https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/droning-important-resources-use-drones-camp

Drones are a great tool for camps, both for use in programming and in collecting valuable footage of your property for use in a camp marketing video. Relatedly, some camps find themselves in the...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/happy-campers-how-camp-relationships-promote-social-emotional-learning

Young people are diverse and dynamic, and they have myriad pathways to success. Unfortunately, youth development research often highlights watered-down averages of sample sets that offer limited...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/youth-outcomes-battery-action

Greetings camp evaluators! I am excited to share a blog written by a member of ACA’s Committee for the...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/future-camp-research

In this blog, Jessie Dickerson describes how camp researchers and camp professionals came together at the 2019 ACA National Conference to envision a future for camp research.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/campwire-episode-9-camp-resarch-laurie-browne-jim-sibthorp

In the ninth episode of CampWire, ACA's director of research Laurie Browne talks with another researcher, and longtime camp friend, Jim Sibthorp about ACA's 5-year research study.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/three-lessons-learned-year-2-acas-impact-study

In the latest Research 360 blog, Laurie Browne, PhD, shares some things we’ve learned this year from the Impact Study, starting with a throwback to what we said we were learning in Year 1....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/maybe-not-inevitable-case-technology-free-summer-camp

In this Camping Magazine article, Matthew Pines discusses the benefits of technology-free summer camp.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/its-best-part-camp-camper-views-smartphone-policies

As camp directors, we instinctually know that the experience is much better without smartphones and technology, but what do the campers themselves think?

https://www.acacamps.org/events-education/online-learning/recorded-webinar/eval-2020-tricks-trends-next-decade-camp-evaluation

In the past ten years we’ve welcomed tremendous growth in how and why camp professionals use evaluation to support program planning, staff training, marketing, and funding efforts.  The year...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/high-anxiety-are-smartphones-upping-angst-ante

An Interview with Nancy Cheever, PhD Nancy Cheever, PhD, is a professor and chairperson in the Communications Department at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and the 2018...