Summer Camp Packs A One, Two, Three Punch

Summer enrichment can take many forms. At one summer camp, it takes three. SuperCamp is an academic summer camp with a twist. The curriculum of the 10-day summer program is a precisely orchestrated combination of three elements: academic skills, physical achievements and life skills.

Underlying this curriculum is a basic philosophy – learning can and must be fun. SuperCamp believes that learning is a lifelong proposition people can undertake joyfully and successfully.

Bobbi DePorter, SuperCamp’s co-founder and president believes that the whole person is important – the intellectual, the physical and the emotional/personal. “We also believe,” says DePorter, “that high self-esteem is an essential ingredient in the makeup of healthy, happy learners.”

At SuperCamp, physical challenges are used as metaphors for learning breakthroughs – paradigm shifts that change the understanding of learning. One of the physical challenges is a ropes course that has students climbing trees, tightrope walking forty feet in the air, leaping from a tiny platform atop a tall pole to catch a trapeze and falling backward from the top of a ladder into the arms of waiting team members.

Every student succeeds and the high that this success brings is transferred directly into the classroom, where they find they can be just as successful. As a result of this one activity, learning breakthroughs occur by the hundreds every summer at SuperCamp.

Now in its twenty-seventh year, SuperCamp has graduated over 48,000 students worldwide. In addition, Ms. DePorter’s company trains teachers in these same learning techniques in schools throughout the United States. These school programs have positively impacted over two million students.

SuperCamp will be held at eight U.S. college campuses this summer, from Stanford University in the west to Cornell in the east. Other locations include, Pitzer College (one of The Claremont Colleges in the Los Angeles area), Cal State San Marcos in north San Diego County, Colorado College in Colorado Springs, the University of Washington in Seattle, Wake Forest University and Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

SuperCamp offers four grade-specific programs: the 10-day Junior Forum for students entering grades 6-8 in the fall, the 10-day Senior Forum for students entering grades 9-12, the 7-day Youth Forum for kids entering grades 4-5 and Quantum U for incoming college students. The dynamic learning environment is designed to maximize long-term retention of the information provided.

More information on SuperCamp is available at http://www.supercamp.com/, by calling 800-285-3276 or emailing info@supercamp.com.