Camp Video: Camp Simcha - Lighting Up The Night

Camp Simcha is a camp for children with cancer.  They recorded this awesome video at camp and at the Statue of Liberty.

http://campsimcha.org | http://chailifeline.org On August 23, 2011 Camp Simcha, an overnight camp for children battling cancer and other hematological illnesses, visited the Statue of Liberty to help light up the world. We created this video to empower others to brighten the world for children battling cancer.

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CampHack: Ouareau's Frisbee Golf Course

Beth and I lead a 2-day summer camp senior staff training for the leadership team at Camp Ouareau last week.  Ouareau is a bi-lingual girls camp north of Montreal.

It was a great program that introduced our new staff supervision model: T.I.M.E and S.P.A.C.E. with Grace.

While we were there I filmed a CampHacks video featuring their inexpensive disk golf course.

Ouareau summer camp built an inexpensive frisbee golf course using material from their local hardware store. Ouareau (http://www.Ouareau.com) is an all-girls bi-lingual camp north of Montreal. If you like their cool way of Camphacking. You can listen to their director, Gabrielle Raill, on the podcast at http://CampHacker.org/camphacker-shows-listen-here

Linchpins at Summer Camp (video) - Seth Godin

Seth Godin's summer camp interview from Tri-State 2011

We need our summer camp staff to be willing and able to be indispensable in their jobs - creative, energetic and steadfast.    At the Tri-State Camp Conference Travis had a chance to talk with best selling author Seth Godin about how we can inspire the Linchpin mentality.

Seth Godin talks about Linchpins and Poking the Box at summer camp with CampHacker Travis Allison. Interview: Tri-State Camp Conference 2011 For more information and to listen to our podcast or subscribe to our newsletter (great interviews to help camp leaders, free audio shows, etc) click through to http://camphacker.org