FOX News Touts Value of Academic Summer Camps

The value of academic summer camps was the subject of a FOX News interview this morning with SuperCamp summer camp co-founder and president, Bobbi DePorter. The interview, carried by FOX6 in San Diego, addressed education budget cuts in California and how parents are turning to academic summer camps to augment their children’s learning needs.

In the interview, Ms. DePorter explained that SuperCamp develops the whole person over the 10-day program held on college campuses across the U.S. While categorized as an academic camp, SuperCamp is unique in that it is a learning and life skills camp. Students gain learning skills that help them read, write, study, problem solve, take tests and think better and the acquire life skills that help them in the areas of communication, leadership and team building.

Ms. DePorter said that the greatest takeaway for most SuperCamp graduates was their greater sense of self, an awareness of their capability to accomplish anything they put their minds to, combined with increased confidence and motivation. This outcome is the result of SuperCamp’s carefully orchestrated sun-up to lights out Quantum Learning methodology.

Bobbi also addressed the issue of students who don't want to go to an academic summer camp because they think it will be like school. She explained that, while many kids and teens are reluctant to attend any academic camp, the great majority who go to SuperCamp are loving it by day two. The reason, she said, is because the staff engage them and the day is so dynamic and interactive, the learning takes place without them even realizing it's happening.

Parents interested in enrolling their children in SuperCamp this summer were told they could link to the SuperCamp website from the FOX6 website. They also can go directly to http://www.supercamp.com/ for more information and to enroll online, or they can call 800-285-3276 to speak with a summer enrichment specialist.

SuperCamp is somewhat unique among summer enrichment camps in that 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.