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Vermont Summer Camps
Camp Wachusett for Boys
Residential Boys' Summer Camp
Enrollment of 75 boys, ages 8 to 14, with each boy able to pursue his own interests. Experienced staff, with no counselors new to Wachusett the past three years. Splendid variety of waterfront and land activities -- with team sports, optional overnight trips, and special events. Excellent lakefront facility and comfortable cabins. Friendliness and spirit the camp's trademarks for decades. Directors with more than 40 years experience.
Sessions from one to seven weeks. Waterfront options include sailing, watersking, kayaking, and canoeing. Land options include instruction in such activities as tennis, basketball, woodworking, archery, and riflery. Team sports within our camp community. TWO-WEEK CLINICS IN SOCCER, LACROSSE, AND ICE HOCKEY. Hiking and canoeing trips an option.
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Lawrence Academy Summer Programs
Coed Day Camp
Lawrence Academy Summer Programs offers three types of one-week summer day camps: Traditional, Specialty, and Sports. The 100- acre Lawrence Academy campus provides the setting for over 35 program offerings for children entering grades 1-11. There is a camp for every age and every interest.
Lawrence Academy Summer Programs is dedicated to providing the families wholesome recreational and educational summer activities. Lawrence Academy strives to maintain a staff of career educators who are skilled in the programs they direct and of young counselors who serve as positive role models for our campers.
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Farm and Wilderness Camps
Coed Camps with Residential & Day Camp Sessions
Farm & Wilderness operates five residential camps and a day camp.
The Barn Day Camp offers children ages 4-10 opportunities to garden, care for animals, hike, climb, swim, create, and play.
At Timberlake, boys ages 9-14 can backpack, farm, garden, swim, boat, create art, and build a cabin.
Indian Brook offers girls 9-14 opportunities to milk a cow, cut down a tree, climb mountains, read a map, learn 100 songs, and build a cabin.
Tamarack Farm: 15-17 year olds living together and running an organic farm. There's also time for playing, swimming, and the arts.
Saltash Mountain is a coed adventure camp for 11-14 year olds. Backpacking, canoeing and rock climbing trips plus gardening, crafting, swimming, and playing.
Flying Cloud is for boys 11-14 to live close to the earth and learn primitive living skills. Wood carving, fire building, and animal tracking are a few of the many activities offered.
Roaring Brook Camp for Boys
Residential boys' summer camp
The Outdoor Specialists. For over 40 years, Roaring Brook Camp has been devoted to eaching outdoor sports, Vermont crafts and, conducting wilderness expeditions by backpack and canoe. Self-reliance, resourcefulness and the will to-achieve center the camp's philosophy. It is an ideal setting for boys seeking an exciting outdoor adventure.
Rock climbing/rappelling/ropes course; Survival; Orienteering; Kayak/Canoe/Swim; Woodwork; Blacksmith; Leatherwork; Fly-Tying and Fishing; Archery/Rifle; Timber Sports; Fitness. 2, 4 and 6 week sessions
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Camp Cobbossee for Boys
Residential boys' sports camp
Camp Cobbossee is a residential boys summer sports camp that offers a complete Maine experience in a 4-week session. Camp Cobbossee sits on 125 acres of rustic Maine woodlands and manicured playing fields and features state-of-the-art facilities. Professional instructors coach our boys in a friendly atmosphere with tremendous spirit. A Cobbossee camper has a strong interest in participating in sports, improving his skills, learning new things and having fun. We have an outstanding staff that care about our campers and are attentive to their needs.
In addition to sports, Camp Cobbossee has an exceptional waterfront on beautiful Lake Cobbosseecontee. Campers enjoy waterskiing, sailing, swimming, canoeing/kayaking and more. Our adventure program includes overnight trips where campers learn how to pitch a tent, cook on an open fire and bond with their friends outside of camp. Other activities include hiking, technical climbing, ropes course, hobbies and special events.
Additionally, families can take advantage of our sister camp, Camp Kippewa, which is located 1/2 mile down the road and on Lake Cobbosseecontee.
