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Camping<br />
Cornucopia<br />
GREATER PASADENA IS HOME TO A DIVERSE<br />
ARRAY OF TRADITIONAL AND SPECIALIZED<br />
SUMMER CAMPS<br />
BY SHEILA MENDES COLEMAN<br />
Once upon a time, summer camps consisted<br />
solely of outdoor options. There was<br />
the requisite swimming, hiking, canoeing<br />
and lanyard-making offerings, as well as other<br />
outdoor crafts, lessons in team-building and<br />
adventure-seeking — and it was good.<br />
But our modern times have spawned a wonderfully<br />
inclusive trend; tailored camps designed<br />
for every kind of student with every kind of need<br />
and interest.<br />
In addition to the traditional camp options,<br />
such as local perennial favorites Camp Adventurewood<br />
(campadventurewood.com — formerly<br />
known as Camp Shi’ini), Tom Sawyer Camp<br />
(tomsawyercamps.com), Camp Kids Klub<br />
(campkidsklub.com) and Steve and Kate’s<br />
Camp (steveandkatescamp.com/pasadena),<br />
there’s a brave new world of camps that take into<br />
account our city’s complex, unique community<br />
of youngsters and all their bourgeoning interests<br />
and talents.<br />
Nowadays, the options are not only more<br />
plentiful — but also more specialized. This has<br />
resulted in a wondrous array of summer camp<br />
choices sure to please even the pickiest camper<br />
— and the most discriminating parent. Never<br />
before has there been such a bounty of summer<br />
camp options; from classes centered on STEM<br />
(Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)<br />
and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering,<br />
Arts and Math) principles and college-prep to<br />
camps focusing on performing arts, tennis, gymnastics,<br />
writing, improv comedy — even a rock<br />
and roll and a surf camp.<br />
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY<br />
STEMworld (stemworld.net) includes field<br />
trips to the Griffith Observatory and the Natural<br />
History Museum, but also takes the model of the<br />
traditional field trip and sends it into the stratosphere<br />
with space/time exploration and techthemed<br />
camp segments, such as Moon Colony<br />
2030, an astrophysics and engineering camp,<br />
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SUMMER GUIDE <strong>2019</strong> PASADENA WEEKLY
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