Oceanside, CA 12/23/2009 3:23:24 AM
Holiday Travel Hassles Make Teens Long For Summer Camp
Holiday travel hassles can make families long for the dog days of summer and teen summer camps. In fact, the holiday season is an excellent time to start planning the family's summer camp activities.
Teen academic camps are on the top of the list for many parents. Summer educational programs such as SuperCamp provide teens and pre-teens with top quality enrichment in a non-school environment, which helps improve the students' interest level, absorption of new information and long-term retention.
The SuperCamp experience is distinctly not school or summer school. In fact, SuperCamp has identified 20 ways in which SuperCamp is not like summer school:
- Summer school lasts a month or more. SuperCamp is 10 days long (7 days for middle school students).
- Summer school is held at your high school. SuperCamp is held on a college campus (or on a college prep campus in the case of Lake Forest Academy in Chicago).
- At summer school, you can fail. At SuperCamp, you only succeed.
- At summer school, you're miserable. At SuperCamp, you have a great time.
- At summer school, you're there with the same old students you see all year long. At SuperCamp, you meet new friends from around the country and around the world.
- At summer school, it's the same old teachers. At SuperCamp, you interact with the most dynamic, engaging, fun-loving staff ever.
- At summer school, you can't wait to leave. At SuperCamp, you're having so much fun that you don't want the days to end.
- At summer school, you tune out. At SuperCamp, you want to pay attention.
- Summer school is boring. SuperCamp is stimulating and full of energy from sun up to lights out.
- Summer school is quiet. SuperCamp has music, hand clapping, foot stomping, and audience (that's you) participation.
- Summer school is all about summer survival. SuperCamp is all about summer enrichment.
- At summer camp, you're learning stuff you should have learned last year in school. At SuperCamp, you're learning new skills that you will use in every class, in college and throughout your life.
- At summer school, you come in, sit down, and leave. At SuperCamp, you get up, have a great breakfast, learn for a while, take breaks, have an outdoor adventure day, learn some more, break for lunch, get together in small groups, get together in teams, get together with everyone, get 90 minutes before dinner to do whatever (swim, shoot hoops, hang out, read, call home), have a great dinner, get together in the evening with your team and one night with everyone for a dance, and wrap things up around 10:00pm.
- At summer school, you hope to learn enough to pass the test. At SuperCamp, you learn new things that stay with you because of the way you learned them, which means you get to use what you learned whenever you want because it's all inside your brain.
- Summer school is punishment. SuperCamp is a gift from your parents because they love you and want to give you every opportunity for success.
- Bottom line: summer school is not fun. SuperCamp is fun.
- Summer school gets old fast. SuperCamp is one surprise after another; not the same old, same old.
- Summer school is not inspiring. SuperCamp is so inspirational that you'll leave after 10 days armed with new goals and the motivation to achieve them.
- At summer school, you don't learn anything about life. At SuperCamp, you learn a lot of life skills that help you with interpersonal communication, working with others, leadership, and more.
- At summer school, you never want to go back. At SuperCamp, you have such a good time and gain so much confidence and self-esteem that you can't wait to come back next year.
With this Top 20 list, it's easy to see why SuperCamp is popular with both parents and students.