Camp Akeela
Residential coed summer camp
Camp Akeela is a co-ed, overnight camp in Vermont. Within a well-rounded and traditional program we emphasize the social growth of our campers, many of whom have been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome or a non verbal learning disability.
Akeela is an intentional community that values and celebrates each child and staff member. Campers make life-long friends, develop self-confidence, achieve independence, and leave camp with lasting memories filled with fun and spirit. Within the predictability and structure of the camp program, campers enjoy ample opportunity for choice and specialization.
American Dance Training Camp
Girls' Camp with Residential & Day Camp Sessions
HEY GIRLS - THERE ARE ENDLESS REASONS TO DANCE - HERE ARE JUST A FEW:
1. Feel Great: Studies show that dance can increase self-confidence and help build social skills.
2. Find Your Life's Rhythm: Our bodies and our lives are ordered by rhythms great and small, so moving in rhythms feels great.
3. Reduce Your Stress: Movement plus rhythm creates an anxiety-reducing, meditative state.
4. Boost Your Immune System: Rhythmic movement is so beneficial that dancers have healthier immune systems than equally fit athletes.
5. Zap Your Boredom: Dance is an endlessly varied form of physical activity with strong mind-body & social components; if you like it, you're likely to stick with it.
ADTC has numerous dance camp locations, all just minutes from renowned destination resorts. Our unique locations mean that ADTC campers have access to all the traditional activities you'd want to enjoy at a summer camp, as well as all of the amenities you'd expect to find at a mountain resort. At ADTC, we have just as much fun outside the dance studio as we do in class. Join us for a fun-filled dance camp experience you'll never forget. We hope to see you soon!
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Merestead Field Hockey & Lacrosse Camps
Girls' Camp with Residential and Day Sessions
Merestead, the oldest sports camp for girls in the United States, moves into its 66th consecutive season of summer camps for individual players, teams and coaches. Merestead offers camps with unique programs in field hockey, lacrosse, or both sports, which encourages players to grow and excel as athletes and team players. Merestead is for girls ages 11-18 years. From its beginnings in 1946, Merestead has emphasized the international ties that link players of these two great international sports.
Merestead's coaching staff includes experienced U.S. high school and college coaches, many of whom have played or coached at the U.S. level. In addition, the staff includes experienced international coaches and players from England, Spain, Holland, and South Africa. Merestead sets itself apart from other camps with our staff. Professional educators, who supervise the curriculum and daily program, also oversee this world class coaching staff.
We don't make shoes or sticks, we teach the sport. Programs are tailored for the beginner, the intermediate, and advanced players as well as teams. Thousands of players have experienced world class coaching at Merestead. You can be one of them!
Night Eagle Wilderness Adventures
Residential boys' summer camp
Night Eagle Wilderness Adventures is a unique primitive summer camp for boys. At Night Eagle, we live in tipis and do things that boys did hundreds of years ago - learn survival skills (fire making with flint & steel or bow drills, plant identification, tracking), create lots of craft items (birchbark baskets, moccasins), go on hikes, canoe, swim, and play lots of games (Buffalo Robe, Stalk the Chief and Slack 'Em to name a few)!
Through these activities and the slower pace of life in camp, boys naturally develop a deeper respect for the land and an authentic sense of personal accomplishment as they learn to live competently in the woods.
Night Eagle is a different kind of camp based on mutual responsibility and cooperation. Through community living and group decision making, boys learn to live and play together in a spirit of cooperation rather than competition. ACA accredited camp.
Brown Ledge Camp
Residential girls' summer camp
Brown Ledge is a residential girls camp on Lake Champlain near Burlington, Vermont with four and eight week summer sessions. Famous for Instruction in Horsemanship, Theatre Arts, Water Sports & Field Sports; Fully Elective Activity Program; For Girls 10 to 18.
Brown Ledge offers a unique elective activity program in horsemanship, theatre arts, water and field sports. Here campers may choose their own program throughout each day, without having to "sign-up." At Brown Ledge, we work hard at fun and laughter! But for us, fun brings far more lasting pleasure when it is accompanied by a true sense of accomplishment.
