FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Ann Bailey Berry, WVU Extension Communications
Phone: (304) 293-4221, ext. 3416; e-mail: Ann.Berry@mail.wvu.edu
To be archived (4-H) after 3/30/07
Camping professionals and volunteers from throughout West Virginia and surrounding states will be “Taking Camp to New Heights” after they complete the Mountaineer Camping Institute (MCI) being held March 13-15 at WVU Jackson’s Mill State 4-H Camp, Weston.
MCI is organized by West Virginia University Extension Service in cooperation with the American Camp Association (ACA).
Drawing on more than 85 years of practical experience and research, MCI leaders say they design sessions to help new and veteran camp directors and counselors improve their skills for creating safe, healthful, educational and fun youth camps.
Participation is not limited to WVU Extension agents and volunteers. MCI attracts camp directors, program directors, camp managers, program staff and volunteers from public and private camping programs.
The workshops reflect WVU Extension educators’ assertion that youth camps should be summer fun packaged with summer learning. MCI participants will experience programs they can offer their youths. Among the sessions will be Reading Partners: A Service Project for 4-H Camps; Hiking for Health; CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) Camp; and Hot, Hot, Hot … Off the Grill.
MCI also provides managerial skill-building sessions for camp professionals and volunteers. Workshops include Insurance 101; Volunteer Supervision; Easy and Inexpensive Team Building for Staff and Campers; Positive Youth Development; Creating Effective Camping Objectives; Leadership Boot Camp; The Proof Is in the Pudding—Exploring the Results of the American Camp Association’s Youth Development Research and “I Know a Quality Camping Program—Or Do I?”
Camp directors are still planning this summer’s activities. But camp
dates are on most organizations’ event calendars. To learn about WVU’s
county 4-H summer camps, contact a WVU
Extension Service county office.
This summer’s WVU 4-H state camp dates are June 17-23, Older Members’ Conference;
July 8-13, Alpha I; and July 15-20, Alpha II.
For more information about building youths’ skills through camp experiences, contact WVU Extension Service camping specialist Bill Beckley by phone (304-293-2796, ext 3438) or by e-mail (Bill.Beckley@mail.wvu.edu).
Additional details about MCI are available on the Web (www.ext.wvu.edu/mountaineer_camping/index.htm)
—WVU-ES—
sfsm 03/02/07
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March 2, 2007
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