https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/meet-hakeem-oluseyi

If necessity is the mother of invention, then resilience is the mother of reinvention. Hakeem Oluseyi, PhD, world-renowned cosmologist, science educator, and humanitarian, is well acquainted with...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-vital-engagement

More and more children are trading true engagement for electronic connection. What are the costs and how does camp counter this trend? We live surrounded by a mobile technology that entices,...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/exploring-power-moments

An Interview with Dan Heath Whether we’re 11, 26, or 92, we all have special memories that we return to again and again, that remind us of happy events with family and friends, challenges we’ve...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/restorative-powers-nature

An Interview with Florence Williams Growing up a city girl in a family that valued extended outdoor time, Florence Williams is today a science writer and environmental journalist, bestselling...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/lessons-urban-day-camp-program-features-help-children-thrive

I have recently had the privilege of working closely with a newly established day camp called Boston Explorers. This urban day camp has a number of features that make it a unique experience for...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/restoring-human-touch

We've all seen them — gaggles of teens walking together, each with their eyes glued to the screens of their smartphones, texting, tweeting, and posting. Or that couple in the restaurant with their...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/memo-staff-talking-out-both-sides-my-mouth

I am standing in the middle of the woodshop of a sailing camp for boys on Cape Cod examining the hunk of wood that is on its way to becoming a fully functional model sailboat when I hear the ruckus...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-character-central-organizing-theme-camps

The “Game” It is week three of camp. One of your division leaders comes to you to report an incident that has occurred in one of the twelve-year-old cabins. Three boys were playing a “game” that...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/culture-clash-consequences-camps

"Emily" is a six-year-old camper in the "Jellyfish" group at an East Coast day camp. She is a new camper this year, coming into a group where about 70 percent of the campers are returning. She comes...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/healthy-camp-symposium-preview-present-day-adolescent-sexuality-its-implications-camp-community

Sex is a topic that elicits such strong emotions in people that it often becomes difficult to have a clear, calm, rational conversation about it. When that conversation concerns the sexual behavior...