The Final Day

Today is the last day of Champion week and the last day of camp. The campers have learned new things about other cultures and class options that they would had never been exposed to. They have grown and matured in the past 3 weeks and all of the counselors and teachers are honored to have had the opportunity to teach such a great group of kids. This group of kids has represented the camp extremely well and we are excited to see them all again next year!
-Dani Planer(CIT)

Challenge & Champions: Day 13

Congratulations to the Daily Challenge winner, Matthew Musey. He wrote about the things he learned about college on yesterday's Campus Immersion. Good Job!
Today Ms. Jamie's class acted out the experiences they learned about in her class, Man vs. Wild. The campers acted as if they were in a river, racing through the jungle, calculated amounts of needed medicene, and applied scientific notation. Mr. David, Mrs. Heather, and Mr. Sam's class all finalized their projects for the Final Celebration of Learning. Everything is looking great!
-Nia Freeman (CIT)

Olympic Week!

This week the campers are split into 4 groups to compete in the week long Olympics. Each camper was assigned to either the red, blue, green, or yellow team with a counelor as their leader. They will get to compete in events like tug-of-war, football, soccer, relay races, basketball, and even more! The final scores and the winning team will be announced at the final Celebration of Learning. Good luck to all teams!

-Nia Freeman (CIT)

Champion Week!

Congratulations to our daily challenge winner, Jade Wurupa!
Today is the first day of Challenge and Champions third and final week, the champion week! This week the campers will be asked to take all they've learned in their classes and apply them to projects assigned by the academic teachers. These projects will be presented on the final day of Challenge and Champions when family and friends gather to watch the campers graduate from the camp!

-Dani Planer(CIT)

Challenge and Champions: Day 8

Congratulations to Ryan Wurapa for being today's Daily Challenge winner! The challenge was to recommend a good book and find out one from a friend. We got a few really good entries, but his was one of the best. He recommended I am Number Four and a friend suggested he read Matched. Good Job Ryan!
Today will also be the second time we celebrate birthdays. Everyone will sing to those with October, November, December, and January. Every camper and councelor gets a cupcake!
Also Mr. David's class went to the Michael C. Carlos Museum. It is a great experience fot the campers to see artifacts and historical pieces from other cultures around the world. It should definately help with their class projects!
-Nia Freeman (CIT)

Challenge an Champions: Day 7

Congratulations to taday's Daily Challenge Winner, Kayla Adams. She wrote that she challenged herself by withstanding the heat, assisting others, and being a role model for younger campers. Good Job Kayla!
In Mr. David's class today campers worked on creating a poster for one of the given countries, using pictures and statistics on AIDS, culture, death rate, and demographics. The campers could choose from South Africa, Chile, Brazil, India, Spain, or China as their country. In Mrs. Jamie's class they learned about creating tangrams, which are 7 piece puzzles used to make pictures. They also took facts they learned about the Amazon and turned them into scientific notation problems. In Mrs. Heather's class campers used their own characteristics and personality to create a "personal recipe" representing themselves. In Mr. Sam's class they created paper rockets using soda straws and paper. The campers then did multiple trials to test the distance that their rockets would fly. Some of his campers were also working on their STEM, Science Technology Engineering Math, career brochures.
All of the campers had productive academic classes!
-Nia Freeman (CIT)

Challenge & Champions: Day 6

We brought the explorer week to an end by choosing 5 exceptional campers to win the honorary title as camper of the week! These campers are Chase, Katerina, Kira, Kayla, and Dilan! Congratulations!

Today is the first day of the challenger week! This week the campers will be focusing on challenging themselves in not only academics but their physical education classes too. The daily questions will progressively get more and more difficult and the team building exercise will be more difficult than last week. We know that the campers will begin this week with a smile on their faces and end the same way but with a greater knowledge of their subjects and a greater motivation to get out and try new things.
- Dani Planer (CIT)

Specials

Day 5: Today the campers had the opportunity to go to their second specials class. They have a choice of spending 45 minutes in cooking, jewelry making, African drumming, yoga, drama, or art class. In cooking class they learned to make salad dressing with tofu. The campers in jewelry making made friendship bracelets.  The yoga class learned different ways to stretch and relax. In drama, the campers learned to act as different characters in different situations, like being a clown or a pregnant woman. Art class allows the campers to express themselves through painting, sketching, or coloring. The African drumming class learns beats and songs for the final Celebration of Learning presentation.
- Nia Freeman (CIT)

Challenge & Champions: Day 3

Day 3 is a very special day in the three weeks that the campers will have at Challenge and Champions! Every year the campers have the opportunity to learn about protecting themselves from the sun in a clever and creative presentation that a group of medical students at Emory put together! The kids will be well educated on how their health can be affected by these hot summers in Georgia and how they can prevent sunburn and dehydration, so don't be surprised if your kids come home asking for a sombrero and a higher proof sunscreen!
-Dani Planer (CIT)

Challenge & Champions: Day 2

Monday turned out to be a great first day! On Day 2, I got a chance to take a walk with Mr. David's Urban and City Spaces class. We walked down to the Emory Hospital to sit for a while and observe the surroundings. The campers took notes on the people, buildings, and activities going on near by. This helped them to learn about how people act different in different surroundings. The campers also used the website http://www.theplaceswelive.com/ to understand the different lifesyles of people in different countries. I found his lesson very intriguing!
-Nia Freeman (CIT)

Hi! Stay tuned. We did counselor interviews this weekend and they will be announced in a few days!

Starting the 2012 program and CIT announcements!

We are opening the 2012 season and this is our first posting. We welcome you to the program information, hope you are renewing or establishing your connection to us and look forward to having you with us. As our first announcement, we wish to let you know who has been selected as a Counselor In Training. CITs are those former participants with us who have shown exemplary initiative, a great attitude toward others and a willingness to serve. It is an honor to be selected as a CIT. Those who were chosen for this year are returning and new members. They are:

Kayla Cooper
Langston Daniels
Nia Freeman
Ben Furman
Jordan Johnson
Paul Kowalczyk
Taylor Lee
Nicholas Musey
Zion Perryman
Dani Planer
Bryce Sledge
Tyler Sledge
Danyel Stancil

Congratulations to all of them! We look forward to another wonderful summer with them!