https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/ten-ways-make-great-use-your-summer-photos

Remember all of those amazing photos you took last summer? Now is the time to put them to good use. If you took thousands of photos, or even if you only took a few hundred, the first step in making...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/leading-tomorrow-i-believe-accreditation

I believe in accreditation. Fifteen years ago, I helped manage the accreditation visit at my camp. It was my first time going through the process, but for my camp, the process was one in which...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/case-studies-working-challenging-camper-behavior

The following case study is based on a real-life situation at a camp for girls in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. I have altered the names of the specific campers and some identifying information to protect...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/how-culture-sensitive-are-your-camp-health-services

Campers and staff come from a variety of backgrounds. An urban-savvy camper becomes the bunkmate to a youth raised on a rural farm; two girls — one from a small mountain village and the other from a...

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

Camp director Erec Hillis encourages camp professionals to broadly communicate the fact that “camp creates advantage for kids.” He asserts that this “is a winning argument that camp directors must...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-wisdom-overhead

American poet and diplomat James Russell Lowell is quoted as saying, “Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/success-queen-neptuna

Watch out, world! Make way for Queen Neptuna! This is a thought I have kept with me since I was eight years old. I was at summer camp — my first time away from home — in completely...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/once-girl-scout-always-girl-scout

“When one thinks of the 31st of October,” Juliette Low wrote in 1923, “one associates the day with Halloween when imps and witches fly about…On that night, I made my appearance in the world. Little...

https://www.acacamps.org/argumento-favor-de-los-campamentos

American Camp Association® (ACA) cree que la experiencia organizada de campamento es un componente fundamental en el desarrollo y la educación del niño completo. ACA apoya oportunidades educativas...

https://www.acacamps.org/destinaci%C3%B3n-campamento

Un recurso completo para las familias que ofrece consejo profesional de expertos en campamentos sobre la selección de campamento, el momento preciso, el desarrollo infantil y juvenil, y asuntos...