BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY YOUTH PROGRAMS

Available Courses:

Location: Provo, UT

Program Delivery: Day, Online

Ages: 14-18

Dates: Varies; June-July

Gender: Coed

Acceptance: Yes

Cost: Varies

Categories: Theater, STEM, Business/Entrepreneurship, Dance, Music, Performance, Writing

Sub-Categories: College

Experience, improv, acting, comedy, writing, business, STEM, music, performing

Website: youth.byu.edu

Young Author’s Academy

Spend the week with locally and nationally accredited authors, receive instruction and work directly with University English department faculty, and meet other young, aspiring writers such as yourself. During the week you will have the opportunity to speak with, and get your books signed by visiting authors and illustrators, stay in campus housing, and take two unique writing electives tailored toward your writing interests. Provided electives are as follows:

• Creating Believable Tales and Villains: explore ways to create believable conflict and evil motives.

• Flash Fiction: Find how to write fiction without getting yourself stuck in the beginning, middle or end of a story.

• Boom, Pow, Wow!: Learn to write your heroes and heroines into greatness, not just capewearing characters.

• Breaking News: Put your investigative skills to work, as you learn to ask questions and gather evidence about what you are wanting to write.

• Mix and Match: Improve your writing skills by learning and trying different genres of writing.

Express your writing through song lyrics, essay, poetry and more to help your creativity grow in new directions.

• Worlds of Wonder: Discover new universes created through writing, and find how to build your own as you create adventures, magical worlds, and new homes for your readers to explore.

Young Entrepreneurs

Come spend a week with top entrepreneurs learning the nuts and bolts of what it takes to actually start a business. This camp is for innovators!

During the week you will attend CEO presentations, practice networking with professionals, learn useful business skills, implement a business idea, and present your unique business model. Presentation topics and business skills you will learn include: mindset and goals, lean canvas, networking, idea validation, marketing, sales, finding your why, and pivoting in business.

Every participant will walk away with an easy-to-follow roadmap and all the skills to make a successful small business in 60 days after this camp. In addition to becoming true entrepreneurs, you also get to enjoy fun activities like outdoor games, a BBQ dinner, an escape room, an outdoor movie and so much more!

Dance Camps

Discover the joy with BYU Dance Camps this summer! Exceptional faculty from BYU’s Department of Dance, along with world-renowned guest instructors, direct and teach our BYU Dance Camps. Check out our Website for more information on BYU Dance camps for Folk Dance, Contemporary, Singer/ Entertainers, Ballroom Dance, and soon-to-have Ballet (back in 2024)!

Musicians’ Institute and Choral and Vocal Institute

BYU Musicians’ Institute and BYU Choral and Vocal Institute are for elite musicians ages 14–18 who want to improve their musicianship through a highly focused and rewarding chamber music, masterclass, and private instruction experience with members of BYU’s acclaimed School of Music faculty.

These new programs require an audition prior to acceptance into each program. Space is limited, so submit your audition as soon as possible. The application and recorded audition deadline for both is March 13, 2023.

Musicians’ Institute will focus on chamber music and solo literature for winds, brass, piano, and strings, as well as jazz combos and jazz improvisation. Choral and Vocal Institute will give participants the opportunity to spend 12 days with BYU choral and vocal faculty in choir rehearsals, staged opera scenes, private lessons as well as workshops in conducting, audition preparation, vocal literature, and careers in singing.

If you attend the Musicians’ Institute, we strongly encourage you to also participate in the weeklong BYU Musicians’ SummerFestival. You’ll have additional performance opportunities during SummerFestival, and those accepted into the Institute will receive a discounted price to participate in SummerFestival. We look forward to you joining us in this new era of greater music making!

SummerFestival

Improve your musical skills with other young musicians from across the country in this six-day musical program! Live the college life on BYU’s campus, associate with others passionate about music, and receive valuable instruction from world-renowned BYU music faculty. Participants attend concerts, recitals, dances, a barbecue, and other social activities. At the end of the week, you’ll show off your newly improved talents in multiple concerts for family and friends.

Musical experiences are available in band, orchestra, choral, and jazz ensembles, as well as chamber groups and solo performances.

Broadway Bootcamp

Do you hear the people sing? This summer, come join the rebellion and be a part of “Les Miserables” at BYU’s Broadway Bootcamp! This program will offer youth from ages 14-18 the chance to play a part in this timeless classic as they rehearse and perform a full show in only two weeks. Broadway Bootcamp is unique in the way that everyone gets a chance to play a part. Each named role will be played by several performers who switch off at scene changes.

Directed by local and out-of-state theater professionals, this camp is a great opportunity for experienced and aspiring performers alike. The program also offers youth the chance to engage with their peers in a creative and spiritual environment on BYU campus. The two weeks will have movie nights, masterclasses, a talent show, and performances at the end of the week for family and friends. Come be a part of this theatrical experience!

Sketch Comedy

Do you love crackin’ jokes and making new friends? Join us this summer to learn how to write and perform amazing sketches at BYU’s Sketch Comedy Workshop! This is a 2-week comedy intensive where youth 14-18 years old learn how to write and perform comedy! In the first week, we teach how to come up with comedy-rich topics and develop them into scripted sketches. In week two, we prepare and rehearse selected sketches from the material from week one to be performed at our end of workshop show: The Sketch Comedy Spectaculum! Not only will you learn a large variety of comedy techniques, but other great life skills! This camp will help you learn to work well with others, fight procrastination, think on your feet, and grow in your humility and confidence. The program also offers the chance to engage with your peers in a creative and spiritual environment on the BYU campus. The two weeks will have movie nights, masterclasses, a talent show, and performances at the end of the week for family and friends.

STEM Camp

Excited about STEM? Ready to take your STEM learning to the next level? Come join us at BYU for a hands-on, immersive week of STEM projects and fun! During the week, you will be guided through a variety of STEM projects by BYU faculty and STEM students. You’ll have the opportunity to compete with your projects for amazing prizes and to push yourself further than you ever have in your creativity and innovative skills. Projects and activities will cover various science and engineering fields, such as biology and electrical and computer engineering.

During the week you will do real projects, like growing spider silk and building your own watch, all in top-class facilities and learning from top-class instructors. Additionally, the camp will be packed full of fun evening activities such as a BBQ, bowling tournament, outdoor games, and more! Don’t miss out on this incredible week of STEM learning and competing and fun!