https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-getting-more-out-construction-projects-without-paying-more-maybe-even-paying
Building Principles: Getting More Out of Construction Projects Without Paying More (and Maybe Even Paying Less!)We’ve explored construction contracts before and the idea that they set the rules for a short-term “marriage of convenience” — from proposal through amicable divorce. But this month, we’re going to...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/fight-flight-or-form-use-brain-research-connect-campers
Fight, Flight, or Form: Use Brain Research to Connect CampersWe are lucky to be at camp, in the modern world, and not living in a jungle where each new thing might kill us. The fight or flight response comes from ancient times when a person encountered a...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-water-water-everywhere-nor-any-drop-drink
Building Principles: Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to DrinkIn Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes, “Water, water everywhere, and all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink . . . .” Though he’s...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-learning-teach-about-nature
A Place to Share: Learning to Teach about NatureMy love of the outdoors, along with my scientific curiosity, can be traced back to my childhood adventures in the woods. The house I grew up in did not have air conditioning, making it unbearable to...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-staff-getting-health-safety-messages-stick
Camp Staff: Getting Health and Safety Messages to StickCamp health is not bound by the four walls of the health center. Nor is safety bound by a list of rules at any given camp activity. Today’s camp professional realizes that all camp staff contribute...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/enrollment-highlights-summer-2013
Enrollment Highlights from Summer 2013View the Infographic Each fall, the American Camp Association (ACA) requests enrollment...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/fad-when-get-board
The Fad: When to Get on BoardEvery year, dozens of new ideas and activities become popular among youth. Sometimes a television show makes it big and starts a fad (remember the years of Fear Factor and Minute to Win It?); other...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-four-aspects-national-conference-we-should-all-experience
A Place to Share: Four Aspects of the National Conference We Should All ExperienceI was born a camp brat. From the age of six years old, I had no choice but to live the camp life as my mother began her career in camp administration. My early camp years were spent causing headaches...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-if-william-shakespeare-wrote-hed-say-oils-well-ends-well
Building Principles — If William Shakespeare Wrote This, He’d Say: Oil’s Well That Ends WellAhhh, oil! Black gold. Texas tea. At least that’s how the opening to the television show Beverly Hillbillies referred to it. (Anyone else besides me remember black and white TV?) While some folks...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/lens-supervisor-success-meaningful-influence
A Lens for Supervisor Success: Meaningful InfluenceI spent my later teenage summers working at Camp Friendship, where hundreds of guests — adults and children with special needs — enjoy recreational activities. After serving as a junior counselor and...