for Young Teen Writers and Environmentalists
Contact: Jodi Corbett, Director of Academic Partnerships, 610-607-6219
Reading, Pa. – Reading Area Community College will hold its first summer camps, one in the Arts and the other in STEM, for teens, ages 13 – 15. Cost is $200 for each session. Maximum class size: 20; Minimum class size: 12. Deadline to register is June 8.
The Schuylkill River: Forces and Facets Connecting Campus to Conservation
Session I: June 23 - 26, 2015 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Course Number: ZSCI-957-401
Session II: July 20 - 23, 2015 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Course Number: ZSCI-957-402
The Creative Writing Camp
Session I: June 23 - 26, 2015 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Course Number: ZWRI-932-401
Session II: July 20 - 23, 2015 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Course Number: ZWRI-932-402
June 8 is the deadline to register.
Camp Facilitators
Professor Joey Flamm Costello, MFA, teaches creative writing courses, Fiction Writing I and II and Introduction to Fiction at RACC. During the academic school year, Joey taught creative writing workshops to seventh to ninth grade students at Schuylkill Valley Middle School and Muhlenberg Middle School. She has taught creative writing for nearly twenty years at colleges and universities. Teens will have one of their works created during the 4-day camp published in RACC’s first Legacy for Teens.
Professor and Master Naturist Patricia Rhine-Catucci, MS, has taught Environment at the College for years. She is advisor to RACC’s Environment Club and is an active environmentalist in the region. A certified public school teacher in a previous lifetime, Professor Rhine-Catucci brings her lifetime of conservation work to this camp.
