Session 2 Video Highlights & Slideshow
We have so many great memories from Session 2. Here are a few highlights as recorded by our awesome media team (AKA the "GACarazzi"): [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRbFX6Hdn1Q[/embed]
Camp Kindness Day
GAC is excited to be joining camps across the country in celebrating Camp Kindness Day! For our summer theme, Better Together, we've been talking about ways we can be better together. After a year of being separated from loved ones and friends, it's more important than ever to remember to be kind to one another and find ways in which we are better together.
Here's what the American Camp Association has to say about Camp Kindness Day:
On July 20, the camp community will participate in Camp Kindness Day – an event highlighting the practice of intentional kindness that happens every day at American camps. This is an opportunity to raise awareness of the the great work that camps are doing to teach kindness in engaging, simple, repeatable, and high impact ways that live on in the daily lives of campers and staff members when they return home.
Focusing on our youth and young adults, Camp Kindness Day will help showcase the commitment of the camp community to fostering the core values of kindness, compassion, generosity and care, and integrating those values more fully into every aspect of our society. These values are already part of the fabric of the camp experience. We share the mission for our youth to be nurtured, taught, supported, and inspired to grow into our new generation of kind, compassionate, socially-minded, community-oriented citizens.
Camp Kindness Day will allow camps to incorporate into their July 20 programming fun theme-based activities and cooperative games, cool projects, and memorable moments which will ... Read more
Session 1 Video Highlights & Slideshow
Session 1 has already come and gone and we miss everyone so much already! We hope you enjoy these memories and we cannot wait to see you next year! [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdeBVXsLtWQ[/embed]
Session 1 Graduating Campers
Gold Arrow campers who have completed the 9th or 10th grade take part in a special celebration at the end of their camp session. These campers and their counselor gather around a magical campfire created just for them when the rest of camp is settling into their sleeping bags. This is a milestone and tradition that campers both look forward to and have feelings of trepidation about because it signals the beginning of something new and the end of their time as a carefree camper. Each camper receives a paddle inscribed with their name and a special word selected by their counselor. Notches on the wood represent the years spent at GAC. For our graduating campers, this paddle is more than wood and inscriptions, it’s the hope of what lies ahead after the many lessons learned as a camper.