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Share the Value
of ACA Membership With Students and Key
Staff
Is your camp looking for a way to increase professionalism and retention among
your staff? ACA is offering an incredibly affordable way to do just that.
Your camp can purchase multiple memberships
for staff now at a price that is so reasonable,
you can't afford not to participate.
When your camp gives an ACA membership,
your camp is offering a bonus to worthy
staff, your camp is supporting staff professional
development, your camp is increasing the
possibility staff will return to its program,
and your camp is supporting ACA's
commitment to increase the number of members,
donors, and customers to 20,000 by 2020.
All memberships include subscriptions
to Camping Magazine and The
CampLine, discounts
on books and educational events, and access
to current research. Students also receive
FREE registration to the ACA National Conference
in Florida (February 2009).
Purchase by September 15, 2008, to receive
the following discounts. All memberships
are effective for a year after date of
purchase.
Share the value of ACA membership with
your camp's student staff
Purchase multiple memberships for your
camp's student staff at the following
rates: (Student membership is regularly
$35.)
- Give 10 new student memberships at
$30 each!
- Give 20 new student memberships at
$25 each!
- Give 50 new student memberships at
$10 each!
Share the value of ACA membership with
all your camp's key staff
Purchase multiple individual memberships
for your camp's staff at the following
rate: (Individual membership is regularly
$200.)
- Give 10+ new individual memberships
at $50 each!
Here's how it works:
- Decide how many memberships your camp
wants to purchase.
- Provide the ACA national office with
personal contact information, including
a personal e-mail address, for each new student
member by whatever means is easiest for
you and your camp: in an Excel
file or simply by sending ACA an
e-mail.
- New individual members may opt to receive
print or electronic versions of ACA publications
(Camping Magazine and The CampLine).
Please indicate "print" or "electronic" for
each person on your list. Student members
will receive electronic versions only
of ACA publications.
- Individual members receive discounts
on books and educational events and access
to current research. Students receive
FREE registration to the ACA National
Conference in Florida (February 2009)!
- Send a check or credit card info to
the ACA national office.
Show your staff that you believe in their
future, and give them the opportunity to
grow in our professional community.
If you have questions about this program,
please call the membership department at
800-428-2267.
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ACA Camps Go to Antarctica!
Send your camp to the ends of the earth this
summer and join PolarTREC teachers as they
explore science and adventure in the Arctic
and Antarctic.
Jeff Peneston has been the program director
of Camp Fire USA, Camp Talooli, for over
twenty years as well as an ACA, Upstate
New York Board member and visitor instructor.
He is also a ninth grade Earth Science
teacher at Liverpool High School (just
North of Syracuse). He is inviting
camps across the country to decorate their
own unique flag that he will take with
him on an international scientific expedition
to Antarctica this year!
Jeff is one of twelve teachers (PDF) from
across the country (and the only "camp
person") to be selected
as a PolarTREC teacher for 2008. Each
teacher will travel and work with scientists
conducting polar science field research.
Some of the science teams even camp out
for a month in tents on the top of mile
thick glaciers! Each teacher will
post daily web journals and invite kids
to ask online questions of the research
team.
Send Your Camp Flag To Antarctica (PDF)
ACA camps can request blank flags that
they can decorate. The camps must
return the decorated flags to Jeff by September
1, 2008; he will then send you one
of his official expedition flags and take
your flag to McMurdo Base in Antarctica.
Along the way you can look for a photo
of your camp’s flag on his daily
online journal. Once he returns, he will
mail your camp's expedition flag back to
you! Jeff can only take
two hundred flags. Flags will be
available on a first-come, first-served
basis. This fun outreach project is free
to camps.
For more information, visit the PolarTREC.com
Web page or contact Jeff at jpeneston@polartrec.com.
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Tell It Through the Tube!
Enter ACA's YouTube Contest Today!
 Your Creative
Assignment: Put your videography
skills to work! Choose one or more of
the following topics for your YouTube
video and in a three-minute or less video,
tell us the story of how your camp community
. . . .
- Links kids to nature, providing kids
with real, authentic experiences with
nature;
- Connects kids to authentic relationships
that afford friendships, understanding,
and appreciation for one another and
the global community; and/or
- Gets kids up and moving and learning
about their strengths and lifestyles
that advance well-being.
For contest rules and regulations and
to submit your video to Peg Smith, CEO
of the American Camp Association, visit www.ACAcamps.org/youtube.
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July/August Camping
Magazine Available Online
The July/August
2008 issue features
heart-warming stories with poignant examples
of ways camp is Enriching Lives and Building
Tomorrows . . . Plus, articles covering
marketing strategies for camps that serve
special populations and research regarding
nature-deficit disorder and camp.
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