Last Minute Summer Camp Ideas

It’s already the last minute for parents looking at summer camps for their sons and daughters says Bobbi DePorter, president of SuperCamp academic summer camps. While this might not be true for all teen summer camps and youth summer camps, DePorter says it’s certainly the case with SuperCamp.

“Because SuperCamp benefits from an incredible amount of word-of-mouth testimonial from past graduates and parents of graduates, we start to fill up early in the calendar year,” says DePorter. “Consequently, by mid-May many of our camps are at or near capacity.”

However, DePorter also says that, in anticipation of this demand, SuperCamp added sessions and staff for this coming summer. So parents looking for California summer camps, Washington summer camps, Colorado summer camps, midwest summer camps, New York summer camps and North Carolina summer camps, still can find a spot for their son or daughter at SuperCamp, if they act now.

Summer enrichment programs tend to fill up earlier than other types of camps, especially ones such as SuperCamp that are residential and 10 days in length. It requires planning on the parents’ part and the student’s camp is often the starting point around which the family’s summer plans are built.

In total, SuperCamp will run over 35 individual academic camp sessions in 2008 at eight U.S. colleges across 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.

Ms. DePorter also recommends that the best way to quickly learn more about SuperCamp at this point is to watch the summer camp video online and to read and listen to the summer camp testimonials at SuperCamp’s website. Another recommendation is to call a SuperCamp sales consultant at 800-285-3276.

Summer still may seem a long way off, but DePorter is urging parents to not get left out in the cold by waiting too long to enroll their son or daughter in SuperCamp.