the 2016 Program Book - American Camp Association

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ACA gratefully acknowledges the commitment of these hardworking volunteers and the support of their camps. If you are interested
in volunteering for the 2017 Tri-State CAMP Conference, please contact the ACA, NY and NJ office at tristate@acanynj.org.
LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE
Conference Chair
Conference Program Co-Chairs
ACA, NY and NJ Prof Dev Oversight Chair
ACA, NY and NJ President
ACA, NY AND NJ STAFF
Executive Director
Director of Events
Events and Marketing Associate
Director of Operations
Director of Communications
Director of Camper Placement
Director of Member Services
Associate Director of Standards
Membership and Training Associate
VENDOR COMMITTEE
JASON SAMUEL, Chair
ERIC FORTI
SCOTT LANTZMAN
SCOTT LEONARD
CARLY MELTZER
JUSTIN EFROS
JUSTIN MAYER
MATT JACKOWITZ
SCOTT ROSENBLUTH
TODD ROBBINS
SUSIE LUPERT
SAMARA FEINBERG
LETI SALAMA
BETH CHIAFAIR
JESS MICHAELS
RENEE FLAX
ALLISON WITTENBERG
KYLE MEDEIROS
AMRINE TOMLINSON
Deer Mountain Day Camp
H&H Purchasing
Woodmont Day Camp
Camp Wicosuta
Jeff Lake Camp
Timber Lake West
Camp Walt Whitman
Camps Equinunk and Blue Ridge
North Shore Day Camp
HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE
JACKIE BRETHEL, Chair
LAUREN BERNSTEIN
BRANDI CARNIVALE
LILLIE KUGLER
Camp Cobbossee
Camp Walden
Liberty Lake Day Camp
Camp Mah-Kee-Nac
EPIC COMMITTEE
LAUREN HOHMAN, Chair
GREGG LICHT, Director Liaison
NICKI ALPERN
ADAM BARANKER
MELANIE BUCK
MICHAEL DAVIDOWITZ
ROBBIE GOTHELF
JOHN HAWK
PHILIP JAMES
LINDSEY KULCHIN
MATTY LAYMAN
CARLY MELTZER
BRIDGET SHANAHAN
Southwoods
Elmwood Day Camp
Camps Equinunk and Blue Ridge
Jeff Lake Camp
Meadowbrook Country Day Camp
Tyler Hill Camp
Timber Lake Camp
Camp Cobbossee
Project Morry
Ramapo Country Day Camp
Indian Head Camp
Camp Wicosuta
The Fresh Air Fund
2016 VOCE PRESENTERS
SCOTT BRODY, Chair
SHELLEY TAGER, Chair
SUSIE BASKIN
LAUREN BERNSTEIN
MICKEY BLACK
EPHRAM CAFLUN
JORDAN DALE
JON DEREN
DAWN EWING
RICHIE GERSTEN
DAYNA HARDIN
MARK HONIGFELD
JAY JACOBS
MINDY JACOBS
GORDON JOSEY
ARTHUR KESSLER
STACY KOTELOV
MARK MAJOR
DAVID MILLER
ANDY PRITIKIN
SCOTT RALLS
STEPHANIE REITER
MITCH REITER
KEN SCHAINMAN
ALAN SILVERMAN
TONY STEIN
ROBYN TANNE
MARK TRANSPORT
Camps Kenwood and Evergreen
Indian Head Camp
Camp Champions
Camp Walden
Pine Forest Camp
Camp Weekela
Surprise Lake Camp
Camp Manitou
Project Morry
Brant Lake Camp
Lake of the Woods and Greenwoods
Trails End Camp
Timber Lake Camp
Timber Lake Camp
Breezemont Camp
Ramaquois Day Camp
Banner Day Camp
International Sports Training Camp
Camp Starlight
Liberty Lake Day Camp and Everwood
Day Camp
Southwoods
Camp Towanda
Camp Towanda
Camp Mohawk
Camp Moshava
Camp Echo Lake
Harbor Haven
Camp Taconic
JED BUCK, Meadowbrook Country Day Camp
LAURIE RINKE, Camp Echo Lake and COREY DOCKSWELL, Camp Wicosuta
DAWN EWING, Project Morry
ANDY PRITIKIN, Liberty Lake Day Camp and Everwood Day Camp
EXHIBITOR BOARD LIAISON
JEFFREY SKIER
AMSkier Insurance
CONFERENCE OPERATIONS
JANETTE CONLIN
Vernon Computer Source
ORIENTATION COMMITTEE
SCOTT LANTZMAN
DAVE MALTER
Touro University
2016 CAMP CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
PRE-CONFERENCE
DREW BITTERMAN, Chair
Camp Watitoh
GENERAL SESSION
JACKIE BRETHEL, Chair
Camp Cobbossee
BUSINESS TRACK
MATT KAUFMAN, Co-Chair
ASHLEY SCHMITZ, Co-Chair
EREC HILLIS
LINDSAY HUTCHINSON
Ramaquois Day Camp
KE Camps
Camp Champions
Frost Valley
CAMPER TRACK
JAMIE SIRKIN, Co-Chair
RACHEL MAX, Co-Chair
MELANIE BUCK
ASHLEIGH STRENG
Summer Trails Day Camp
Shibley Day Camp
Meadowbrook Country Day Camp
Camp Walt Whitman
PARENTS AND OTHER PARTNERS
ALYSSA GIRLING, Co-Chair
DEBBIE SASSON, Co-Chair
MARY LEE DINSKI
TRACK
Camp Winadu
Camp Akeela
Fiver
OPERATIONS TRACK
DAN WEIR, Co-Chair
ADAM BARANKER, Co-Chair
KEVIN TRIMBLE
SCOTT GLICK
Frost Valley YMCA
Jeff Lake Camp
Camp Akeela
Timber Lake Camp
PROGRAM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT TRACK
MATT JACKOWITZ, Co-Chair
Camp Walt Whitman
JACKIE PORT, Co-Chair
Ramaquois Day Camp
LORILEE CHIEN
Project Morry
ROBBIE GOTHELF
Timber Lake Camp
ACTIVITIES TRACK
SCOTT LANTZMAN, Co-Chair
CRICKET SNEARING, Co-Chair
CARA CORRADETTI
JOEL SHAPIRO
Sesame/Rockwood Day Camps
Appel Farm Arts Camp
Ramaquois Day Camp
LEADERSHIP TRACK
ADAM BAKER, Co-Chair
WENDY SIEGEL, Co-Chair
DAN SCHMITZ
KATIE DUFFY
DAVE SKOLNICK
Camps Equinunk and Blue Ridge
Tyler Hill Camp
KE Camps
Asphalt Green
Hampton Country Day Camp
STAFF TRACK
GENNA SINGER, Co-Chair
JENN DESPAGNA, Co-Chair
MATTY LAYMAN
TOM COFFEY
JCC Manhattan
Timber Lake West
Indian Head Camp
Hampton Country Day Camp
MULTI MEDIA PROJECTS
JASON SEBELL
Camps Kenwood and Evergreen
ROOM HOST
KRISTEN QUINTANO, Co-Chair
ASHLEIGH STRENG, Co-Chair
A BroaderWay Foundation
Camp Walt Whitman
MEET ‘N’ EATS
GREGG LICHT, Chair
Elmwood Day Camp
SPEAKER HOSPITALITY
DINA ALTOONIAN
CHOI GARCIA
Pierce Country Day Camp
SCOPE
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contents
2016 SPONSORS AND PARTNERS
INSIDE FRONT COVER
WELCOME FROM THE TRI-STATE CAMP CONFERENCE CHAIR
3
A MESSAGE FROM THE ACA, NY & NJ PRESIDENT
3
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
4
DINNER AND EVENING ACTIVITIES
6
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
9
ATLANTIC CITY AND THE CONVENTION CENTER
10
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (GREAT FOR FIRST-TIMERS)
12
ACA ACCREDITATION: STANDARDS COURSES
12
ATLANTIC CITY CONVENTION CENTER FLOOR PLANS
13
EXHIBIT HALL FLOOR PLAN AND INFORMATION
14
CONFERENCE EXHIBITORS
18
EXHIBITOR PRODUCT/ SERVICE INDEX
47
CONFERENCE SESSIONS & WORKSHOPS
55
MONDAY, MARCH 7, PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
58
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, SESSION INFORMATION
63
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, SESSION INFORMATION
77
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, SESSION INFORMATION
97
ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF 2016 SPEAKERS
106
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
110
CAMP CONFERENCE AWARD WINNERS
128
UPCOMING ACA EVENTS FOR ALL TO ATTEND
134
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Welcome to the 2016 Tri-State Camp Conference...
Camp for the Camp Professional.
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trees, just waiting for the signal of warm sunshine to
come back to life and create the foundation and the
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As a Camp Professional, you are committed to
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>“«iÀð
While Summer seems far away, we all know it will be
…iÀiLivœÀiÜiŽ˜œÜˆÌ°Ƃ˜`LÞ>ÌÌi˜`ˆ˜}>˜`«>À̈Vˆpating in this year’s conference, you are planting your
own seeds of learning and personal growth that will
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While we call this the Tri-State Camp Conference, it
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Camp Professionals in the world, and I am thrilled that
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conference is designed to be the biggest and best
conference ever! We have outstanding keynote speakers
for our General Sessions that were chosen to educate
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inspiring and relevant story of the “Life is Good” brand
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this psychological trait that is key to the success of
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there will be many educational sessions presented by
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Throughout the week, please make sure to take advantage of all that the conference offers, including informal
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Speaking of the vendor hall, at last year’s conference,
I asked everyone to set a goal of meeting 20 new exhibit
hall vendors and buying from at least 5 new ones
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you were successful, and I hope you will repeat that
goal of meeting another 20 new vendors this year and
purchasing from at least 5 new ones again during the
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support this conference is the single most important
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Camp purchasing needs, not only this week, but all
year long, because without them this conference would
not be possible
Finally, when you meet and interact with the many
conference volunteers, please make sure to thank
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…>ˆÀÃ>˜`i“LiÀÃ
to those working hospitality, room hosting, and
everything else, please remember that this conference
would not be possible without the hours and hours
of time that they take from their full time jobs and
̅iˆÀ«iÀܘ>ˆÛiÃ̜`i`ˆV>Ìi̜̅ˆÃVœ˜viÀi˜Vi°ƂÃ
always, if you would like to become more involved as a
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are always looking for fresh ideas
>˜`i˜iÀ}Þ°
I hope you have a wonderfull
experience and successfully
plant the seeds for an amazing
Summer of 2016 here at the
Tri-State Camp Conference:
Camp for the Camp
Professional!
See you at Camp!
JED BUCK Conference Chair
Meadowbrook Country Day Camp
6 L Welcome to the largest gathering of camp professionals in the world, the 2016 Tri-State CAMP
Conference! Tri-State is the highlight of our Camp Professional off-season, with endless possibilities to learn,
shop and network! From the workshop sessions, to the keynotes, to the exhibit hall, to the informal and impactful
conversations we will be having with our colleagues, prepare yourself for an awesome week of learning from one
another and a hefty dose of inspiration from what we do with the millions of children who attend summer camp.
Much appreciation is deserved for the leadership of Jed Buck, and the creativity of program chairs Corey
Dockswell and Laurie Rinke, who have put together a wide-ranging collection of workshop sessions that will
expand your horizons and challenge your conventional wisdom.
The exhibit hall is the greatest collection of camp business partners ever assembled, all super-charged with
new ideas and products that can improve your camp organization. Make the effort to put time aside for walking
through all the aisles of the hall (it takes a few hours, trust me), and be sure to thank these folks for coming to
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Speaking of value, take a moment to consider what it would cost to bring the cutting-edge
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consultants you will see this week into your camp. Consider the centuries of wisdom being
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shared by our experienced colleagues, and the lessons learned that will be shared. We are
extremely fortunate, as this is an opportunity like none other to bring new ideas immediately
back to our camps for this summer season.
Embrace the possibilities and take advantage of what the volunteers of the Tri-State
Conference Committees have laid out before you. Don’t be shy—Meet new people, just
like you encourage your campers and staff to do. Tri-State is famously known to this
Convention Center as the friendliest gathering of happy people that they’ve ever seen!
Take lots of notes, and be disciplined to distill the wisdom you absorb into actionable
steps back at your camps and organizations next week.
And most importantly—Enjoy the moment!
ANDY PRITIKIN • ACA, NY & NJ President • Liberty Lake Day Camp and Everwood Day Camp
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CONFERENCE
INFORMATION
REGISTRATION HOURS
WHERE? Outside of Hall B, located on the second
level of the Atlantic City Convention Center
MONDAY, MARCH 7
8:00 AM–6:00 PM
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
7:30 AM–5:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
7:30 AM–5:00 PM
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
7:30 AM–1:30 PM
We have over 160 educational sessions with something for everyone:
owners, directors, head counselors, program heads, support staff,
volunteers, board members, as well as teachers, after-school programmers
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As camp professionals, we are faced with a myriad of daily challenges,
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our employee base is transient yet critical to our success, and we have
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Children are exposed to more things and are tougher to please, leading
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you remember back when our biggest decision was how to break color
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profession moves forward, the conference program will continue to be a
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Plan your strategy, spread out your staff and make the most of the
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You can plan on meeting as a group during each day of the conference,
either in the Ben Appelbaum Lounge located in Room 319 or in the
ACA, NY & NJ Member Lounge, located near Registration on the
second level, both of which provide plenty of space to meet and
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throughout the day, as well as opportunities at lunchtime to review how
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staff is a must, with all staff members being prepared to share information
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your time, share what you’ve learned and improve your organization for
the summer of 2016!
The Tri-State CAMP Conference has been approved as an ACA
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Vœ˜˜iV̏i>À˜iÀÃ̜i`ÕV>̈œ˜>œ««œÀÌ՘ˆÌˆið
The Exhibit Hall will be open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of the
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It is vital to your organization that you make time available
during the conference in order to truly appreciate the
Exhibit Hall. Our vendors support us, so please support
them! As always we ask you to pledge to “Shop Tri-State!”
The finest suppliers of products and services for camps and recreational
organizations—with more than 270 exhibitors—are an invaluable
educational and business resource that will help you make the best
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just for directors; it is also geared to purchasing directors, health supervisors, food-service directors, program/activity heads, athletics directors,
aquatics directors, maintenance supervisors, business managers and
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EXHIBIT HALL HOURS
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
12:30–5:00 PM
Exhibit Hall Grand Opening
Unopposed time in Exhibit Hall
12:30–3:00 PM
4:00–5:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
Free Coffee with the Exhibitors
Unopposed Time in Exhibit Hall
10:45 AM–5:00 PM
10:45–11:45 AM
11:00 AM–2:00 PM
4:15–5:00 PM
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
Free Coffee with the Exhibitors
Unopposed Time in Exhibit Hall
9:30 AM–12:00 PM
9:30–10:00 AM
11:15 AM–12:00 PM
WANNA KNOW MORE?
Visit the EPIC (Emerging Professionals in
Camping) Committee, SCOPE (Summer
Camp Opportunties Promote Education), The
New York State Camp Directors Association
(NYSCDA), NJ-GAP and Touro University
(with information about the Master of Science
in Camp Administration and Leadership Program)
tables located inside the Exhibit Hall to the left
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4
THE EXHIBIT HALL
INTERACTIVE ZONE
Stop by the Interactive Zone to experience the latest and greatest in today’s
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Liº"Þ“«ˆV-«œÀÌû°
œ“i
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40 Years of SportCourt and enter
to win a special prize! Enjoy some
paddle games, shoot around on the
SportCourt or dodge the ball with
fellow attendees in the CAMP
Conference Gaga pit! Pickup
games and fun for all!
Sponsored by:
INTERACTIVE ZONE
INTERACTIVE ZONE
sportpros usa’s
10th tri-state
anniversary
celebration
THE CAMP CONFERENCE CONTINUES TO “GO GREEN”
Our staff has made continued efforts this year to make sure that elements
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on-site conference program book on recycled paper, and handouts will
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you can print out paper copies of handouts across from the Ben
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session evaluations on our conference app! Also, at the end of the
conference, please make sure you recycle your badge holder in one of
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HOSPITALITY AREA
Sponsored by:
*SportProsUSA’s prior camp clients (plus guests), by invitation only
Stop by the hospitality area, located by
registration outside hall B, to grab a program
book, a tote bag, to decorate your badge
with stickers sponsored by Camp Emoji and
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always a volunteer manning the hospitality
desk to answer any questions you may have!
FOOD COURT
EPIC’S STRIDE 4 SCOPE
No need to leave the Convention Center to eat lunch! Grab some lunch
in the back of the hall and network with others in the open-seating aisle
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As summer camp professionals, we all like to
leave our environment even better than we
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Camping (EPIC) group believes this value
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܈
be making Strides 4 SCOPE by raising funds and awareness to help
send children from low income families in the Atlantic City area to
summer camp through SCOPE (Summer Camp Opportunities Promote
Education)
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 4:30–6:00 PM
Interactive Zone in the
Back of Exhibit Hall
Drinks and appetizers will be served!
BEN APPELBAUM LOUNGE
WHERE?
WHEn?
Room 319
MONDAY, MARCH 7 –
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
(Open throughout the day)
Need a place to kick back and relax, talk
with colleagues, grab a cup of coffee or a
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AMERICAN CAMP ASSOCIATION BOOKSTORE
Sponsored by:
GRAB YOUR LUNCH FOR THE MEET ’N’ EAT SESSIONS!
WHERE?
WHEn?
Come shop in the ACA Bookstore for your
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special selection of materials designed solely
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one-stop resource for books, forms, teaching tools and products with
̅iƂ
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shipped to you the next week!
OUTSIDE ROOM 319
OUTSIDE ROOM 416
Book Signing
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 12:45–1:45 PM
Join Keynote, John Jacobs, for a book signing of his book,
Life is Good: The Book
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9 12:30–1:30 PM
Special lunch stations will be set up during our two Meet ’N’ Eat lunch
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THE ACA, NY & NJ LOUNGE
WHERE? NEAR THE REGISTRATION AREA, SECOND LEVEL
WHEn?
MONDAY, MARCH 7–THURSDAY, MARCH 10
(Open throughout the day)
Stop by our ACA NY & NJ Lounge across from Registration! Plan out
your day at the conference, meet with colleagues or learn about the
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THE E-ZONE LOCATED IN THE BEN APPELBAUM LOUNGE
WHERE?
WHEn?
(Located inside the front of the Exhibit Hall)
ROOM 319
MONDAY, MARCH 7–THURSDAY, MARCH 10
(Open throughout the day)
Stop by the E-Zone, where computers will be available throughout the
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WHERE?
IN THE ACA BOOKSTORE
WHEn?
MARCH 8 FROM 12:30–1:00PM
CAMP TRADING POST LIVE
WHERE?
WHEn?
ROOM 407
MONDAY, MARCH 7 –
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
(Open during registration hours)
ACA, NY and NJ has brought the Camp Trading
Post Facebook page to Tri-State! Drop off items your camp no longer
needs so not for profit camps can take them and reuse them to enhance
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camptradingpost so your camp can post about items to donate or that
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Let’s continue to be a sharing community who helps other camps thrive,
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Don’t just go back to your hotel when sessions are over!
Evening events at the CAMP Conference allow for time to kick
back and spend time with colleagues and meet new friends.
Our dinners, happy hours and social events are a great place
to network with conference attendees, speakers and exhibitors,
and unwind after a day in the Convention Center.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
MONDAY, MARCH 7
$20 per person – includes one free drink and light snacks
5:00–7:00 PM
FREE HAPPY HOUR HOSTED BY EPIC,
TUN TAVERN, AT THE SHERATON
5:30–7:00 PM
THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT “SOCIAL”*
AT THE SHERATON HOTEL
2 Convention Blvd
Sheraton Hotel
Check out this REVAMPED event! Join us for a happy hour following
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-…iÀ>̜˜vœÀ>«ÀˆÛ>ÌiiÛi˜ÌÕÃÌvœÀœÕÀ>ÌÌi˜`iið
œ˜Ìˆ˜Õi̅i
networking and still have time to go out to dinner with your camp!
FREE!
2 Miss America Way
*Please note this event does NOT serve dinner
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There is no better place to spend your first night at Tri-State!
(Register for the above event on-site at Attendee Registration—space
is limited!)
7:00–9:00 PM
premier
sponsor!
CUBA LIBRE
AT THE TROPICANA
Sponsored by:
2801 Pacific Ave.
$40 per person
Spend your first night in Atlantic City surrounded by the excitement of
Latin flavors and sounds at Cuba Libre! Meet fellow attendees and relax
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(Register for the above event on-site at Attendee Registration—space
is limited!)
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
7:00–9:00 PM
“ITALIAN NIGHT” AT CARMINE’S,
THE QUARTER AT THE TROPICANA
2801 Pacific Ave
$40 per person
Benvenuti! The authentic Italian aromas swirling from the kitchen at
Carmine’s may draw you inside, but the warm hospitality and flavorful,
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camp-style atmosphere have made this the most popular dinner at the
Vœ˜viÀi˜Vi°
(Register for the above event on-site at Attendee Registration—space is
limited!)
9:00 PM–MIDNIGHT
CHICKIE’S AND PETE’S
AT THE TROPICANA
2831 Boardwalk
What’s better than a late-night drink
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your badge for special deals on drinks
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FREE!
MONDAY, MARCH 7
4:00 – 5:00 PM
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
URBAN CAMPS MEET AND GREET
CAMP TRADING POST LIVE
Room 406
Room 407
Network with fellow camp professionals who are
operating summer programs in an urban environ“i˜ÌvœÀ>iiÌ>˜`ÀiiÌ/ÕiÃ`>Þ>vÌiÀ˜œœ˜°/…ˆÃ
is a great opportunity to connect with colleagues
after the first day of Tri-State to discuss common
challenges in running camp as well as successes
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sharing ideas and stories over a few snacks!
(For description see Page 5)
2:00–6:30 PM
ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT JEWISH CAMPS (AIJC)
Room 306
The Association of Independent Jewish Camps creates an environment
for independent not-for-profit Jewish camps to collaborate in their
continued efforts to grow and thrive! Our member camps all have a
successful inclusive, non-movement-based Jewish philosophy and a
pragmatic approach that uniquely positions them to reach the affiliated
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approach, the AIJC provides value on an individual level to member
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out for us at this year’s Tri-State to learn more about how you can take
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5:00–5:45 PM
MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR CAMP CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE:
THE “FIRST-TIMERS” ORIENTATION
Room 304
Join us for a brief introduction to Atlantic City and the Tri-State CAMP
Conference, where you will discover the “must-attend” events that
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help you determine what goals are most important to you and your
camp profession, and then match up the key educational sessions and
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KATIE DUFFY
FACILITATORS: KATIE DUFFY, Asphalt Green
Day Camp
ELYSSA GAFFIN, Young Judaea Sprout
Brooklyn Day Camp
4:30–6:00 PM
INTERACTIVE ZONE IN BACK OF EXHIBIT HALL
ELYSSA GAFFIN
SportPros USA’s 10th Tri-State Anniversary Celebration*
Interactive Zone in the Back of Exhibit Hall
Drinks and appetizers will be served!
*SportProsUSA’s prior camp clients (plus guests), by invitation only
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
“CAMP SHIRT WEDNESDAY”
(Wear your camp apparel!) *please provide new picture
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
7:30 AM – 5:00 PM
CAMP TRADING POST LIVE
Room 407
(For description see Page 5)
7:45–8:25 AM
MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR CAMP CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE:
THE “FIRST-TIMERS” ORIENTATION
Room 415
7:15 AM
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`iÃVÀˆ«Ìˆœ˜>LœÛivœÀ“œÀiˆ˜vœÀ“>̈œ˜°®
TRI-STATE’S 5K FUN RUN
8:00 AM–5:00 PM
ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT JEWISH CAMPS (AIJC)
Room 306
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12:30–3:00 PM
Sponsored by:
Join us as we start the day right with a 5K
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A $10 entrance fee will go directly towards the
EPIC fundraiser, which this year will be raising
awareness and funds to help send children
from low income families in Atlantic City to
camp! Complimentary hats, refreshments and
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EXHIBIT HALL GRAND OPENING
Hall B, Second Level
7:30 AM – 5:00 PM
This is your first chance to explore the many products and services that
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meet new ones and get inspired by this year’s Exhibit Hall, full of
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CAMP TRADING POST LIVE
Room 407
(For description see Page 5)
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8:00 AM–5:00 PM
ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT JEWISH CAMPS (AIJC)
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
Room 306
7:30 AM – 1:30 PM
CAMP TRADING POST LIVE
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Room 407
(For description see Page 5)
10:45 AM–5:00 PM
THE EXHIBIT HALL IS OPEN ALL DAY
8:30–11:45 AM
Hall B, Second Level
Find some time during the day to visit the Exhibit Hall and make sure
you have the products and services you need to make your 2016
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2:00 PM and from 4:15 PM̜x\ä䫓°
10:45–11:45 AM
Sponsored by:
FREE COFFEE WITH
THE EXHIBITORS
Room 411
Don’t miss this FREE opportunity to collaborate, learn and build
relationships with other JCC day and overnight professionals while
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The program will include special guest speakers Andy Pritikin and
Hannah Dubin:
> Andy is the president of ACA, NY & NJ and a private camp owner, and
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Hall B, Second Level
Start your day off right—come meet the exhibitors, grab a complimentary
cup of coffee in the Exhibit Hall and get geared up for a busy day at the
Vœ˜viÀi˜Vi°
4:30–6:30 PM
> Hannah runs Han Ban Can, her own consulting business, and is an
expert in facilitation, team dynamic management and positive youth
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Come and schmooze—you can’t lose!
