Here you’ll find camps that focus on learning AND fun. Does your little one want to learn more about the natural world, robots, cooking, or maybe they need to brush upon some ACT skills? Whatever the interest, you’ll likely find a camp that fits their needs.
Education and Learning Summer Camps in North Alabama

This camp guide is in the process of being updated for 2025. We will make continuous updates until May 31 as we receive information from the camps.
Kidcam Camps
Price(s): $195/week; $180/week for siblings
Dates: May 27 – July 25 | 9:00 am -3:00 pm (before and after care available)
Ages: K -13 years old
Contact: 877-4KIDCAM (454-3226)
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Kidcam Camps has been a trusted name in day camp programs for over 50 years. We partner with premier facilities across the Southeast to create exciting and safe summer experiences. At Kidcam Huntsville, campers will enjoy:
· Diverse activities: Weekly themes bring sports, creative arts, STEM projects, team-building games, life skills, indoor swimming, and talent shows to life.
· Outdoor fun: Secure green spaces for sports, challenges, group games, free play, and water activities.
· Indoor fun: Spacious basketball courts, indoor rooms for group activities, and an indoor swimming pool where we will swim multiple times each week.
Space Camp
Price(s): $1,799-1,999
Dates: May-August 2025
Ages: 9-17
Contact: 256-837-3400
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Space Camp has been helping inspire the next generation of explorers for more than 42 years. This internationally known program with more than one million alumni is based on NASA astronaut training and focuses on teamwork and leadership skills. Launched in 1982, Space Camp has inspired and motivated young people from around the country, and later the world, with attendees from all 50 states, U.S. territories, and 150 foreign countries. There are three levels of Space Camp: Space Camp, Space Academy, and Advanced Space Academy.
Aviation Challenge
Price(s): $1,799-1,999
Dates: May-August 2025
Ages: 9-18
Contact: 256-837-3400
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Students learn basic principles of aviation and put their knowledge to the test in a variety of flight simulators. Taking the role of fighter pilots, students run control systems and scenario-based missions and learn basic water- and land-survival skills. They also learn about civilian and military careers in aviation. There are three levels of Aviation Challenge: Space Camp, Space Academy, and Advanced Space Academy.
Space Camp Robotics
Price(s): $1,799
Dates: May-August 2025
Ages: 9-11
Contact: 256-837-3400
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Space Camp® Robotics trainees learn their ideas can become a reality as they use robotic technologies to create engineering solutions for real-world problems. Trainees work as a team to build and test their own designs in air, land and sea challenges. The week culminates with spirited contests as trainees test the robots they spent the week building, programming and testing.
U.S. Cyber Academy
Price(s): $1,899-1,99
Dates: May-August 2025
Ages: 12-18
Contact: 256-837-3400
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In U.S. Cyber Academy, middle school-aged trainees learn the ethics and responsibilities of personal data security for safeguarding professional networks and the challenge of an expanding internet of things. U.S. Cyber Academy is the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s newest STEM program and allows trainees to delve into the world of cyber technologies through blended hands-on experiences and challenges developed in cooperation with the FBI. This program balances individual instruction with team building.
Rocket City STEM Camp
Price(s): $270-450
Dates: June-July 2025
Ages: 8-14
Contact: 256-666 7082
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We provide high-quality camp experiences for 5th grade and up at our convenient Campus 805 location. Camp groups are small – usually up to ten students. Our instructors are background-checked, experienced, and passionate about their subject. Most camps have take-home items; materials fees are included in the camp fee.
Camp Themes for 2025
Build & Code: Build and Code a Game Controller! Play the preloaded games and make up your own!
Game Board Maker: Design and create your own board game complete with game board, pieces, cards and more!
Laser Camp: Produce laser shows and build your own laser projector!
Tabletop RPG Camp: Learn about Role Playing Games and how to lead your own campaign!
Camp KTECH VR
Price(s): $300
Dates: June 9-13, 16-20, 2025
Ages: 9-12th grade
Contact:256-880-3455
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Looking for an exciting summer experience for your teen? Camp KTECH VR is the perfect mix of hands-on learning and fun! Camp KTECH VR will get them hands-on with tools for developing virtual reality environments! Learn the basics of creating 3D objects and virtual worlds, use VR headsets and computers to create stunning visual effects, use the programs the pros use to create video games like Fortnite, and find out how you could turn virtual reality coding into a career!
