New Student Orientation and Student Engagement is set to welcome new Lumberjacks and their guests to SFA as part of AXEcepted Days. Dates include June 6 and 13, July 18 and 25, and Aug. 1.

AXEcepted Days are designed to help students connect with campus and transition to life as a Lumberjack. During AXEcepted Days, departments and offices are encouraged to wear purple to show their school spirit.

For more information, view the Orientation schedule, or contact orientation@sfasu.edu or ext. 6641.

Spots are available for SFA's Stanley Center for Speech and Language Disorders' speech and literacy camps during the summer I and II sessions. For camp information, visit the center's website.

Interior Design Summer Camp will be held for ages 14-17 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 7-11.

This camp offers an opportunity for local high school students to learn the principles and fundamentals of interior design through hands-on activities like space planning, rendering and model-making. Led by faculty members and senior design students, the camp also will introduce students to the latest design technology, including 3D printing and virtual reality. To register, contact Jennifer Luque at jennifer.luque@sfasu.edu.

SFA soccer will host Lil Jacks and Youth Day camps June 9-13.

These camps provide campers a chance to learn, grow and have fun with current SFA soccer players and coaching staff members. Spots are filling quickly, so sign up your child to be a part of the action this summer.

For more information, visit the camp's website.

SFA Gardens' Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series will feature Bob Byers, Fort Worth Botanical Garden director, who will present "The Basics of Designing Great Borders" at 7 p.m. June 12 in the Brundrett Conservation Education Building.

Byers has over 26 years of public garden experience and worked as a landscape architect in Wisconsin, Florida, Alabama and Arkansas. He has taught design, plant materials and agricultural engineering at the University of Arkansas and also served as the director of operations and associate executive director of the Garvan Woodland Gardens for 21 years in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Attendance is free and open to the public. Parking is available at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center or next door at Raguet Elementary School. For more information, contact ext. 4129 or sfagardens@sfasu.edu.

Registration is open for free day and overnight camps offered by the STEM Education and Research Center. The teacher recommendation has been waived.

The iMAS Academy explores investigations in mathematics and science. This hands-on, minds-on camp focuses on scientific inquiry through dynamic teaching and learning experiences led by SFA faculty members and master teachers.

The day camp will be held June 16-20, and the overnight camp will be held July 13-18. Camps are for students who will be enrolled in high school during the 2025-26 academic year. Both camps will be hosted at the Cole STEM Building.

To register, visit the registration page or contact stemcenter@sfasu.edu for more information.