DECATS Summer Camp!
The best summer camp for gifted and talented rising 4th through 7th graders is here! Registration closes on May 26.
Baylor DECATS program is a 3-week program beginning Monday, June 3rd and ending Friday, June 21st, 2024. Our program hours are 8:00am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday. Students must be able to provide proof of gifted identification upon registration. Students who have not been formally identified should add the testing option to their registration form and contact baylortip@baylor.edu to schedule a time for testing. Enrollment will be contingent on identification via testing; students who do not qualify after testing will have their tuition for the camp refunded, and their spot will be released to another student.
Interested in learning more about our testing options? Click the buttons below to visit assessment pages for more information.
Baylor TIP Assessments Alternative Assessments
Partial funding for DECATS is provided through a generous grant from the DeBusk Foundation, making the total tuition for the 3-week camp $650.00. A nonrefundable deposit of 25% of tuition is due upon enrollment, and payment plans are available. A limited amount of need-based financial aid is available. Families can contact us baylortip@baylor.edu to request a financial aid application.
Registration is closed for 2024
DECATS consists of five 55-minute classes per day, two snack breaks, and a 75-minute lunch and recreation break. Each day begins with a morning assembly used for announcements, celebrations, and the focus for the day. Each day ends with an afternoon assembly where scholars reflect on their learning and mentors (the term for teachers) recognize scholars and share reminders for the following day.
Scholars, mentors, and teaching assistants bring their lunches Monday through Friday. After lunch, scholars engage in recreation time, which includes sports-related games as well as relaxed socializing. This lunch and recreation time allows scholars additional time to make new friends who might not be in their classes.
Two courses are required for all students. The first required course is Perspectives, which provides pertinent information on giftedness to scholars. Manners to Morals is the second required course. Later this spring, scholars will receive descriptions of 12 elective course options and will be allowed to choose the ones they are interested in taking.
Sample elective classes include the following:
- Brainteasers
- A Game of Kings
- A-Maze-ing Marbles
- Angry Birds: Next Level
- Challenge Accepted
- Codezilla
- CSI: DECATS
- DECATS Dream House
- DECATS Olympics
- Edible Art
- History Mysteries
- Give My Regards to Broadway
- Lego Robotics
- Once Upon a S.T.E.M.