Inclusive Community Camp

Summer 2023 enrollment is now CLOSED for Inclusive Community Camp and Middle School Mentoring & Leadership Experience.

Inclusive Community Camp 2023:

Camp Information

Dates: July 31 – August 4th, 2023
Times: Drop off 8:30 a.m. Camp/Experience 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 
Location: Montana State University in Bozeman
Registration: $99
For: Children going into grades 1-4 with or without special needs/abilities
Coronavirus restrictions: The 2023 summer camp will have limited enrollment.

About

Inclusive Community Camp (ICC) is Bozeman’s first inclusive, active, creative and playful summer experience. ICC was designed to be a very intentional summer camp experience to help fill a void in our Bozeman community by providing a diverse camp environment with half of campers being students with disabilities/support needs and half of campers being students without disabilities/support needs. 

For the past three years, this summer camp has been the first of its kind in Bozeman and has provided local children with and without disabilities an active, STEAM-focused camp experience! ICC-Sense-sational STEAM will also offer our MSU teacher candidates the experience of working with children of different abilities in a fun and experiential setting. For Summer 2023 our theme, Sense-sational STEAM, will focus on how we use sensors in our daily lives just like scientists use sensors to make sure our water is clean, and our air is healthy. We have exciting activities with temperature guns, coding, and motion sensors, as well as activities about our body’s five senses. Appropriate language, shifting perspectives, and changing the culture of disability will be woven throughout the camp. 

All campers will receive a welcome packet that includes a t-shirt, water bottle, drawstring bag and MSU goodies.

Our fantastic MSU MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching) teacher candidates will serve as the Inclusive Community Camp guides. The camp allows our MAT students to meet the hands-on/practicum educational needs for their programs, while providing them with the opportunity to work with children of different abilities in a fun and experiential setting.  We will also have MSU faculty and staff, as well as skilled and experienced teachers and faculty members, acting as mentors. 

Middle School Mentoring & Leadership Experience at Inclusive Community Camp 2023

Camp Information:

Dates: July 31^st – August 4th, 2023
Times: Drop off 8:30 a.m. Camp/Experience 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Montana State University in Bozeman
Registration: $40
For: Students entering grades 6, 7 or 8 in Fall 2023
Coronavirus restrictions: The 2023 summer camp will have limited enrollment.

About

In addition to the Inclusive Community Camp, MSU offers the Middle School Mentoring & Leadership Experience (MSMLE), a weeklong, activity-based program for youth entering grades 6-8. On the MSU campus, middle schoolers will work with Mentoring and Leadership Guides (secondary education graduate students in the Master of Arts in Teaching program at MSU), Inclusive Community Camp Guides (graduate students in the Master of Arts in Teaching K-8 program) and campers doing outdoor activities and workshops to strengthen their relationship, conflict resolution and leadership skills. This is an opportunity for campers to spend a week expanding their potential and have a blast doing it!

Participants will have the opportunity to practice their new leadership skills by working with younger kids participating in Inclusive Community Camp. Activities will be supported, fun, active and stimulating! 

To prepare for the week-long campus experience, middle schoolers will also get to know virtually their mentoring and leadership “guide” in advance.

Summer 2023 will be the third in-person camp! Our theme this year, "Sense-sational STEAM, will focus on how we use sensors in our daily lives just like scientists use sensors to make sure our water is clean and our air is healthy. We have exciting activities with temperature guns, coding, and motion sensors, as well as activities about our body’s five senses. All campers will receive a welcome packet that includes a t-shirt, water bottle, drawstring bag and MSU goodies.