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SuperCamp www.supercamp.com • info@supercamp.com • 800-285-3276 • Fax: 760-305-7770 By Michael Leppert Quantum Learning Network (QLN) has an incredible personal expansion concept for children ranging in age from 9 through university. It is called SuperCamp and has been operating on college campuses all over the nation for 26 years. SuperCamp boasts 45,000 graduates of its program, with approximately 25% returning for more than one session and older graduates often returning to participate in the Leadership Program. The philosophy behind SuperCamp is to provide an engaging environment in which to build the complete person -- self-confidence, self-esteem, trust, how to learn (re academic pursuits), teach life-skills to be used into adulthood and have fun at the same time! The life-skills SuperCamp instructs include communication, motivation and developing relationships. The campers learn very much about themselves, especially about how they think, which is the beginning of life wisdom and successful lifelong being. SuperCamp has four age sessions: Upper Elementary, 9 and 10 year-olds, which is a 7-day program; Middle-Junior High, 11 to 13 year-olds, a 10-day program; High School, ages 14 to 18, also a 10-day program; and Quantum U for high school grads to college seniors. Students are put in teams of 12 with a male and female team leader. Sessions are held on college campuses and each location has its own schedule. SuperCamp offers two tracks -- for instance, at Claremont College in the Los Angeles area, both the junior and senior sessions are held on the same 10 days, thus allowing a family with a child in each session to complete SuperCamp in one 10-day period. At some locations, parents can attend for the last 3 days (called Parent Weekend) and experience some of the same Quantum Learning methods the kids are taught. Then they can all graduate together. SuperCamp’s approach is to start with small learning experiences where all students are successful. The students learn and achieve mini-success moments with strategies they learn at the camp and then build upon their successes throughout the program. Among the skills they learn and develop are writing and reading skills. They even prompt students to write poetry on one evening of the session. At the beginning of camp many of these children don’t even want to be there, much less write poetry, and within days they are building relationships with other children at a comfortable pace and by Poetry Night, some of them feel confident enough to share their writing! The 9th day is Reality Simulation – the students examine what they have learned and how they are going to apply it to their lives. SuperCamp promotes the concept of the children being liked for who they are as individuals, not how well they “fit in” with everyone else. There are SuperCampers from all over the world and from a variety of different cultures, so the overall experience is very broad and unique. The fact that the skills they learn and develop at SuperCamp stay with them has been demonstrated by many studies done with graduates of SuperCamp. Quantum Learning itself tracked students for up to 5 years later and found that they were still using skills they had learned at SuperCamp. For homeschoolers, Quantum Learning can customize programs similar to SuperCamp. For instance, the Greater San Diego Charter School arranged for them to do retreats with their students. It was called Quantum Learning for Students and was held on 3 weekends, two days each, for a little over 6 days, total. This is not the same as SuperCamp because it is less than 10 days. Your child may be one of the hundreds who find that 10 days with other kids in an environment that promotes building up of one’s self and others, rather than tearing down or criticizing and comparing is ultimately exhilarating and loads of fun. Please visit the SuperCamp website, www.supercamp.com for much more information. M.L. |
