Many activities cater to adults and kids. More than 100 high school students, teachers, and adults dig and excavate at the Alabama Museum of Natural History's annual archaeological exploration and camp. The museum sponsors a wide range of educational programs ranging from fossil collecting to tubing the Sipsey Swamp. Honors Programs also held numerous camps this year to expose young people to career options and to teach K-12 students how to use the Internet, among other programs. Music camps are also a big draw to the UA campus, as more than 7,500 band, vocal, piano, and other music students converge on campus each summer, said David Durant, the UA School of Music's coordinator of music services.
Sports camps attract thousands of youngsters each summer.
For example, about 500 kids attended three basketball camps for boys. According to Kirk Blount, assistant baseball coach, about 300 attended baseball camps. And according to gymnastics coach Sarah Patterson, who hosts the Southeastern Elite gymnastics camp for talented gymnasts in the southeast, nearly 500 aspiring gymnasts came to the University. Return to the menu of UA news releases. Return to The University of Alabama's Home Page.