Summer camps with a twist

Why waste time and sulk at home? Gear up and join any camp of your interest to make this summer a wonderful learning experience.

The numerous summer camps budding across the city provide an easy solution to kids’ boredom. These summer camps offer various activities that not only do away with kids’ boredom but also help their overall development. Today summer camps are no longer about a bit of music, dance, painting and slokas. Instead it encompasses a host of activities like robotics, public speaking, martial arts and cooking. Here are some of the trending summer camps.

This year the city is witnessing an increase in demand for robotic workshops. The prominent one being ‘J Robotics’, which is organising classes on the fundamentals of electronics and robotics between May 5 and May 10 in collaboration with the JP Birla Science Centre. The institute would also be organising robotics’ competitions. ‘Robotics Summer Camp’ in Begumpet is also offering classes on the same.

Sumer camps for Tai Chi, the Chinese martial art practised for both defence and health benefits, is also gaining ground. After taekwondo, the kids are showing immense interest to learn this art form. Young girls are also learning this technique for self defence.

‘Our Scared Space’ in Secunderabad is offering Tai Chi along with various other activities.

Apart from learning fun activities this summer, this can be a perfect time to focus on etiquette and grooming to improve one’s personality and help get along well with people. ‘Etiquette and Grooming Classes’ in Bowenpally is offering this course.

Certain activities like cooking brings along with them a bunch of stereotypes- It is definitely the time to break them. ‘Oh I!’, a play school in Madhapur is offering cooking tips with numerous other fun activities by experimenting with flavours and playing with people’s taste buds.

One can learn acting and backstage works by joining theatre classes or learn technical stuff like image editing, sound editing etc this summer. Theatre Arts training, Club House in Taramati Baradari, would be catering for the people interested in theatre, while Leap Frog multimedia in Punjagutta would aid with the technical stuff.

‘Explore the world in 80 days’ in Gachibowli is an interesting camp that is offering a brief study of the world. The participants would get an opportunity to explore the world in just 80 days by learning the cultures and traditions of various countries all over the world.

With FIFA World Cup just a month away, football camps in the city would be giving an opportunity to the kids to learn and perfect the sport. A ‘Football Summer Camp 2014’ in Gachibowli by EPL Club Arsenal aims to do that.

Communication is the key to success. A training camp in Paradise aims to improve communication skills, along with vocabulary and English grammar.

Greater Hyderabad Adventure Club is offering various camps for kids to explore the wilderness. It would give kids an opportunity to explore the wild by staging adventure camps so that they come back home with some unforgettable memories.

The Ramakrishna Matt in Lower Tank Bund is giving an opportunity to experience spirituality by staging classes on improving concentration, self-discipline, bhajans and character building along with discourses on Indian culture and spiritual values for children of all age groups.