Make 2023 Your Best Registration Year Yet With Technology
Registrations have a huge impact on the success of your camp. But the same challenges always seem to come up! Discover five ways technology can solve the most common challenges and make sure 2023 is your best registration year yet.
Camp Administration 101: What’s Next?
Whether a camp operates year-round or only over the summer, there will be peaks and valleys in a program schedule. During an off-season, there are several things to catch up on or prepare for the next session.
Camp Administration 101: Surveys And Evaluations
Make it a priority to survey and evaluate every aspect of an operation before, during, and after each camp session. Without detailed feedback, it’s difficult to tell how things are going.
Brain Breaks
Last spring, when schools closed due to COVID-19, teachers and school boards, with resilience and speed, adjusted to provide online programs. Although these enabled the continuation of school and learning (and possibly an end to snow days in the future), the health effects of staring at a screen for hours on end is not beneficial.
Mac Vs. PC
Despite this article’s title, I’m not here to extol the virtues of any particular computer. In fact, I’m here to discuss two vastly different leadership styles.
Teaching Mental Imagery
Mental imagery is a tool that is best known when athletes close their eyes to rehearse a complex movement, often just before they perform a high dive, a soccer penalty kick, or a foul shot. But mental imagery can also be used to help campers and staff members build resilience, manage their stress, and have much more fun at camp—especially when they master a challenging skill.
Preparing for COVID-19 On Paper
We can all agree—COVID-19 is unprecedented. And the types of lawsuits that have been filed in response to the pandemic have been as unique as the pandemic itself.
First-Year Camp Staff Survival
Being a camp staff member is rewarding, but it’s also tough; there are early mornings, late nights, extreme weather, camper crises, and daily challenges that will test staff members to their limits. From socks to soap, from songs to sleep, here are 25 tips drawn from years of camp staff and youth program experience to keep first-time staffers going strong this summer and beyond.
Drive-Through Drop-Off
Just rip off the Band-Aid. Even saying those words is enough to make most people cringe, and yet, there are times when it's best to grimace and go for it. The reality of running a traditional summer camp during a global pandemic challenged my team to devise new and creative solutions, and yes, to rip off some Band-Aids.