Explorer Camp

July 8 - 12, 2024

Who: Rising grades 5-7 

When: July 8-12, 2024 

What: Engage your curiosity on a college campus this summer! Discovery campers (rising grades 1-4) will be exposed to seeing art in nature.  Explorer campers (rising grades 5-7) will delve into observing and engaging in things that are growing and changing around the campus. Both camps center on teamwork, empathy, and the guiding light of curiosity! 

Tuition: $450 $300 Special introductory pricing for our debut camps! Special introductory pricing for our debut camps!
*Need-based tuition assistance available

Registration Deadline: May 15th 

Click here to register!

Interested in Butler Discovery Camp for rising grades 1-4?

Camp 2024 Theme – Growing & Changing: Noticing the World Around Us:

Join us for a week of exploring what grows around us and within us. Your camper will have the chance to engage in various experiences including cooking, noticing growth in plants, and the brain and body connection. This camp will help your child in understanding and appreciating seeing how the world is growing and changing around us.  

Campers will attend camp from 9am-4pm each day. Lunch is not provided, campers participating in the full day must have a packed lunch. Snacks will be provided in the morning and afternoon.  

Meet the Camp Co-Directors!  

Kaity Travis and Abby Bucher are two educators from the IPS/Butler Lab School that also graduated from Butler University.  Kaity Travis is going into her 3rd year teaching 4th/5th grade at IPS/Butler Lab. Kaity has stayed strong to her Butler roots with teaching at the Lab School; she graduated from the Butler College of Education in 2022– once a Dawg, always a Dawg! Abby Bucher is a 19-year veteran in education, graduating from Butler University in 2005. She helped open the IPS/Butler Lab School in 2011 and has a passion for early childhood education.  She lives in Indianapolis with her husband, two girls (13, 9), and her two dogs.


Kaity Travis


Abby Bucher

 

*We take all situations into consideration, but students will automatically qualify if they meet one of the following requirements: 

  • Qualify financially for free/reduced lunch at school
  • First generation college student (the camper would be the first person in their immediate family to go to college) 

Who: Rising grades 5-7 

When: July 8-12, 2024 

What: Engage your curiosity on a college campus this summer! Discovery campers (rising grades 1-4) will be exposed to seeing art in nature.  Explorer campers (rising grades 5-7) will delve into observing and engaging in things that are growing and changing around the campus. Both camps center on teamwork, empathy, and the guiding light of curiosity! 

Tuition: $450 $300 Special introductory pricing for our debut camps! Special introductory pricing for our debut camps!
*Need-based tuition assistance available

Registration Deadline: May 15th 

Click here to register!

Interested in Butler Discovery Camp for rising grades 1-4?

Camp 2024 Theme – Growing & Changing: Noticing the World Around Us:

Join us for a week of exploring what grows around us and within us. Your camper will have the chance to engage in various experiences including cooking, noticing growth in plants, and the brain and body connection. This camp will help your child in understanding and appreciating seeing how the world is growing and changing around us.  

Campers will attend camp from 9am-4pm each day. Lunch is not provided, campers participating in the full day must have a packed lunch. Snacks will be provided in the morning and afternoon.  

Meet the Camp Co-Directors!  

Kaity Travis and Abby Bucher are two educators from the IPS/Butler Lab School that also graduated from Butler University.  Kaity Travis is going into her 3rd year teaching 4th/5th grade at IPS/Butler Lab. Kaity has stayed strong to her Butler roots with teaching at the Lab School; she graduated from the Butler College of Education in 2022– once a Dawg, always a Dawg! Abby Bucher is a 19-year veteran in education, graduating from Butler University in 2005. She helped open the IPS/Butler Lab School in 2011 and has a passion for early childhood education.  She lives in Indianapolis with her husband, two girls (13, 9), and her two dogs.


Kaity Travis


Abby Bucher

 

*We take all situations into consideration, but students will automatically qualify if they meet one of the following requirements: 

  • Qualify financially for free/reduced lunch at school
  • First generation college student (the camper would be the first person in their immediate family to go to college)