https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/encouraging-success-interview-mawi-asgedom

Mawi Asgedom, a nationally recognized educator and author, will speak at the ACA national conference on February 13, 2013. Asgedom arrived in the United States in 1983 after escaping civil war in...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/parents-these-days-are-your-communications-working

“What am I supposed to do,” one camp director asked me, “with a mom who calls the camp every day of the session?” While such a wildly anxious mother may be rare (why did she send her child to camp if...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-bonds-friendship-forged-camp

Four friends from childhood reunite often and maintain their relationships through adulthood: It's the makings of countless best-selling novels. But this story is real — no fictional characters, no...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/risk-management-management-oversight-your-camps-aed-program

As more camps purchase an automated external defibrillator (AED), the ability to establish and effectively manage a program that supports the use and maintenance of this life-saving device is...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/alive-well-case-camp-letter

In this era of tweeting and texting, the slow-moving, handwritten, paper letter is an endangered species. Unlike an electronic missive, the letter that arrives in an envelope can be touched, smelled...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/peg

“We may have come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. When I review ACA’s enrollment and business data (see page 44), I think of this quote by MLK. The...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/sport-education-innovative-practice-activities-camp

It is 6:00 p.m. Campers and counselors eat a tailgate cookout dinner at the Trails End Camp field. Excitement is in the air, as kickoff for the championship game will occur in just over an hour....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/making-it-improv-comedy-camp

"I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply still today. Listen, say yes, live in the moment, make sure you play with people who...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/cultivating-camps-tech-free-traditions-digital-age

The camp director of one of the oldest and most respected camps on the continent remembers how, a few years ago, his camp's continuing tradition as a tech-free environment was especially hard for...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-experience-every-child-eleanor-eells-award-winners-2013

Imagine a world where every child benefits from a camp experience . . . This is the goal of camps across the country as we continue to strive for ACA's 20/20 Vision — to serve 20 million children...