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From field trips across Atlanta to horseback riding, water-park days, ninja obstacle training, and visits rooted in history and memory, children move.
Camp Confidence · Atlanta · Summer 2026
“7 weeks. 7 public outcomes. Your child doesn't attend — they produce.”
From field trips across Atlanta to horseback riding, water-park days, ninja obstacle training, and visits rooted in history and memory, children move.
The right environment turns peer pressure into peer possibility. Here, campers collaborate, create, solve problems, perform, and push each other toward courage, creativity, and confidence. The social experience is the curriculum.
A person becomes a person through other people. Through teamwork, creativity, shared challenges, and collaboration, campers grow more confident, expressive, and connected to themselves and each other. They learn to think beyond systems that shrink imagination and return more courageous, grounded, and whole.
7 weeks · Jun 1 – Jul 17, 2026
Every week is its own world, yet interconnected. Register for one, several, or all seven. Just don't be surprised when your child asks to come back Monday.
Tuition is weekly, with sibling discounts available for every additional child after the first.
Afrofuturism, AI, Maker Culture & Creative Intelligence
OURCHIVES transforms into a miniature two-week Black tech conference for children. Built in the spirit of Black inventors, coders, hackers, and tinkerers who used technology to educate, liberate, and imagine beyond traditional institutions. We address the screen-time beast directly: children already live inside technology. The question is whether they will only consume it… or learn to shape it. This is the shift from follower culture to creator culture. From being exploited by the need to be seen and liked… to building things worth respecting.
Robotics, Coding & Outsider Tech
Robotics engineers, makers, futurists, and creative technologists guide campers through hands-on invention, experimentation, and collaborative problem-solving. Campers explore robotics, AI, coding, and Afrofuturism while building real projects alongside outsider technologists. Every child builds a robot.
Comics, Storyboarding & Visual Worldbuilding
For two whole weeks, OURCHIVES turns into a miniature Comic-Con led by Emmy Award-winning animation directors, storyboard artists, illustrators, and Glyph Comics Award-winning creators connected to projects like Stranger Things, Lovecraft Country, Creed III, The Walking Dead, Godzilla, Iyanu, and more. Campers create original characters, develop origin stories, storyboard scenes, and collaborate to publish an OURCHIVES camp graphic novel. Not just drawing. Panels, plots & parallel universes. We got our own Comic-Con going on up in here.
Filmmaking, Storyboarding & Cinematic Worldbuilding
Lights. Cameras. Action! Plot twists. Kids forget lines. Bloopers. It's a wrap… or is it? Campers step into the world of filmmaking as they write, storyboard, act, direct, edit, and produce TURNT — a story centered on a group of misfit kids uncovering secret experiments, supernatural occurrences, and the terrifying world of gentrification. Mystery, sci-fi, and social commentary blend as campers build a cinematic universe of their own. Part film set. Part writers' room. Part parallel dimension.
Environmental Racism, Food Justice & Community Health
Campers examine how Black communities were pushed, zoned, polluted, and labeled into "the wrong side of the tracks." From railroad smoke and industrial dumping to food deserts, housing patterns, and health disparities, children learn how environment shapes life. With social leaders, local business owners, and community voices, campers investigate Foodz n the Hood as an unnatural threat, then imagine solutions rooted in land, wellness, and repair. Not just "bad neighborhoods." Designed harm. Community response.
Health, Wellness & Social Energy
Campers explore how food, relationships, and environment shape the way people move through the world. Through team-building, conflict resolution, and food literacy, children learn healthier ways of thinking, relating, and caring for themselves and others. The week ends with Power Plant — OURCHIVES' pop-up vegan restaurant, where families enjoy a sit-down dinner prepared and served by the campers themselves. Not just dinner. A different kind of social energy.
Film, Performance & The Red-Carpet Finale
Campers spend the final week outside and in motion: track & field, community gardening, finishing their film, and preparing for premiere night. In the spirit of pioneering Black independent filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, children complete and debut their own original feature film before families at an OURCHIVES red-carpet screening and awards night. Lights. Cameras. Community. This is Live at the Apollo.
As featured on
Award-winning NPR journalist and host of Closer Look, Rose Scott, came out to OURCHIVES Camp Confidence.