ACA CHESAPEAKE GET-TOGETHER
9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Room 406
Join us in a brief get-together for an update
on spring training and educational events in the Chesapeake Section
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and your fellow section camps, and share your thoughts on trainings
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will ever make to a section meeting—don’t miss out!
4:30–6:30 PM
EXHIBIT HALL OPEN
Hall B, Second Level
Enter the hall for the last time to catch up with our exhibitors and place
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crafts supplies, order your staff shirts, and book some inflatable rides for
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SPECIAL NEEDS CAMPING MEET AND GREET
9:30–10:00 AM
Room 405
FREE COFFEE WITH
THE EXHIBITORS
This meet and greet is for special needs camp directors, supervisors,
programmers and counselors to share ideas and knowledge, network
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what’s on your plate as a special needs camp and learn from each
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Start your day off right—come meet the exhibitors, grab a complimentary
cup of coffee in the Exhibit Hall and get geared up for your last day at
your conference!
11:15 AM–12:00 PM
JCC CAMPING SOCIAL HOUR
FREE REFRESHMENTS
WITH EXHIBITORS
It’s 5 o’clock somewhere and that somewhere is the JCC Day and
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ƂÃÜVˆ>̈œ˜Üˆ…œÃÌ>VœVŽÌ>ˆ
hour on Wednesday evening for all JCC overnight and day camp
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colleagues and find out more about JCC camps!
5:00–6:30 PM
FAITH-BASED ORGANIZIATIONS MEET AND GREET
Room 417
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Let’s gather on Wednesday during the Tri-State Conference! Come
meet your faith-based camping neighbors, and let’s share conversation
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5:30–7:00 PM
ANNUAL GIRL SCOUT GATHERING
Room 419
Please join Westex for its annual Girl
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others and enjoy!
Sponsored by:
Sponsored by:
Hall B, Second Level
5:00–6:00 PM
Sheraton Hotel (Crown Ballroom, 2nd Floor)
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JCC DAY & OVERNIGHT BRUNCH & LEARN
Sponsored by:
Hall B, Second Level
Come meet the exhibitors, take advantage of “fire sales,” grab
complimentary refreshments in the Exhibit Hall and get ready for a
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TUESDAY, MARCH 8
11:00 AM–12:30 PM
GENERAL SESSION –
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
JOHN JACOBS, Co-Founder
& Chief Creative Optimist,
Life Is Good
Location: Hall A, Second Level
Brand is good: Building a
Community of Loyal Customers
In this keynote, John delves into the importance of community building,
a vital aspect of business that goes much beyond accumulating followers
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message of positivity and getting it across to not only his customers,
but himself and his employees (Life is Good HQ includes a bar and
music stage among its many perks) so that, wherever you look at it, it is
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customers have the ability to see right through a company or organization’s intentions, and John’s lessons will help any audience member’s
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John Jacobs is co-founder and Chief Creative Optimist of The Life is
Good Company, which spreads the power of optimism through inspiring
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and his brother Bert launched their business with $78 in their pockets,
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million positive lifestyle brand sold by over 4,000 retailers across the US
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He’s been writing and drawing ever since, graduating from the University
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After five years traveling in their van together, the brothers officially
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When John is not creating inspiring content, he enjoys outdoor adventures
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To inspire others to choose optimism and grow the good in their lives, Bert
and John wrote Life is Good: The Book- How to Live with Purpose and
Enjoy the Ride,«ÕLˆÃ…i`LÞ >̈œ˜>iœ}À>«…ˆVˆ˜-i«Ìi“LiÀÓä£x°
John has been awarded honorary doctorates from several universities
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Life is Good have been featured on CNNMoney, CNBC’s Business
Nation, ABC News’ Nightline, NBC’s The Today Show, and in the New
York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine and Men’s Health,
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They credit their mother as the first powerful optimist in their lives and
the inspiration for Life is Good.
Book Signing
Join Keynote, John Jacobs, for a book signing of his book,
Life is Good: The Book
WHERE?
IN THE ACA BOOKSTORE
WHEn?
MARCH 8 FROM 12:30–1:00PM
TRI-STATE CAMP
CONFERENCE
AWARD WINNER:
BILLY HOCH, Camp Watitoh
Born on Visiting Day and raised in camp, Billy
Hoch has been the year-round director of Camp
Watitoh since 1989, having spent nearly every
summer of his life at camp—first as a camper, and
nd
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School of Law, Billy served as an assistant district attorney in Bronx, NY
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Billy has been a member of ACA-NY/NJ’s Public Guidance Service
Committee since 1990, and has chaired that committee from 1996–2004
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member of the Tri-State Program Committee and currently serves on
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Massachusetts Camp Directors Association and vice president of the
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>“«ƂÃÜVˆ>̈œ˜°
His wife, Debbie; son, Joshua; and mother, Sandy—all life-long campers—
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THURSDAY, MARCH 10
12:00–2:00 PM
GENERAL SESSION –
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
DR. ANGELA DUCKWORTH
Location: Hall A, Second Level
True Grit: The Science of Success
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presents her influential work on grit—the tendencyy to
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the predictive power of grit for performance in a variety of fascinating
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National Spelling Bee competitors, rookie teachers, students from the
Chicago Public Schools—all people performing in high-stress environments—
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these examples and others, Duckworth explains what makes gritty individuals
different from others and shares her belief that grit “can be instilled and
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Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth is a leading researcher in the study of GRIT
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consultant and, for five years, a math teacher in the public schools of San
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PARKING
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GETTING AROUND
ATLANTIC CITY
The Jitney: Atlantic City transportation makes everything within the city
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corner of every hotel; the routes are circular and include the Convention
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GUEST SERVICES
A Guest Services Booth is located next to the Registration Area in front
of Hall B for on-site assistance with transportation throughout the city,
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COAT/LUGGAGE CHECK AREA
Drop off your coat before heading into a day of sessions and networking!
The conference will provide a coat/luggage check area (across from the
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BUSINESS CENTER
The Atlantic City Convention Center is pleased to offer fax, photocopy,
computer and UPS courier services from the UPS Store located on the
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FIRST AID
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AUTHORITY
The Tri-State CAMP Conference, as represented by its chairperson and
director of events, has sole authority to make decisions regarding all
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CONFERENCE CODE OF
CONDUCT
The right to participate is essential to creating open dialogue among all
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By attending the conference, participants agree to adhere to the following
principles: All attendees shall participate in a professional, courteous
and respectful manner, refraining from language that might bring discredit
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of sexual harassment may result in a review and possible removal from
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If you booked your hotel reservations through AC Central Reservations
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Attendees, speakers and exhibitors are staying at the following hotels:
THE BORGATA
Phone: (609) 317-1000
CAESARS ATLANTIC CITY
EMERGENCIES
The safety and security of attendees, speakers and exhibitors is the first
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medical emergencies, please find the closest ACA staff member or
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Phone: (609) 348-4411
CELL PHONES
The use of cellular phones is a major distraction to both speakers and
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speakers, we request that these devices be turned off or put on vibrate
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Phone: (609) 344-3535
NO-SMOKING LAW
For the comfort and health of all attendees, exhibitors and speakers,
smoking is not permitted at any Tri-State functions that take place in
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CHILDREN
For the safety and consideration of conference attendees, an adult
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ACCESSIBILITY
If you require special assistance or have other special needs, please stop
LÞ̅i,i}ˆÃÌÀ>̈œ˜ƂÀi>°
RESORTS CASINO
Phone: (800) 772-9000
SHERATON ATLANTIC CITY
TROPICANA
Phone: (609) 340-4000
DOES YOUR CAMP HAVE
ITEMS IT NO LONGER NEEDS?
Join ACA, NY and NJ’s facebook group
Camp Trading Post to connect, donate
& reduce waste at your camp while
helping not for profit camps reuse items
to enhance their camp program.
facebook.com/groups/camptradingpost
(GREAT FOR FIRST-TIMERS)
1. WHAT ARE THE REGISTRATION HOURS?
5. HOW WILL I GET FROM MY HOTEL TO THE CONVENTION CENTER?
MONDAY, MARCH 7
8:00 AM–6:00 PM
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
7:30 AM–5:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
7:30 AM–5:00 PM
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
7:30 AM–1:30 PM
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entire length of Pacific Avenue, parallel to Atlantic City’s world-famous
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Jitneys run frequently 24 hours a day, and stops are located on the
corner of every hotel and originate one block from the Boardwalk on
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2. WHAT ARE THE EXHIBIT HALL HOURS?
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
12:30–5:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
10:45 AM–5:00 PM
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
9:30 AM–12:00 PM
3. WHERE CAN I EAT BREAKFAST AND LUNCH IN THE CONVENTION CENTER?
There will be options for breakfast and lunch throughout the day on
the first level as you enter the building, as well as on the third level
near the Ben Appelbaum Lounge (Room 319), especially during our
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4. IS THERE ANYTHING TO DO AT NIGHT IN ATLANTIC CITY?
There is so much going on in Atlantic City that we can’t keep up with it
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comedy clubs to lounges and live entertainment—it’s all in Atlantic
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6. FIRST TIME ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE; WHERE DO I GO; WHAT
DO I DO?
Start off your first Tri-State CAMP Conference by attending one of the
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MONDAY, MARCH 7
5:00–5:45 PM, ROOM 304
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
7:45–8:25 AM, ROOM 415
Join us for a brief introduction to Atlantic City and the Tri-State CAMP
Conference, where you will discover the “must-attend” events that
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help you determine what goals are most important to you and your
camp profession, and then match up the key educational sessions and
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ACA Standards
TRAINING—WHO NEEDS WHAT?
Attendance at a Standards Course is required of camp directors/
administrators of any camps seeking accreditation when:
1. This is the first time the camp is to be visited;
be scored
2. They are new directors of already accredited camps;
> Basic risk management
3. There have been significant changes to the accreditation
program (as in September 2015); or
STANDARDS UPDATE COURSE:
4. An individual will be taking the Associate Visitor Course.
Please continue reading to decide which course best fits your
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Process Guide—“APG”) will be provided to staff from each camp
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If your camp has a visitor on staff who is coordinating the visit, the
Visitor Update Course also satisfies your camp’s requirement for a
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Visitors who wish to register can do so by emailing Kyle Medeiros
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The purpose of this course is to update current Standards
Personnel and/or camp directors about changes in standards and
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The Standards Update Course will highlight specific changes to the
program as well as review the overall accreditation process to
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can be taken by any individual who has been actively involved with
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COURSE INFORMATION
MONDAY, MARCH 7
FULL STANDARDS COURSE:
11:00 AM–4:30 PM
The purpose of the ACA Full Standards Course is to prepare camp
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completing the ACA Standards Course is expected to actively
assist the camp in preparation for the accreditation visit and fully
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the Standards Program for persons interested in becoming
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FULL STANDARDS COURSE, ROOM 421
Some of the items covered in the Full Standards Course include:
> Introduction to the Accreditation Process Guide
> Requirements for a camp to be accredited
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> Mandatory standard and written documentation requirements
> Determining areas of the camp operation that will need to
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
12:45–1:45 PM
STANDARDS AND ACCREDITATION MEET ‘N EAT, ROOM 420
4:00–5:30 PM
STANDARDS UPDATE COURSE, ROOM 421
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
11:00 AM–4:30 PM
FULL STANDARDS COURSE, ROOM 421
atlantic city
SECOND LEVEL
EXHIBIT
HALL
GENERAL
SESSION
ROOM
SESSION
ROOMS
WALKWAY TO
THE SHERATON
REGISTRATION
AREA
ACA, NY & NJ
LOUNGE
THIRD LEVEL
FOURTH LEVEL
BEN APPELBAUM
LOUNGE
SPEAKER READY
ROOM
MEET ’N’ EAT
LUNCH STATIONS
CAMP TRADING
POST LIVE
MEET ’N’ EAT
LUNCH STATIONS
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atlantic city
EXHIBIT HALL FLOOR PLAN – HALL B – SECOND LEVEL
INTERACTIVE
ZONE
FOOD COURT
GENERAL
SESSION
ROOM
HALL A
EPIC, SCOPE,
ACA KEYSTONE
SECTION,
TOURO
UNIVERSITY
AND NY/NJ
LEGISLATIVE
ADVOCACY
BOOTH
ACA BOOKSTORE
EXHIBITOR
REGISTRATION
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HOSPITALITY
(Bag pickup)
ATTENDEE REGISTRATION
One of the great benefits of the conference
is our Exhibit Hall—the largest and the
most extensive gathering of camp-focused
exhibitors in the world.
The Exhibit Hall boasts over 270 exhibitors, a food
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More importantly, the exhibit hall teams you up with
potential partners for your camp who can provide not
only a wide range of products and services at the most
competitive prices, but also insights into improving
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When you need help, advice, service or spare parts,
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how important it is to have what you need during the
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that you have a plan to make the most of this
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> Plan on making several trips to the hall to be certain
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hall by rows and plan to walk one or two rows per
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> If you have any exhibitors you want to have a longer
conversation with, schedule a time to meet when the
hall is slower (perhaps during one of our educational
sessions) to have a more substantive and relaxed
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when everyone else is there at once, so give yourself
a chance to ask questions and make your purchases
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> They understand the natural cycle of camp from the
business standpoint and are flexible to adjusted
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> Finally, our vendors want you to know that most Tri-State
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Many exhibitors will also be offering Tri-State CAMP
attendees onsite discounts—so be sure to take
advantage!
Our exhibitors are not only partners in camp, but
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make it possible for this conference to have the
amazing high-level educational and development
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of and belief in the summer
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you avail yourself of this
powerful (but short-lived)
opportunity while working
with the exhibitors that
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JASON SAMUEL
Exhibit Operations Chair
6*
12:30–5:00 PM
Exhibit Hall Grand Opening
12:30–3:00 PM
Unopposed time in Exhibit Hall
4:00–5:00 PM
6+
10:45 AM–5:00 PM
Free Coffee with the Exhibitors
10:45–11:45 AM
Unopposed Time in Exhibit Hall
11:00 AM–2:00 PM
4:15–5:00 PM
6#,
9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Free Coffee with the Exhibitors
9:30–10:00 AM
Unopposed Time in Exhibit Hall
11:15 AM–12:00 PM
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Booth EXHIBITOR
535
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Booth EXHIBITOR
319
Peter Ross
1330 Beacon Street, Suite 300
Brookline, MA 02446
Anthony Cataldo
2 Marlborough Rd.
West Hempstead, NY 11552
Phone: (617) 933-9824
peterross@829LLC.com
www.829llc.com
Phone: 516-284-1225
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communication products. We provide 2-way radios from
Kenwood communications. ACradiocom is the Master ProTalk
Distributor for New York, Northern New Jersey and New England.
Capture the spirit of your camp with virtual visits by 829 studios!
Using high resolution 360 degree images, this fun, interactive
experience lets families tour your camp from their computer,
smart phone or ipad.
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9 Square in the Air
Steve Otey
1239 Dorne Dr.
Manchester, MO 63021
503, 505, Active Network, Camps
602, 604 Jon Ramer
717 N Harwood
Dallas, TX 75201
Phone: 1-877-996-2267
Jon.Ramer@activenetwork.com
Www.ACTIVEcamps.com
Phone: 877-672-3938 ext. 10
steve@9squareintheair.com
www.9squareintheair.com
9 Square in the Air is the new addictive game that groups love!
Many students like 9 Square on the ground, but this awesome
new game takes it up a level! Imagine the favorite playground
game combined with volleyball for 9 players at a time. This great
game is height-adjustable, sets up easily, breaks down for storage
and is great for indoor and outdoor use. This game accommodates over 50 players per hour, and is great for a tournament,
main event or just set it up and let people play. A line always
forms quickly!
ACTIVE Network, Camps is the leading provider of camp
management software. Our integrated technology includes online
registration and management solutions to increase operational
efficiencies.
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Phone: (732) 536-1017
bruce@iprintpromos.com
www.iprintpromos.com
Since your group hasn’t played this brand-new game, it levels the
playing field and is great for campers of all skill levels. This game
will be a huge hit at your camp this summer! See video and pictures of the game on our website.
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a la Mode Shoppe
We imprint your logo on anything—wearables and novelties.
The specialist in camp specialties.
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Adventure Network
Marc Roth
360 East 55th St.
New York, NY 10022
David Pastorok
PO Box 309
Chalfont, PA 18914
Phone: (917) 639-3401
info@alamodeshoppe.com
http://alamodeshoppe.com
Phone: (215) 997-9270
dave@adventure-network.net
www.adventure-network.net
A La Mode Shoppe is a completely nut free, egg free, and gluten
free facility catering to schools, camps, retail locations all across
the country.
Full-service challenge course provider. Installation, training and
inspection of challenge courses and climbing walls and structures.
ACCT Professional Vendor Member (accredited vendor).
Adventure programs for camps.
Academy Express, LLC
John Kiely
111 Paterson Avenue
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Phone: (201) 420-7000
jkiely@academybus.com
www.academybus.com
Academy is the largest privately owned and operated coach
transportation company in the United States, serving the entire
east coast with locations in Florida, Virginia, Washington DC,
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut,
Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Academy is the leading transportation provider to the camp
industry, operating over 2,000 camp trips in 2013. Whether it’s
transportation for campers and staff to and from camp, a field trip
or a multiple day over-the-road tour, Academy knows the way!
We feature full-sized 54-passenger coaches, 38-passenger coaches and 15-passenger mini-coaches for your convenience.
Contact us at 800-442-7272, or online at www.academybus.com
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Advance Specialties
Bruce Schneider
PO Box 76
Marlboro, NJ 07746
The goal of the game is to advance to the center “king” square
and stay there as long as possible. Rules are very simple, and the
game is easy for anyone to play.
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ACradiocom
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Adventureland Amusement Park
Caitlin DiSclafani
2245 Broadhollow Rd
Farmingdale, NY 11735
Phone: (631) 694-6868
groupsales@adventureland.us
www.adventureland.us
Long Island’s family amusement park since 1962, located on
Route 110 in Farmingdale. Home to Long Island’s only spinning
coaster, Turbulence! Rides and games for all ages! Parking and
admission are always free! Group rates and food, game and
arcade packages available. Park available for exclusive events.
Booth EXHIBITOR
Booth EXHIBITOR
435, 437 Aflex Technology
200
734
Steven Fisch
380 Fiske Street
Holliston, MA 01746
Phone: +64-3-54 66747
christie@aflextechnology.com
www.aflextechnology.com
Phone: (508) 429-9000
sfisch@amerasport.com
www.amerasport.com
Leading designers and manufacturers of innovative inflatables,
producing high-quality constant airflow obstacles for swimming
pools, inflatable aquatic toys, modular waterparks, standalone
units for beaches and lakes, land-based waterslides and customdesigned products.
Amerasport is the nation’s leading web and mail-order supplier of
camp uniforms through our custom webstores and color catalogs
published specifically for your camp. Making your camp look
great is our business! We produce all types of camp gear and
accessories, from moisture-wicking products with your logos to
staff uniforms.
AfreSHeet
Maxwell Cohen
One Little West 12 St., Suite 607
New York, NY 10014
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Phone: +44 1613123640
cat@americamp.co.uk
www.AmeriCamp.co.uk
AfreSHeet is the world’s first and only fitted sheet with 7
peel-away disposable top layers.
AmeriCamp is the award-winning international recruitment agency
providing a diversified range of highly qualified international staff
via our visa sponsors. Verified on Twitter @AmeriCamp, we provide
social media consultancy for the camping industry.
Air Trampoline Sports
Justin Stone
111 Route 35
Clifford, NJ 07721
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Phone: 1-800-203-2507
sales@americanbeddingmfg.com
www.americanbeddingmfg.com
Indoor trampoline park catering to individuals, parties, groups,
schools, special need programs, fitness programs and dodgeball.
Open arena with other various activities.
Fluid-proof mattresses and replacement mattress covers in
BEDBUG-PROOF DESIGNS, wood and metal bunk beds, folding
cots, wood and metal furniture, linens, online with prices at www.
americanbeddingmfg.com.
Allied T-Shirts
Joseph Shrem
One 43rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11232
438
American Bedding Manufacturers, Inc
Dale Reynolds
PO Box 1048, 276 Dennis Street
Athens, TN 37371
Phone: (732) 583-3000
justin@airtrampolinesports.com
www.airtrampolinesports.com
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AmeriCamp
Cat Tomlinson
51 Bengal Street
Manchester, England M4 6LN
Phone: (516) 603-3116
maxwell@afresheet.com
www.afresheet.com
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Amerasport, Inc.
Christie Horne
239 Haven Road
Nelson, New Zealand 07040
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American Camp and Work Experience
Phone: 718-369-9614
alliedtshirt@aol.com
347-525-8046
Gary Bauer
One International Blvd., Suite 400
Mahwah, NJ 07495
T-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, duffel bags, screen printing and
embroidery.
Phone: (866) 387-2448
acawe@acawe.com
www.acawe.com
Amazing Amusements & Entertainment
International staffing specialists, authorized J1 sponsor. Expertise
in general counselors, specialists, safety/security personnel, chefs
and department heads. Specialized background checks meeting
camp due-diligence standards.
Eric Kivor
5 Kennedy Drive
Marlboro, NJ 07746
Phone: (732) 577-1944
amazingamusements1@gmail.com
www.amazingamusements.com
We are one of the most experienced and reliable companies exhibiting here at Tri-State. Our inventory of mechanical rides, inflatables
and carnival games is one of the largest in the industry. We are
thankful for being able to have worked with many of you over the
years and look forward to many more. For those we have not had
the pleasure of working with, we look forward to meeting you!
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American Marketing
Eric Freedman
436 N. Springfield Rd.
Clifton Heights, PA 19018
Phone: (484) 962-6340
eric@amermark.com
www.amermark.com
Screen printed & embroidered apparel
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Booth EXHIBITOR
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Booth EXHIBITOR
American Sail, Inc.
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Carmen Reino
Phone: (843) 552-8548
amerisail@aol.com
www.americansail.com
Phone: 800-585-1580
anchorpc@comcast.net
anchorpestcontrol.net
155 Bedford Avenue
Iselin, NJ 08830
Small sailboats specifically designed for use by camps for sail
training and sailing introduction. Replacement sail and parts for
many makes and models.
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Pest control, preventive bed bug treatment plans, K-9 bed bug
detection, heat treatment and heat box service plans
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Amilia
Phone: (860) 619-8010
arborealedge@me.com
www.arborealedge.com
Phone: (514) 862-6097
ashley.wood@amilia.com
www.amilia.com
Arboreal Edge, LLC is a full-service challenge course vendor. We
specialize in design, construction, training and inspection. We
custom-build adventure from ropes courses to climbing structures.
We offer a full line of adventure equipment from Petzl and Rock
Exotica.
Online registration and camp management software
Amir
Stef Bugasch
510 3rd St.
Oakland, CA 94607
803
Phone: (717) 761-7411
dbuysse@artisticimprints.com
www.artisticimprints.com
Amir inspires and empowers youth to serve others, and we use
the garden as our classroom. We recruit outstanding young adults
(Amir Farmers) from colleges and universities across the country
and train them to be garden-educators at summer camp. Over
the summer, participating campers experience the magic of
maintaining life, and make crucial life-decisions all while working
in their beautiful vegetable garden.
Your one-stop shop for screen printed and embroidered apparel. Get
your t-shirts, sweatshirts, caps and much more with your logo on it.
We also do promotional products, which are fun giveaways for
campers and staff members.
With precise guidance and dedication from Amir Farmers, campers
seed, prune, harvest and enjoy the fruits of their labor in a fun
and meaningful way. Join our growing network of camps as we
scale garden-education across the summer camping landscape!
Our wide-format signage will also help you promote your camp
with Coro Signs, banners and many other media types.
