Enrichment

15 May 2008

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Summer Enrichment Programs
for Academically Gifted Youth:
Resident Camps

It's not too late to register for this summer!
Enrollment stays open until each session is filled.

Summer 2008 Brochure

Summer 2008 Registration Form

The Summer Enrichment Programs for Academically Gifted Youth provides current 4th through 9th grade students an opportunity to explore a blend of enrichment classes and adventure programs that are designed to encourage and foster intellectual, social and physical growth.

Campers attend their activities in enrichment programs each morning and participate in adventure activities in the afternoons. Seventh, eighth, and ninth grade campers will participate in a four day out-of-camp advanced program that will blend adventure activities with historical, cultural and environmental activities. This type of programming offers campers a broad range of social participation, group responsibility and individual decision making. Morning programs are hands-on activities in areas such as science, history, environmental studies, arts and crafts, journalism, music, dramatic arts, and cultural studies.

Afternoon Adventure Programs place campers in fun, challenging and stimulating environments that allow campers to learn more about themselves and their relationships with other people. Broadstone uses unique classrooms: a high ropes course, rock faces, rivers, trails, an Alpine Tower, and a group problem solving course to teach effective communication, group interdependence, and to improve self-esteem.

The four day trip for older campers will take place in the Mt. Rogers National Recreation Area. All older campers, their learning group leaders and three trip leaders will leave Broadstone on the first Wednesday of the session and return late Saturday after rafting on the Nolichucky River. In this camp-within-a-camp program, older campers apply concepts and practical living skills learned during previous summers to a new situation. Camping out together, planning and preparing meals and designing daily programs will draw upon their abilities to cooperate, compromise, trust and support each other while continuing to build self confidence and provide new challenges.

Activities during the trip generally include:

• Opportunities for hiking in the Mt. Rogers National Recreation Area, including the Appalachian Trail; environmental issues as well as nature studies will be emphasized
• Art museums, hands-on museums, and theaters that introduce campers to historical and cultural perspectives of the area
• Whitewater rafting on the Nolichucky River

INSTRUCTORS AND COUNSELORS from Appalachian State University and other universities provide quality instruction, constant supervision, positive role modeling, and a friendly, caring atmosphere for the campers. Ratios of staff to campers in the different areas of camp:

• Enrichment Classes: 1 to 12
• Adventure Activities and Setting & 4-Day Trip: 1 to 4
• Cabin Setting: 1 to 6

EVENING PROGRAMS include dances, swimming at the University pool, community events, noncompetitive games, special interest clubs, and a skit and talent show.

SATURDAY PROGRAMS allow campers to choose an all day adventure, offering them the opportunity to learn and progress farther in their favorite adventure, be it the Alpine Tower, caving, canoeing, hiking, or the high ropes course.

SUNDAY is a special day consisting of a non-denominational morning service planned by campers and staff and an afternoon of rest, relaxation, and fun on the camp's beautiful lower field.