Delta State University is promoting its OKRA summer day camps for youth and loads of athletic camps.
Thousands of Mississippi kids are eager to pack up and have fun at summer camps marking their return in 2021. After the COVID-19 pandemic shut down activities for young people at colleges from south of Memphis to the Gulf Coast, camps are bouncing back.
University officials, parents and grandparents are delighted. College leaders are ecstatic to once again attract young people to sports, music, cheerleader, ecology and robotics camps to showcase their institutions.
Camps also deliver a nice financial boost to schools during the slower summer months. Families are investing in summer camp options for kids who were often cooped up at home with their games, smart phones and computers since the health emergency began in March 2020. With three million COVID vaccines getting in the arms of Americans daily, people hope the pandemic gets in rearview mirrors in a few months.