Oceanside, CA 3/26/2008 4:12:41 AM
News / Education

Summer Enrichment Camps Proven To Make A Difference

Educators are in agreement that summer enrichment and academic camps can have a positive effect on students' success in middle and high school and their ability to get into the best colleges

Summer enrichment camps have the potential to make a major and lasting impact on kids’ lives educators agree. SuperCamp, an academic summer camp that has been in business for 27 years and has graduated close to 50,000 students, has the results to support this belief.

 

A study of over 6,000 graduates of SuperCamp’s summer enrichment programs shows that 73 percent of these graduates improved their grades the following year at school. Over 80 percent reported increased confidence and self-esteem. A total of 68 percent said they were more motivated and 98 percent said they were still using enrichment skills learned at the summer camp.

 

SuperCamp is somewhat unique among summer enrichment camps in that it deals with the whole person by giving equal time to learning skills and life skills over the course of its 7-day youth camps and 10-day pre-teen and teen summer camps. Included in the 10-day sessions is instruction on the 8 Keys of Excellence, which were developed by SuperCamp co-founder, Bobbi DePorter, nearly 30 years ago.

 

SuperCamp will run over 35 individual academic camp sessions in 2008 across eight U.S. colleges covering all areas of the country. The colleges include Stanford, Cornell, Wake Forest, Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, the University of Washington in Seattle, Colorado College, Cal State San Marcos in San Diego and The Claremont Colleges just east of Los Angeles.

 

SuperCamp offers four age-specific programs: a Youth Forum for boys and girls going into grades 4 and 5 in the fall, Junior Forum for kids going into grades 6-8, Senior Forum for teens entering grades 9-12 and Quantum U for incoming college freshmen.

 

More information on SuperCamp is available at http://www.supercamp.com/ and by calling 800-285-3276.