Anthropology Program Offers Summer Camp for Middle Grade Youth

The CLA anthropology program in the CLA is piloting a camp this summer targeted at midde-grade youths entering 5th-8th grades. The camp—AnthroCamp—will be held on the Hamline campus from August 3-7, 2026 and will focus on exploring what makes us human. At a time when so much seems to be changing and we are uncertian what the future will bring, the anthropology program developed the camp to focus on aspects of understanding people—human culture, how societies work, why people do the things they do, and the human skills that will help us navigate our complex world. Camp participants will get a camp tee shirt, field notebook, and a backpack—to gear up to do detective work for human culture. During the week they will learn observation, patience, mapping, making, drawing and how to talk to others as they investigate language, video games, image-making, music, examine casts of bones, do an archaeological survey and more. It will be a week of fun exploration and learning! More information can be found at https://elearn.hamline.edu/browse/anthropology/programs/anthrocamp