Summer Day Camp
ALL SLOTS ARE NOW FULL!!
The Rosa Parks Museum's annual educational summer day camp, Architects of Change, is open to all River Region middle students who will be entering grades 6-8 during the 2025-2026 school year. The mission of the camp is to share the techniques of non-violent conflict resolution used by Mrs. Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders of the early Civil Rights Movement. Our goal is to connect past struggles in the quest for equal rights to social justice struggles that continue today. This year's camp has been extended to two weeks in order to incorporate participation in the first-ever Heartstone Global Story Circle in the United States! This is a long-running program started in Great Britain in 2000 and has since spread throughout the U.K., Australia, and Kosovo (http://heartstonechandra.com/home/).
ALL SLOTS ARE NOW FULL!!
About the camp…
- Workshops on conflict resolution and building toward the Beloved Community.
- Training helps campers to handle conflict effectively and peacefully; embrace forgiveness, understanding, and acceptance and respond to conflict with reconciliation instead of lashing out or holding grudges
- Connecting past Civil Rights events to modern social justice issues through visits to civil rights sites
- The Heartstone Odyssey novel study and Global Story Circle program with a culminating art project
Field trips…(subject to change)
- Rosa Parks Museum and Children's Wing
- Walking tour of downtown Montgomery's civil rights historic sites
- Tuskegee University (including The Oaks, home of Booker T. Washington, and the George Washington Carver Museum)
- Tuskegee Airmen Museum at Moten Field
- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
- Negro Southern League Baseball Museum
Fees and other important info…
- Breakfast, lunch, and snacks provided daily
- Non-refundable $20 deposit due with application no later than Friday, April 18, 2025.
- Balance due Friday, May 16, 2025
- Parents will receive camp itinerary no later than May 19th.
If you have questions or need more information, please contact:
McKenzie Walker, mwalker166145@troy.edu (334.241.9541)
Donna Beisel, dbeisel@troy.edu (334.832.7295)