Discovery Museum camps are coming up

WRITING IS BACK!: Sun Managing Editor Amy Asman will be back at the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum this summer with her Cub Reporter Camp. In 2012, she taught a comic-book-based camp called Writing is Super that featured Sun Executive Editor Ryan Miller and General Manager Georgia Shore. Credit: PHOTO COURTESY OF AMY ASMAN

The month of July will be busy at the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum as kids pile in for three separate summer camps.

Crazy Critter Camp will run July 10 to 12. Prehistoric Parities professional animal handler and educator Kevin Hasenfus will help kids learn about, touch, and interact with lizards, turtles, tortoises, and constrictors.

Cub Reporter Camp will give attendees an in-depth and hands-on journalism experience that includes writing, design, and photography. Taught by Sun Managing Editor Amy Asman, the camp will run July 16 to 20.

Safety Town Camp is set for July 21 through 25. It’s a comprehensive course that will teach children the fundamentals of fire, traffic, animal, stranger, earthquake, and household safety.

To learn more or to register, visit the museum’s website at smvdiscoverymuseum.org.

This article appears in Jun 26 – Jul 3, 2014.