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News / Education

Summer Camp Prepares Students for School Year

Academic summer camps are filling a void in the educational system that schools don't have the budgets or expertise to provide students, states a senior executive with one of the country's leading learning and life skills academic summer programs.

Mark Reardon, COO of Quantum Learning Network, who operates SuperCamp, an academic summer camp held throughout the U.S., says that certain academic camps, like SuperCamp, provide students with skills they are not getting in school. "In 10 days at SuperCamp, middle school and high school students acquire accelerated learning skills and invaluable life skills in such areas as communication, time management and goal setting that help them at school and in their personal lives."

To support this statement, Mr. Reardon cites extensive research that has been conducted with SuperCamp graduates showing an increase in grades, confidence and motivation among the great majority of them following their attendance at SuperCamp.

SuperCamp's summer enrichment programs are age- and grade-specific, offering a camp for students entering grades 6-8 and another one for those entering grades 9-12. The company also has a college-level 8-day program called Quantum U for students entering and already in college.

The SuperCamp programs are held on eight college campuses across the country. Because of the need these academic camps fill, they fill up early each year. Mr. Reardon urges parents of middle school and high school students to learn more about SuperCamp by watching the summer camp videos at the company's website and by reviewing the program's many summer camp locations and dates.

Parents also can call 800-285-3276.