Step inside
Thinking out loud. (Heavy on loud.) Trying. Missing. Landing. Black kid mania. Thinking. Rethinking. Outthinking their thinkers. Learning. Unlearning. Manufacturing confidence — in real time.
Where camp meets
A walkable environment surrounded by 3 parks and playgrounds, a public running track, Zoo Atlanta, a martial arts studio, and the Grant Park Pool — every day offers a different outdoor experience.
“This is what confidence looks like in real time.”
Secure your spot
Full Day
$250 /week
Full school-day rhythm: 8 AM – 4 PM. Both halves, one peer circle, one counselor.
Half Day
$160 /week
Choose AM (8 AM – 12 PM) or PM (12 – 4 PM). Same peer circle, same counselor.
Aftercare
+$50 /week
Add-on: 4 – 6 PM. Pick up after work without rushing.
Vegan Lunch
+$25 /week
Allergy-friendly, plant-based comfort food your child won't believe is good for them.
Daily schedule
Half day. Full day. Or keep the day going with aftercare. New challenges. New guests. Same summer universe. Respectfully… this camp is ridiculous.
1:6 counselor-to-camper ratio for all field trips.
Half Day AM
8 AM – 12 PM
Half Day PM
12 – 4 PM
Full Day
8 AM – 4 PM
Aftercare
4 – 6 PM
Camp counselors
Camp counselors are recruited and trained separately from our year-round tutors. They're selected for the way they make children feel — present, seen, capable — and for the way they hold a peer circle when energy gets big.
Counselor profiles publish closer to opening week.
FAQs
OURCHIVES Camp Confidence is designed for children ages 5 to 15.
Half Day AM: 8 AM – 12 PM. Half Day PM: 12 PM – 4 PM. Full Day: 8 AM – 4 PM. Aftercare: 4 PM – 6 PM.
Yes. Families may register week-by-week, for multiple weeks, or for the entire 7-week experience.
Families should pack lunch and snacks unless they purchase the optional vegan lunch add-on, available weekly.
Yes. OURCHIVES is a nut-aware environment. Please disclose all allergies and medical concerns during registration.
Comfortable clothes, water bottle, lunch and snacks (if not purchasing the lunch add-on), sunscreen, and clothes appropriate for outdoor activities and movement.
Yes. Camp includes multiple field trips, outdoor experiences, and place-based learning activities throughout the summer.
Camp activities prioritize collaboration, creativity, movement, and hands-on engagement. Personal devices may be limited during camp hours.
Yes. OURCHIVES may photograph or record campers during activities, performances, and events for educational, promotional, and archival purposes — unless otherwise requested in writing before camp begins.
Camp tuition and deposits are non-refundable once a week has been reserved, as staffing, materials, transportation, and peer-circle planning are coordinated in advance.
Only authorized adults listed during registration may check campers out.
At this time, families are responsible for camper drop-off and pickup unless otherwise announced for specific activities or trips.
Campers are organized into small peer circles designed to maximize attention, safety, collaboration, and relationship-building. Field-trip ratio is 1:6.
Both. OURCHIVES blends indoor creative work with outdoor play, movement, field trips, and community-based experiences throughout the week.
Yes. Sibling discounts are available for each additional child after the first.
That's normal. OURCHIVES is intentionally designed around peer-circle bonding, collaborative projects, and confidence-building experiences that help children settle in quickly.
Comfortable clothing and closed-toe shoes are recommended for movement, outdoor activities, creative projects, and field trips.
Campers remain supervised by OURCHIVES staff throughout all off-site experiences, with structured check-in procedures and group accountability practices in place.
Yes. Parents are welcome to join all field trips and special camp events. Some trips may require an additional fee to help cover transportation and admission costs.
OURCHIVES blends creativity, social learning, technology, storytelling, movement, wellness, and culturally grounded experiences into one connected summer universe designed to help children build confidence in public.
welcome
Counting down to Jun 1, 2026…
Seven weeks of builders, filmmakers, storytellers, inventors, field trips, peer circles, outside play, Comic-Con energy, red carpets, and children becoming more themselves in real time.
Early registration opens for OURCHIVES families first. Reserve your weeks below before peer circles close and the summer universe locks in.
