Summit Camp

History

Summit Camp was established near Honesdale. Summit Camp is a sleep away camp for children between the ages of 8 to the age of 18. The camp has many different actities for the campers there which include gocarts, swimming, boating, time using computers, art, pottery, wood shop, and time studying nature. Summit Camp has a relaxed tone to help the campers there feel comfortable. When campers have time to use the computers, they can bring their own games to be installed on the computers and used each time they use the computers. Computer use can either be a day actitity done by the group that the camper is in, or as an evening actitity that is chosen by the camper as the last activity of the day. Summit Camp is open to a wide range of campers and many children attend each year. There is also down time offered at Summit Camp for the campers to have time to do what they want to do with in their cabin. The times when campers have down time are called Rest Hour, Shower Hour, and Horseshoe. Rest Hour is an hour before lunch when the campers are sent to there cabins to have free time to do any actitity in their cabin, which can involve video games. Shower Hour is the hour before dinner when the campers take showers each day; the campers take turns using the two showers in the cabin, so the time that they are waiting is used as free time. Horseshoe is the hour after dinner where the campers are allowed out of their bunks and allowed to go to most parts of the camp and do what ever they want.

The Objective of Summit Camp

Summit Camp is a camp that is not only for helping children with their challenges, but many children there have mental disabilities that the camp helps them with. The staff at Summit Camp has a small number of campers to deal with to make it easier for the campers to receive the attention that they need. The camp is devieded into groups with on group per cabin called a bunk. Each bunk has nine children and three staff members who are incharge of the bunk so that there are three campers for every staff member. This small ratio allows each camper to receive equal amounts of one on one attention. Summit Camp uses this ability to help the campers overcome any fears of doing a pericular actitity and gain self confidence.

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