Don’t forget to ask us about our websites that we can put up for
your campers and staff members to buy your custom apparel.
AMSkier
Johanna Bush
209 Main Avenue
Hawley, PA 18428
sponsor!
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AMSkier is the largest direct
insurer of children’s camps in
the country. Insuring camps
in over twenty-two states,
AMSkier is proud to insure many of America’s finest camps.
Anchor Industries
John Fuchs
1100 Burch Drive
Evansville, IN 47733
Phone: (812) 867-2421
john_fuchs@anchorinc.com
www.anchorinc.com
Tents, camping tents, gymnastic tents, dining room tents, large
umbrellas, portable flooring, awnings, pool covers, propane and
charcoal BBQ frills
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Bargoose Home Textiles
Christopher Moskal
96 Atlantic Ave., 2nd Floor
Lynbrook, NY 11563
Phone: (570) 226-4571
johannab@amskier.com
www.amskier.com
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Artistic Imprints
Dan Buysse
823 Saint Johns Road
Camp Hill, PA 17011
Phone: (415) 758-2647
info@amirproject.org
www.amirproject.org
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Arboreal Edge
Kevin Lawrence
12 Birch Dr
Warren, CT 06754
Ashley Wood
1751 Richardson 3. 105
Montreal, Quebec H3K1G6
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Anchor Pest Control
David Stanton
7350 Pepperdam Avenue
Charleston, SC 29418
Phone: (516) 255-1736
christopher.moskal@gmail.com
www.bargoosebedding.com
Protective bedding: waterproof, allergen proof and certified bed
bug proof. We offer unparalleled customer service!
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Beam Clay / Partac Peat Corporation
Denise Pierce
One Kelsey Park
Great Meadows, NJ 07838
Phone: (908) 637-4191
denise@partac.com
www.beamclay.com
Beam Clay is the brand of infield materials that has been recognized as the standard of excellence for baseball and softball
infields for many years. We also supply over 200 other sports turf
products.
Booth EXHIBITOR
Booth EXHIBITOR
343, 345 BERG USA LLC
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515, 517,
519
Rick Kazdin
PO Box 2472
Palm City, FL 34990
Phone: (717) 626-4705
Kent.Julye@bergtoys-usa.com
www.bergtoys-usa.com
Phone: (800) 321-5716
rick@brightwhitepaper.com
www.brightwhitepaper.com
Quality pedal go karts for the professional market: camps, rentals,
schools. Ages 3 and up. Also innovative construction toy for ages
5–12. Make it moov it.
Create, display and laminate on demand—posters and signage in
just 70 seconds. Display with an Easyboard in 10 seconds or less,
available in 9 sizes. Non-electric, no-heat laminators in 12 and 25
inches.
Bisque Imports
Tina Roberts
1 Belmont Ave
Belmont, NC 28012
sponsor!
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Phone: (800) 283-9490
jbeja@briscoapparel.com
www.briscoapparel.com
Your one-stop shop for your camp’s arts & crafts program.
Shop our huge selection of ceramics, mosaics, fused glass,
craft supplies, paints and more. Bisque Imports offers options
for camps with and without kilns.
Brisco Apparel is located in North Carolina, with a very creative
art staff and a super low cost structure. Looking to design your
custom camp logo apparel for your campers and staff? We do all
work in our 200,000 square foot facility, both screen printing and
embroidery, stocking a large variety of activewear apparel. We
have the ability to create an online portal for your camp, allowing
both campers and alumni to place orders and/or reorders. Our
warm and friendly customer service and sales team are looking
forward to working with you.
Blick Art Materials
Linda Carter
695 US Highway 150 East
Galesburg, IL 61401
Phone: 800-447-8192
L.carter@dickblick.com
www.dickblick.com
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Phone: (888) 465-2267
ari@bunk1.com
www.bunk1.com
Boston Attractions Group
Bunk1 offers ways for you to save time, save money, get organized
and make your parents, campers and staff happy. With easy-to-use
web-based tools and a staff whose background is camp, Bunk1 is
the only web company you need. Contact us about online photos,
one-way e-mail, online registration, camper management, camp
alumni tools and more!
Suzanne Taylor
99 Chauncy St., Ste 401
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: (617) 357-8300 ext 2
staylor@thefreedomtrail.org
www.bostonattractionsgroup.com
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Bunk1.com
Ari Ackerman
461 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
Since 1911, Blick Art Materials has provided schools, camps and
organizations with craft kits, paints, brushes, clays, books, videos,
art room furniture, plus supplies for drawing, woodworking,
sculpture, jewelry-making and more. Ask about account discounts.
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Brisco Apparel
Jeff Beja
637 Patterson Grove Rd.
Ramseur, NC 27316
Phone: (704) 413-6906
tina@bisqueimports.com
www.bisqueimports.com
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Bright White Paper
Kent Julye
45 N Broad Street
Lititz, PA 17543
807
Bunkline Outfitters
Boston’s best group-friendly attractions! Everything you need
to plan your trip to Boston in one place. Sights, sounds and
adventures! Zoos, museums, historical sites, boat rides and
baseball! Let BAG share it with you!
Ruth Barnett
2 Split Rock Drive
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
Bourdon’s Institutional Sales
Phone: (800) 435-6888
ruth@bunkline.com
www.bunkline.com
Tina Bergeron
85 Plains Road
Claremont, NH 3743-4527
Phone: (603) 542-8709
tina@bourdons.com
www.bourdons.com
Serving the camping community for 85 years, Bourdons is your
one-stop shop for bunks, cots, repair parts, bed linens, shower
curtains, bath linens, mattresses, replacement covers, pillows and
mosquito netting. Bedding and sleep related products nationally
distributed—Bourdons is the leading supplier of camp bedding.
Bunkline offers fantastic promotional products and apparel printed
or embroidered with your camp name. You can count on us
whether you want top-of-the-line or the least expensive. Our
large volume of production offers you the finest work at the most
desirable prices. Once you get to know us, you might want to
enter our FREE custom catalog or brochure program AND/OR get
a website store link. Your campers can purchase all the items
needed for camp, including clothing with your name printed on
them. Our program takes away the parents’ stress in preparing
their child for camp. Parents order direct through us, and we handle
everything! The best part is that you receive commissions on all
sales. It’s that simple!
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Booth EXHIBITOR
412, 414
Booth EXHIBITOR
C.C. Creations
730
Becky Biehler
1800 Shiloh Ave.
Bryan, TX 77803
Rodney Auth
PO Box 1166
Medina, OH 44258-1166
Phone: 800-324-1268
b.biehler@cccreationsusa.com
www.cccreationsusa.com
Phone: (866) 444-4216
rodney@northstarpubs.com
www.camp-business.com
With stellar service and incomparable quality, C.C. Creations
provides camps and organizations with custom apparel, headwear
and promotional products. Our prices are competitive, and our
turnaround is quick!. Find out why camps all over the nation have
chosen C.C.Creations for their custom merchandise needs!
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Camp Business is a magazine for children’s camp directors and
administrators written by children’s camp directors and administrators, which means it’s chock full of common-sense solutions to
everyday problems—and it’s a fun read. Visit www.camp-business.
com to sign up for your free subscription today!
Camelback Resort
700
Linda Galante
301 Resort Drive
Tannersville, PA 18372
Phone: (800) 999-2267
camps@ccusa.com
www.ccusa.com
Northeast’s biggest indoor waterpark and Pennsylvania’s largest
outdoor waterpark. 453-room hotel. Zippiness, mountain coaster,
TreeTops Course, skiing and snowboarding. We are also the
biggest snow tubing park in the country. Countless adventures—
One Resort! The NEW Camelback Resort!
Camp America
Andrew Newberry
River Plaza - 9 West
Broad Street
Stamford, CT 06902
The CCUSA Camp Counselors program provides international
staffing services of the highest quality for American summer
camps. Recruiting from over 40 countries worldwide, CCUSA is
dedicated to providing camps with first-rate international counselors
and support staff, all thoroughly screened for quality skills and
experience, as well as English proficiency. For over 20 years, CCUSA
has strived to maintain excellence by continually providing personal
service to camps and dependable support for all participants.
sponsor!
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International staffing service providing qualified staff for virtually
every position at camp, from activity leaders and specialist and
general counselors to kitchen, maintenance and office staff.
We serve every type of camp and have brought thousands of
applications for consideration right here to the conference. We
aim to be your easiest and friendliest option for quality matches
and smooth logistics. We specialize in serving camp directors
who are new to the international staffing process.
Camp Leaders helps camps find
quality International counselors and support staff from around
the globe!
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Camp Outfitters by Lands’ End
Jessica Petersen
6 Lands’ End Lane
Dodgeville, WI 53595
Ed Horowitz
2046 County Route #7
Ancram, NY 12502
Phone: (800) 960-9441
jessica.petersen@landsend.com
www.landsend.com/camp
Phone: (800) 207-4446
campsupply@taconic.net
www.campathletic.com
Major manufacturers we represent: Jugs, Champion, Bear/Indian
archery, Cascade lax helmets, Gait Lax, Dick Martin, Goal Sports,
Voit, Mylec and Goalrilla. Largest supplier of used golf and tennis
balls. Operated by former camp owner/director who understands
the business. Our service and prices are not matched. Just ask
the 350 camps we serve. We also represent 5 Star Media Magic,
who does video shooting and duplication for over 40 ACA camps.
sponsor!
Phone: (866) 803-7643
a.callender@smallerearth.com
www.campleaders.com
Camp Athletic Supply
Baseball, basketball, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, volleyball and waterfront equipment. Goals for soccer, hockey, lacrosse and basketball.
Nets for tennis, volleyball, basketball and soccer. Just about every
thing a camp needs for their athletic programs.
Camp Leaders
Andy Callender
Camp Leaders
Stamford, CT 06905
Phone: (203) 399-5117
anewberry@aifs.com
www.campamerica.aifs.com
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Camp Counselors USA
Ashley Kimball
901 E Street, Suite 300
San Rafael, CA 94901
Phone: (570) 629-1661
linda@skicamelback.com
www.camelbackresort.com
529, 628
Camp Business Magazine – Northstar
Publishing
The place where kids get the comfortable, durable clothing they
want, and parents get exceptional value, backed by an unbeatable
promise of satisfaction. Guaranteed. Period.
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Camp Spot, The
Howard Hoffman
4 Vreeland Rd.
Florham Park, NJ 07032
Phone: (973) 994-7416
info@thecampspot.com
www.thecampspot.com
The Camp Spot has been outfitting campers and counselors for
more than 50 years. Solutions can include a full-color custom
catalog, an easy-to-use online web store and a traveling road
show from Boston to Boca Raton. Camps earn generous commissions on every item sold to their campers.
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Booth EXHIBITOR
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Camp Trucking
Booth EXHIBITOR
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Camper Glow & Camper Quest
Stuart Seller
PO Box 6310
Avon, CO 81620
Alex Zebede
2 Timber Lane
Marlboro, NJ 07746
Phone: (970) 949-0690
stuart@camptrucking.com
www.camptrucking.com
Phone: 732-446-1329
alexz@ajhentertainment.com
www.camperglow.com
For over 30 years, Camp Trucking has been the leader in private
baggage delivery. Camp Trucking is YOUR premier door-to-door
camp duffel delivery service. We have exclusively provided
transport of camp baggage from home, to camp and back from
anywhere in the U.S. and parts of Canada.
Camper Glow and Camper Quest, are the new and exciting,
all-inclusive Neon Glow Dance Party and summer camp Game
Show including full professional sound and lighting systems,
skilled high-energy entertainers with giveaways & prizes for all
of your campers.
Count on Camp Trucking for your baggage service needs!
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CampBrain
Dana Godel
PO Box 267037
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33326-7037
Rob Carmichael
411-366 Adelaide Street East
Toronto, Ontario M5A3X9
Phone: (954) 577-0025
dgodel@campmeds.com
www.campmeds.com
Phone: (866) 485-8885
info@campbrain.com
www.campbrain.com
Founded by a former camp nurse, CampMeds has been servicing
the camping industry since 2003. Unique service of packaging
medications for campers. Meds are individually packaged and
labeled in multi-dose compliance packets. Minimizes risk of
potential medication errors, reduces liability of camp. NO COST
TO CAMP.
Web-based and locally-hosted management software, online
registration, camper photo galleries and email for camps and
conference centers. Serving over 1000 camps since 1994.
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CampDirectorsResources.com - Family
Publications
531, 533
Gail Velez
325 West 38th Street, Suite 305
New York, NY 10018
CampMinder is a web-based camp management and communication system designed by former campers, staff and you—the
camp professional.
For nearly a decade, CampMinder has been collaborating with
leading camp owners and directors to identify the best practices
in camp administration.Our intuitive system is designed around
these practices to help you operate your camp at peak efficiency.
CampDoc.com
Michael Ambrose, M.D.
526 S Maple Rd
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
CampDoc.com is the leading electronic health record system for
camps, also offering free online camp registration, travel and
emergency medical protection for children at summer camp and
pre-packaged medications.
Designed by camp doctors, nurses and directors, our secure,
easy-to-use web-based solution manages health forms, medications/allergies and illness/injury tracking for your camp throughout
the summer.
CampDoc.com can provide camp health staff instant access to
vital medical information, decrease the time and energy spent
during initial camper check-in, reduce risk and liability, and help
keep safety in the forefront of camp operations.
sponsor!
Phone: (303) 444-2267
katie@campminder.com
www.campminder.com
The Camp Directors Resource Directory contains over 400 day
and overnight trips for camp groups in CT, DE, ME, MA, NH, NJ,
NY, PA, RI and VT. CampDirectorsResources.com allows users to
search trips by subject and geographic area.
Phone: (734) 636-1000
michael@campdoc.com
www.campdoc.com
CampMinder, LLC
Katie Milne
PO Box 36
Boulder, CO 80306
Phone: (212) 947-2127
gvelez@familypublications.com
www.familypublications.com
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CampMeds, Inc.
Join us to save time, save money, breathe easier and become a
part of the most valuable exchange of ideas in camping.
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CampRX
Jim Hennig
255 Valley Blvd
Woodridge, NJ 07075
Phone: (201) 430-7300
Info@camprx.com
www.camprx.com
CampRX is the leader in providing camps with a safe and effective
medication management method. Our system is an easy,
convenient and organized way to account for and administer your
campers’ daily medicine regimens.
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Booth EXHIBITOR
630, 632 CampSite
Todd Browning
67 Froehlich
Farm Blvd
Woodbury, NY
11797
Booth EXHIBITOR
sponsor!
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Nick Muzzatti
2122 University Blvd W.
Silver Spring, MD 20902
Phone: (301) 933-6881
nick@carnivalday.com
www.illuminationstation.net
Phone: 855-599-CAMP
todd@campmanagement.com
www.campmanagement.com
The Illumination Station is a giant interactive Lite Brite. This
addition to your camp program is sure to wow your campers
and their parents.
Camp management software designed by camp directors, for
camp directors.
CampSite is a leading provider of web-based camp management
software to the camp industry for:
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Online Registration, Billing, Marketing & Analytics, Medical
Management, Staff Recruiting, Transportation, Attendance &
Check In, Activity Scheduling and Retreat Management
Phone: (732) 793-6488
maria@casinopiernj.com
www.casinopiernj.com
Camp-U-Tech
Two family fun parks in the heart of the Jersey Shore. Fun for
all ages on our property: a waterpark, amusement rides, arcade,
go-karts, mini golf, midway games of chance and more!
Dennis Mamchur
6 Provost Square
Caldwell, NJ 07006
Phone: (973) 403-8755
dennis.mamchur@jostens.com
Summer computer rentals: PCs and Macs for use as a camper activity. Games and office software included. Affordable short-term and
long-term rentals to camps and other summer programs.
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Group rates for camps!
Great place for field trips and day trips!
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Phone: (910) 815-3880
avking@castlebranch.com
www.certifiedbackground.com
David Doyle
94 Industrial Dr.
Mashpee, MA 02649
CertifiedBackground has taken the name of our parent company,
CastleBranch. We offer extensive employment and volunteer
screening with a wide array of useful and cost effective products
and services. Services include background checks, drug testing,
document management and more.
Phone: (508) 477-1188
ccbelt@cape.com
www.capecodbelt.com
534
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Phone: (610) 324-5661
eds@centerforlicecontrol.com
www.centerforlicecontrol.com
Erick Weinstein
101 Crossways Park West
Woodbury, NY 11797
CardWorks Merchant Services provides a FREE analysis of your
credit card merchant statement to highlight the GURANTEED
savings this program will bring to your bottom-line number.
Center for Lice Control
Eddie Steinberg
PO Box 622
Wynnewood, PA 19096
CardWorks Merchant Services
Phone: 516-864-6679
eweinstein@cardworksacquiring.com
www.cardworksacquiring.com
CastleBranch
Amber King
1844 Sir Tyler Dr.
Wilmington, NC 28405
Cape Cod Belt Co.
Cape Cod Belt Co. is a manufacturer of high quality custom
woven ribbon products. Products include belts, keytags,
canvas tote bags, dog collars and leashes, flip flops, luggage
tags, croakies, headbands, fleece blankets, straw hats,
neckties and bowties and lanyards. Please stop by Booth
# 214 and get your FREE Cape Cod keytag.
Casino Pier and Breakwater Beach
Waterpark
Maria Mastoris
800 Ocean Terrace
Seaside Heights, NJ 08751
We offer the most robust and user-friendly software available,
designed specifically for day and residential camps! Visit us at
www.campmanagement.com to schedule your demo today!
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Carnival Day
Got Lice issues? Stop by booth our booth for a quick lice audit!
Get tips and expertise. Center for Lice Control has the right plan
to partner with you and make it a lice-controlled summer for
everyone!
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Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises
Gina Kelly
Pier 83, West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (877) 338-2542
gkelly@circleline42.com
www.circleline42.com
What do you get when you cross an educational sightseeing
cruise or a thrilling speedboat ride with an entertaining tour
guide? An informative and fun-filled excursion for you and your
students.
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Booth EXHIBITOR
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CircuiTree Solutions
Booth EXHIBITOR
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Ivy Fife
28 West South 4th Street
Montrose, CO 81401
Phone: (417) 266-3423
anderson@circuitreesolutions.com
www.circuitreesolutions.org
Phone: (970) 240-2111
ivy@coloradoyurt.com
www.coloradoyurt.com
CircuiTree is the premier comprehensive camp & conference center management software in the industry. From a single, private
cloud, database you can keep track of your campers, families,
donors, staff, and alumni. We help you process & manage registrations, health records, staff applications and hiring, group contracts and rentals, donations and donor tracking, sub-ledger
accounting, online store, mobile check-in, activity scheduling,
transportation, mass and scheduled emails, payments, billing,
hundreds of reports & a report builder, point-of-sale, & much
more with you computer or mobile device. This allows you and
your CircuiTree analyst to look at the entire organization from
30,000 feet and help you make smart decisions with our decades
of camp insights and best practices. CircuiTree helps you run
camp, and not let it run all over you. CircuiTree was created by
Kanakuk Kamps in 1995 and has been serving the largest camps
in North America since 2005. Let’s chat today and see how we
might be able to serve you and your organization.
Affordable, durable and low-maintenance structures. Easy to
setup, easy to take down. Made in Colorado and shipped all over
the world. Colorado Yurts, Eathworks Tipis and Cimarron Tents.
Get out in one!
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Phone: (516) 377-8430
info@colortime.com
www.colortime.com
Colortime crafts and markers are screen-printed t-shirts,
pillowcases, totes and bandanas that over 1,000,000 children
have colored with our special permanent fabric markers. Selected
designs can have your camp name on them. Custom designs
available.
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Phone: (516) 294-7985
jcarnes@commercialclearwater.com
www.911pool.com
A rental amusement company featuring inflatables, rides, games,
water activities and fun foods.
Commercial pool company specializing in automatic chemical
controllers, dry chlorine feed systems, salt water systems and
ultra-violet (UV) systems. Full line of pool supplies and equipment.
Americans with Disabilities new regulation information, equipment
and installation.
Class Act Performing Artists & Speakers, Inc.
Rosemary Hable
1690 Cottage Drive
Lake Geneva, WI 53147
Class Act Performing Artists & Speakers, Inc. is a full-service
entertainment company. Serving camps throughout the country
for more than 20 years, we will work with you on choosing the
right act for your camp. All performers are pre-screened and
chosen for their ability to relate to camp audiences. Acrobatic,
music, variety, comedy, sports shows, animal acts, as well as
workshops and hands-on clinics are available. Discounted fees
for block bookings.
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201, 300, Commercial Recreation Specialists
416, 418, Carrie Flesher
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807 Liberty Drive
Verona, WI 53593
Phone: (608) 848-8781
info@crs4rec.com
www.crs4rec.com
Commercial Recreation Specialists, Inc. provides pedal boats, kayaks,
waterfront inflatables, dock systems, splash pads, pool slides,
playgrounds, safety surfaces and a wide variety of other recreational
products and services for the commercial camp market.
Club Getaway
David Schreiber
59 South Kent Road, PO Box 737
Kent, CT 06757
Phone: (860) 927-3664
david@clubgetaway.com
www.clubgetaway.com
The sports vacation just for kids! We specialize in overnight and
day trips—a service must for day and travel camps. We feature
activities that are not available at your camp.
Commercial Clearwater Company, Inc.
Paul Meilink
PO Box 909
Plandome, NY 11030
Phone: (856) 662-1662
fun@circustime.net
www.circustime.net
Phone: (262) 245-0700
class-act@class-act.com
www.class-act.com
Colortime Crafts
Michael Platt
1842 Glenn Lane
Merrick, NY 11566
Circus Time Amusements & Entertainment
Dianna Frazier
900 Sherman Avenue
Pennsauken, NJ 08110
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Colorado Yurt Company
Anderson Wilkins
1353 Lakeshore Drive
Branson, MO 65616
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Connect-A-Dock
Steve Teague
1501 Owner Ave
Atlantic, IA 50022
Phone: (712) 243-2430
steve.teague@connectadock.com
www.connectadock.com
Modular Floating Docks and PWC Drive-on
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Booth EXHIBITOR
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Connect One Bank
Booth EXHIBITOR
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John Passaro
20130 Lakeview Center Plaza, Suite 400
Ashburn, VA 20147
Phone: (908) 206-2860
mcardone@cnob.com
www.connectonebank.com
Phone: (703) 450-0806
jpassaro@corpimagepromo.com
http://www.compassawards.com
Connect One Bank is a $4 billion commercial bank based in
Northern New Jersey, with a focus on financing real estate and
business acquisition, refinancing costly debt and providing superior
cash management solutions in a cost-reflective manner.
Compass Awards is a patch-based recognition program to
highlight a child’s personal achievements. This merit badgestyle program has been used by private camps, after school
programs and several national youth organizations since 1999.
Connelly Skis
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Jay Quam
20621 52nd Ave. West
Lunwood, WA 98036
Phone: 207-553-4011
kharrigan@ciee.org
www.ciee.org
Watersports, stand up paddle boards, water skis, wake boards,
knee boards, combo skis, life jackets, ropes, gloves tubes and
float islands.
CIEE is the largest J1 Visa sponsor in the USA, advocating for
educational cultural experiences throughout the world since 1947.
We have launched a new international camp counselor exchange
program to place camp counselors at high quality summer camps
throughout the United States. Our program follows our mission to
help people acquire skills for living in a globally interdependent
and culturally diverse world.
Cookies & More
Mark Abruscato
145 Price Parkway
Farmingdale, NY 11735
Phone: 631-501-9141
mark@cookiesandmoreinc.com
www.cookiesandmoreinc.com
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brad@covecreekproductions.com
www.americansummercamps.com
www.covecreekproductions.com
Cove Creek Productions is a marketing firm specializing in
high-end promotional videos, 360-degree aerial virtual tours
and international camper recruitment.
Copeland Coating Co., Inc.
Mike Edgerton
PO Box 595, 3600 US Route 20
Nassau, NY 12123
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Phone: (718) 431-0301
sam@thecraftshoponline.com
www.thecraftshoponline.com
For over fifty years, Copeland Coating Co., Inc. has manufactured
and applied ACTION-PAVE ACRYLIC COLOR SYSTEMS to new
and old athletic surfaces, including tennis courts, basketball
courts, hockey rinks and running tracks.
CORCL Boats
Carter Brigham
732 Deepdene Rd
Baltimore, MD 21210
Phone: (855) 932-6725
carter@corcl.com
www.corcl.com
Corcl—the fun way to get around. Our round boats are both
a gentle introduction to the water for younger campers and a
durable, spinning fun machine for your most active, athletic
participants.
