Summer Camps
Southeast Community College offers engaging camps designed to introduce students in kindergarten through 12th grade to potential careers.
- Full-day elementary camps offering week-long exposure to diverse careers
- Parent-child Saturday workshops where families build projects together, plus themed half-day summer camps for middle schoolers
- Intensive week-long high school camps providing in-depth exploration of specific career pathways, with possible overnight dorm experiences
All camps emphasize hands-on learning to expose students to new career possibilities, excite them about the variety of pathways and establish lasting interest in vital fields. Activities span construction, manufacturing, electrical, transportation, and other high-value careers across our campuses.
Tinker Up! Camp
- Tentative Dates: June 21-25, 2027 (L); July 19-23, 2027 (M)
- Location: Lincoln, Milford
- Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- Days: Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri
Grab your tools and your imagination! Each day at Tinker Up Camp, students in grades
2–5 dive into a new trade — cars, robotics, programming, and more. It’s a full week
of hands-on projects and problem-solving challenges that spark curiosity and confidence.
Kids invent, explore and make awesome things happen.
Connect Up! Camp: Welding
- Tentative Dates: Dec. 5, 2026 (L), Jan. 23, 2027 (M); Feb. 6, 2027 (B)
- Location: Lincoln, Milford, Beatrice
- Time: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- Day: Sat
- Grades: 6-8 (Ages 11-14 with a parent/guardian)
Connect Up! camp brings middle schoolers and parents together for a hands-on adventure into real-world trades. In each session, you will team up to build a project, learn new skills and see how things work from the inside out. It’s a fun and meaningful way to explore, create and make something awesome — together.
Trade Up! – Milford
- Tentative Dates: June 7-10, 2027
- Days: Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu
- Grades: 9 - 12
Trade Up! – Milford camp is your backstage pass to the world of skilled trades. In Milford, campers will spend action-packed days exploring: Construction, Electronics, Manufacturing, and Transportation. This camp will include a dorm stay and other activities to expose high school students to careers in the trades and life at SCC. You will get hands-on with real tools, real tech, and real pros who do this work and teach it.
Trade Up! – Lincoln
- Tentative Dates: June 14-17, 2027
- Days: Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu
- Grades: 9 - 12
Trade Up! – Lincoln camp is your backstage pass to the world of skilled trades. Campers
will have the opportunity to explore trades careers in depth during the full day camp
(no dorm stay included here). You will get hands-on with real tools, real tech, and
real pros who do this work and teach it.
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