here or go to www.mesacc.edu/cis-summercamp
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

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 2019)
Dates: June 17–27, 2019
Cost: $125
Times: 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Download Forms: Assumption of Risk & Release of Liability | Emergency Contact | Medical History & Pre-Performance Evaluation
Register: Click here for online registration .
Contact: Stephany Purdue by email at: stephany.purdue@mesacc.edu for additional information on the camp