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Learning made fun: Uni camp gives taste of high school life

By Amy F. Reiter
Saturday July 26, 2008

Robert K. O'Daniell

Maya Lagerstam, 9, left, and Linda Ly, 15, both of Champaign, work on some dance steps at the University Laboratory High School's summer camp in Urbana on Friday.

URBANA – In an echoing dance studio at the University of Illinois, children are kicking and screaming. And in this case, it's a good thing.

The kicking comes when the kids, mostly ages 9-11, practice their moves at University Laboratory High School's summer camp, where sessions range from a week learning how to program a robot to another week creating spoken-word poetry.

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