Opening the OCP
Steve Baskin
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It is almost 11:00 and your children are in bed and resting for another day at camp.
Camp is peaceful. A light breeze blows through the screens and the cabins are cool and quiet. I often take this time to share some thoughts with you.
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Yesterday, we had a powerful guest speaker, Shawn Achor. He is an international consultant, author of The Happiness Advantage and the teacher of the most popular course at Harvard for 3 years.
What he shared with us was both powerful and useful. Here are some of the highlights.
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I came to the summer camp experience late in life.
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After over 40 weeks without campers, our first little ones will arrive this Sunday! All of our counselors are here and cannot wait for camp to start.
This Sunday afternoon, think about all the Kindergarteners and 1st Graders that will be arriving. I hope that puts a huge smile on your face - it does mine!
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It is May.
Camp starts in May.
This is cool.
In less than 2 weeks, our Leadership Team and all of our counselors will be arriving to bond, train and ready camp for our campers. We have a fantastic group coming in. I know the Leadership Team will be as good as any we have ever had. We are also excited about the counselors that will join us. It is a wonderful mix of returning favorites, senior camper graduates and new-to-CC folks. We are putting the finishing touches on Orientation. This is going to be fun.
We have had to do a little extra hiring. We have been elated by the excitement and interest in camp this spring. The phones are ringing all the time and we are signing up new families in the few slots that we have left.
We mostly cannot wait to see the campers! We are all passionate about the powerful benefits of camp on children, but we only get to work with the campers for 3 months. The rest of the year, we are planning improvements, recruiting counselors and learning how to be even more effective. We are particularly excited about some of the improvements this summer:
- The Screamer!
- The huge (24 foot!) fan in the Parthenon
- The modifications to the schedule that has more morning classes than afternoon classes
- The new Fire Truck (we are constantly thinking of new ways to use this thing)
- Hampster Balls, booger wars and lazer tag (during All Camp Fun Day)
- A few other surprises
So, if you are a camper or counselor, start planning your Dance outfits and practicing your favorite camp songs, because CAMP IS COMING SOON!!
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We at Camp Champions usually do not publicly support one team versus another. We have campers that are fans of all major teams, so we want to respect their passions.
Not this year. Not this Super Bowl.
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Here is a belated post that I meant to put up a week ago!
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Before last year, I was not the biggest Facebook guy. Over the last year, however, I have joined (been pulled into?) the Facebook Nation.
At first, I did not really get it.
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We will be keeping our camp community in the loop with everything that is going on at camp using our new blog.
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