Lochearn Camp for Girls
Residential girls' summer camp
Beautifully situated on pristine Lake Fairlee, Lochearn offers 180 girls, ages 8-15, an outstanding summer of fun, friendship, adventure, and personal growth. Professional instruction in over 45 activities, a well integrated program of character education, and a carefully selected staff of wholesome, bright, athletic young woman provide the challenges, resources, and love to help Lochearn girls build strong identities. Daughters only grow up once. Give yours a summer of enduring friendships and life-long learning at Lochearn Camp for Girls.
At our core is a strong commitment and well-conceived approach to children's character education where sound values such as respect, responsibility, cooperation and integrity are integrated into activities, and cabin and community life. Lochearn is proud to provide a safe and wholesome social environment where it is "cool to be kind."
Camp Killooleet
Residential coed summer camp
Camp Killooleet, a summer camp for boys and girls ages 9 - 14, is nestled into a beautiful corner of the Green Mountain National Forest in Hancock, Vermont. For over 80 years it has been owned and run by educators who know and listen to children. Killooleet is a "traditional camp" (varied activities, full season, weekly hikes and two overnight trips) that goes its own way in a non-traditional manner. Camp is non-competitive and highly individual. Strong cabin groups are built through working and playing together. With about 100 campers, Killooleet is small enough so that everyone knows each other and friendships develop between campers of different ages who share the same interests.
At Killooleet, half the activities are in sports (waterfront, team and individual) and half are in studio and performing arts. We all explore the beauty of Vermont for ten days over the summer, on foot, bicycle, canoe and horseback.
Hosmer Point Camp
Coed residential camp
Come Row, Sail, Run, Bike, Garden, Build and Play with us in Vermont!
Hosmer Point is a non-profit summer camp on Hosmer Pond in the mountains of Vermont. We offer 2-week long sessions for girls and boys between the ages of 9 and 15. Campers can choose from one of three FOCUS areas each week: waterfront/sculling, farm build, or A.C.E. (Adventure Challenge Excellence). Campers will round out their day with various elective offerings.
Hosmer Point's philosophy places the campers at the center of what we do, fostering a love of lifetime sports, teaching skills they'll use forever, and instilling an appreciation for our surrounding environment so children may become caring stewards of the future.
Emagination Game Design Camp
Residential coed summer camp
Get Inside the Game! Teens 15-18 create a 3D video game. Learn creative and technical skills > Choose a role on the development team --- 3D Animator, Level Designer, Audio Artist, Programmer > Build a playable game > Present to a panel of experts > Tour a game development studio > Learn from guest speakers.
Teens come to Emagination Game Design in Atlanta, Boston or Los Angeles from all across America and many foreign countries. We assist with transportation. It's Worth the Trip!
The Benefits of Emagination Game Design
* Teens learn from a team of highly qualified Emagination instructors.
* Teens experience what it's like to work in today's video game design industry.
* Teens learn industry standard software including Maya, 3ds Max, Photoshop® and Unreal Engine 3.
* Teens accept responsibility for part of the game and experience teamwork and deadlines.
* Teens gain public speaking skills as they present their game to a panel of game industry experts.
* Teens see the pros in action on a tour of a game development studio.
* Teens learn from game studio executives who come to campus as guest speakers.
* Teens get unplugged in daily outdoor recreation or swimming.
Forest Lake Camp
Residential camp with separate campuses for boys and girls
We would like to welcome you to Forest Lake Camp, one of America's great sleepaway camps since 1926.
Our camp was founded by H.T. Confer, and remains in family hands to this day. Since 1926, thousands and thousands of boys and girls have experienced the wonders of Forest Lake Camp, gaining independence, developing self-confidence, establishing strong new friendships, touching the majesty of the outdoor world, and sampling an extraordinarily broad range of activities never experienced before.
We encourage you to view our website and begin to get to know us. Read about our values and principles. Look at our directors and counselors. Order our free DVD and see for yourself the absolute beauty of Forest Lake Camp, our fields, our private Adirondack lake with its extensive swimming and boating activities, our tennis and basketball courts, our horses for our outstanding riding program. View and read about the whitewater rafting trips, the hiking and fishing trips, our performing arts programs, and so much more. Read the testimonials, unsolicited, and check our parent references.