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Craft Shop, The
Sam Neiger
699 East 2nd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11218
Phone: (518) 766-2932
medgerton@copelandcoating.com
www.copelandcoating.com
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Cove Creek Productions
Brad Magill
Tempe, AZ and New York, NY
Phone: 615-749-4583
For over 50 years, Cookies & More,Inc., a family owned business,
has been one of the largest specialty snack and beverage distributors,
supplying camps and schools in the North East & throughout the
U.S. We take great pride in providing excellent service with great
prices on candy, snacks and beverages.We also carry a large
variety of healthy products including nut-free, gluten-free and
kosher snacks. We have all your snack and canteen items!
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Council on International Educational
Exchange (CIEE)
Katie Harrigan
300 Fore St.
Portland, ME 04101
Phone: (425) 775-5416
jayq@connellyskis.com
www.connellyskis.com
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Corporate Image Promotions
Mark Cardone
301 Sylvan Ave.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
The Craft Shop is a leading manufacturer and distributor to
America’s camps and schools of quality office and school supplies,
craft supplies, craft kits, games, sporting goods and much more
at discounted prices and with superior customer service.
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Creative Alternatives
Kenny Scher
25 Yaphank Rd.
Patchogue, NY 11772
Phone: (631) 425-5999
kenny@creativealternatives.biz
www.creativealternatives.biz
Show special of 100% cotton tees for $2.50. Please visit us and
ask for a reference list of other camps that use our services.
Guaranteed lowest prices in the promotion-product business.
Booth EXHIBITOR
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crimcheck.com
Booth EXHIBITOR
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Matthew Joseph
P.O. Box 206
Old Westbury, NY 11568
Phone: (440) 816-9920
JeffSosic@crimcheck.com
www.crimcheck.com
Phone: (516) 809-8399
matty157@designernoodle.com
www.designernoodle.com
Crimcheck.com is committed to protecting our clients’ brands,
reputations, employees and customers by providing comprehensive,
expert background checks and innovative business and technology
solutions that facilitate a brilliant customer service experience.
The original Designer Noodle can depict the hottest brands and
logos. What better way to promote your camp?
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3024 Avenue U
Brooklyn, NY 11229
Phone: (701) 742-2351
thomas@digigames.com
www.digigames.com
Phone: (718) 769-4111
crownbk@aol.com
People of all ages love TV game shows. It’s fun, entertaining,
educational and addictive.
Supplier of all your awards: trophies, medals, plaques, ribbons, etc.
Minute to Win It, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune and Are You
Smarter Than a Fifth Grader—people cannot get enough of
TV-Style trivia games. And now you can involve youths by offering
similar TV trivia games at your camps.
Culinary Depot
Michael Lichter
2 Melnick Drive
Monsey, NY 10952
DigiGames produces a variety of wireless buzzer options and
gaming consoles. A small investment can bring you a great return
with systems starting at only $500.
Phone: (845) 352-8200
michael@culinarydepot.biz
www.culinarydepotinc.com
Culinary Depot provides a full design & layout team for your commercial kitchen needs. We are an Authorized Dealer for all major
commercial kitchen equipment. We work closely with your staff on
all small ware orders as well.
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Call today for more information about how you can add something fresh and exciting during your next camp season.
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Custom Concentrates
Milt Becker
1 Madison Street
East Rutherford, NJ 07073
Phone: (800) 836-9515
dmebs@discountschoolsupply.com
www.discountschoolsupply.com
Phone: (973) 773-9224
miltbecker@customconcentrates.com
www.customconcentrates.com
For over 25 years, Discount School Supply has offered the lowest
prices guaranteed on quality arts and crafts materials, school
supplies and educational products—visit us online.
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Phone: (646) 619-8625
kfiore@tsxnyc.com
www.discoverytsx.com
Custom Pools of Rockland
More than a museum, Discovery Times Square is the New York
destination for unique and immersive exhibits. Here, events epic
and rare come to life, connecting you to the greatest human
stories ever told.
Phone: (845) 268-4388
Day and residental camp vinyl liner pool specialist. Conversion
of old concrete pools to vinyl liners. Vinyl liners are the most
effective and easy to maintain. We are specialists in covers,
aquatic splash parks and equipment. We do our own work.
DeIorio Foods Inc.
John Tackabury
2200 Bleecker Street
Utica, NY 13501
Phone: 315-732-7612
jtackabury@deiorios.com
www.deiorios.com
Supplier of pizza dough, topped pizza, par-baked shells and
dough balls (shells and flat).
Discovery Times Square
Kris Fiore
226 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
Joyce Leonakis
31 Liberty Street
Congers, NY 10920
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Discount School Supply
Dave Mebs
2 Lower Ragsdale Drive
Monterey, CA 93940
Manufacturer and distributor of beverages for camp. The full line
includes fruit drink mixes, decaffeinated iced teas, juice bases,
100% juice concentrates, Gatorade and classic coffees. Our
featured beverage program motto continues to be “Keep it
simple—let it flow.”
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DigiGames, Inc.
Thomas Dorsher
31 Main Avenue
Oakes, ND 58474
Crown Trophy
Linda Feller
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Designer Noodle
Jeff Sosic
17295 Foltz Industrial Parkway
Strongsville, OH 44149
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Dixie Seating Company
Dirk Baker
PO Box 17
Scotts, NC 28699
Phone: (980) 223-2270
info@dixieseating.com
www.dixieseating.com
USA manufacturer of camp chairs and rockers since 1931. We
have supplied solid hardwood seating products from 2 to 2000
pieces to camps, see our full line at www.dixieseating.com
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Booth EXHIBITOR
Booth EXHIBITOR
634, 636 Driscoll Foods
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Jessica Jacobs
37 West 39th St., Suite 402
New York, NY 10018
Phone: (973) 672-9400
rpereen@driscollfoods.com
www.driscollfoods.com
Phone: (516) 450-5288
Jessica@everythingcamper.com
www.everythingcamper.com
Full-line food service distributor: groceries, dairy, frozen, meats,
seafood, nonfoods, equipment and supplies, produce.
Camp clothing outfitter
E & R Cleaners – The Camper’s Laundry
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Phone: (866) 304-5362 ext.1553
matt@cnmfg.com
www.everythingsummercamp.com
Phone: (603) 627-7661
kpaquette@eandrcleaners.com
www.eandrcleaners.com
E&R Cleaners provides a wash-dry-fold laundry service to staff
and campers, We also launder other items that camps may need
for their kitchens and infirmaries.
One shop for summer camp gear and a customized apparel. Stop
at our booth to get your free online store today.
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Phone: (877) 237-3931
info@expertonlinetraining.com
www.expertonlinetraining.com
Phone: (800) 216-1601
jacob.f@econocrafts.com
www.economyhandicrafts.com
ExpertOnlineTraining.com is the camping industry’s most popular
and trusted online training platform. Featuring over 100 video
modules hosted by leading camp educators, ExpertOnlineTraining.
com is the tool that leading camps utilize to enhance their staff
performance and camp safety.
Looking for exciting craft ideas? Economy Handicrafts is the
source! We offer a complete selection of arts and crafts materials
for all ages and abilities; basic supplies in bulk and creative group
pack projects for your campers.
Ed Hoy’s International
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Phone: (516) 374-6186
ExtremeMagicOfEric@yahoo.com
www.ExtremeMagicOfEric.com
Phone: (630) 836-1353
mmoran@edhoy.com
www.edhoy.com
The most requested magic show in the camping industry!
Combining big stage illusions, daring escapes, heart-racing
stunts, live animals, special effects, cool music and more, awardwinning illusionist Eric Wilzig brings a professional, theater-style
experience to your camp. With over 250 camp shows in each of
the past 4 summers... with appearances on NBC’s hit TV show
America’s Got Talent... with headline performances around the
world... The Extreme Magic of Eric guarantees a show your camp
will never forget!
Ed Hoy’s International has been supplying and supporting art
teachers all over the country for over 40 years. Whether you
are new to art glass or simply looking for ways to stretch your
budget, Ed Hoy’s can help you. We offer the largest selection
of art glass in North America and offer it to all non-profits at
true wholesale pricing.
Everlast Climbing
Sarah Howard
1335 Mendota Heights Road
Mendota Heights, MN 55120
Phone: (651) 665-9131
info@everlastclimbing.com
www.everlastclimbing.com
Everlast Climbing is committed to improving youth fitness with
dynamic and innovative climbing walls that engage the children
and inspire physical activity.
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Extreme Magic of Eric Wilzig, The
David Wilzig
544 Church Avenue
Woodmere, NY 11598
Maria Moran
27625 Diehl Rd.
Warrenville, IL 60555
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ExpertOnlineTraining.com
Evan Heltay
65 Samor Road
Toronto, Ontario M6A 1J2
EconoCrafts
Jacob Friedman
29 Riverside Ave.
Newark, NJ 07104
705
Everything Summer Camp
Matthew DeMuth
501 S Clark St
Boyd, WI 54726
Kathy Paquette
565 Gold Street
Manchester, NH 03103
606
Everything Camper Apparel
Ron Pereen
174 Delawanna Avenue
Clifton, NJ 07014
601
EZ-CAMP2 by SofterWare
Sam Goldenberg
132 Welsh Road
Horsham, PA 19044
Phone: (800) 220-4111
sblackwell@softerware.com
www.ezcamp2.com
Easy-to-learn, flexible and fast, EZCAMP2 provides all aspects of
camp management including: online registration, flexible reporting,
fully integrated accounting, custom enrollment analysis, camper
and staff data, activity scheduling, credit card and bank draft
processing, and more! We also provide hosting for anywhere,
anytime access and full IT management.
Booth EXHIBITOR
805
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Fantastic Tours & Travel
Booth EXHIBITOR
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Jeremy Erlich
2227 US Highway 1, Ste. 292
North Brunswick, NJ 08902
Phone: (631) 462-6262
GeriShumer@fantastictours.com
www.fantastictours.com
Phone: (888) 349-2567
jeremy@foracleanerpool.com
www.foracleanerpool.com
Fantastic Tours was founded in 1984 as a student tour company.
Today we are a full service agency that includes a very active
student tour business, an exciting summer camp travel program,
kosher tours, African American history tours, Girl Scout tours,
adult tours and a travel agency. All of our tours are customized
for our clients to meet your individual needs. We use experienced
deluxe motor coach companies that enhance our tours with their
new equipment and professional drivers.
Distributor of robotic pool cleaners. Camp and poolside equipment.
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Phone: (917) 488-7978
susanne@wearefreshkids.com
www.wearefreshkids.com
First Take Productions, Inc.
Phone: (561) 455-4364
jake@firsttake.com
www.firsttake.com
Fresh Kids is an independent food company creating healthful
and natural snacks for kids. Clean label, Non-GMO, Kosher,
nut-free snacks.
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Josh Mason
4206 South 108th Street
Omaha, NE 68137
FlagHouse
Phone: (800) 228-2003
jmason@funexpress.com
www.funexpress.com/corporate
Phone: (800) 793-7900
john.ruggiero@flaghouse.com
www.flaghouse.com
Make every day fun with Oriental Trading Company products
from Fun Express! We offer an amazing selection of crafts, novelties,
holiday and party supplies—all at ACA discounted prices.
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For over 56 years, FlagHouse has been dedicated to providing
the best in recreational products, programs and equipment,
including team and individual sports as well as a full line of
fitness, aquatics, games, game tables and more. Visit us @
FlagHouse.com to view our complete line of solutions to fit
your needs, at great values to fit your budget.
Phone: (561) 297-4523
gbost@fau.edu
http://www.fau.edu/publicservice/pre-collegiateprograms/initiatives/
Phone: (914) 637-7575
ajelito@funfuziononline.com
www.funfuzion.com
Westchester’s largest family entertainment center.
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453, 455,
548, 550,
552, 554
FAU Summer Ambassadors, are hand-selected, to complete and
intensive 40-hour training course before they are assigned to
summer programs to work with youth. In addition to various leadership and youth-specific skills, Ambassadors are CPR, AED and
wilderness first aid vertified. Ambassadors are prepared to serve
the youth in your program.
Food & Beverage Associates
Frank J Ferrara
8 West Main Street, Suite 1-F
Farmingdale, NJ 07727
Phone: (732) 751-1780
frank.ferrara@fba-usa.com
www.fba-usa.com
Food & Beverage Associates is a food-service provider specializing
in children’s summer camps. We provide quality food safely while
maintaining your budget. Our professional staff will work together
with your camp to customize your food-service needs.
Fun Fuzion @ New Roc City
Ann Jelito
19 LeCount Place
New Rochelle, NY 10801
Florida Atlantic University
Greta Bost
777 Glades Rd., Suite 286
Boca Raton, FL 33065
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Fun Express, a subsidiary of Oriental
Trading Company
30 years producing quality and creative video productions for the
camp industry. Promotional videos, DVD yearbooks, streaming
video. commercials.
John Ruggiero
601 FlagHouse Drive
Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07604
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Fresh Kids
Susanne Brose
PO Box 122
Hume, VA 22639
Jake Packard
225 NE 1st Street, PH14
Delray Beach, FL 33444
401, 500
For a Cleaner Pool
Geri Shumer
6143 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 101
Commack, NY 11725
FunAir
Scott Webster
3801 N Cap TX Highway, Ste E-240-308
Austin, TX 78746
Phone: (800) 928-4042
scott@funair.com
www.funair.com
FunAir creates awesome inflatable recreational products that keep
kids active and entertained for hours. Our commercial grade water
slides, playgrounds and gaga ball pits are designed to last for years
of fun! Inflate the fun and keep campers coming back year after year.
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GagaBallPits.com
Coach Cliff Silverman
95 Noll Street
Waukegan, IL 60085
Phone: (847) 573-2377
karajencorp@comcast.net
www.gagaballpits.com
Portable and semi-portable gaga ball pits. We supply the corner
brackets and fasteners. You just purchase your lumber locally,
drill the holes and bolt them together. Fast, easy, affordable
and extremely well built! 4 model types available, along with
various accessories.
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Booth EXHIBITOR
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Gatehouse Media / Propel Marketing
Booth EXHIBITOR
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Kendra Dolton
729 7th Avenue
New York, NY 10019
Phone: (570) 253-3055
mfleece@wayneindependent.com
www.propelmarketing.com
Phone: 1.800.BROADWAY x2
kdolton@broadway.com
www.broadway.com/groups
“Connecting businesses with the people who matter most.”
Providing digital marketing solutions for small to medium-sized
businesses. SEM/SEO, responsive design, digital display marketing,
retargeting, direct/custom email, Facebook, call tracking, chat
leads and more!
Group Sales Box Office/Broadway.com and Broadway Across America
offer the widest range of Broadway ticketing services, including individual and group tickets for Broadway and Off-Broadway shows in
New York City, as well as tickets for Broadway touring productions in
over 35 cities across the United States and Canada. We provide
unparalleled customer service to our clients, while offering the most
competitive group discount pricing. Visit our website for comprehensive trip-planning information including show descriptions,
performance schedules, ticket prices, Broadway Classroom workshops,
restaurant guides, NYC attractions, easy online ordering and more. A
one-stop shop for planning your group’s itinerary!
Geoscape Solar
Jeff Chavkin
160 South Livingston Ave., Suite 113
Livingston, NJ 07039
Phone: (973) 535-4361
jchavkin@geoscapesolar.com
www.geoscapesolar.com
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Phone: (818) 510-3116
mara@gruvywear.com
www.gruvywear.com
GrUVywear manufactures UV protective swimshirts for campers
and staff, which we can customize with your camp logo. Available
in a variety of colors, our SPF 50+ swimshirts are breathable and
lightweight, so they can be worn all day for added protection.
Purchase wholesale for campers, staff and store AND/OR have
parents purchase your custom shirts from our user-friendly
website (that can link directly from your camp site).
Get Ready, Inc.
John Haug
1432 Route 179, #C4
Lambertville, NJ 08530
Phone: (800) 682-1665
john@getreadykids.com
www.teddygetready.com
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Phone: (561) 444-2521
josh@hhpurchasing.com
www.hhpurchasing.com
We provide savings opportunities in food, health supplies, sporting
equipment, arts and crafts, and paints. We are a professional
outsourcing company.
Got Color, Inc.
Erin Kaczynski
38 Villas Circle
Melville, NY 11747
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Phone: 877-565-6885
steve.colberg@headrushtech.com
http://www.headrushtech.com
GOT COLOR? WE DO!!
Come visit our booth to meet the colorgirls and hear about our
exciting, fast-growing company.
Head Rush Technologies
Steve Colberg
1835 38th Street
Boulder, CO 80301
Phone: 631-807-4194
erinjill8@gmail.com
www.gotcolorwedo.info
Color war boxes are here! Camp owners get on board and join
our growing list of camps that have alleviated the need for their
parents to unnecessarily purchase both team colors. Parents are
overwhelmed by spending time and money purchasing spirit wear
for 2 teams. Through your camp, parents can now pre-order a
single color spirit box for their children to be delivered the day
the festivities break out.
H&H Purchasing Services
Josh Cohen
8895 North Military Trail, Suite D-301
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
Teddy Get Ready is a line of stuff-your-own plush that lets kids
create their very own plush toys. These toys have a unique,
patented navel drawstring closure. Children just love stuffing the
animals through their belly buttons and then being able to pull
on the drawstring and close it up with no sewing at all. Just safe,
easy and fun.
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GrUVywear LLC
Mara Levin
9854 National Blvd #105
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Geoscape Solar is a New Jersey-based solar energy company
specializing in the installation of solar panels in residential,
commercial, non-profit and community solar power projects.
Solar is not a side business. Geoscape Solar was created from the
ground up to be a great solar company. There is a difference in
NJ solar installers. Experience solar done right!
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Group Sales Box Office / Broadway.com
Michelle Fleece
220 8th St.
Honesdale, PA 18431
We apply innovative technologies to bring new adventure recreation
equipment to the climbing, zip line, adventure and amusement
industries. Head Rush products make adventure activities safer, while
increasing throughput and enhancing customer experience.
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Health Center Help
Paula Saltzman
28 Walter Court
Commack, NY 11725
Phone: (631) 774-8388
PSIlovelucy@gmail.com
Offering high-quality help and advice for your health center.
Inspection readiness, training in nurse hiring practices and standard
operating procedures, design set up and staff education. Proven
track record with 20 years of camp nurse experience.
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Hershey Harrisburg Regional Visitors
Bureau
Booth EXHIBITOR
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Jason Beaudry
PO Box 1363
Claremont, NH 03743
Sandy Wenner
3211 N. Front Street
Harrisburg, PA 17110
Phone: 603-558-1463
jbeaudry@institutionalbedz.com
www.institutionalbedz.com
Phone: 717-231-2988
sandy@hersheyharrisburg.org
www.groups.visithersheyharrisburg.org
The Hershey Harrisburg Regional Visitors Bureau is the officially
designated tourism promotion agency for Hershey, Chocolatetown
USA, and Harrisburg, the state capital of PA, and the surrounding
areas. We would be happy to assist you with whatever you need
to make your visit a pleasant one.
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Camp metal bunks, wood bunks, cots, guardrails, ladder, furniture,
mattresses, replacement covers, linens. We are servicing camps
across the U.S., delivering products of outstanding quality and
great service at a competitive price.
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Peter Shapiro
PO Box 466
Jericho, NY 11753
Phone: (800) 597-1722
csmith@interexchange.org
www.interexchange.org/campusa
Phone: 516-364-5408
allen@hollyrockentertainment.com
www.hollyrockentertainment.com
210, 212
InterExchange Camp USA offers quality prescreened international
candidates for both counselor and support staff positions. We
also arrange J-1 visa sponsorship for returning staff or camps who
have found staff on their own.
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Phone: (913) 906-0111
mmattison@imgcoach.com
www.imgcoach.com
Matt Buczek
16 Edgemere Terrace
Washington, NJ 07882
Welcome to 3 Adventures! Are you looking for high-quality international staff for your camp? Look no further and let your adventure
begin with 3 Adventures! The 3 Adventures camp program is
owned and operated by IENA, a US Dept of State designated J-1
visa sponsor.
We have over 50 years combined experience placing international
staff at a wide variety of American summer camps. By choosing to
partner with the 3 Adventures Experience, you will always have
access to friendly, experienced placement professionals and the
highest quality of people waiting to become your next great
camp staff! Whatever your staffing needs may be, from support
staff to activity/cabin and specialist counselors, check out our
searchable database and let 3 Adventures work for you in providing
outstanding, ridiculously fun, creative staff! We can take care
of your returners and direct placements too! 3 Adventures was
created for camp directors by camp directors!
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Inside Out Tours
Stacey Toussaint
25 Broadway, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10004
Phone: (646) 723-4692
sales@insideouttours.com
www.insideouttours.com
Inside Out Tours offers off-the-path and hidden history tours of
NYC. We conduct music, educational, ethnic, immigrant, street
art, September 11th and food-related tours and workshops.
International Motor Coach Group
Mike Mattison
8695 College Boulevard, Suite 260
Overland Park, KS 66210
IENA’s 3 Adventures International Camp
Staff Program
Phone: (845) 706-1603
matt@3adventures.com
www.3adventures.com
InterExchange Camp USA
Christian Smith
161 Sixth Avenue, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10013
Hollyrock Entertainment
For over 35 years, Hollyrock Entertainment has been the premier
party entertainment source for every occasion. Hollyrock is a
full-time party production company with availability 7 days a
week. From start to finish, each event is customized and personally
tailored to your entertainment needs. We know we can create the
perfect entertainment event that everyone will remember for
many years to come. Our goal is to allow you to kick back while
we ensure that you and your campers have the time of your lives!
Institutional Bedz
International Motor Coach Group (IMG) is a network of independently owned and operated tour and charter companies
who work together to provide premier ground transportation
throughout North America. IMG is represented at American
Camp by Brown Coach, Hampton Jitney, and STARR.
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iPlay America, LLC
Scott Hostutler
110 Schanck Road
Freehold, NJ 07728
Phone: (732) 577-8200
scotth@iplayamerica.com
www.iplayamerica.com
iPlay America is New Jersey’s premier indoor amusement park.
Spend a day in our climate-controlled city that features rides,
games, attractions, food and entertainment for all ages. Free
on-site parking. Group packages are available.
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Irvin Simon Photographers
Eric Miller
146 Meacham Avenue
Elmont, NY 11003
conference
partner!
Phone: (516) 437-4700
eric@irvinsimon.com
www.irvinsimon.com
The leading camp photographer
since 1946! Customized solutions to
meet your specific needs. 100% digital.
100% beautiful.
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536
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333
Israel Emergency Medical Services
Booth EXHIBITOR
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Mark Kleinman
413 Bloomfield Dr., Unit 5
West Berlin, NJ 08081
Phone: 516-350-0151
IsraelEMS@gmail.com
www.israelEMS.com
Phone: (856) 336-2585
mark@j-dogs.com
www.j-dogs.com
Medical supply company that specializes in camp infirmaries. Let our
knowledgeable medical staff with first-hand experience of camp
infirmaries custom tailor a program that works for your organization.
J-Dogs is a full-service amusement, catering and entertainment
company. We are fully insured, and state inspectors are on staff.
Call us for the best price!
JA Foodservice
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Jessica Corring
281 Princeton Ave.
Brick, NJ 08724
Phone: (800) 592-1173 ext.1
bleitz@jafoodservice.com
www.packagedmealkits.com
Phone: (732) 899-6100
mail@jerseyshorepirates.com
www.jerseyshorepirates.com
JA Foodservice provides custom meal and essential item kits to
keep kids well fed, comfortable and safe on the go. We can help
your campers be better prepared while increasing your revenue.
Jersey Shore Pirates is an interactive treasure hunt onboard a
custom-built pirate ship designed specifically for kids. Let us turn
your campers into pirates for a day!
JA Media
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Jess Crate Furniture & Supplies
Joe Gravagna
2 Van Alstine Ave.
Suffern, NY 10601
Steve Silver
525 Spring Garden Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
Phone: (917) 476-9935
jgravagna@yahoo.com
www.jamediallc.com
Phone: (215) 625-3600
steve@jesscrate.com
www.jesscrate.com
Full service website design and ad agency.
High-quality, low-maintenance solid wood furniture, bunk beds,
chests, wardrobes, sofas, loveseats, cots, mattresses, mattress
covers.
Jamac Frozen Foods
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Phone: (973) 227-4590
carrie@jhpaperco.com
www.jhpaperco.com
Jamac Frozen Foods is a New Jersey based Full-Line Regional
Food Distributor. We have been proudly family-owned and operated
since 1955. Our mission is to provide the highest quality one-onone personal service with each of our clients. We carry a wide
variety of camp-oriented products!
We are PROUD to be back for our TWENTY-SEVENTH year!
Please see our diverse selection of foodservice disposables,
maintenance supplies, and GREEN PRODUCTS. We deliver on
our own fleet of trucks throughout NJ, NY, PA, CT, MA and DE.
