https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/lights-camera-action-writing-your-own-activity-script

Summer is here — no more tests, projects, or homework for months! You are no doubt excited to take on a different kind of challenge . . . working at camp! But just because summer is here doesn’t mean...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/configure-ideal-smartphone-apps-camp-staff-download-install

By now you have probably figured out that you have very limited cell service at your camp and/or that you will be asked to turn off your phone while working with campers. In the technological world...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/role-nonprofit-organizations-history-camp

Decade after decade since the mid-1800s, summer residential and day camps have been a barometer for social change, often acting as catalysts for change themselves. What started out as a retreat from...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/rosies-girls-changing-story-girls

My tenth-grade history student addressed me tentatively in response to a classroom question. "Ms. Bluemle, I may be totally wrong, but . . . " I could barely focus on the rest of her sentence, as I...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/electronic-communication-legal-practical-issues-consider-information-age

Introduction Camps and outdoor programs are now intimately familiar with the world-wide Web. Your organization undoubtedly has a Web site, reaching out to anyone around the world who has access to...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/transitioning-teens-responsible-young-adults

Each generation tends to look at the next generation and claim things aren’t as they used to be. There was a time in the 1970s and 80s when summer job opportunities for teens were so limited that...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/introducing-new-standard-11-camper-staff-interaction

After much work, the American Camp Association (ACA) National Standards Commission is pleased to introduce a standard specific to 1:1 camper/staff interaction. We often receive questions from parents...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/leading-tomorrow-i-believe-accreditation

I believe in accreditation. Fifteen years ago, I helped manage the accreditation visit at my camp. It was my first time going through the process, but for my camp, the process was one in which...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/trenches-working-camper-parents

Dear Bob, I had a run in with a camper parent last summer that made me very uncomfortable. We have a visiting day for parents once each session, which, as you might imagine, is a...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/keeping-your-program-current-programming-todays-camper

Many of your camp’s alumni may attempt to convince you that camp isn’t what it used to be and that so much has changed. They are right, of course. However, their point is that the camp program is no...