Forest Lake Camp is a wholesome, healthy, life-shaping experience for a child. It just might be right for yours. Sincerely, The Directors of Forest Lake Camp
Camp Farwell
Residential girls' summer camp
Camp Farwell has been a special place for girls since 1906. Situated in the Green Mountain State of Vermont, on Halls Lake, our magnificient 100-acre site offers a wonderful location for a seemingly endless variety of activities -- from riding to water sports, from music and dance to team endeavors and individual pursuits. Farwell offers its campers a well-rounded, traditional camping experience which includes an outstanding riding program for girls of all abilities.
Activities include horseback riding, individual and team sports, performing arts, swimming and other water sports, hiking, camping, nature, archery, tennis, gymnastics, arts & crafts.
Camp Sangamon
Residential boys' summer camp
Sangamon is a really different kind of boys' camp, not based on sports or competition. Sangamon's entire program is elective every day. Each camper creates a personal schedule each day from more than 15 instructional activities and trips. We are a boy's camp with our sister camp right next door, offering the best of single gender and co-ed camping.
Sangamon offers fifteen different instructional activities, plus trips. Individual and team sports and five studio crafts program. We offer a good fit to a wide variety of boys. Four sessions: two 3-week sessions, two 2-week sessions, ages 9-15.
Emagination Computer Camps
Coed Camp with Residential & Day Camp Sessions
Technology PLUS Summer Camp Fun! Emagination blends the latest in technology with fun non-tech activities that create a well-rounded summer camp experience for kids & teens ages 8 -17. Two-week sessions allow time to make friends and become part of a community.
Beginners to experts choose three workshops from a selection including: 3D Art, 3D Animation, Flash®, Digital Music, Video Game Design, Robotics, RC Cars, iApps, Java.
Recreation is an important part of the program. Campers get unplugged in outdoor games, swimming, Color Wars and more.
University locations near Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Atlanta bring together kids like me from nearby towns, states across America and many foreign countries. It's Worth the Trip!
The Emagination Difference
* Three different technology workshops each day --- learn multiple topics.
* Two-week sessions --- time to make new friends and become a part of a summer camp community.
* Recreation and socializing are important --- campers learn tech skills and life skills.
* Weekend activities --- tuition includes Saturday Color Wars and other activities
* Senior Camp for Teens --- more independence, free time and special activities.
Emagination also offers a separate and immersive two-week course in video game development for teens 15-18.
Camp Kippewa for Girls
Residential girls' summer camp
Experience customized camping at Camp Kippewa, a unique all-girls overnight camp in Maine for ages 7 to 15. In each 4-week session, girls create their own weekly schedule from a tremendous array of activities, participating in six activity blocks daily.
The Arts program offers over 20 disciplines of fine arts & crafts and dance & theater. Onsite horseback riding facilities host an unbeatable Equestrian program where campers can ride daily. Lake Cobbosseecontee is the perfect setting for top-notch Water Sports instruction in waterskiing, sailing, windsurfing, canoeing and kayaking. The program also offers a variety of Land Sports including tennis, gymnastics, softball and lacrosse. Campers enjoy the natural setting of Maine with ocean sailing trips, beach days, wilderness hikes and canoe trips.
The directors at Camp Kippewa believe every girl needs a safe, fun place to make friends, to learn social, artistic, and athletic skills, and to take childhood's steps toward the independence of adulthood.
Our brother camp, Camp Cobbossee, is located just 1/2 mile down the road, also on Lake Cobbosseecontee. Siblings enjoy seeing each other weekly while enjoying their own all-girls camp experience.
Camp Winnebago
Residential boys' summer camp
Founded in 1919, Winnebago is located on 400 acres with two miles of shorefront on pristine Echo Lake. 150 campers come each summer to enjoy the best summer of their lives. We enjoy a 90% return rate, which is proof of how much fun camp is and how much campers get from the Winnebago experience.
