The iEngage Summer Civics Institute is more than just a typical day camp. It’s a unique, free opportunity for rising 5th through 9th-grade students to learn how to make a real difference in their school, neighborhood, and community. The camp stands out with its action civics inquiry model, which fosters participants’ understanding of and engagement in civic life. Students interact with local civic leaders and elected officials, play iCivics games, examine primary source materials at the Poage legislative library, collaborate with like-minded peers, and engage in a community issues advocacy project. 

The camp……

• Develops young people’s civic and political competence.

• Strengthens their community and political engagement through inquiry-based civics projects on community issues. 

• Teaches the structure of government and what it means to be an active, engaged citizen in their community.

• Illustrate how they can work to make a change even as young people.

Recipient of the 2022 National Center for the State Courts Sandra Day O’Connor Award for the Advancement of Civic Education.