We would appreciate the opportunity to introduce our family
to yours!!
Jasienowski Studio, Inc. Portrait
Photographers
Patrick T. Jasienowski
6701 Myrtle Ave
Glendale, NY 11385
Phone: (718) 417-4317
info@jasienowskistudios.com
www.jasienowskistudios.com
Founded in 1990. We provide customised group photos with
your camp logo, creative activity photos and beautiful individual
photos with no-hassle purchasing ONLINE services and camp
annuals. Our goal is to meet your highest expectations!
JH Paper Company
Carrie Halper
1 Washington Avenue
Fairfield, NJ 07004
Phone: (201) 275-2298
jclary@jamac.net
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Jersey Shore Pirates
Broderick Leitz
455 Post Rd.
Buchanan, MI 49107
John Clary
570 Grand St.
Jersey City, NJ 07302
737
J-Dogs Amusements & Catering
Michael Pelikow
3214 Perry Ave
Oceanside, NY 11572
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K&K Insurance Group, Inc.
Linda Parks
1712 Magnavox Way
Fort Wayne, IN 46804
Phone: (260) 459-5000
Linda.Parks@kandkinsurance.com
www.kandkinsurance.com
“Insuring the world’s fun” for more than 60 years, K &K has
designed insurance specifically for camps. From resident camps
to day camps, we are your one-stop resource for camp insurance
needs.
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KampKits.com
Booth EXHIBITOR
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Joel Rappelfeld
103 Gedney St.
Nyack, NY 10960
Phone: (855) 545-5444
andy@kampkits.com
kampkits.com
Phone: (212) 744-4444
rollamerica@aol.com
www.rollamerica.com
Ready-to-assemble project kits! Hands-on projects campers take
home. Easy for staff; includes materials, instructions, safety
guidelines and lesson plans. STEM curriculum transforms camp
into an extraordinary classroom. Slingshots, water balloon
launchers, boomerangs and drawing machines!
Joel Rappelfeld’s Kids on Wheels skating program is the most
interactive fun, on or off skates. We come to your camp with a truck
filled with in-line skates for all your campers and staff, full protective
gear—including wrist, knee, elbow pads and helmets with helmet
schmatahs—sound system, ramps and SUPER HIGH ENERGY. The
three-hour program is filled with non-stop rolling activities, great
music, lessons for all levels and everyone catches some air on THE
RAMP. Don’t forget to see Joel and kids at the showcase.
Katker 2005
Sandor Nagy
Furedi Street 49-51
Debrecen, Hajdu-Bihar, Hungry 04027
338
Phone: 717-653-9074
Recreation@kinseysinc.com
BeStrong Fitness Park is a versatile and safe outdoor sport station.
It is basically an outdoor fitness park. It can be used starting at a
young age with playful exercises to improve various children’s skills.
Kinsey’s Recreational Program has everything that you’ll need to
build an exciting and successful archery program that will leave a
lasting impression for years to come. We take pride in staffing the
most knowledgeable technicians in the archery business. Our
reputable company continues to build upon the basic values that
Vernon Kinsey established in 1952: to help others with outstanding
service, quality and dedication that knows no bounds.
347, 349 Kay Park & Recreation Corp.
Chad DeBoer
1301 Pine Street
Janesville, IA 50647
Phone: (800) 553-2476
chad@kaypark.com
www.kaypark.com
INTERACTIVE Knockerballs
ZONE
Michael Cannizzaro
26 Hillcrest Road
Holmdel, NJ 07733
Phone: (732) 690-5670
knockerballNJ@gmail.com
Manufacturer of commercial-quality fiberglass pedal boats. Kay
Park also has a complete line of site furnishings that are perfect
for any outdoor settings. Made in the U.S.A. since 1954.
Keansburg Amusement Park & Runaway
Rapids Water Park
www.knockerballNJ.com
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Phone: (818) 888-2916
scott@labeldaddy.com
www.labeldaddy.com
Phone: (732) 495-1400
banghelone@keansburgamusementpark.com
www.keansburgamusementpark.com
Label Daddy brings a fun, stylish, simple and convenient way to
label all of your things! Label Daddy’s peel and stick washable
labels are easy to use and ideal for identifying all your belongings!
Custom design your own labels. Choose from fun and colorful
designs, including popular Disney and Marvel characters! Plus our
MLB, NBA and NHL icons! Our exclusive lamination options add
an extra layer of protection.
Full-size amusement park and waterpark, each with a wide range
of rides for all ages, toddler to adult. 2016 will be an exciting
year: 2 brand new water slides and an all new amusement park!
Great changes you can not imagine. Our waterpark has 17 waterslides, Crazy Lazy River, 10,000-square-foot kiddy area, food,
wheel of chance and much more.
Key Log Rolling
Carole McNaughton-Commers
626 Mendelssohn Ave N.
Minneapolis, MN 55427
Phone: (763) 544-0047
info@keylogrolling.com
www.keylogrolling.com
Log rolling is a safe and unique activity for waterfronts and pools,
featuring many individual and group benefits. The 65-pound Key
Log is easy to ship and transport from storage or between sites.
The patented “training wheels” that come with the Key Log allow
progression from beginner to advanced, and bring campers
endless hours of fun with a sense of accomplishment!
LabelDaddy.com
Scott Mehlman
20631 Ventura Blvd., #200
Woodland Hills, CA 91364
Betty Anghelone
275 Beachway
Keansburg, NJ 07734
448
Kinsey’s Inc
Dakota Royer
1660 Steel Way Dr.
Mount Joy, PA 17552
Phone: +00 36 70 372 5000
sandor@bestrong-camp.com
www.kondipark.hu
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Kids on Wheels
Andy Kasanicky
3563 Sunflower Way
Ft Collins, CO 80521
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Lake Education
Josh Lake
1849 SE 54th Ave
Portland, OR 97215
Phone: (310) 779-7070
joshlake1@mac.com
The Nature Kit: Empower your counselors and staff to provide
great nature programs for your campers. Basic, explorer and
advanced explorer kits available. Training also available.
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Liberty Clothing Co.
Booth EXHIBITOR
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Heather O’Rourke
7370 Bramalea Road Unit 25
Mississauga, ON, Canada L5S1N6
Katie Clarke
PO Box 33561, RPO Dundurn
Hamilton, ON, Canada L8P 4X4
Phone: (905) 671-2335
info@libertyclothing.com
www.libertyclothing.com
Phone: (866) 306-2235
fundraising@mabelslabels.com
www.mabelslabels.com
Custom clothing and specialty items perfect for camp.
720
Mabel’s Labels are personalized, peel and stick, super-durable
labels that safely go in the laundry, dishwasher and microwave.
They’re loved by parents and kids alike, and they’re a camp
essential! Encourage labeling before camp starts to reduce your
lost and found and raise funds. It’s a win/win!
Liberty Science Center
Mary McDonald
222 Jersey City Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ 07305
Phone: (201) 253-1214
mmcdonald@lsc.org
www.lsc.org
We love groups! Twelve galleries of hands-on fun include a
pitch-black maze, a 64-platform climbing gym hanging 35 feet
above the floor, real lab experiments on DNA and marine
science, live surgery programs and more. Don’t forget to visit the
nation’s largest IMAX Dome Theater! LSC.org.
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Our easy fundraising program offers direct delivery to your
supporters/campers—no sorting, distributing or collecting funds.
We do all the work! Start a campaign today in just minutes!
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Phone: (516) 707-8075
themachofoundation@gmail.com
www.themachofoundation.org
Lice Treatment Center, The
The M.A.C.H.O. Foundation, based on the acronym My Actions Can
Help Others, is a non-for-profit organization that inspires children,
teens and adults to infuse kindness into their daily lives. Over the
past two years our multiple creative initiatives have helped successfully bring the M.A.C.H.O. movement to numerous schools and
summer camps. We offer a fun, interactive M.A.C.H.O. program for
campers throughout the camp season as well as pre-season staff
motivational speeches which are guaranteed to leave your counselors
ready to be their very best selves. Our M.A.C.H.O. summer camp
affiliates continue to grow and our M.A.C.H.O. Awards program is a
fantastic way to culminate the summer season. Swing by to find out
more information and visit us on our social media pages.
Phone: (917) 648-3789
ampinnyc@aol.com
www.licetreatmentcenter.net
The Lice Treatment Center is dedicated to providing effective
programs to prevent and treat head lice. Our Bon Cheveux
prevention and treatment products are all natural and peditrician
formulated. Our services include on-site consulting, lice checks
and treatment services.
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LogoTags
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Madame Tussauds New York
Dawn Milanese
741 South Fulton Avenue
Mount Vernon, NY 10550
Karen Shiers
234 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (914) 664-2000
dawn@logotags.com
www.logotags.com
Phone: (866) 841-3660
karen.shiers@madametussaudsny.com
www.nycwax.com
The leader in dog tags and custom-shaped metal tags. We promise
the best pricing, quality, service and delivery. Tags are fun keepsakes,
plus are a great and inexpensive way to show camp pride!
Get up close and personal with over 220 life-like wax figures of
the world’s most fascinating historical, political and iconic figures
of our time in the heart of Times Square.
Luna Park at Coney Island
Jeff Klein
1000 Surf Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11224
Phone: 718-373-5862 ext.111
jklein@lunaparknyc.com
www.lunaparknyc.com
Located in historic CONEY ISLAND, built in 2010, with over 40
new and fun rides; ranging from kiddy to high thrill attractions,
roller coasters, games, educational programs, an arcade, go-karts,
restaurants, food stands, the historic Cyclone Roller Coaster and
the new Thunderbolt Roller Coaster.
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M.A.C.H.O Foundation, The
Cary Epstein
250 E. 63rd St., Suite 809
New York, NY 10065
Adrian Picheny
PO Box 4
Easton, CT 06612
436
Mabel’s Labels
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Madison Square Garden & Radio City
Entertainment
Ashley Oster
2 Penn Plaza
New York, NY 10121
Phone: (212) 465-4448
Ashley.Oster@msg.com
www.msggroupsales.com
Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall host the very
best in sports and entertainment! We are home to the Knicks,
Rangers, Liberty and the NEW Summer show “Rockettes New
York Spectacular.”
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Magic Mehl Illusions
Booth EXHIBITOR
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Phone: (516) 415-2418
alexander@magicmehl.com
www.magicmehl.com
Phone: (800) 921-0832
info@mascotrun.com
www.mascotrun.com
Magic Mehl is known for his ability to perform complex illusions
using magic and comedy. From children’s parties to camps and
events, Magic Mehl consistently receives high praise for his
unique style and illusions.
Mascot run is designed to focus kids’ attentions on building a
foundation for life-long fitness to benefit their health, education
and teamwork skills. Campers participate in activies that culminate
with a camp-wide fun run!
Magical Memories Entertainment
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Magical Memories Entertainment specializes in children’s entertainment and employs only the most qualified professionals. All
shows are designed to create a fun and friendly atmosphere
where the campers are the ones who are empowered. Full-season
camp entertainment packages are available, which give you a
custom entertainment calendar while saving you time and money!
Phone: 718-601-3274
ez@elliotzimet.com
www.elliotzimet.com
Master Illusionist Elliot Zimet has been featured on America’s Got
Talent, MTV, VH1 and The Early Show on CBS to name a few. This
action-packed show features exotic birds, magic, illusions, mind
reading, comedy, audience participation and today’s hottest music.
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Matt Dorter
21-33 29th Avenue, 2nd Fl.
Astoria, NY 11102
Phone: (800) 926-3539
gmartini@mateflex.com
www.mateflex.com
Phone: 347-878-2431
matt@mainstages.com
www.mainstages.com
Modular Surfaces: Sport indoor and outdoor, waterfront
deck and dock, pool decks. Lite commercial decors and
office, aerobics and dance floors.
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Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament
Ricardo Salazar
149 Polito Avenue
Lyndhurst, NJ 07071
Phone: (201) 933-2220
ricardo.salazar@medievaltimes.com
www.medievaltimes.com
447, 546 Mamba GaGa
Adrienne Gentles
1802 State Route 31, Box 203
Clinton, NJ 08809
Mateflex
Gabe Martini
2007 Beechgrove Place
Utica, NY 13501
mainstages
mainstages is an educational theater company for children. Every
summer, we run theater classes and produce shows at sleep-away
and day camps across the nation. We also tour nationwide with
interactive game shows and performances. We provide all the
tools for high-impact theatrical experiences, including dynamic
staff, innovative activities, costumes, sets, fun giveaways and
ongoing support to ensure success.
Master Illusionist Elliot Zimet
Elliot Zimet
5800 Arlington Ave, #16-O
Bronx, NY 10471
Phone: (914) 548-2048
simplystevenmagic@yahoo.com
www.mme123.com
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sponsor!
Jared Robinson
54 W. 40th St.
New York, NY 10018
Steven Burchard
210 Marble Avenue
Pleasantville, NY 10570
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Mascot Run
Alexander Mehl
880 Barberry Lane
Woodmere, NY 11598
North America’s #1 dinner and show attraction
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MedMattress.com
Phone: (855) 626-2242
adrienne@mambagaga.com
www.mambagaga.com
Gillian Williams
5807 W. Maple Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
We sell GaGa pits that are TRULY portable. Indoor/outdoor,
light-weight, storable and adjustable. The only GaGa pit that
allows you to view the action while supervising the kids.
Phone: 248-855-3966
gperalta@diamedicalusa.com
www.medmattress.com/camp-mattresses
Marathon Kids
MedMattress.com combines superior mattresses and durable
bunk beds with affordable prices to become the most reliable
camp supplier in the US.
Lindsey Picard
2512 S. IH 35,
Suite 350
Austin, TX 78704
Phone: (512) 477-1259
programs@marathonkids.org
www.marathonkids.org
Marathon Kids running clubs have proven effective for millions of
kids. Kids of all levels and abilities run a lap at a time, and before
they know it they’ve gone farther than they ever dreamed.
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Merchants Short
Term Solutions
wed night
event sponsor!
Jennifer Gordon
1278 Hooksett Road
Hooksett, NH 03106
Phone: (603) 695-4100
jennifergordon@merchantsleasing.com
www.merchantsleasing.com
Merchants Van and Truck’s short-term leasing is a national provider
of multi-passenger vehicles; including 14-passenger buses, SUVs
and mini-vans for both summer and adventure camps.
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Booth EXHIBITOR
Monsey Tours
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Sam Perkel
16 Sutton Place
Englewood, NJ 07631
Phone: (718) 623-9000
charter@monseytours.com
www.monseytours.com
Phone: (201) 735-9222
sam@MusicalIQ.com
www.mus-iq.com
Monsey Tours is a reputable transportation company with over 35
years experience. We specialize in camps and chartered tours
with 49 to 58-passenger coach buses. We charter for group tours,
weddings, school trips, bar mitzvahs, casino trips and many more!
Our drivers are experienced and are all 19-A certified by the New
York State Department of Motor Vehicles. Our fleet of buses can
come equipped with air conditioning, DVD player, microphone,
reclining seats, lifts and capabilities for wheelchair passengers,
and more! Our buses are all DOT inspected and certified, and we
hold safety and security as our number one priority. Monsey
Tours will make your next trip the most enjoyable you’ve ever
had! “Ride with pride, ride with Monsey Tours!”
Musical IQ offers sensational musical workshops and performances.
Our programs are interactive and strongly educational. Explore
and discover the world through the eyes and ears of music and
drumming. Join us as we bring the arts to life.
Motorola / Kew Forest
Bob Silverstein
22 Lillian Place
Patchogue, NY 11772
313, 315
Phone: (631) 273-8020
jennifer@wpmv.com
www.mvsport.com
conference
partner!
Printed and embroidered sportswear and outerwear.
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www.mei-corp.com
Phone: (917) 716-7879
avj123@msn.com
www.mycamplink.com
Motorola on-site business two-way radios
and accessories
702
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My Camp Link
Aaron Jonas
1146 Beach 9th St.
Far Rockaway, NY 11691
bob@mei-motorola.com
My Camp Link is a must-have mobile app for camp staff, campers,
and parents of campers. We offer a simple to use app that will
not only give parents the peace of mind they are looking for
while their kids are away, but also allow camps to build a sense of
community and market their offerings throughout that community
by word of mouth.
Mountain Creek Waterpark
Evan Kovach
200 Route 94
Vernon, NJ 07491
MV Sport/Weatherproof
Jennifer Piombino
88 Spence Street
Bay Shore, NY 11706
Phone: (631) 687-5890
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Musical IQ
Isaac Lunger
870 Dean Street
Brooklyn, NY 11238
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Name Beads USA Inc.
Phone: (862) 307-7371
ekovach@mountaincreek.com
www.mountaincreek.com
Andrew Platts
160 N. Main St.
St. Clair, MO 63077
Winter’s white slopes turn into summer’s white water at
Mountain Creek Waterpark. The largest waterpark in New Jersey
offers a variety of rides, slides and attractions, with packages for
any budget. Mountain Creek is the ideal destination for camps
and group outings!
Phone: (636) 629-6544
profit@namebeads.com
www.namebeads.com
Mr. D’s Tees
Custom logo beads for camps.
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National Camp Group
Kenn Dranoff
2446 Huckleberry Way
Jamison, PA 18929
Bjorn Waldron
25 Greenway Drive
Leesburg, VA 20175
Phone: (888) 343-8337
mrdstees@aol.com
www.mrdstees.com
Phone: (800) 456-6624
bwaldron@ncginsurance.com
www.ncginsurance.com
Supplier of custom-imprinted tees, sweats, hats, bags, jackets,
polos and assorted sportswear. Embroidery available. Licensed
GSUSA and 4H vendor. ACA business member. Celebrating our
36th year in the camping industry! One-week reorder policy.
National Camp Group provides risk-management solutions to
protect your camp, campers and camping experience. Our
camp-specific insurance policies protect your organization, so you
can focus on your life-changing activities. Our mission is to protect
your mission!
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National Circus Project
Booth EXHIBITOR
511, 610
Kevin Mattice
1901 Diplomat Drive
Farmers Branch, TX 75234
Phone: (516) 334-2123
robyn@nationalcircusproject.com
www.nationalcircusproject.com
Phone: 214-459-9035
kmattice@bsnsports.com
www.campexpress.com
The National Circus Project provides the highest quality circus
arts performances, hands-on circus skill workshops and residency
programs for campers to perform in their very own circus.
New England Camp Discounter is the complete source for all
your camp and recreation needs. We offer outstanding values on
archery, game tables, waterfront, kayaking, rescue, team sports,
water safety and much more!
Nationwide Instruction for Cardiovascular
Education
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OC Waterpark
Dr. Chris Byron
1 Gate Court
Dix Hills, NY 11746
Kristen Fitzpatrick
728 Boardwalk
Ocean City, NJ 08226
Phone: (631) 643-9896
nicecpr@aol.com
www.niceheart.com
Phone: (609) 399-0483
kristen@ocwaterpark.com
www.ocwaterpark.com
AED, CPR, First Aid, RTE, EpiPen, all medical direction, instruction,
certification, inspection and equipment. AEDs, first aid kits,
EpiPen, O-2, Rx, QC, Bloodborne Transmission, etc.
A family-friendly water park for all ages, featuring adventurous
slides, pools and Lil Bucs’ Bay for the younger campers! Now
presenting extreme challenges such as New Jersey’s tallest
mobile rock climbing wall and extreme Air Jumpers.
Nature Watch
Harold Gordon
5312 Derry Ave, #R
Agoura Hills, CA 91301
712
Fun, hands-on activities about nature, ecology, animals, Native
American games, science and much more about the world around
us! Nature Watch has been providing camps with engaging and
enlightening activities around the country since 1985.
One Beat CPR and AED
Lisette Rodrguez
4350 Oakes Rd., Suite 500
Davie, FL 33314
Phone: (800) 228-5816
info@nature-watch.com
www.nature-watch.com
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New England Camp Discounter
Robyn Langella
56 Lion Lane
Westbury, NY 11590
Phone: (954) 321-5305
lisette@onebeatcpr.com
www.onebeatcpr.com
Philips defibrillators and emergency resuscitative care certification.
402, 404 Outfit Your Logo
conference
partner!
Brian McGarry
Sarah Williams
6565 Kinne Rd., Suite 4
Syracuse, NY 13214
12165 West Couter Rd.
Omaha, NE 68144
Phone: (402) 609-5076
Phone: (315) 446-5252
sarah@outfityourlogo.com
www.outfityourlogo.com
Brian.mcnarry@ntspay.com
www.ntspay.com
For over 20 YEARS, customers in every
state have faithfully relied on Outfit
Your Logo to provide the most
innovative, comprehensive, high-quality
product line of logoed products. Coupling unparalleled customer
service and free product selection consulting, we can outfit your
logo with the perfect imprinted products for all your needs:
t-Shirts, Nalgene bottles, Camelbak bottles, carabiners, journals,
patches, silicone wristlets, bags, stuffed animals, school supplies,
any apparel item, staff gifts, retail items, novelties and more!
Nelnet Pay
Nelnet Transaction Solutions has over 15 years’ experience
processing credit card and ACH payments for our camp, religious,
nonprofit and education clients. Our suite of products support
online, POS, terminal and mobile payment processing.
902, 904 New Dimensions
Lindsay Gosch
332 Fayette Street
Manlius, NY 13104
Phone: (315) 682-7760
lgosch@newdimensions1.com
www.newdimensions1.com
With over 30 years of service to the camping industry, New
Dimensions has the experience to help make your camp store
profitable and successful. Stop by our booth to see the most
innovative and trendy products!
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Pacific Yurts, Inc.
Pete Dolan
77456 Hwy 99 South
Cottage Grove, OR 97424
sponsor!
Phone: (800) 944-0240
info@yurts.com
www.yurts.com
Campers will love the experience of unique, cozy accommodations
that will keep them coming back. As the world’s leading
manufacturer, Pacific Yurts has an enviable reputation for quality
and outstanding service. Nobody knows yurts like Pacific Yurts!
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Booth EXHIBITOR
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506
Panaram/USA-TOWL
Booth EXHIBITOR
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Carrie Gordon
900C Tryens Road
Aston, PA 19014
Phone: (973) 751-1100
julie@usatowl.com
www.usatowl.com
Phone: (610) 637-8004
vlamantia@pestheat.com
www.pestheat.com
Washing machines and towels.
Heat treatment systems for the eradication of bed bugs. We provide
100% clean and safe alternatives for your bed bug concerns.
Pest-Heat is your modern day solution for all insect eradication.
Party Perfect Rentals
Michael Bain
312 Squankum Yellowbrook Rd.
Farmingdale, NJ 07727
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Phone: (973) 482-2536
info@plastercraft.com
www.plastercraft.com
Party Perfect Rentals is your one-stop shop for rides, attractions,
entertainment and all your event needs—from inflatables to
casino nights, from carnivals to photo-booths, we have it all!
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Manufacturer of ready-to-paint plastercraft statues, wall art
plaques, super cute pencil holders and more. Huge selection and
great prices. The number one supplier of plaster craft since 1962.
Brushes, small bottles of paint or paint by the gallon, spray sealers,
brush-on sealers, glitter... everything necessary.
Partymachines.com
Greg Gordon
503 E Market St
Lockhart, TX 78644
719
Sue Nasri
1177 Sunrise Hwy
Copiague, NY 11726
Super E Foam Machine, Dr. Party Dance Foam Concentrate and
Powder, foam pits, Continuous Flow Confetti Cannon and snow
machine rentals.
Phone: (631) 789-2733
myfuncraft@aol.com
www.plastercraftonline.com
We are a plaster craft manufacturing company in Long Island,
New York with 25 years of experience carrying over 5,000 pieces
just for children. We supply to camps, party stores, art studios,
after-school programs, psychiatric centers and hospitals in retail
and wholesale throughout the U.S. and Canada. We also carry all
related supplies such as paints, brushes, glitter and glaze.
Performance Food Group - AFI
Phone: (800) 275-9500
jcallaha@pfgc.com
www.performancefoodservice.com
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Phone: (800) 784-4442
kbird@bushkillgroup.com
www.poconomountainadventures.com
Pocono Mountain Adventures consists of Pocono TreeVentures
aerial ropes course, Pocono Zip Racer (two 1,000-ft dualing zip
lines) and Blue or White Lightning all-season tubing. Great for
groups or team-building events.
