https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/solving-certification-mystery

With ominous dread, our kitchen crew expected “the visit” any day now. Health inspector drop-ins typically occur in the midst of summer camp chaos, the busiest time of year for camp professionals....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/great-things-have-small-beginnings

In 1861, Frederick W. Gunn and his wife, Abigail, took their students on a two-week summer camping trip. The very popular program was repeated for the next several years — a small thing that is...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/good-reminder

Spring is a time of renewal and hope, and nowhere is this hopefulness more evident than in our chosen profession. As camp professionals, we catalog time by the changing of the seasons. Summer speaks...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/restorative-powers-nature

An Interview with Florence Williams Growing up a city girl in a family that valued extended outdoor time, Florence Williams is today a science writer and environmental journalist, bestselling...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/meet-hakeem-oluseyi

If necessity is the mother of invention, then resilience is the mother of reinvention. Hakeem Oluseyi, PhD, world-renowned cosmologist, science educator, and humanitarian, is well acquainted with...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/exploring-power-moments

An Interview with Dan Heath Whether we’re 11, 26, or 92, we all have special memories that we return to again and again, that remind us of happy events with family and friends, challenges we’ve...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/hunters-farmers-why-adhders-can-thrive-summer-camp

In examining the etiology behind the widely diagnosed Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), one school of thought, championed by Thom Hartmann, author of the Complete Guide to ADHD...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/courage-not-comfort-part-ii

I am back with Part 2 of our conversation about fund-raising — although I am sure some of you were hoping I would forget! Not a chance. Now we get to the fun part, the rewarding part, and, of course...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/psychology-camper-success

James, an adorably awkward first-summer camper, sits on a bench outside Campcraft preparing to take his knife safety test. You tell him to begin, and — biting his lip in concentration — he flips open...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/presidential-fellows-program-leadership-development-camp-twin-lakes

The age-old question of “What do you do the rest of the year?” is inevitable. Every camp director we know has heard it, often many times. Summer is an intense and busy time, and we have worked hard...