Comfort Zones Crumble by Students’ Success

At SuperCamp, a leading academic summer camp for kids and teens, students learn that inside every one of us is a box that expands and contracts with every experience we take in over the course of our lives. This box is called a comfort zone. As life goes on and we experience new things, meet new people, and take on new challenges, our comfort zone grows and we become open to more exhilarating experiences.

Every one of us has a comfort zone that includes the things we feel the most comfortable doing in our daily lives. From watching television to brushing our teeth to sleeping, life inside the comfort zone is easy and not that exciting.

At SuperCamp's 10-day academic and life skills programs, teens are encouraged and empowered to take the risk of stepping outside their comfort zones in ways they never thought imaginable. Many students want to stay in their comfort zone when meeting a new experience because it is easy, familiar and yes, comfortable. Everything outside the zone seems risky, unknown, or dangerous. The lure to stay inside is like the tug of a warm blanket over a 6:00am alarm clock. As with anything too comfortable, our comfort zone can become boring and stagnant. When we stay inside it long enough, we slowly tend to work ourselves into a rut.

At SuperCamp, students thrive in a high energy, positive, encouraging environment that slowly allows students to peek out, and then venture out of their comfort zone into a world of excitement and wonder. The first step is often weird and shaky, but soon the discomfort subsides and students find that their comfort zone has expanded! By moving out of the comfort zone, students have experienced something new, have learned, and the experience has resulted in growth and maturity. As the comfort zone expands, so does self-confidence, thus placing a student on an energetic path to success!

SuperCamp is hosted on multiple college campuses across the US, including Stanford University, Brown University, and Wake Forest University. A high-energy summer enrichment program, SuperCamp is designed to teach students success skills to propel them through adolescence and into college. By challenging students to take risks outside their comfort zone in the safety of a highly supportive environment, SuperCamp teaches students that if they put their mind to it, they can accomplish anything.

For more information on SuperCamp’s academic summer programs, please call 800-285-3276, or visit www.SuperCamp.com.