Summer Camps Fill Up Fast As Parents Plan For Summer

Summer camps, whether they are academic summer camps, teen camps, kids camps, science camps or sports camps, fill up earlier each year as harried parents try to sort through their families’ summer plans.

Such was the case last year at SuperCamp, the academic summer camp with eight locations at college throughout the U.S. “We started last summer with over 200 kids on our waiting list,” said SuperCamp president, Bobbi DePorter. “I felt bad for them, but their parents waited a little too long to enroll them in one of our camps.”

In response to the demand SuperCamp has been seeing in recent years, the popular summer camp has added more sessions and moved its midwest program to the heart of the country, Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

With SuperCamp’s Junior Forum and Senior Forum programs for teens and pre-teens being 10 days in length, it does require some planning ahead by parents who are trying to sort out the summer’s agenda for the entire family.

The good news is if parents can’t get their son or daughter into their first choice in a SuperCamp location, chances are they can find an open spot at one of the other seven colleges. All sites are outstanding venues, from Stanford in the west to Cornell in the east.

However, parents should be aware that SuperCamp’s Youth Forum for children ages 9 and 10 and Quantum U, SuperCamp’s college boot camp for incoming college freshmen are offered only at one location each: Youth Forum at Cal State San Marcos in San Diego and Quantum U at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.

So, the message to parents is to act now. Go to http://www.supercamp.com/ to check out the dates and locations. View the SuperCamp video, read the parent and camper testimonials, and enroll your son or daughter online or by calling 800-285-3276.