QLN's academic summer camps are breaking the mold in terms of the traditional view of academic camps as an extension of what students learn in school. Quantum Learning Network has been in the business of operating youth and teen summer camps since 1982 and, in that time, the management team has discovered the keys to getting into a student's world, gaining permission to teach, and holding their attention through innovative learning methodologies.
The academic summer camps, which operate under the SuperCamp brand name, are 10-day co-ed summer camps that helps kids enhance such academic skills as reading, writing, test/note taking, and memory/study strategies, while developing life skills in the areas of communication, relationships, leadership, self-esteem, confidence, goal setting, and motivation.
“A big part of what makes SuperCamp work so well, the secret ingredient, if you will, is the series of mini-successes we orchestrate for the kids at camp,” says Bobbi DePorter, QLN and SuperCamp president. “It is these mini-success moments that create the shift or change in students and the motivation to excel.”
SuperCamp teaches students the 8 Keys of Excellence: Integrity, Failure Leads to Success, Speak with Good Purpose, This Is It!, Commitment, Ownership, Flexibility and Balance. Ms. DePorter developed the 8 Keys years ago by studying successful people and identifying the traits and principles they shared.
SuperCamp provides four grade-specific programs: a Youth Forum for kids entering grades 4 and 5, Junior Forum for kids entering grades 6 to 8, Senior Forum for kids entering grades 9 to 12, and Quantum U for high school grads through college seniors. Each program is customized to the learning needs and socialization skills of the particular age and grade level. SuperCamp is held at eight colleges throughout the U.S. and in several countries worldwide. Now in its twenty-sixth year, SuperCamp has graduated over 45,000 students.
Ms. DePorter has spent nearly 30 years in education, beginning in the late 1970’s when she studied with Dr. Georgi Lozanov, father of accelerated learning. She first applied these methods to a highly successful business school before turning her focus to teach children how to learn with SuperCamp in 1982. Bobbi has impacted over 2 million kids through school programs for students, teachers and administrators and with such books as Quantum Teaching, Quantum Success and The 8 Keys of Excellence.
Parents interested in enrolling their sons and daughters into SuperCamp this summer still have a chance to get them in. While some camps are full, space remains in a number of sessions. Ms. DePorter urges any interested parent to call 800-285-3276 immediately to secure a spot.