Perlow Productions
Mike Perlow
1 Eves Drive, Suite 141
Marlton, NJ 08053
Phone: (856) 669-1669
mike@perlowproductions.com
www.perlowproductions.com
Perlow Productions creates promotional videos for resident and
day camps throughout the United States. We also work with a
wide range of corporate and non-profit clients. Perlow Productions
combines creative HD ground level and aerial videography, video
editing and customized 3D and motion graphics along with powerful
storytelling crafted by long-time TV sportscaster and company
founder Mike Perlow. You can see our latest camp videos here:
http://www.perlowproductions.com/services/summer-camp-videos/
Pocono Mountain Adventures
Ken Bird
1575 Fairway Blvd.
East Stroudsburg, PA 18302
Not only does Performance Foodservice deliver more than
125,000 food and food-related products to every kind of eatery,
but with over 80,000 customer locations, we touch the lives of
millions of people every day. At Performance Foodservice, we
maintain a unique relationship with a variety of local customers—
from independent restaurants and hotels to healthcare facilities,
schools and quick-service eateries. These operators rely on their
Performance Foodservice distributor for the quality and consistency
they have come to trust.
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Plastercraft Factory
Phone: (512) 377-2789
ggordon@partymachines.com
www.partymachines.com
Jim Callahan
1 Ikea Drive
Elizabeth, NJ 07207
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Plaque Art Creations
Belinda Kalthoff
401 South 2nd Street
Harrison, NJ 07029
Phone: (732) 303-8211
mike@partyperfectrentals.com
www.partyperfectrentals.com
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Pest Heat
Ira Feinberg
126 Greylock Avenue
Belleville, NJ 07109
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Pocono Whitewater
Nikki Hurley
1519 State Route 903
Jim Thorpe, PA 18229
Phone: (570) 325-3654
pr@poconowhitewater.com
www.poconowhitewater.com
Whitewater and family-style rafting, easy rail-trail biking and
skirmish paintball in Jim Thorpe, PA. Youth programs with
discounted rates and free camping.
Booth EXHIBITOR
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Pole Position Raceway
Booth EXHIBITOR
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Rick Olson
1 Carter Hill Rd.
Canterbury, NH 03244
Phone: (201) 333-7223
karen@polepositionracewayny.com
www.polepositionracewayny.com
Phone: (800) 892- 6224
rickolson01@comcast.net
www.raisels.com
www.chortles.com
Pole Position is the premier indoor motorsports entertainment
facility in Liberty State Park, Jersey City. Our 80,000 sq. ft. building
is home to the fastest, safest and most exhilarating electric
go-karting experience for adults and children. With two tracks,
Pole Position accommodates walk-in business 7 days a week and
corporate and private events from 10–525 people.
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Progressive Bike Ramps
Raisels: Fruit flavored sour and non-sour raisins. Shelf stable and
equals half-a-cup of fruit.
Chortles: Whole-grain mini-mini graham crackers. Chocolate chip
and cinnamon also available.
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Phone: (413) 499-9914
luke@ramblewild.com
www.ramblewild.com
Phone: (855) 727-7267
jason@progressivebikeramps.com
www.progressivebikeramps.com
The premier aerial adventure park in New England. 8 elevated
trails, over 150 different types of climbing elements. 2015 Best
Attraction in New England by Yankee Magazine.
Sustainable, purpose-built mountain bike features and modular
pumptracks.
R F Design & Integration
Robin Albert
792 Haunted lane
Bensalem, PA 19020
211, 213,
308, 312
Phone: 215-331-5722
ralbert@rfdesign-int.com
www.rfdesign-int.com
RAVE Sports is the premier supplier of water recreation products to
the commercial market. We offer a full breadth of products, including
new Stand-Up Paddle Boards, the Aqua Jump Eclipse water
trampoline, Bongo Bouncers, Iceberg Mountains, Water Whoosh
Activity Mat, and the Splash Trax—the ultimate activity course!
RadioBoss 2-Way Radios
Adam Smith
28 Baiting Place Road
Farmingdale, NY 11735
Phone: (516) 694-6000
adam@radioboss.com
www.radioboss.com
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Phone: (800) 463-8546
kjaphet@redwoodsgroup.com
www.redwoodsgroup.com
The Redwoods Group is a social enterprise using insuring and
risk-management solutions to make the world better. We measure
our success by how we care for our communities. The injuries
we prevent. The children we protect. And when the unthinkable
happens, we are a path to healing.
Radtagz
Robyn Hochglaube
39 Astor Ave
Toronto, ON, Canada, M4G3M1
Phone: 416-881-4522
robynradtagz@gmail.com
www.radtagz.ca
The new camp tradition that has everyone talking!
Promoting positive word of mouth 365 days a year through our
amazing branded product.
Multi-purpose swag that stays on your campers’ wrists yearround—next best thing to a permanent tattoo!
RaDTaGZ keeps people talking about your camp with our fun and
fashion-forward bracelets. With RaDTaGZ your campers and staff
will be showing you off 365 days of the year!
Used for: staff and camper recognition and awards, giveaways, lead
generators, collectibles, tradeables, special events and contests!
Redwoods Group, The
Kara Japhet
2801 Slater Rd, Suite 220
Morrisville, NC 27560
Radioboss is a 2-way radio manufacturer that helps manage wireless communications for camps, schools, government, retail and
much more. We specialize in sales and summer rentals. RadioBoss
has the world’s quickest turnaround time, which is why all camp
repairs will be finished within 24–48 hours of receipt.
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RAVE Sports
Tanya Rausch
3325 Labore Road
St. Paul, MN 55110
Phone: (651) 255-4811
trausch@ravesports.com
www.ravesports.com
Two-way radios, services and repair and public address systems
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Ramblewild
Luke Bloom
110 Brodie Mt Road
Lanesborough, MA 01207
Jason Stouder
601 S. McKinley Ave
Jeplin, MO 64801
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Raisel - Chortles
Karen Davis-Furage
99 Caven Point Road
Jersey City, NJ 07305
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Ride, The
Renee Wilson
545 8th Ave., Suite 14S
New York, NY 10018
Phone: (212) 244-2551
rwilson@experiencetheride.com
www.experiencetheride.com
THE RIDE is a theatrical show on wheels! Guests enjoy everything
from trivia to karaoke on board in between viewing 5–7 live street
performance acts. Be sure to ask about our sister product, THE TOUR!
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Booth EXHIBITOR
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718
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Times Square
Booth EXHIBITOR
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David Erickson
14700 W. 66th Place
Arvada, CO 80004
Phone: (212) 398-3133
groupsales@ripleysnewyork.com
www.ripleysnewyork.com
Phone: (888) 356-8899
derickson@rmsunscreen.com
www.rmsunscreen.com
The most unbelievable attraction in NYC! Ripley’s Believe it or
Not! Times Square invites guests of all ages to experience the
unbelievable mysteries of our world. Home to rare artifacts and
thrilling interactive exhibits.
Bulk Sunscreen Prevents Skin Damage & Sun Burning
Rocky Mountain Sunscreen manufactures fragrance-free,
FDA-certified broad-spectrum sunscreen in bulk gallon and quart
pump dispensers. Cost effective ($ .10 per application) bulk
sunscreen ensures your campers won’t burn during their outdoor
activities and throughout their stay at your camp. All of Rocky
Mountain Sunscreen products meet or exceed the new FDA
2012 Sunscreen Guidelines with broad spectrum protection in
SPF factors of 30, 50 or 70.
Rock Paper Team
Dan Colgan
54 W. 40th St.
New York, NY 10018
For more than 20 years, Rocky Mountain Sunscreen has been
protecting camps, schools and outdoor enthusiasts all across the
country. Take the burning out of your camper’s experience with
Rocky Mountain Sunscreen.
Phone: (212) 925-5604
dan@rockpaperteam.com
www.rockpaperteam.com
Rock Paper Team provides interactive team-building exercises
and activities for leadership and staff training as well as campers’
activities, ranging from picture scavenger hunts, facilitated workshops and wacky olympics.
613, 615,
617, 619
302, 304 Rock Star Camp
Phone: (917) 893-2173
erin@proartsmanagementandconsulting.com
www.rockstarcampexperience.com
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Ropes Park Equipment
Ben Haase
1700 Post Rd. Suite C-16
Fairfield, CT 06890
Phone: (203) 692-4644
ben@ropesparkequipment.com
www.ropesparkequipment.com
Rocket Age Enterprises, LLC
Ropes Park Equipment—your one-stop-source for Monkey
Hardware™. “Turns a tree into a climbing wall,” plus all your
ropes course and zip line equipment needs.
Cathy Twanmoh
PO Box 505
Oldwick, NJ 08858
Rocket Age Enterprises is an ACA vendor with trustworthy service
to camps and schools for over 35 years. Complete line of Estes,
Quest and custom model rockets, accessories and publications.
Engage kids in fun group-oriented building, painting and flying
of model rockets through this week-long program. Build and fly
white-wing gliders and water bottle rockets. Educational discounts
and fast, reliable service. Training of counselors in model rocketry
is also a service that we provide. Order model rockets in bulk
packs for a savings of 50% over individual retail prices. No time
to do your model rocket order? Just send us a list of your inventory,
number of campers per age group and number of sessions/duration.
We will construct a great assortment of economical and fun rockets
for your program as part of our service!
Joe Cirone
268 Bowery St.
New York, NY 10012
Food service equipment and supplies!
Rock Star Camp is an exciting program that allows your campers
to become rock stars through participation in an educational
and high-energy performance, complete with a full band, lights,
professional sound equipment and more!
Phone: (908) 439-3559
rocketage@comcast.net
www.rocketageenterprises.com
Roger and Sons, Inc.
Phone: 212-226-4734
joe@rogerandsons.net
www.rogerandsons.net
Erin Coles
36-14 28th Ave., Suite 2R
Astoria, NY 11103
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Rocky Mountain Sunscreen
Jonathan Elkoubi
234 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
820
RPS Bollinger - Sports & Leisure
Ed Schirick
196 Bridgeville Rd
Monticello, NY 12701
Phone: (845) 794-3113
ed.schirick@bollingerinsurance.com
www.campinsurancepro.com
Camp insurance brokers, risk management and insurance consultants
with over 30 years experience. We offer tomorrow’s solutions for
today’s challenges.
301, 400 S&S Worldwide
Sandra Cervini
PO Box 513
Colchester, CT 06415
Phone: (800) 243-9232
scervini@ssww.com
www.ssww.com
One-stop shopping for arts & crafts, craft kits, party & novelty,
sports & recreation, games and janitorial. Exclusive new products,
especially Easy Packs! Visit ssww.com and search STEM for 10
awesome ideas of how to use bricks in your summer camp.
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Booth EXHIBITOR
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320
Saddle River Tours
Booth EXHIBITOR
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Nancy Crouch
2705 Hawes Avenue
Dallas, TX 75235
Phone: (973) 777-1900 ext. 203
jferreri@srtbus.com
www.srtbus.com
Phone: (214) 466-2043
nancy@signatureservices.com
www.signatureservices.com
Safe reliable motor coach transportation service. Providing charter
bus service to groups in the Tri-State area and beyond. Local
company, local focus!
We specialize in providing food service for camps, conference centers
and educational venues. We do it all—turn key and professional. Let
our professional and well-trained staff make your camp dining service
a memorable and enjoyable experience. Our goal is to encourage and
support healthy eating with appealing food that meets the nutritional
needs of your energetic and active guests. Learn more about what
Signature Services can do for your food service.
Sahara Sam’s Oasis Indoor & Outdoor
Water Park and Diggerland USA
Beth Twisler
535 N Route 73
West Berlin, NJ 08091
853
Sahara Sam’s Oasis & Diggerland USA!
Sahara Sam’s Oasis Indoor & Outdoor Water Park EXPANDED!
Now featuring 80,000 sq ft of water amusements, mostly under a
RETRACTABLE ROOF! Sahara Sam’s has an attached 2-acre outdoor
water park for an extra splashtastic time! Ellis Certified Lifeguards!
Diggerland USA is a construction-themed adventure park where
campers can operate REAL construction equipment, including
skid-steer loaders, backhoes, tractors, mini dumpers and small
excavators; Climb a 66ft-tall ropes adventure and 32ft-tall rock
wall and enjoy a machinery stunt show!
All camps receive 1:10 comps; FREE parking; “brown bag it”option.
Phone: (516) 338-1630
maryellen@sitespecialists.net
www.sitespecialists.net
Playground and site furnishing representatives.
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Phone: (518) 792-3500
slopez@sftp.com
www.sixflags.com
Joel Eros
438 Camino Del Rio South, Suite 110
San Diego, CA 92108
Your one stop shop for all your camp needs! Shop Art, PE,
Special Needs, Science and more! Visit Booth #612 to learn more.
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Señor Frog’s
Taylor Spoelstra
11 Times Square
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 221-3833
taylor@frogsnyc.com
www.senorfrogs.com/newyork
Camp groups looking for affordable pricing, food selections from
American standards to Mexican specialties, comfortable seating
and professional entertainment: Look no further than Señor Frog’s.
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Shear Madness
Lisa Field
20 Park Plaza, Suite 1012
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: (617) 451-0195
LisaF@shearmadness.com
www.shearmadness.com
Six Flags Great Escape
Sonia Lopez
1172 State Route 9
Queensbury, NY 12804
School Specialty
Phone: (619) 293-7990
joel.eros@sparkpe.org
www.sparkpe.org
Site Specialists
Mary Ellen Meyerdierks
265 Post Ave., Suite 365
Westbury, NY 11590
Phone: (856) 767-7580
btwisler@saharasams.com
www.saharasams.com
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Signature Services
Jeff Ferreri
480 Main Ave.
Wallington, NJ 07057
A Six Flags property with over 135 rides, shows and attractions
(includes a waterpark).
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Skyline Ziplines
David Saenz
6-1006 Lynham Rd.
Whistler, British Columbia V0N 1B1
Canada
Phone: (604) 905-4149
admin@skylineziplines.ca
www.skylineziplines.ca
439, 538 Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Park
Amy Janay
60 Chapin Rd.
Pine Brook, NJ 07058
Phone: (973) 396-4001
amy.janay@skyzone.com
www.skyzone.com/pinebrook
Sky Zone is the world’s first indoor trampoline park. We’re the
inventors of “fun fitness” and the makers of trampolines as far as
the eye can see. We give you one of the greatest workouts ever
combined with awesome, healthy fun. We’ve been voted the
number one “out-of-the-box” workout and the “best party ever.”
Experience WOW—the weightlessness of bouncing, flipping and
landing in a pit filled with 10,000 foam cubes.
Boston’s hilarious whodunit, now in its 30th year, allows the
audience to solve the crime. Set in a unisex hairstyling salon that
is the scene of a wacky murder, the play is filled with up-to-theminute spontaneous humor, and is delightfully different everytime you see it. Shear Madness holds the Guinness record as
the longest running play in the history of American theatre.
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Booth EXHIBITOR
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SNAG Futbol
Booth EXHIBITOR
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Linda Grubb
4220 Commerical Way
Glenview, IL 60025
Phone: (813) 367-7190
john@j2golfmarketing.com
www.snagpros.com
Phone: (800) 288-1012
lgrubb@soynutbutter.com
www.soynutbutter.com
SNAG Futbol is really the first step in learning the rules and
etiquette of golf. Very young children are more adept with their
feet at a younger age than coordinating their arms, hands with
a golf club. We introduce golf scoring and the game with a
‘Soccer” version of golf called SNAG FootGolf, which leads into
both Regular Golf and SNAG Golf or the newly formed American
Foot Golf League which is now being played in thousands of
locations. SNAG Futbol is the official training partner for the
American FootGolf League and is the perfect complement to your
Camp offerings. Safe for indoors or outdoor use.
Peanut/nut-free peanut butter substitute.
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Phone: (201) 567-3810
jim@spaceodysseyusa.com
www.spaceodysseyusa.com
SNAG Golf
Phone: (813) 367-7190
john@j2golfmarketing.com
www.snagpros.com
SNAG – Starting New at Golf, has cracked the code – We can and
do teach golf to beginners indoors, outdoors and in a totally safe
environment. So successfully, we are now in over 10,000 schools
and 42 countries worldwide. SHAPE – Society of Health and
Physical Educators, just awarded SNAG the “Best PE Curriculum
of the Year” award for 2015. This is the perfect camp activity for
your day or resident camps. SNAG comes complete with 120+
page full color daily manuals to set up your training stations and
golf course play with our safe tennis-like balls and all “AboveGround” materials which only take minutes to set up and take
down. SNAG – it is what’s happening!
243, 342 SnapSports, Inc.
Sarah Holman
2330 California Ave
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
Indoor family entertainment center (26,000 square feet) featuring
the following activities: glow-in-the-dark bowling, arcade, laser
tag, paintless paintball, 3-level indoor playground, train ride and
basketball court.
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Phone: (312) 488-1314
skyler@spikeball.com
www.spikeball.com
Spikeball® is described as a combination of volleyball and
foursquare on steroids. Spikeball® can be played anywhere and
everywhere! Campers will go crazy for this new fun activity!
INTERACTIVE Sport Resource Group
ZONE
Chris Guertin
2751 Hennepin
Avenue South,
Suite 279
Minneapolis,
MN 55408
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Solo Circus
Michael Dubois
689 Myrtle Avenue, 1C
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Phone: (607) 426-5156
MichaelBDuBois@gmail.com
www.solocircus.com
A hilarious, fast-paced, audience-interactive variety show featuring
an all-original presentation of juggling, magic and dangerous
circus stunts!
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Leading supplier of Gaga pits and portable, semi-permanent and
permanent sports containment systems for sports such as in-line
hockey, indoor soccer, floor hockey and much more.
Sobel Affiliates, A Brown & Brown Company
Proud insurers of the camp community for four generations.
Complete insurance services since 1904.
conference
partner!
Phone: (612) 584-3030
chris@sportresourcegroup.com
www.sportresourcegroup.com
SnapSports, Inc. is the industry-leading manufacturer of premium
modular athletic surfacing. SnapSports’ multi-patented surfacing
provides superior performance for all levels of play.
Phone: (516) 880-9250
mlabadorf@sobelins.com
www.sobelins.com
Spikeball
Skyler Boles
406 N Aberdeen St.
Chicago, IL 60642
Phone: 801-746-7555
sholman@snaplock.com
www.snapsports.com
Michael Labadorf
595 Stewart Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
Space Odyssey USA
Jim Grau
491 South Dean Street
Englewood, NJ 07631
John Johnson
14843 Highway 10
Tahlequah, OK 74464
521
Soy Nut Butter Company, The
John Johnson
14843 Highway 10
Tahlequah, OK 74464
751
Sports and Golf Solutions
Tom Sangiacomo
4 Crest Hill Road
Verona, NJ 07044
Phone: (973) 714-3339
tomsan73761@verizon.net
www.golfgreensnj.com
Synthetic grass for gaga pits, putting greens, driving ranges, minature golf, bocce courts, shuffleboard courts and pavillions. We also
are certified playground equipment installers and safety surfacing.
Booth EXHIBITOR
INTERACTIVE SportPros USA
ZONE
Thomas Petersen
500 West Main Street,
Suite 19
Wyckoff, NJ 07481
Booth EXHIBITOR
conference
partner!
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Marjorie Kunkle
20 Irven Street
Trenton, NJ 08638
Phone: (800) 245-7868
mkunkle@stoutstransportation.com
www.stoutsbus.com
Phone: (201) 485-8520
thomas@sportprosusa.com
www.SportprosUSA.com
Engineered for serious sports play and a lifetime of fun,
SportCourt sets the standard with the most advanced modular,
wood and synthetic surfaces. All of our surfaces have many color
options, provide the highest performance and are the choice of
organizations like the NCAA, FIBA, USTA, USA Volleyball, as well
as many NBA Teams. We are also the official surface of the NCAA
Road to the Final Four. SportProsUSA will help you with a new
design or refurbish your existing basketball, tennis, volleyball or
roller hockey court. From simple solutions to complicated logos
and graphics, we can do it all.
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Stout’s Transportation: State-of-the-art equipment, unsurpassed
service, skilled drivers, experienced sales staff and USDOT’s
highest safety rating. Our fleet consists of 56, 38, and
30-passenger motor coaches equipped with wi-fi, power outlets,
DVD player, CD player, PA system and lavatory.
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Phone: (817) 616-3469
mel.aus@stuckonyou.biz
www.stuckonyou.com
Sqwichers
Stuck on You is trusted by moms for our labels that stay stuck and
for the amazing quality of our personalized products. Name labels
are waterproof and UV-safe, and clothing labels are commerciallaundry safe. Personalized drink bottles, towels and travels bags
are just a few of our wide range of custom products.
Phone: (662) 328-0400
Email: jhowton@sqwincher.com
www.sqwincher.com
Put an end to endless piles of lost property! Set up your unique
custom web address, and your camp will receive a commission on
all products.
Sqwincher is an electrolyte replacement drink designed to restore
important mineral salts and fluids lost through dehydration,
physical exertion, and heat stress.
Statue Cruises
Paul Torres
1 Audrey Zapp Drive, Suite 203
Jersey City, NJ 07305
Get organized for camp today by ordering online at www.stuckonyou.com!
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Phone: (215) 249-9445
al@thesummitusa.com
www.thesummitusa.com
Statue Cruises is the National Park Services approved provider of
ferry service to the Statue of Liberty National Monument and the
Ellis Island Immigration Museum, with frequent departures from
Battery Park in New York City and Liberty State Park, NJ.
The premier national full-service vendor of zipline canopy tours,
tree-top adventure courses, ropes challenge courses and rock
climbing walls and towers, from design through installation, training,
inspection and repairs. Also, we offer a full range of adventure and
wilderness experiences.
Steve Max’s Simon Sez Show
Steve Max
10 Dellwood Rd
White Plains, NY 10605
Phone: (914) 288-0789
MrSteveMax@aol.com
www.stevemax.com
Ask about our staff development programs that weutilize with
ourFortune 100 clients, colleges and universities, schools, camps
and others.
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Phone: (701) 282-2600
ndoetterl@roadrunner.com
www.sunbutter.com
stickersandmore.com
Toby Hancock
1648 E. 675 S.
Washington, IN 47501
Phone: (812) 644-7744
toby@stickersandmore.com
www.stickersandmore.com
Since 1995, stickersandmore.com has been providing custom
screen printed t-shirts, banners, stickers and more to over 2,000
clients nationwide. 24/7 online ordering, in-house graphics, quality
and integrity.
SunButter
Nadine Doetterl
501 42nd Street North
Fargo, ND 58102
Steve Max’s hilarious Simon Sez Show is seen nationally at NBA &
NCAA halftime shows as well as at over 60 camps each summer.
This is Steve’s 25th year with the ACA. Come join the fun!
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Summit, The
Al Reisser
775 East Rockhill Rd.
Sellersville, PA 18960
Phone: (201) 432-6321
ptorres@statuecruises.com
www.statuecruises.com
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Stuck on You USA
Mel Adams
7415 Whitehall St., Suite 121
Richland Hills, TX 76118
Jesse Howton
1409 Hwy 45 South
Columbus, MS 39701
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Stout’s Transportation
SunButter is a peanut-free sunflower seed spread and is free from
the top 8 allergens. SunButter is a great source of protein, and
campers love the taste!
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Suspended Aquatic Mentor
Sam Cynamon
628 South Ave
Garwood, NJ 07020
Phone: (888) 376-3335
info@aquamentor.com
www.aquamentor.com
Distributor of quality lifesaving, first aid, water safety, aquatic exercise,
swimming/instruction and disabled-swimmer equipment and supplies.
Specializing in automated defibrillator sales, training and service.
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Booth EXHIBITOR
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Sysco Corporation
Booth EXHIBITOR
747
Lynne Gallo
155 Tomahawk Trail
Sparta, NJ 07871
Phone: (717) 561-4000
snavely.carol@centralpa.sysco.com
www.syscocentralpa.com
Phone: (973) 478-7490
tomahawklakesales12@gmail.com
www.tomahawklake.com
Our Mission: to market and deliver great products to our customers
with exceptional service.
Tomahawk Lake Water Park, a family-oriented facility celebrating its
64th anniversary, is located in northern Jersey. We offer a large white
sand beach, 20-acre crystal clear lake for swimming and a wide variety
of waterslides, boats and outdoor activities in an Indian theme.
These unique lake-fed attractions built into the side of our mountain
include our newest Apache Plunge for 4 riders, serpentine Rocky
Mountain, enclosed Black Snake, Geronimo, Sioux Slide and much,
much more. The Papoose Land is a water playground for children
under 4 ft tall, with its own mini slides, raindrop, frogs, turtles, a fish
slide, lily pads and more. Our Cherokee Corner, for those under 5
feet, hosts our tipping bucket, rolling log, lily pads and trampoline.
An 18-hole miniature golf course, volleyball, horseshoes, arcade tent,
an old-fashioned picnic area, snack bars, souvenir shop and beer
garden are situated on the grounds.
Our Vision: to be our customers’ most valued and trusted
business partner.
