Youth development can happen in many different ways; academically, spiritually, and personally just to name a few. SuperCamp, a summer enrichment program specializing in providing 21st-century skills to students ages 11-19, takes youth development to the next level.
While focusing heavily on leadership and team-building, SuperCamp has designed a 10-day accelerated learning program intended to build confidence and motivation in students from the middle school to college levels.
One way in which this is accomplished is through an intensive, day-long, high and low ropes course where students learn to communicate effectively in a team dynamic, strengthen personal confidence, and build valuable leadership and team-building skills that will benefit them the rest of their lives.
Students, in teams of 9-13 peers, spend the day working together to accomplish multiple tasks located in a wooded setting at multiple college campuses across the country that include Stanford, Kent State, and Wake Forest Universities.
SuperCamp’s Outdoor Adventure Day events include challenges such as the ‘Spider’s Web,’ where each team member must be passed through the web without touching the wires, the ‘Blind Trust Walk’, as well as ‘The Pole’ where students dawn parachute harnesses, climb a 30 foot pole, spin, then jump off, allowing their teammates to safely and slowly guide them back to Earth via billet lines.
For 30 years, SuperCamp, in cooperation with the ‘On The Edge’ ropes course company, has maintained a quality ropes course that has set the standard for similar programs across the country. Over 57,000 participants have successfully completed SuperCamp’s Outdoor Adventure Day program as well as the entire SuperCamp experience.
SuperCamp employs 21st-century skills to teach students how to be more successful, not only in the classroom, but in their everyday lives as well. Through physical trust-building exercises such as high and low trust falls to emotional trust building events that include nightly team and personal sharing, students build trust and confidence by breaking through their personal walls and learning how to supportively open up to their peers and teachers.
Parents who are interested in learning more about SuperCamp’s unique Outdoor Adventure Day, summer camp locations, and to enroll are encouraged to call 1-800-285-3276 or visit www.SuperCamp.com.