Nature Rangers Camp at Burritt
Price(s): $195-$245 (discount for members)
Dates: June 2-July 25, 2025 | 9 AM-2 PM (before and after care available)
Ages: Rising 1-5th grades
Contact:Â 256-536-2882
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Burritt Camps provide your child with a summer full of exploration and excitement! Each of the seven weeks of camp revolves around a different theme and are led by Burritt’s CPR-certified staff. Our teacher-to-camper ratio of 1:12 ensures that your child receives individualized attention during these fun-filled days of crafts, games, hiking, nature exploration, and more.
Huntsville Botanical Garden
Price(s): $225-$400 (discount for members)
Dates: May 27-August 1, 2025
Ages: 4-12
Contact: 256-830-4447 ext. 270
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Our camp programs are immersive experiences designed to foster your child’s connection to the natural world. Through hands-on, engaging STEM activities, our certified instructors guide campers through natural exploration and the role we all play in our environment. Campers participate in a variety of outdoor projects and play activities that inspire curiosity, creativity, and exploration.
Randolph Summer Camps
Price(s): $105-$500
Dates: June-July, 2025
Ages: pre-K-7th grade
Phone: 256-799-6100
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The Randolph Summer Program is open to any student interested in academic enrichment, extraordinary opportunities, and just plain fun! Classes are taught by Randolph faculty, staff, and coaches. All camps are open to the general public. You do not need to be a Randolph student to attend. We offer courses that will not only strengthen academic acumen, but inspire creativity and innovation. Our program will expose children to challenging academic, arts and athletic programs in ways that excite the imagination.
Our multi-level, multi-dimensional approach is designed to reach each age group at varying levels of skill. We know that the children who attend will have different gifts and different ways of expressing themselves. This diversity of talents will be accommodated so that each child can enjoy their summer experience. Your child will participate in an interactive environment that challenges them to apply their learning to an activity that involves critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity.
Nature Play Camp with the Land Trust of North Alabama
Price(s): $275 – $350
Dates: TBD 2025
Ages: Ages 6 – 11
Phone: 256-534-5263
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Let’s go where curiosity leads! Land Trust of North Alabama‘s Nature Play Camp seeks to hone children’s innate curiosity in nature and allow them the freedom to explore. Topics for this week-long day camp at Monte Sano Nature Preserve will include water critters, fossils, being nature detectives, map reading, animal adaptations, tracks, scat, the magic of trees, and more! Along with our exploration, we’ll include puzzles, crafts, games, and lots of splashing in Fagan Creek.
Camp Maranatha
Price(s): $200-799
Dates: June-July 2025
Ages: K-12th
Phone: 256-574-4539
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Outdoor adventures & life-changing retreats for 4 generations of North Alabama campers! For over 60 years, Maranatha has served North Alabama and beyond as a safe gathering place for retreats, summer camps, and group events. It has been, and will continue to be, a place where differences are set aside and our humanity, spirituality, and commonality are re-ignited. Nestled on the banks of the Tennessee River on beautiful Lake Guntersville, the beauty of creation provides our campers a unique chance to unplug and experience Maranatha… and find what it means to them.
Camp Maranatha offers both day camp and overnight camp options.
More Education Camps
Aviation Challenge – View Website
Burritt on the Mountain – Visit Website
Camp Gan Israel – Visit Website
Camp KTECH – Visit Website
Camp LEAP: Future Health Leaders – View Website
Competitive Edge STEM Camp – Visit Website
Cook Museum of Natural Science – Visit Website
EarlyWorks Family of Museums – Visit Website
Engineering Summer Camps at UAH – View Website
Girls Inc Summer Camp – View Website
Gross Out Camp – View Website
Haven Farms – View Website
Hudson Alpha Biotech Camps – View Website
Huntsville Botanical Garden – View Website
KLA Schools Summer Camp – View Website
Knight School of North Alabama – View Website
Level Up STEAM Camp- View Website
Madison Academy Summer Champs – View Website
NGenius Tutoring Summer Camps – View Website
North Alabama Agriplex Summer Farm Camps – View Website
North Alabama Zoological Society Nature Camp – View Website
Nutty Scientists of Rocket City – View Website
Outward Bound Costa Rica – Visit Website
Randolph Camps – View Website
Space Camp- View Website
Space Camp Robotics- View Website
Spanish Summer Camp – View Website
Speech & Debate Camps – View Website
St. John Paul II Catholic High Academic Camps – View Website
UAH College of Nursing Summer Camp – View Website
U.S. Cyber Camp- View Website
VBAS Laser Camp – View Website
This guide will be updated frequently so check back for new camps added each week! And don’t forget to check out the other camps listed in our 2025 SUMMER CAMP GUIDE Â including:
- Arts Camps
- Sports & Fitness Camps
- Vacation Bible Schools – Coming May 2025
- Teen Summer Volunteering