Milford Marine Institute offers science-based summer camps
This year marks the 30th year that the Milford Marine Institute has partnered with the Milford Recreation Department to offer Marine Biology Camps, Bird Identification Camps, and Archaeology and Native American Culture Camps. The Marine Institute has recently purchased three items which will be shown to campers at these “hands on learning” camps. A Wooly...
Girls do attend computer camp
Although women pioneered the computer industry alongside men, they are under-represented in the field. Empowering young women to shape society’s technological future on equal footing is what a computer camp can do for girls. Statistics Computer camp addresses the large gender gap that exists today in technology and in particular in computer science. This gender...
Zoo Patrol to teach children more than just about animals
The Zoo Patrol at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo will be for youngsters ages 6-14 this summer. The zoo has been running its Zoo Patrol for 16 years. Children get a week of zoo-based activities, tours and behind-the-scenes experiences. Each day patrollers tour an area of the zoo (rain forest, predators, farmyard, hoofstock) and have a special...
Choosing the right camp should be on winter’s to-do list
It can be difficult to envision warm summer days when the wind is blowing and the snow is falling. However, the winter months are a great time to explore summer camp options. In fact, many camps have strict enrollment timelines that require decisions to be made before spring. Attending summer camp has been a tradition...
Dance academy offers summer programs
Monroe Dance Academy offers summer dance camps for all ages and dance levels. The academy has been teaching dancers for 31 years. Classes this summer run in July and August. July camps • Young Dancers: Two-and-one-half hours for beginners 4-6 years-old, with various themed weeks to engage the younger dancer. There are stories read, arts...
Creating lasting memories and having the summer camp experience
One of the common misconceptions about summer camp is that it’s a place – that you send your child off to summer camp. Summer camp is a community, built by professional educators together with the children they supervise. Within that community, children learn to make decisions and take healthy risks in a safe environment. Summer...
Camping and computers
For the thousands of youngsters who will be going off to camp this summer, the call of the wild may include computers and for their parents it means another factor must be weighed in deciding what constitutes the perfect place at which a child can best experience a computer sleep-away or day camp. The first-ever...
Art camp to offer outdoor workspace
Summers can be long, and our children need entertaining. They need to be engaged during the longest break of the year with more than television and video games — they need art and music. These two things alone can change a person’s life positively; art and music make life better. Music makes us smile and...
Video game design is at computer camp
Today, children are bombarded with countless ways to play, especially high-tech play through computers and video games. Over the past 25 years, games have progressed from the primitive two-paddle Pong to sophisticated, online, multi-player games such as World of Warcraft , with complicated plots and vivid graphics that unfold over dozens of hours of play....
