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Rockets & Ponies July 21-26 Entering Grades: 5-8 Cost: $520 What do rockets and ponies have in common? Adventure, Chincoteague, Virginia and YOU! Come explore the NASA Visitor Center at Wallop’s Island and learn about a sounding rocket launch from beginning to end. Be in town at Chincoteague to see the famous annual pony swim as the wild ponies are brought in for auction. You will also explore other wonders of the island such as the wildlife refuge. Who knew rockets and ponies had so much in common? Tweedale CSI July 21-26 Entering Grades: 6-8 Cost: $330 View the crime scene and put your forensic skills to use as you visit 6 different labs to examine evidence. You’ll compare your collected evidence against the crime databases, and identify suspects. Only you can solve this crime! Climb It! July 25 - August 2 Entering Grades: 6-9 Cost: $575 Are you ready for a climbing adventure? Begin your adventure by learning how to decidupell at camp. From there learn to climb on Tweedale’s very own rock face while you prepare for your three-day out-of-camp climbing trip, to further challenge yourself with rock climbing and rappelling. Rock on! Tweedale Bakery July 28 - August 2 Entering Grades: 4-6 Cost: $330 Put on your apron and chef hat! You and your group will bake your way through the week, creating pastries and cakes in the Hill Program Center kitchen, as well as gourmet foods cooked over an outdoor fire. Popovers, homemade bread, creampuffs! Yum! Tripper July 28 - August 2 Entering Grades: 4-7 Cost: $330 Start out in camp, learning how to build your team, pack, travel light, and plan menus. Learn or brush up on canoe and backpack techniques, and then strike out on an overnight canoe trip AND an overnight backpack trip. This is one VERY busy week! French Creek Paddle & Pedal July 28 - August 2 Entering Grades: 5-8 Cost: $380 You’ll spend your first couple days in camp brushing up on tripping skills, biking local roads, and preparing your backpacking gear. Then you’ll head to French Creek State Park where you’ll spend 3 days on a biking and backpacking excursion, including a visit to the Boone farmstead and the Hopewell Furnace. Top off your trip on the park’s Frisbee golf courses. Campers must be in good physical condition and provide a geared bicycle and helmet in good working condition. Moon Maidens July 28 - August 2 Entering Grades: 6-8 Cost: $335 What’s awake after hours at camp? You are! Find out what’s roaming, where the North Star hides and what professions keep you up after dark. Take a night hike, star gaze, learn about the magnificent owl and other nocturnal critters, make glow-in-the dark night shirts, and enjoy camp by the light of the moon. Afternoons are filled with swimming, arts and crafts, and nature activities. * Be sure to bring an oversize white T-shirt. Programs for Girls Entering Grades 6-12 View the Zoo… DC Style! June 16-21 Entering Grades: 7-12 Cost: $385 Travel to DC to spend two days exploring the National Zoo. Watch birds catch food mid-flight, explore the lion and tiger exhibit, and check out the male giant panda. Hopefully you’ll catch orangutans traveling on the Orangutan Transport System, otherwise known as the O-Line. Visit the zoo keepers as they speak about gorillas and orangutans and train sea lions and seals. You might even catch a glimpse of a Pacific Octopus demonstrating their dynamic hunting behaviors. You’ll camp outside DC at night and have time to swim and kayak when you get back to camp! 888.564.4657 • gsep.org • spring/summer 2013 • camp guide 21
Appalachian Adventure June 16-28 Entering Grades: 8-12 Cost: $890 Can you say that you have hiked through a whole state? When you complete this program you will have that bragging right! Spend your first few days conditioning on trails in and around camp, building your team, and preparing for your extended backpacking trip. Then head out for five days on the Maryland section of the Appalachian Trail. * Campers must be in good physical condition and have broken-in hiking boots. No prior backpacking experience is necessary. Bring your own backpack or use one of the camp’s. Showtime June 23-28 Entering Grades: 6-11 Cost: $385 Is drama your passion? Develop and improve skills involved in putting on a production – set the stage, make simple costumes, learn how to act in a variety of characters, and attend a professional theater performance. Put together your own production and share your talent with the rest of camp and your parents at 12:30 PM on Friday! June 30 - July 5 • July 7-12 Cape Henlopen Entering Grades: 7-12 Marine Watch June 30 - July 5 Entering Grades: 8-12 The Artist at Work June 27 - July 5 Entering Grades: 6-11 Cost: $550 Is art your passion? If so, come join us for nine art-packed days of creative fun! You’ll have ample opportunity to dabble in many medias, including silkscreen, calligraphy, stenciling, watercolor, batik, scrapbooking, marbling, papier-mâché, macramé, Moving On Up weaving, and candle making. Your June 30 - July 5 group will also visit an art museum, and Entering Grades: 9-12 tour a well-known artist’s house and studio. While at camp work as a team to design and create a mural for the dining hall! Chesapeake Pedalers June 30 - July 5 Entering Grades: 6-11 Cost: $375 Your first few days at camp will be spent on bike safety and maintenance, menu planning, packing, and tripping skills. You’ll leave Tweedale and bike to Washington Elk Neck State Park on the Chesapeake July 7-12 Bay. While there, enjoy trails, a light Entering Grades: 7-10 house tour, and kayaking in the Chesapeake Bay before biking back to camp. Campers need a geared bike and helmet for this favorite adventure. * See swimming prerequisites (page 3). Cost: $545 Travel to Cape Henlopen State Park in Delaware, where you’ll camp on the beach. Explore coastal wetland ecology and participate in a Dolphin Paddle which is a stand up paddle board excursion in the calm waters of the Delaware Bay. You’ll also get a windsurfing lesson. Cost: $520 Head to New Jersey, where you’ll check out marine life at Adventure Aquarium and learn what you can do to help protect water habitats. Then board the Cape May Whale Watcher to look for dolphins, porpoises, and whales. You’ll wrap up your trip on the Cape May Ferry, where you’ll hear a marine naturalist talk about live animals. Cost: $335 This special program is for girls who are moving on up in the world... You’ll begin with a day of teambuilding, and then branch out to a day on car care, and a day on tips for finding the right college for you. In addition to many of your favorite camp activities on land and lake, you’ll also learn about handling major real-life emergencies and being a gourmet cook in the kitchen and over a fire. Cost: $460 Let’s go down to Washington, DC! Travel to our Nation’s Capital to explore and dig into our nation’s history. Visit the
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