For over 35 years, kids inspired by technology have come from near and far for high quality education balanced with fun summer camp activities. They create digital art and media, learn to code, explore engineering, and design games.
Kids can explore this prestigious campus while making friends and mastering new tech skills. At iD Tech camps, students ages 7 to 18 learn to code, design video games, produce videos, mod Minecraft, create with Roblox, build laptops, learn about cybersecurity, and more.
Established in 1905, this camp focuses on developing confidence and strong bonds among elementary school children. The idyllic location is surrounded by forests, meadows, and Lake Morey. The camp offers a 12-day "Elfin" program for first through third graders.
Designed for campers ages 8 to 12 years, the one-week first session of this lakefront camp is the only co-ed offering; other weeks are girls- or boys-only.
Located on Bantam Lake, this boutique traditional overnight camp emphasizes individual attention for boys ages 6-16. Activities offered include sports, waterskiing, extreme adventure, arts and crafts, ceramics, laser tag, and outdoor camping.
Campers as young as age 6 can attend the starter two-week session at these long-established brother and sister camps in central Connecticut. Activities include sports, waterskiing, and ropes courses. They even have go karts!
This camp includes an indoor gymnasium, horse stables with a riding ring and trails, ball fields, and four newly renovated tennis courts. Campers as young as 6 are welcome to start out with a 2-week session, which emphasizes choice through 50 different activity offerings.
Starting at age 7, kids can try a one-week session at boys' and girls' camps that are situated across from each other on Spectacle Pond in Cape Cod. Camp is filled with water sports, ropes and climbing activities, lots of athletic options, and more.
Camp Chinqueka is a boutique traditional overnight camp for girls ages 6 to 16 on beautiful Mt. Tom Pond near Litchfield, Connecticut. Days are structured to include both instructional and elective time for activities. Activities offered include sports, waterfront (including waterskiing), gymnastics, arts, nature, ropes, go-karts, and horseback riding, plus a trip program for senior campers. It's a great first-time camp experience!
For one week in August, second through sixth graders can get a taste of Coniston. This co-ed camp features separate girls and boys cabins across the lakefront property, where campers learn a variety of water sports along with a variety of athletics and arts options.
Seven to 12-year-olds are welcome to try a one-week session at this co-ed camp offering a full range of sporting and arts activities on Point Judith Salt Pond.
This long-running camp—90+ years—ensures that its counselors focus on teaching life-long skills in a fun, enriching environment. For kids entering third through eighth grades there is a one-week "sampler" camp, featuring all the activities of traditional two-week programs.
There are 10-day "junior" sessions for second through fourth graders at this wilderness-focused camp for boys (Kieve) or girls (Wavus).
This camp provides an all-around summer experience including access to two pools, archery, high and low ropes courses, boating, arts and crafts. A one-week rookie camp explores Jewish identity and values, nature appreciation, and friendship.
This popular boys' camp on Lake Winnipesaukee offers two one-week sessions along with their regular two-week programs. (Lake Nokomis, its sister camp also has two-week sessions).
Many kids spend the full summer in this long-established (since 1929) Berkshires camp, but first-time campers in first through fifth grades are welcome to attend a one-week "Mini Mak Rookie Camp" in late July.
Highlights at this camp include a 40-foot climbing tower, on-site horseback riding, and a private lake and shoreline. The Harmony Land program is tailored to 7- and 8-year-olds who want to try Runoia before committing to four-week or full-summer sessions.
Walt Whitman is typically a seven-week commitment, but first-timers can try Pioneer Camp, which offers all the camp's typical swimming, sports, and arts activities in a one-week trial period.
Children of all faith traditions are welcome at Camp Washington, the official camp and retreat center of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. Campers explore the 300-acre campus, relax, learn, have fun, and foster friendships that last a lifetime.
Two-week mini sessions are available for first-time campers starting in first through fifth grades at this Cape Cod camp, which focuses on "daily choice" of activities, from traditional sports to out-of-the-box options like Zombie Hunters and Ethical Dilemmas.
For more than 25 years, Education Unlimited has offered academic and creative arts summer camp programs for middle and high school students. The organization believes that a summer spent in an enriching academic environment that is fun and engaging in nature will not only supplement but enhance a student’s school year learning.
This family-owned coed camp offers two- to seven-week sessions. First-timers can attend a one-week session in August. Located on more than 100 acres in the foothills of the Berkshires, campers enjoy a pool, lake, theater, ball fields, ropes courses, a skate park, and a climbing tower.
Craftsbury, Vermont, is home to this small, nature-based camp. One-week sessions are offered for children ages 8-13. Campers set their own schedule daily and there is a sliding scale for tuition, making camp a possibility for all children.
Young mariners ages 8 to 15 years old sleep overnight on a historic vessel by night and learn to sail and take care of the fully-rigged ship by day.
Located on the campus of Thomas College, Maine Arts Camp has a limited enrollment this summer—just 130 campers per session—and offers two- and four-week sessions with classes like still life painting, metal jewelry, fiction writing, musical theater, tennis, and fusion cuisine.
Overland's co-ed journeys take teens all over the globe but starting in fourth grade, campers can attend one-week introductory hiking trips in New England, North Carolina, Washington, Yellowstone, or the Sierras.
The only martial arts sleep-away camp in the US. Authentic Shaolin Martial arts as taught by 34th Generation Shaolin Warrior Monk, Shi Yan Ming. The mission of the USA Shaolin Temple Summer Camp is to empower youth with confidence, self-understanding, compassion, and respect for themselves and others through training in the thousand-year old traditions of Shaolin martial arts and philosophy. Besides training in the core disciplines of Shaolin (Kung Fu, Tai Chi, and Qi Gong), activities such as Chinese Chess, Chinese language classes, calligraphy, nature hikes, and other sports and outdoor excursions will complement each individual’s experience at the Shaolin Summer Camp. For more information, visit us at: http://www.shaolinsummercamp.org/ All skill levels welcome. Ages 11 to 17. Online Registration: http://store.usashaolintemple.org/store/2014-summer-camp Come train with us and register today!
From ropes courses to Scottish dancing, this Mass Audubon camp packs in additional creative activities along with nature exploration. Seven and 8-year-olds can start out with a "Wildwood Warblers" three-day camp, and 9- to 14-year-olds choose from one- or two-week sessions.
