Summer At SLU Receives Top Award

On Wednesday, Sept. 20, Summer At SLU was recognized as a 2018 Top 20 summer organization by Blueprint4Summer at an annual summit of summer camps in the St. Louis area.

Program coordinator Jacob Wierson (left) and Troy Hargrove, director of the Summer-Winter Program, with the Blueprint4Summer Top 20 award. Submitted photo

Blueprint4Summer, a website managed by the Clark-Fox Family Foundation that helps connect families to summer camp opportunities in the region, gives Top 20 and Top 40 awards to the organizations who were searched the most on the Blueprint4Summer website.

For the third consecutive year, Summer at SLU was given a spot in the Top 20 out of nearly 9,000 summer opportunities that are posted at Blueprint4Summer.com.

“This award highlights the fact that Summer At SLU has an incredible presence in the St. Louis area as we give K-12 students opportunities to learn, explore, create, critically think and have fun on our beautiful campus, while connecting with our exemplary faculty, staff and students,” says Troy Hargrove, director of the Summer-Winter Office. “Our partnership with Blueprint4Summer has been crucial in helping us market to an area with nearly three-million residents, and this honor reinforces the value of our collaboration.”

Summer At SLU partnered with Blueprint4Summer in 2015 to help spread the word about K-12 camps and academies that take place on campus June through August. Blueprint4Summer posts each Summer At SLU camp on their website, with links to their respective registration pages.

Summer At SLU offers programs for kids of all ages and interests. Submitted photo

Follow the Summer At SLU web page for announcements about the 2019 summer programs.