How to measure value at camp? Ask the child, and they answer "fun". Ask the adult and they answer "values" and "healthy relationships". We are committed to these terms and how easily they work together. Children want and like a certain program structure. Whether through instructional and competitive sports program, the rustic canoe and mountain trips, individual activities aimed at improving lifelong skills, or many special activities, we love children and insure fun, values and healthy relationships. We stay small because we stress community and everyone knows each other.
While many activities have changed over time, our guiding principles remain. Our goals are respecting ourselves and others, mastering new skills and perfecting old ones, acting kindly, cooperating, and cultivating strength of character. Boys come to Winnebago feeling our program was designed specifically for them. They leave with skills and memories that last a lifetime.
Dunkleys Gymnastics Camp
Residential and Day Camp with Coed and Girls SessionsIn our 40th year, we are a small family style camp, with only 30 campers per session. With our 1-5 counselor to camper ratio, gymnasts are challenged, whatever their ability level. Kids come to camp from all over New England, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Canada.
Martial Arts, Waterkiing, Wakeboarding, Sailing, Dance, Kayaking, Swimming, Trampolining round out Gymnastics filled days. Located directly on Lake Champlain with one, two and multiple week sessions.
Vermont Adventure Camps & Adventure Travel Camp
Wilderness Adventure Program
At Vermont Adventure Camps you will do more than just go on daily adventures. Our camp is a unique and challenging program that enables teens to reach new heights in individual and group development. Individuals work as in teams throughout their camp experience. Campers will complete challenging activities and focus on valuable life skills. Most of which can be applied to everyday situations. The non-competitive, non-judgmental environment fosters feelings of synergy and creative problem solving to expand communication, trust and leadership goals.
The activities are designed to build respect and confidence, while allowing campers to be actively involved in the learning process by thinking, feeling and doing. Our staff will work with your teen with the time they spend at camp and try to meet there individual needs and goals. The program operates on the philosophy of "challenge by choice" where each individual determines the level of involvement best suited to him or her while still contributing to the team process.
Camp Betsey Cox
Residential girls' summer camp
Camp Betsey Cox is a rustic, outdoors experience for young women growing up in our global world. Betsey Cox intertwines traditional camping with a commitment to programs which develop skills necessary for girls who hope to make a difference in the future. The Camp's strong believe in individual choice has created an unusual and unique program of daily electives. Each girl is in charge of her own choices and the whole camp community treats her right to plan her own day as an important freedom and responsibility.
Girls choose from 15 activities each day. Betsey Cox offers 2,3,5, and 8 week sessions for girls ages 9-14, and an innovative, imaginative three-year Leadership program for ages 15-17. We have a brother camp right next door, Camp Sangamon-together we offer the best of single gender and coed camping experiences.
Adventure Treks
Wilderness adventure program for Teens
Ever climbed a snow covered volcano? Slept under a starry sky on a wilderness beach or rafted a crazy fun whitewater river? Here is your chance! At Adventure Treks this is just a snapshot of your best summer ever. You will see incredible scenery, make great friends from across the country, laugh more than you ever thought possible, and become a better leader. A recent study shows Adventure Treks will improve the 21st century life skills your parents think you will need be successful.
Temporarily escape the digital age. 12 - 18 year olds can visit exciting destinations on the West Coast, British Columbia, Colorado, Utah, Alaska, New England and the Southeast. Give us just two or three weeks and you will see benefits and make friendships that will last the rest of your life.
Camp Wachusett for Boys
Residential Boys' Summer Camp
Enrollment of 75 boys, ages 8 to 14, with each boy able to pursue his own interests. Experienced staff, with no counselors new to Wachusett the past three years. Splendid variety of waterfront and land activities -- with team sports, optional overnight trips, and special events. Excellent lakefront facility and comfortable cabins. Friendliness and spirit the camp's trademarks for decades. Directors with more than 40 years experience.
Sessions from one to seven weeks. Waterfront options include sailing, watersking, kayaking, and canoeing. Land options include instruction in such activities as tennis, basketball, woodworking, archery, and riflery. Team sports within our camp community. TWO-WEEK CLINICS IN SOCCER, LACROSSE, AND ICE HOCKEY. Hiking and canoeing trips an option.
