ORLANDO, Fla. — Summer is in full swing, which means many kids are in camp. However, one summer camp in Washington Shores is looking to open the eyes of young Central Floridians and show them what they can achieve, all through the power of music.

Willie Covington knows a little something about music.

“Well, I did win a Grammy back in 1985,” said Covington.

While he used to be a drummer for B.B. King, he now finds himself working with new talent: the kids of Washington Shores, which is a neighborhood in Orlando.

It’s all part of a summer camp he founded, called So You Want Your Name in Lights. It is where teens like Isyreal Smith are writing, recording, and copyrighting their very own song.

“It’s creating something like we all can do together and it’s a project that we all came up with and it’s like everybody using their voice, their talents,” said Smith.

Covington runs this camp with his wife and fellow musician, Gwen Covington. She shared that this program is about far more than music.

“We use music to attract the students, it’s not our main goal,” said Gwen Covington. “It’s to help them to be successful with whatever career they choose to be successful with, but they need to know that there is a process so learning all this you learn that there is a process, there is an education required to do whatever it is you are doing.”

In the camp, the kids learn everything from MMA, to pottery, drumming and even hair braiding, which Smith is really enjoying.

“It is teaching you like how to work with your hands, how to do things better, also helps with your concentration on whatever you are doing you know make sure every part is right and every part is neat,” said Smith.

The Covingtons specifically picked Washington Shores for this camp, which operates as a six-week youth mentoring and crime prevention program funded in part by the Orange County Government and the United Arts of Central Florida.

“This community needs people that they can kind of look to try to uplift their spirts,” said Willie Covington. “A lot of the young people here, they don’t have mentors you know the families sometimes are not in situations where they can support them you know so we try to give it back them, we try to help the families out a little bit, a little bit, that’s all.”

Willie Covington hopes to use his success to inspire the kids to aim high.

“Kids need to know that they can reach that level too with the right kind of situation with education and people really mentoring them and trying to show them there is another situation in life that could be positive rather than some of these other things that are happening out in the streets and all,” he said.

Showing them that just like the title of their song, there’s “no limits” to what they can do if they work for it.

For more information, go to So You Want Your Name in Lights.