Summer Day Camp

2025 Architects of Change summer camp graphic

The Rosa Parks Museum's annual educational summer day camp, Architects of Change, is open to all River Region middle students who will be entering grades 6-8 during the 2025-2026 school year. The mission of the camp is to share the techniques of non-violent conflict resolution used by Mrs. Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders of the early Civil Rights Movement. Our goal is to connect past struggles in the quest for equal rights to social justice struggles that continue today. This year's camp has been extended to two weeks in order to incorporate participation in the first-ever Heartstone Global Story Circle in the United States! This is a long-running program started in Great Britain in 2000 and has since spread throughout the U.K., Australia, and Kosovo (http://heartstonechandra.com/home/).

About the camp…

Workshops on conflict resolution and building toward the Beloved Community.
Training helps campers to handle conflict effectively and peacefully; embrace forgiveness, understanding, and acceptance and respond to conflict with reconciliation instead of lashing out or holding grudges
Connecting past Civil Rights events to modern social justice issues through visits to civil rights sites
The Heartstone Odyssey novel study and Global Story Circle program with a culminating art project

Field trips…(subject to change)

Rosa Parks Museum and Children's Wing
Walking tour of downtown Montgomery's civil rights historic sites
Tuskegee University (including The Oaks, home of Booker T. Washington, and the George Washington Carver Museum)
Tuskegee Airmen Museum at Moten Field
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Negro Southern League Baseball Museum

Fees and other important info…

Located at the Rosa Parks Museum (Troy University Montgomery)
May 26 - June 6, 2025, from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM daily
$100 per student (discounted rates for additional children within the same family)
There are a limited number of scholarships available. (Please contact McKenzie or Donna for application, which is due no later than April 15th.)
Breakfast, lunch, and snacks provided daily
Non-refundable $20 deposit due with application no later than Friday, April 18, 2025.
Balance due Friday, May 16, 2025
Parents will receive camp itinerary no later than May 19th.

If you have questions or need more information, please contact:

McKenzie Walker, mwalker166145@troy.edu (334.241.9541)

Donna Beisel, dbeisel@troy.edu (334.832.7295)