Teen Summer Camp Is The Perfect Break From Summer Vacation

Ten days at a teen summer camp can be the perfect break from summer vacation that teens and parents need. SuperCamp, a teen academic camp with eight locations across the U.S., has become one of the most popular camp destinations for teens.

Parents of teens and pre-teens know that summer vacation can be too long for their kids. The kids get antsy and the parents can get angry. The solution is a 10-day trip to SuperCamp, which ends up being a vacation within a vacation for the fortunate students turned campers.

SuperCamp’s Senior Forum is open to teens entering grades 9-12 in the fall of 2008. Each camp session has a maximum capacity of 120 campers, who spend 10 busy days gaining valuable new learning and life skills with a dynamic staff trained in the proven Quantum Learning teaching and learning methodology.

There are a total of 18 Senior Forum camp sessions spread across the eight SuperCamp locations, all of which are held on a college campus. The earliest session begins on June 27 at Stanford and the last one of the summer, also at Stanford, starts on August 14.

Senior Forum camps fill up very early each year and already several sessions are near capacity. Parents interested in learning more and enrolling their teens in SuperCamp this summer can visit the company’s website at http://www.supercamp.com/ or call a SuperCamp customer care specialist at 800-285-3276.

SuperCamp runs three other programs: a Youth Forum for boys and girls entering grades 4 and 5, Junior Forum for kids going into grades 6-8 and Quantum U for incoming college students.

As one of the leading academic summer camps in the world, SuperCamp has a long list of success stories, including a doctoral thesis that studied over 6,000 SuperCamp graduates and found that 73 percent of them improved their grades the following year at school. Over 80 percent of these graduates also reported an increase in confidence and motivation.

These results trace to a number of factors about SuperCamp that make the learning environment uniquely effective. It begins with SuperCamp’s proprietary Quantum Learning method of teaching and learning developed over 25 years ago by SuperCamp co-founder and president, Bobbi DePorter. At the heart of this method is that students learn how to learn, which means the retention of what they learn at SuperCamp is long-term.

There are a number of other contributing factors to SuperCamp’s success. It provides peer support that reinforces efforts, achievements and positive attitudes. It helps improve communication, listening and peer relationship skills. It uncovers and teaches to individual learning styles. It encourages goal setting and taking responsibility for one's actions. It enhances the capability for problem-solving and creative thinking. And it ensures a challenging, safe program that is intellectual, physical, creative and fun.

All in all, SuperCamp is a perfect and productive break from summer vacation.