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Talon Athletics
Scott Blumberg
PO Box 363
Bronx, NY 10473
Phone: 347-903-5107
sblumberg@talonathletics.com
www.talonathletics.com
Group picnic facilities for 50 to 1500 persons are available to
accommodate corporations, churches, camps, schools, birthday
parties, family reunions and more.
Talon Athletics Inc. Is the premier provider of Gaga ball gloves,
which optimize performance of the sports player. We also provide
Gaga pit rentals, sales and event hosting.
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We offer an ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT COUNTRY PICNIC PACKAGE to
allow us to do all the work while you have all the fun!
Tandy Leather Factory
Chris Hatter
1818 N. Cameron Street
Harrisburg, PA 17103
Front
of Hall
Phone: (817) 903-8628
chatter@tandyleather.com
www.tandyleather.com
The Online Master of Science in Camp Administration and
Leadership is the first program of its type offered in the United
States. It is FULLY ONLINE with a culminating six-hour practicum
at an approved camp site. This affords the opportunity for students
to complete the program while continuing to work and remain in
their community.
The specialized curriculum, developed by leading camp professionals, prepares aspiring and current camp professionals in the
areas of camp management, budgeting, finance and operations.
It also integrates training in leadership, ethics and best practices.
Steve Kent
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stephenk@tentandtable.com
www.tentandtable.com
Phone: (409) 745-3139
angie@1800trampoline.com
www.1800trampoline.com
Tiny Chefs
Anna Reeves
6811 Georgia Street
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Phone: (301) 518-6108
info@tinychefs.com
www.tinychefs.com
Tiny Chefs offers on-site summer camp events, after-school
enrichment classes, one-time specialty classes and nutrition classes
for DC Metro-based organizations.
Tiny Chefs offers curriculum development specifically tailored for
sleep-away camp programs.
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Trampoline USA, Inc.
Angie Klein
8672 Interstate 10 West
Orange, Texas 77632
TentandTable.com sells tents, tables, chairs, commercial bounce
houses and water slides.
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sponsor!
Phone: (917) 292-1486
david.malter@tun.touro.edu
tun.touro.edu/camp
Tent and Table
300 Scajaquada St.
Buffalo, NY 14215
Phone: (716) 259-9215
Touro University –
Online MS in Camp
Administration and
Leadership
David Malter
Supplier of a full line of affordable leather and leather-craft-related
camp and hobby supplies including native crafts and stamping
tools. Tandy Leather/The Leather Factory has been working with
camps for over 50 years. We supply instruction to camp staff in
proper use of leatherworking materials at no extra cost to you.
We also carry the hardware products to keep your tack and
saddle equipment in top condition.
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Tomahawk Lake Waterpark
Carol Snavely
3905 Corey Road
Harrisburg, PA 17109
Pony Hops are the most requested team building product! Horse
bouncing brings everyone together!
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Treatment Specialties
Clemente Rivera
25 Arrow Road
Ramsey, NJ 07446
Phone: (201) 236-1720
info@treatmentspecialties.net
www.treatmentspecialties.net
We are a Commercial Swimming Pool Manufacturer’s
Representative specializing in Filtration, Pumps, and Water
Quality Control Equipment.
Booth EXHIBITOR
Booth EXHIBITOR
346, 348 Tree-Mendous Adventure Parks
229
851
Meaghan Witri
82 Mercer Mountain Rd.
East Chatham, NY 12060
Sarah Owsley
13775 A Mono Way
Sonora, CA 95370
Phone: (518) 288-2920
Gerhard@tree-mendous.net
www.tree-mendous.net
Phone: (209) 536-9200
camp@uvskinz.com
http://www.uvskinz.com
Tree-Mendous Adventure Parks creates a unique blend of elevated
wooden platforms in high trees connected by Indiana Jones
bridges, Tarzan swings and zip-lines, providing fun and adventure.
UV Skinz sells peace-of-mind in the sun. We manufacturer UV
protective sunwear for the entire family. Save Time and money
- forget the messy topical sunscreen and opt for our UPF 50+
high quality, light weight, breathable, fashion forward sun
protection apparel instead!
TriState Golf
Cale Hendricks
1225 N. Keyser Ave
Scranton, PA 18504
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Phone: (425) 602-4777
info@venue360camps.com
www.venue360camps.com
We provide sales, service and rentals of golf carts.
Venue360 cloud-based camp management software fully automates the booking cycle from lead capture through final invoice
and follow-up marketing. Tightly integrated into Facebook and
your camp website for lead capture and bookings, group leaders
can manage their booking, rooming, etc., and campers can
register and pay for camps via Facebook or your website.
UltraCamp
Jason Payne
1559 Walling Lane
Niles, MI 49120
Phone: 888-791-2080
jason@ultracamp.com
www.ultracamp.com
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Unique Entertainment
Serving the U.S. since 1987, Vernon specializes in the short-term
rentals of laptops, desktops, tablets, printers and monitors with
the software, apps or additional amenities our customers require.
Our equipment comes from the industry’s leading manufacturers
and is accompanied by comprehensive customer service, including
24/7 technical support.
Phone: 610-265-3244
unique@uniquegameshow.com
www.uniquegameshow.com
The ultimate, 100%-participation multimedia game show!
Universal Creative Concepts
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David Correll
9909 Clayton Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63124
Phone: (212) 982-2229
karen@victoriangardensnyc.com
www.victoriangardensnyc.com
Promotional Products
Victorian Gardens Amusement Park is New York City’s premier
destination located at Wollman Rink in Central Park. Our exciting
rides, interactive games and live entertainment provide fun and
enriching experiences for all campers. Group rates available.
USM Interactive
Dave Saraceno
444 South Union St.
Burlington, VT 05401
Phone: (802) 865-3332 ext.
dsaraceno@usminteractive.com
www.campwebsites.com
USM Interactive is a digital agency that specializes in designing
summer camp websites that are beautiful to look at, easy to use
and focused on signing up campers year after year.
Victorian Gardens Amusement Park
Karen Malanum
Located at Wollman Rink in Central park.
59th st & 6av
New York, NY 10065
Phone: 870-423-4008
correll@uccadv.com
www.uccpromos.com
852
conference
partner!
Phone: (203) 969-0060
jconlin@vernoncomputersource.com
www.vernoncomputersource.com
Ben Wachstein
3232 Grande Oak Pl.
Lancaster, PA 17601
639
Vernon Computer Source
Janette Conlin
77 Selleck Street
Stamford, CT
06902
Ultracamp is an online registration tool with payment processing,
form collection, reporting tools and much more.
707
Venue360 Camp Software
Scott McBurner
5808 Lake Washington Blvd NE, Suite 100
Kirkland, WA 98033
Phone: (570) 344-4443
neluann@ptd.net
www.tristategolfcartsinc.com
442
UV Skinz
719
West Side Laundry
Larry Sall
79 Main Street
Binghamton, NY 13905
Phone: (607) 723-3504
sallrealty@stny.rr.com
www.westsidelaundry.com
Laundry service. Wash, dry, fold, pickup and delivery. Central
New York, northern Pennsylvania and parts of western New
Jersey.
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Booth EXHIBITOR
501, 600
614
Westex
Booth EXHIBITOR
825
WhizResources
Tony Marinello
20 Virginia Road - PO Box 308
North White Plains, NY 10603
Rick Whisenhunt
PO Box 2991
Denton, TX 76202-2991
Phone: (914) 949-5179
tonywestex@aol.com
www.westexsupplies.com
Phone: (214) 709-5559
rick@whizresources.com
www.whizresources.com
Westex is your one-stop source for camp supplies. Our product
line includes kitchen supplies and equipment, beds, linen, paper
disposables, odor control, insect control and janitorial supplies.
Customer satisfaction is our # 1 priority. Over 60 years in the
camp industry. We are proudly an ACA business affiliate.
WhizResources provides camp staff. We supply licensed and
experienced RNs, LPNs, cooks and CDL drivers. We recruit U.S.
college students who lead with enthusiasm as counselors, sports
specialists, lifeguards, food service, maintenance and other staff.
Whitewater Challengers
Nancy Pilecki
PO Box 8
White Haven, PA 18661
415, 417,
419, 421,
514, 516,
518, 520
Robert Cirjak
807 Liberty Drive
Verona, WI 53593
Phone: (608) 848-8781
info@crs4rec.com
www.wibitsports.com
Phone: (800) 443-8554
nancy@whitewaterchallengers.com
www.whitewaterchallengers.com
Premier whitewater rafting outfitter on the Lehigh River in PA for
children ages 5+. More challenging trip options include our
Hudson River and Black River rafting in New York. Our Lehigh
River Adventure Center offers a close-to-home outdoor experience
that includes rafting, camping, biking, hiking and more! Dining
services and tent rentals available onsite to make your camping
trip prep a breeze. The most fun you’ll have all year!
Wibit Sports (represented by CRS)
Wibit Sports has developed a commercial-grade, modular,
interlocking system that introduces a whole new way for kids to
engage in friendly competition on the water. The modualrity
allows for endless combinations of fun. Wibit Sports is represented
by Commercial Recreational Specialists in the USA.
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Zim Sailing
Nate Williams
84 Cutler Street
Warren, RI 02885
Phone: 401-237-6117
info@zimsailing.com
www.zimsailing.com
Zim Sailing is a manufacturer and distributor of small sailboats,
parts, service and gear. We have the largest selection of small
sailboats in North America, and we are committed to helping the
growth of the sport.
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EXHIBITOR product / SERVICE index
Adventure Programming / Ropes Courses
Adventure Network
American Camp and Work Experience
Arboreal Edge
Camelback Resort
Fantastic Tours & Travel
Head Rush Technologies
Hershey Harrisburg Regional Visitors Bureau
Inside Out Tours
Lake Education
Pocono Mountain Adventures
Pocono Whitewater
Ramblewild
Ropes Park Equipment
Sahara Sam’s Oasis Indoor & Outdoor Water Park and
Diggerland USA
Skyline Ziplines
Summit, The
Whitewater Challengers
Advertising and Marketing
American Marketing
Artistic Imprints
CampMinder, LLC
Circuitree Solutions
Cove Creek Productions
First Take Productions, Inc.
Gatehouse Media / Propel Marketing
GrUVywear LLC
JA Media
Jasienowski Studio, Inc. Portrait Photographers
Mr. D’s Tees
Outfit Your Logo
Perlow Productions
Radtagz
USM Interactive
Amusements
Adventureland Amusement Park
Aflex Technology
Amazing Amusements & Entertainment
Camelback Resort
Carnival Day
Casino Pier and Breakwater Beach Waterpark
Circus Time Amusements & Entertainment
Discovery Times Square
Extreme Magic of Eric Wilzig, The
Fantastic Tours & Travel
Fun Fuzion @ New Roc City
Got Color, Inc.
Head Rush Technologies
Hershey Harrisburg Regional Visitors Bureau
Inside Out Tours
iPlay America, LLC
J-Dogs Amusements & Catering
Jersey Shore Pirates
Keansburg Amusement Park & Runaway Rapids Water Park
Kids on Wheels
Knockerball NJ
Luna Park at Coney Island
Madame Tussaud’s New York
Magic Mehl Illusions
Magical Memories Entertainment
Mountain Creek Waterpark
Musical IQ
OC Waterpark
Party Perfect Rentals
Partymachines.com
Pocono Whitewater
Pole Position Raceway
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Times Square
Ropes Park Equipment
Sahara Sam’s Oasis Indoor & Outdoor Water Park and
Diggerland USA
Space Odyssey USA
Tent and Table
Tomahawk Lake Waterpark
Unique Entertainment
Wibit Sports (represented by CRS)
Arts and Crafts
Beam Clay / Partac Peat Corporation
Bisque Imports
Blick Art Materials
Circus Time Amusements & Entertainment
Colortime Crafts
Craft Shop, The
Discount School Supply
EconoCrafts
Ed Hoy’s International
Fun Express a subsidiary of Oriental Trading Company
Get Ready, Inc.
H&H Purchasing Services
KampKits.com
Magical Memories Entertainment
Musical IQ
Name Beads USA Inc.
Nature Watch
Party Perfect Rentals
Plaque Art Creations
Plastercraft Factory
Rocket Age Enterprises, LLC
S&S Worldwide
Tandy Leather Factory
Associations & Professionals
Perlow Productions
Rock Paper Team
The M.A.C.H.O Foundation
Athletic Equipment / Games
9 Square in the Air
Aflex Technology
Amerasport, Inc.
Beam Clay / Partac Peat Corporation
Camp Athletic Supply
DigiGames, Inc.
Discount School Supply
Everlast Climbing
FlagHouse
FunAir
GagaBallPits.com
Got Color, Inc.
H&H Purchasing Services
KampKits.com
Katker 2005
Key Log Rolling
Kinsey’s Inc
Knockerball NJ
Mamba GaGa
New England Camp Discounter
Partymachines.com
Pole Position Raceway
Ropes Park Equipment
S&S Worldwide
SNAG Futbol, teaching partner of the American FootGolf
League
SNAG Golf
SnapSports, Inc.
Spikeball
Sport Resource Group
Suspended Aquatic Mentor
Talon Athletics
47
EXHIBITOR product / SERVICE index
Background Checks / Employee Screening
Camper Gifts
Camp Counselors USA
CampMinder, LLC
CampSite
CastleBranch
Circuitree Solutions
crimcheck.com
Advance Specialties
Artistic Imprints
Camp Outfitters by Lands’ End
Everything Camper Apparel
Everything Summer Camp
Got Color, Inc.
GrUVywear LLC
Mr. D’s Tees
Name Beads USA Inc.
Outfit Your Logo
Radtagz
Talon Athletics
Tent and Table
Universal Creative Concepts
Bedding, Beds & Cots
American Bedding Manufacturers, Inc
Bargoose Home Textiles
Bourdon`s Institutional Sales
Institutional Bedz
MedMattress.com
Westex
Boats & Boating Supplies
American Sail, Inc.
CORCL Boats
Designer Noodle
Jersey Shore Pirates
Kay Park & Recreation Corp.
Rocky Mountain Sunscreen
Suspended Aquatic Mentor
Zim Sailing
Camping Equipment
Everything Summer Camp
Lake Education
Mabel’s Labels
Tent and Table
Car / Truck Rentals
Camp Trucking
Merchants Short Term Solutions
Bus Companies
Clothing & Sportswear
Fantastic Tours & Travel
International Motor Coach Group
Merchants Short Term Solutions
Nationwide Instruction for Cardiovascular Education
Saddle River Tours
Stout’s Transportation
Allied T-Shirts
Amerasport, Inc.
American Marketing
Artistic Imprints
C.C. Creations
Camp Spot, The
Everything Camper Apparel
Everything Summer Camp
GrUVywear LLC
LabelDaddy.com
Liberty Clothing Co.
LogoTags
Mr. D’s Tees
MV Sport/Weatherproof
New Dimensions
New England Camp Discounter
Talon Athletics
Universal Creative Concepts
UV Skinz
Cabins, Other Structures
Colorado Yurt Company
GagaBallPits.com
Pacific Yurts, Inc.
Camp Clothing, Uniform & Accessory
Advance Specialties
Artistic Imprints
Brisco Apparel
Bunkline Outfitters
C.C. Creations
Camp Outfitters by Lands’ End
Camp Spot, The
Camp Trucking
Everything Camper Apparel
Everything Summer Camp
GrUVywear LLC
LabelDaddy.com
Liberty Clothing Co.
Mabel’s Labels
Mr. D’s Tees
Name Beads USA Inc.
New Dimensions
New England Camp Discounter
Outfit Your Logo
Radtagz
Stuck on You USA
Talon Athletics
Universal Creative Concepts
UV Skinz
Communications
ACradiocom
Camp Business Magazine - Northstar Publishing
CampDoc.com
CampMinder, LLC
Circuitree Solutions
ExpertOnlineTraining.com
First Take Productions, Inc.
Gatehouse Media / Propel Marketing
Motorola / Kew Forest
My Camp Link
Perlow Productions
R F Design & Integration
RadioBoss 2-Way Radios
Rock Paper Team
USM Interactive
Computer and Web Services
Active Network, Camps
Amilia
Bunk1.com
48
EXHIBITOR product / SERVICE index
CampBrain
CampDoc.com
CampMinder, LLC
CampSite
Circuitree Solutions
EZ-CAMP2 by SofterWare
Gatehouse Media / Propel Marketing
My Camp Link
Perlow Productions
UltraCamp
Venue360 Camp Software
Vernon Computer Source
Court Construction / Recreational
Copeland Coating Co., Inc.
GagaBallPits.com
SnapSports, Inc.
SportPros
Docks and Rafts
Commercial Recreation Specialists
Connect-A-Dock
FunAir
Suspended Aquatic Mentor
DVD Copies and Video Production Services
829 Studios
Camp Athletic Supply
Cove Creek Productions
First Take Productions, Inc.
Perlow Productions
Educational Programs / Activities
Amir
AMSkier
Arboreal Edge
Boston Attractions Group
CampDirectorsResources.com - Family Publications
Center for Lice Control
Class Act Performing Artists & Speakers, Inc.
Corporate Image Promotions
DigiGames, Inc.
Discount School Supply
Discovery Times Square
Ed Hoy’s International
ExpertOnlineTraining.com
FlagHouse
Florida Atlantic University
Fun Express a subsidiary of Oriental Trading Company
Group Sales Box Office / Broadway.com
Hershey Harrisburg Regional Visitors Bureau
Inside Out Tours
KampKits.com
Lake Education
Liberty Science Center
Luna Park at Coney Island
Madison Square Garden & Radio City Entertainment
Magical Memories Entertainment
mainstages
Musical IQ
National Circus Project
Nationwide Instruction for Cardiovascular Education
Nature Watch
One Beat CPR and AED
Pocono Whitewater
Pole Position Raceway
Ramblewild
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Times Square
Rock Paper Team
Rock Star Camp
Rocket Age Enterprises, LLC
S&S Worldwide
Sahara Sam’s Oasis Indoor & Outdoor Water Park and
Diggerland USA
SNAG Futbol, teaching partner of the American FootGolf
League
SNAG Golf
Tiny Chefs
Electronics
CampDoc.com
Carnival Day
DigiGames, Inc.
RadioBoss 2-Way Radios
S&S Worldwide
Universal Creative Concepts
Entertainers
Amazing Amusements & Entertainment
CampDirectorsResources.com - Family Publications
Class Act Performing Artists & Speakers, Inc.
DigiGames, Inc.
Extreme Magic of Eric Wilzig, The
Group Sales Box Office / Broadway.com
Inside Out Tours
J-Dogs Amusements & Catering
Jersey Shore Pirates
Kids on Wheels
Knockerball NJ
Madison Square Garden & Radio City Entertainment
Magic Mehl Illusions
Magical Memories Entertainment
mainstages
Master Illusionist Elliot Zimet
Musical IQ
National Circus Project
Party Perfect Rentals
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Times Square
Rock Star Camp
Shear Madness
Steve Max’s Simon Sez Show
The M.A.C.H.O Foundation
Tiny Chefs
Unique Entertainment
Facilities Management
Active Network, Camps
Amilia
CampDoc.com
Circuitree Solutions
ExpertOnlineTraining.com
MedMattress.com
Motorola / Kew Forest
New England Camp Discounter
Treatment Specialties
Financial Services
CampDoc.com
CardWorks Merchant Services
Connect One Bank
Fitness Equipment
GagaBallPits.com
H&H Purchasing Services
Katker 2005
Key Log Rolling
Knockerball NJ
Mamba GaGa
New England Camp Discounter
Ropes Park Equipment
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EXHIBITOR product / SERVICE index
Floors
SportPros
Food & Beverage Products & Services
Cookies & More
Culinary Depot
Custom Concentrates
DeIorio Foods Inc.
Driscoll Foods
Fantastic Tours & Travel
Food & Beverage Associates
Fresh Kids
H&H Purchasing Services
J-Dogs Amusements & Catering
JA Foodservice
Jamac Frozen Foods
JH Paper Company
Raisel - Chortles
Rocky Mountain Sunscreen
Roger and Sons, Inc.
Signature Services
Soy Nut Butter Company, The
Sqwinchers
SunButter
Sysco Corporation
Health & Safety
CampDoc.com
Circuitree Solutions
Health Center Help
JA Foodservice
Marathon Kids
Instruction - Sports
CampDirectorsResources.com - Family Publications
CampDoc.com
mainstages
Tiny Chefs
American Camp and Work Experience
DigiGames, Inc.
ExpertOnlineTraining.com
Key Log Rolling
Mamba GaGa
Marathon Kids
Nationwide Instruction for Cardiovascular Education
Pole Position Raceway
Rocket Age Enterprises, LLC
SNAG Futbol, teaching partner of the American FootGolf
League
SNAG Golf
Spikeball
Furniture
Insurance
American Bedding Manufacturers, Inc
Blick Art Materials
Craft Shop, The
Dixie Seating Company
Institutional Bedz
Jess Crate Furniture & Supplies
Kay Park & Recreation Corp.
MedMattress.com
S&S Worldwide
Westex
AMSkier
CampDoc.com
CampMinder, LLC
K&K Insurance Group, Inc.
National Camp Group
Redwoods Group, The
RPS Bollinger - Sports & Leisure
Sobel Affiliates, A Brown & Brown Company
Free Camp Material
Games
9 Square in the Air
Adventureland Amusement Park
Aflex Technology
Amazing Amusements & Entertainment
Carnival Day
Casino Pier and Breakwater Beach Waterpark
Circus Time Amusements & Entertainment
Craft Shop, The
DigiGames, Inc.
Discount School Supply
ExpertOnlineTraining.com
Fun Express a subsidiary of Oriental Trading Company
FunAir
GagaBallPits.com
J-Dogs Amusements & Catering
KampKits.com
Keansburg Amusement Park & Runaway Rapids Water Park
Knockerball NJ
Lake Education
Luna Park at Coney Island
Magical Memories Entertainment
mainstages
Mamba GaGa
Marathon Kids
50
Musical IQ
New England Camp Discounter
Party Perfect Rentals
Partymachines.com
Pole Position Raceway
Rock Paper Team
S&S Worldwide
Spikeball
Talon Athletics
Tent and Table
Janitorial & Maintenance Supplies
Discount School Supply
H&H Purchasing Services
JH Paper Company
Motorola / Kew Forest
Rocky Mountain Sunscreen
Roger and Sons, Inc.
S&S Worldwide
Westex
Kitchen Equipment & Design
Culinary Depot
Food & Beverage Associates
H&H Purchasing Services
Roger and Sons, Inc.
Westex
Laundry Equipment / Service
Panaram/USA-TOWL
West Side Laundry
Lawn & Grounds Maintenance
Beam Clay / Partac Peat Corporation
Rocky Mountain Sunscreen
EXHIBITOR product / SERVICE index
Linens
Bourdon`s Institutional Sales
Institutional Bedz
JH Paper Company
West Side Laundry
Luggage Delivery Service
Camp Trucking
Medical Supplies & Equipment
CampDoc.com
CampMeds, Inc.
CampRX
Center for Lice Control
ExpertOnlineTraining.com
H&H Purchasing Services
Israel Emergency Medical Services
Nationwide Instruction for Cardiovascular Education
One Beat CPR and AED
Rocky Mountain Sunscreen
Suspended Aquatic Mentor
Office Equipment
Craft Shop, The
H&H Purchasing Services
Outfit Your Logo
RadioBoss 2-Way Radios
S&S Worldwide
Online Directories
CampDoc.com
Cove Creek Productions
Gatehouse Media / Propel Marketing
Paper Goods
JH Paper Company
S&S Worldwide
Westex
Pedal Go-Karts
Magical Memories Entertainment
Perlow Productions
Playground Equipment
9 Square in the Air
Commercial Recreation Specialists
Everlast Climbing
FunAir
GagaBallPits.com
Head Rush Technologies
Katker 2005
Mamba GaGa
New England Camp Discounter
Partymachines.com
Rocky Mountain Sunscreen
Site Specialists
Spikeball
Sport Resource Group
Sports and Golf Solutions
Pool Construction / Pool Equipment
Aflex Technology
Commercial Clearwater Company, Inc.
Custom Pools of Rockland
Designer Noodle
Everlast Climbing
For a Cleaner Pool
GrUVywear LLC
Key Log Rolling
Rocky Mountain Sunscreen
Suspended Aquatic Mentor
Treatment Specialties
Printing & Graphic Services
Amerasport, Inc.
Artistic Imprints
Jasienowski Studio, Inc. Portrait Photographers
Outfit Your Logo
stickersandmore.com
Programs
AmeriCamp
American Camp and Work Experience
Camp America
Camp Counselors USA
Camp Leaders
CampSite
Circuitree Solutions
Council on Intl Educational Exchange (CIEE)
ExpertOnlineTraining.com
IENA’s 3 Adventures International Camp Staff Program
InterExchange Camp USA
WhizResources
Amir
Arboreal Edge
Boston Attractions Group
Corporate Image Promotions
DigiGames, Inc.
