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/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/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...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/2014-golden-quill-golden-lens-winners

2014 Golden Quill Award Tried and True . . . and Hard to Do: Advancing Camp’s Original Mission Requires Better Precision, Not Better Packaging Chris...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/2013-golden-quill-golden-lens-winners

Golden Quill Award Ann Gillard, PhD Does Your Camp Reinforce, Resist, or Relieve Gender Stereotypes? (March/April 2012) ...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/2012-golden-quill-golden-lens-winners

Golden Quill Award Marcy and Bob Brower Desegregating Circle M Day Camp: A Determination to Succeed (January/February 2011)...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/rearview-mirror-driving-safety-camp

A look in any rearview mirror will tell you a lot about where you have been, but little about where you are going. Unless, that is, you are driving at summer camp — where a quick look back can be an...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/unpacking-summer-camps-lease-hath-all-too-short-date

After the last marshmallow has roasted, the last sunset has sunk, and the last tear has dried, the aftermath of a summer at camp often reveals itself in, well, less than expected ways. Sure, there’s...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/indifferent-spectators-leadership-lessons-camp-beyond

Reflecting on the hands-off (called laissez-faire back then) attitude common among Harvard College students in the late 1800s, senior class poet George Pellew wrote, “We deem it narrow-minded to...