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How We Do Things Everywhere

In a rainbow barn packed with a hundred campers and forty counselors, a 16-year-old CIT with electric-blue hair performed what felt like the final poem of her childhood.

Camps 5 min read

Making Theater A Camp-Ready Team Sport

Growing up outside Columbus, Ohio, Daniel Robey was a summer camp kid. Church camp. Scout camp. Scout camp counselor. Program director. He even taught scout leaders to lead camps. Starting in middle school, the camp kid was also a theater kid. He now teaches high school theater in Worthington, Ohio.

Camps 6 min read

The Beauty Of Handwritten Letters

In this post-truth era of AI-generated text and images, it seems quaint to consider the beauty of handwritten letters. But just as film photography is experiencing a renaissance, so are handwritten letters, especially among young people.

Camps 6 min read

Situational Leadership At Summer Camp

Situational leadership is a model developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard that suggests there is no best way to lead. Instead, effective leaders adapt their style based on team members’ readiness (competence and commitment) for a given task.

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Camps 8 min read

Year-Round Revenue

For most summer camps, the warm season is the main source of revenue and activity. However, a camp’s potential doesn’t need to end in August.

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Camps 3 min read

What If Something Happens?

Operating a camp means creating memorable, often life-shaping experiences for kids. Underlying these opportunities for fun, adventure, and education, however, is a serious responsibility to protect families and owners alike.

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Camps 7 min read

Truth For Youth

To the mid-19th-century educators who organized the first overnight camps in North America, this five-faceted educational gem solved two problems: It was the ideal complement to traditional classrooms, and it was the bucolic antidote to urban perils.

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Camps 7 min read

Freedom On Two Wheels

For many people, learning to ride a bike is a rite of passage. It’s a skill that gives them freedom and opens up the world to exploration and independence. For individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), however, that milestone can often feel inaccessible.

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Camps 6 min read

Open Your Eyes, Not An App

There is no longer a debate about whether substantial social media use causes mental-health problems in young people. Between 2014 and 2020, research confirmed this connection and other research did not.

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Camps 12 min read

Offline Connections

Black bears in North Cascades are active at all hours. Bears do not naturally associate people with food, but they are opportunistic and can quickly learn this behavior.

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Camps 6 min read

Camp For All

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Camps 7 min read

Through or Thorough

The spelling difference between getting through staff training and getting thorough staff training is just a single, lowercase “o.” The real-world difference could be life or death.

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Camps 9 min read