ExpertOnlineTraining.com
Fantastic Tours & Travel
Key Log Rolling
Kids on Wheels
Lake Education
Musical IQ
Nationwide Instruction for Cardiovascular Education
Nature Watch
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Times Square
Rock Paper Team
Rock Star Camp
SNAG Futbol, teaching partner of the American FootGolf
League
SNAG Golf
The M.A.C.H.O Foundation
Pest Removal
Promotional Items & Gifts
Center for Lice Control
Lice Treatment Center, The
Pest Heat
Advance Specialties
Amerasport, Inc.
Artistic Imprints
C.C. Creations
Designer Noodle
Everything Summer Camp
Got Color, Inc.
GrUVywear LLC
BERG USA LLC
Casino Pier and Breakwater Beach Waterpark
Discount School Supply
Personnel Service / Staff Placement
Photographers
Irvin Simon Photographers
Jasienowski Studio, Inc. Portrait Photographers
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EXHIBITOR product / SERVICE index
JA Foodservice
Jasienowski Studio, Inc. Portrait Photographers
Liberty Clothing Co.
LogoTags
Mr. D’s Tees
Name Beads USA Inc.
New Dimensions
Outfit Your Logo
Perlow Productions
Pole Position Raceway
Radtagz
Rocky Mountain Sunscreen
stickersandmore.com
Universal Creative Concepts
Publishing
Camp Business Magazine - Northstar Publishing
Gatehouse Media / Propel Marketing
Jasienowski Studio, Inc. Portrait Photographers
Rock Climbing Walls
Adventure Network
Arboreal Edge
Circus Time Amusements & Entertainment
Everlast Climbing
Fantastic Tours & Travel
Head Rush Technologies
OC Waterpark
Party Perfect Rentals
Ropes Park Equipment
S&S Worldwide
Sahara Sam’s Oasis Indoor & Outdoor Water Park and
Diggerland USA
Safety Information Programs/Supplies
CampDoc.com
CampMeds, Inc.
GrUVywear LLC
Motorola / Kew Forest
Nationwide Instruction for Cardiovascular Education
One Beat CPR and AED
Rocky Mountain Sunscreen
Suspended Aquatic Mentor
Talon Athletics
Security
Fantastic Tours & Travel
Skatepark Equipment
GagaBallPits.com
Rocky Mountain Sunscreen
Solar
Geoscape Solar
GrUVywear LLC
Sound / Video Systems
Magical Memories Entertainment
Sports Entertainment Programs
Class Act Performing Artists & Speakers, Inc.
Designer Noodle
DigiGames, Inc.
Fantastic Tours & Travel
Fun Fuzion @ New Roc City
GagaBallPits.com
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Got Color, Inc.
Katker 2005
Kids on Wheels
Kinsey’s Inc
Knockerball NJ
Madison Square Garden & Radio City Entertainment
Mamba GaGa
Pocono Whitewater
Pole Position Raceway
SNAG Futbol, teaching partner of the American FootGolf
League
SNAG Golf
Spikeball
Stationary
Fun Express a subsidiary of Oriental Trading Company
Tents, Teepees, Shelters
Anchor Industries
Pacific Yurts, Inc.
S&S Worldwide
Tent and Table
Tours and Travel
Academy Express, LLC
Boston Attractions Group
Camelback Resort
CampDirectorsResources.com - Family Publications
Fantastic Tours & Travel
Fun Fuzion @ New Roc City
Group Sales Box Office / Broadway.com
Hershey Harrisburg Regional Visitors Bureau
Inside Out Tours
Jersey Shore Pirates
Madison Square Garden & Radio City Entertainment
Pocono Whitewater
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Times Square
Sahara Sam’s Oasis Indoor & Outdoor Water Park and
Diggerland USA
Space Odyssey USA
Trophies & Awards
C.C. Creations
Corporate Image Promotions
Crown Trophy
Outfit Your Logo
Pole Position Raceway
Radtagz
S&S Worldwide
The M.A.C.H.O Foundation
Water Front Equipment / Products
Aflex Technology
American Sail, Inc.
Commercial Recreation Specialists
Connelly Skis
Designer Noodle
FlagHouse
FunAir
GrUVywear LLC
Key Log Rolling
RadioBoss 2-Way Radios
RAVE Sports
Rocky Mountain Sunscreen
Suspended Aquatic Mentor
Tent and Table
Wibit Sports (represented by CRS)
Zim Sailing
SESSIONS
& WORKSHOPS
MONDAY, MARCH 7
8:00 AM–6:00 PM
REGISTRATION OPEN
7:30 AM–5:00 PM
REGISTRATION OPEN
8:30 AM–4:30 PM
ACA NEW DIRECTORS
ORIENTATION (ROOM 304)
8:30–9:30 AM
CONCURRENT SESSION
BLOCK A
11:00 AM–4:30 PM
ACA FULL STANDARDS
COURSE (ROOM 421)
9:45–10:45 AM
CONCURRENT SESSION
BLOCK B
12:00–5:00 PM
EPIC (EMERGING
PROFESSIONALS IN CAMPING)
WORKSHOP (ROOM 312)
12:00–5:00 PM
1:00–5:00 PM
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TUESDAY, MARCH 8
EXPLORING GENDER IDENTITY
IN THE SUMMER CAMP
ENVIRONMENT WITH NICK
TEICH (ROOM 309)
INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
(ROOM 320)
1:00–5:00 PM
GAMES THAT CHANGE THE
WORLD WITH JIM CAIN
(ROOM 302)
5:00–7:00 PM
HAPPY HOUR EVENT AT TUN
TAVERN AT THE SHERATON
7:00–9:00 PM
DINNER AT CUBA LIBRE
AT THE TROPICANA
(SIGN UP AT REGISTRATION!)
11:00 AM–12:30 PM
G E NE RAL
SE SSI ON
(HALL A):
John Jacobs
TRI–STATE
AWARD
WINNER:
Billy Hoch
12:30–1:00 PM
BOOK SIGNING
12:30–3:00 PM
EXHIBIT HALL GRAND
OPENING
12:45–1:45 PM
MEET ‘N’ EAT SESSIONS
12:45–2:00 PM
VOCE (MEMBERS ONLY)
SESSION WITH LUNCH
(ROOM 412)
3:00–4:00 PM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
BLOCK C
3:00–5:00 PM
EXHIBIT HALL
4:00–5:30 PM
STANDARDS UPDATE COURSE
(ROOM 421)
7:00–9:00 PM
DINNER AT CARMINE’S,
TROPICANA HOTEL—THE
QUARTER (SIGN UP NOW AT
REGISTRATION!)
9:00 PM–MIDNIGHT
EVENING SOCIAL EVENT LATE
NIGHT DRINKS AND FUN—
AT CHICKIE’S AND PETE’S
TROPICANA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
CAMP SHIRT WEDNESDAY
(Wear your camp apparel!)
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
7:30 AM–1:30 PM
REGISTRATION OPEN
9:00–10:00 AM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
BLOCK H
9:30 AM–12:00 PM
EXHIBIT HALL
9:30–10:00 AM
FREE COFFEE WITH THE
EXHIBITORS
10:15–11:15 AM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
BLOCK I
11:15 AM–12:00 PM
FREE REFRESHMENTS WITH
EXHIBITORS *LAST CHANCE
TO SHOP!*
12:00–2:00 PM
7:15 AM
5K FUN RUN
7:30 AM–5:00 PM
REGISTRATION OPEN
G ENERAL SESSION
8:30–9:30 AM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
BLOCK D
(HALL A):
9:45–10:45 AM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
BLOCK E
10:45 AM–5:00 PM
EXHIBIT HALL OPEN
10:45–11:45 AM
FREE COFFEE WITH
EXHIBITORS
11:00 AM–4:30 PM
ACA FULL STANDARDS
COURSE (ROOM 421)
12:30–1:30 PM
MEET ‘N’ EAT SESSIONS
12:30–1:45 PM
VOCE (MEMBERS ONLY)
SESSION WITH LUNCH
(ROOM 412)
2:00–3:00 PM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
BLOCK F
3:15–4:15 PM
CONCURRENT SESSION
BLOCK G
4:15–5:00 PM
EXHIBIT HALL
5:30–7:00 PM
WEDNESDAY NIGHT SOCIAL
AT THE SHERATON HOTEL
KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
Dr. Angela
Duckworth
raffle!
(SIGN UP NOW AT
REGISTRATION!)
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New Directors’ Orientation
MONDAY, MARCH 7
Exploring Gender Identity in the
Summer Camp Environment
8:30 AM–4:30 PM
MONDAY, MARCH 7
Location: Room 304
Cost: $99 per person
12:00–5:00 PM
This 8-hour interactive ACA National course
provides an overview of key aspects of the
camp director’s job and is intended for
Scott Lantzman
directors with 3 or less years of experience,
assistant directors, program directors or people who have been in
other administrative positions and are considering directing camp in
the near future. The course will cover many areas with special focus
offered on leadership, risk management, camper behavior, staff training
and staff supervision. Upon completion of this one-day course, the
ACA National office will mail you a certificate of completion, suitable
for framing. Join Scott Lantzman and several experienced camp
directors for this informative course. Cost includes a light breakfast,
lunch and full course curriculum.
What is the difference between sex and gender?
What does gender fluid mean? Where do I
NICK TEICH
house a camper who came to camp last year as
a girl and this year a boy? How do I talk about this with parents? If
someone is transgender, does that mean they’re gay? In this workshop
we will answer these questions and more. Come learn from campers,
parents and camp directors about policies and best practices for
supporting transgender campers and staff.
Speaker: NICK TEICH, Camp Aranu’tiq of Harbor Camps
Games That Change The World
Facilitator: SCOTT LANTZMAN
MONDAY, MARCH 7
EPIC Workshop
Location: Room 302
MONDAY, MARCH 7
Cost: $50 per person
12:00–5:00 PM
Teambuilding Guru Dr. Jim Cain shares his
newest collection of powerful team and community
ty
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building activities from around the world, featuring
many of the activities in his newest book, The
Teamwork & Teamplay International Edition. The book features 51
team activities translated into 16 different languages (all in the same
book). Workshop participants will receive a copy of this book and an
active lesson in using these games to create your own powerful
moments in teaching, training and facilitation.
1:00–5:00 PM
Location: Room 312
Cost: ACA Member $75 per person (includes lunch)
We often get asked the question, “What is EPIC?” For those who do
not know, EPIC is an acronym that stands for Emerging Professionals
in Camping, and this workshop will most definitely be epic!
The camping industry is full of leaders. Being a LEADER at your camp
might have different meanings to different people. Whether you work
for a private, not-for-profit, day or resident camp program, being an
effective leader is crucial to the overall success of your camp.
“Leadership Skills for the 21st
Century”
Speaker: JIM CAIN, Teamwork & Teamplay
Fortune Magazine and The Wharton School
of Business both agree that the personal
skills you will need to be a successful leader
in the 21st century have nothing to do with
technology! The world that was once successBOB DITTER
fully dominated by “heroic leaders” like Steve
Jobs, Bobby Knight and countless charismatic camp directors who
inspired many in days gone by is past. In this powerful, intensive day
with Bob Ditter, you will learn not only what style of leadership
is badly needed to take camps into this century, but also the skills
that go with what people are calling “transformative leadership.” Be
ready to learn, and go away with deeper skill and insight into working
in powerful ways with people for the foreseeable future.
Speaker: BOB DITTER, Therapist
4:45 PM
BOOK SIGNING BY
BOB DITTER
5:00–7:00 PM
FREE HAPPY HOUR
AT TUN TAVERN
Tun Tavern at the Sheraton,
2 Miss America Way
Imagine a world where language is no longer a barrier to people of
every country working and playing (and training) together!
Lunch is NOT included, please bring lunch with you or eat prior to
the workshop.
12:00–5:00 PM
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Location: Room 309
Cost: $75 per person (Includes lunch)
Sponsored by:
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MONDAY, MARCH 7
Emergency Planning & Reporting
1:00–5:00 PM
Emergencies take many forms and represent
significant risk for a school or camp’s ability to
continue ordinary operations, as well as for
its image and short- and long-term financial
performance. Creating an effective plan, one
that is viable and practiced, is vital. This session
will cover the emergency planning process, from
risk assessments and protocols to communications. It will also examine the conditions of when,
why, what and to whom summer camp and
independent school operators must report issues
of concern to authorities.
Location: Rooms 320, 321,322
Cost: $35 per attendee
Join summer camp and auxiliary staff from independent schools
across the country for an afternoon of learning and networking. The
workshop will feature targeted round tables, breakout sessions and a
closing general session with ideas for everyone. After spending the
afternoon learning, join us for a networking dinner. This is a great
opportunity to meet other independent school professionals before
the Tri-State CAMP Conference begins!
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:
Speaker: GARY KIMBALL, AmSkier
1:00–1:15 PM – WELCOME AND OVERVIEW
2:15–3:15 PM – BREAKOUT SESSIONS 2
1:15–2:15 PM – BREAKOUT SESSIONS 1
After-School/Camp Programming
International Students Programs
Come and learn from top leading experts in the
field of international education. During this sesJAMES ANDERSON
sion you will learn more about international student markets and how to integrate international students into your
camps. You will hear from the largest educational company in Asia.
Speaker: JAMES ANDERSON, GLOBAL 360
Speakers: KAREN MCCANN
MCCLELLAND, Sidwell Friends School
LAURA KELLY, The Handwork Studio
MICHAEL ZIGMAN, i2
JENNIFER MOOREHEAD,
Science Explorers
HR 101: The Basics of Hiring
and Firing
Karen McCann Mclelland
A few basic strategies can go a long way in
protecting your camp or school when you’re
hiring new employees and when you have
to let them go. This session will go over
the do’s and don’ts of the hiring and firing
process, from interview questions that should
never be asked to tips on ensuring terminated
employees leave on a cordial basis. The role of
employment contracts will also be discussed
with sample language that can protect your
camp or school.
Speaker: GARY KIMBALL, AmSkier
LAURA KELLY
MICHAEL ZIGMAN
JENNIFER MOREHEAD
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In this session, our panel will give a quick case
study on their school/camp model for after
school programming. The panel will then
moderate a discussion on best practices,
challenges, how-tos, communicating with
parents, etc.
LISA WAUGH
Speaker: LISA WAUGH, Sidwell Friends School
GENE GIAMMITTORIO, Congressional Camp
How to Ensure the Best
Offerings & Maintain Quality
for Your Families
Join us for a panel discussion on how
independent schools can use vendors to
increase their offerings at camp and after
school while maintaining the quality and
safety your families have come to trust.
Learn about different structures for working
with vendors, rentals and outsourced staff.
Discuss varying goals and priorities as well
as challenges. Examine sample rental
agreements and fee structures. You will
receive a checklist of qualifying questions
you should be asking every vendor prior to
engagement. Ask questions and learn from
other independent schools!
GARY KIMBALL
GENE GIAMMITTORIO
GARY KIMBALL
The Big Picture
So much emphasis is placed on individual
marketing strategies that we sometimes have
a hard time seeing the big picture. I left
CampMinder Camp last year with a ton of new
ideas but didn’t know how best to implement,
manage and evaluate them. I ended up creating
a super basic framework that morphed into our
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being helpful, it also exposed several of our
shortcomings. In this collaborative session, we’ll
customize a marketing plan for each of your
different customer segments. Get ready to work
together, share ideas and be surprised.
PETER ROSS
Speaker: PETER ROSS, 829 Studios
3:15–3:45 PM – NETWORKING AND
SNACKS
3:50–4:50 PM – BREAKOUT SESSIONS 3
LISA WAUGH
10 Things I Learned When I First
Started (For Newbies)
We have the best jobs in the world, yet our parents
and friend still ask what we do all year! For staff
1–5 years into their jobs in summer programs at
independent schools, join our fun discussion on
the top 10 things we’ve learned in our first years
as directors/staff! Feel free to add to our list!
Speaker: LISA WAUGH, Sidwell Summer
RYAN BALL, Sidwell Summer
RYAN BALL
Now that I am Seasoned,
What’s Next?
So now that I have finally gotten my grips
around budgeting, staffing, marketing,
registration systems and vendors, and I am
still standing…what’s next? The first couple
seasons as an auxiliary director can be a
whirlwind, but after braving the storm, this
session will examine how to find new ways to
push your programs, widen your horizons
and grow yourself.
Karen McCann Mclelland
Speaker: KAREN MCCANN MCCLELLAND,
Sidwell Friends School
DAN O’NEIL, Congressional Camp In
Falls Church
CINDY WYATT, Hi-Hills Day Camp
JEFF MALLOY, YMCA Of The Palm Beaches
4:50–5:00 PM – WRAP-UP AND EVALUATIONS
dan o’neil
7:00–9:00 PM – NETWORKING DINNER
AT CASA TACO
Cost: $40 per attendee
*Pre-Registration Required
Cindy Wyatt
jeff malloy
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VOCE TO VOCE SESSION
This year’s CAMP Conference will be the fifth meeting of
VOCE. This group serves leaders who have had ultimate
operational authority in an ACA camp for at least twelve
years. At the conference, they will sit down together once
each day—Tuesday, March 8 (with lunch included) and
Wednesday, March 9 (with lunch included)—for interactive
discussions about camp and their roles. VOCE hosted a
successful dinner event this past year and will continue to
host events in the spring and fall of 2016 in the New York/
New Jersey area. VOCE sessions taking place at this
year’s conference (for VOCE members only):
Cost: $100 per person (Includes 2 lunches)
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
VOCE TO VOCE SESSION
12:45–2:00 PM (WITH LUNCH)
Location: Room 412
The first lunch session will be a talk given by
Jonathan Plucker, a leading authority on talent
development and creativity, who will talk about
the skills, mindsets and dispositions that our
JONATHAN PLUCKER
campers will need to be successful in the 21st
century, and how high quality camp experiences meaningfully contribute
to the college and career readiness of campers and staff. Professor
Plucker is the Julian C. Stanley Endowed Professor of Talent Development
at Johns Hopkins University, where he works in the School of Education
and Center for Talented Youth.
Professor Plucker’s work defining and studying excellence gaps is part
of a larger effort to reorient policy makers’ thinking about how best to
promote success and high achievement for all children. His work includes
a research collaboration with the Partnership for 21st Century Learning
to define and measure the critical skills that kids will need to navigate
and succeed in this rapidly changing world. Professor Plucker has worked
on projects involving educators schools, and students in all 50 states and
several other countries, and is a highly engaging speaker and educator.
Speaker: JONATHAN PLUCKER, Johns Hopkins University
2016 VOCE PRESENTERS
SCOTT BRODY, Chair
Camp Kenwood and Evergreen
SHELLEY TAGER, Chair
Indian Head Camp
Susie Baskin
Camp Champions
Lauren Bernstein
Camp Walden
Mickey Black
Pine Forest Camp
Ephram Caflun
Camp Weekela
Jordan Dale
Surprise Lake Camp
Jon Deren
Camp Manitou
Dawn Ewing
Project Morry
Richie Gersten
Brant Lake Camp
Dayna Hardin
Lake of the Woods & Greenwoods
Mark Honigfeld
Trails End Camp
Jay Jacobs
Timber Lake Camp
Mindy Jacobs
Timber Lake Camp
Gordon Josey
Breezemont Camp
Arthur Kessler
Ramaquois Day Camp
Stacy Kotelov
Banner Day Camp
Mark Major
International Sports Training Camp
David Miller
Camp Starlight
Andy Pritikin
Liberty Lake Day Camp and
Everwood Day Camp
Scott Ralls
Southwoods
Stephanie Reiter
Camp Towanda
Mitch Reiter
Camp Towanda
Ken Schainman
Camp Mohawk
Alan Silverman
Camp Moshava
Tony Stein
Camp Echo Lake
Robyn Tanne
Harbor Haven
Mark Transport
Camp Taconic
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
VOCE TO VOCE SESSION
12:30–1:45 PM (WITH LUNCH)
Location: Room 412
The second session will be a facilitated conversation reflecting on the prior day’s discussion,
and seeking to come to a shared understanding
of the emerging opportunities for our industry
STEVE BASKIN
that grow from this increasing focus on 21st-century
learning, mindsets and dispositions. Are we at a
crossroad for camping? Is this just the flavor of
the moment, or has there been a shift in the skills
that are valued in the workplace that has made
what we do more relevant that it has ever been
before? Do parents understand the skills that
predict for the future success of their kids that
truly make them college and career ready? What
is our role in all of this? We will use the collective
SCOTT BRODY
wisdom of the group to try to answer these
questions, and determine how these answers might
impact the choices we make as business leaders, educators, and
stewards of our camp communities.
Facilitators: STEVE BASKIN, Camp Champions
SCOTT BRODY, Camp Kenwood and Evergreen
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MY PLAN FOR THE DAY
7:30 AM–5:00 PM
REGISTRATION OPEN
8:30–9:30 AM
CONCURRENT SESSION
BLOCK A
9:45–10:45 AM
CONCURRENT SESSION
BLOCK B
BLOCK A
6*
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
G E NE R A L
SESSION
BLOCK B
John Jacobs
TRI–STATE
AWARD
WINNER:
Billy Hoch
MEET ‘N’ EAT SESSIONS
12:30–1:00 PM
BOOK SIGNING
12:30–3:00 PM
EXHIBIT HALL GRAND
OPENING
12:45–1:45 PM
MEET ‘N’ EAT SESSIONS
12:45–2:00 PM
VOCE (MEMBERS ONLY)
SESSION WITH LUNCH
(ROOM 412)
3:00–4:00 PM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
BLOCK C
3:00–5:00 PM
EXHIBIT HALL
4:00–5:30 PM
STANDARDS UPDATE
COURSE (ROOM 421)
7:00–9:00 PM
DINNER AT CARMINE’S,
TROPICANA HOTEL—THE
QUARTER (SIGN UP NOW AT
REGISTRATION!)
9:00 PM–MIDNIGHT
EVENING SOCIAL EVENT
LATE NIGHT DRINKS AND
FUN—AT CHICKIE’S AND
PETE’S TROPICANA
BLOCK C
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Taking Intentionality to the Next
Level: (Re)-Align Your Camp Program
With Group Development Stages
Grit: Developing Perseverance,
Self-Control, and a Growth Mindset
in your Campers and Staff
Location: Room 314
Location: Room 318
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identify/review the stages of group
development (ex: forming, storming,
norming, performing).
KIM AYCOCK
• Analyze the activities and events (including
staff training) of your camp program to see how they align with
the stages of group development.
• Reach the next level of intentionality by (re)-aligning different aspects
of your camp program with the stages of group development.
From inception to culmination, every group advances through predictable
stages of development. This session will give you the tools to analyze
the placement of activities and events in your camp program (including
staff training!) to see how they parallel this known progression. Boost
the intentionality of your program by (re)-aligning everything you do
with this model and watch the pieces of the puzzle fit together!
KIMBERLY AYCOCK, Consultant/Professional Speaker/Trainer,
Camp 2 Campus Learning Solutions
Managing Behaviors Using the
Principles of Applied Behavior
Analysis
Imagine sitting around a campfire roasting marshmallows, and instead of
everyone eating the marshmallow immediately, all the campers wait until
everyone is ready. What is going on? Your campers demonstrated grit
and self-control. In this workshop, we will discuss fundamental and accessible strategies to improve self-control and grit in campers, staff and
ourselves. Strategies such as developing a growth mindset, setting
oneself up for success and the power of meditation will be discussed and
modeled. Get ready to get gritty and to gain tools to put into practice.
CAREN BARUCH-FELDMAN, Psychologist and Camp Consultant,
ExpertOnlineTraining.com; Harrison School District
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identifying the functions of camper
behaviors: the “why?”
KATIE BAKER
• Applying these practices to the appropriate situations and
campers: the “when?”
While the principles of applied behavior analysis are traditionally used
when working with children on the autism spectrum, the basic principles
can be applied to virtually anyone at any type of camp—from special
needs to competitive sports camps and everywhere in between. I would
venture to guess that there is not a camp professional out there that
hasn’t had to deal with a difficult camper behavior at one point or
another, whether it’s a homesick crying fit or a physical altercation
between bunkmates. This session will provide all levels of camp staff
with a crash course in the fundamental principles of ABA, an evidencedbased practice utilizing positive and consistent behavioral support.
KATIE BAKER, Head Counselor/Lead Behavior Therapist, Camp
Akeela/Momentum Behavioral Health Services
Building Community with Singing
& Dancing
Location: Room 201
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Knowlege of resources for singing and dancing
• Awareness of using music to create connection
• Experience with dancing as an activity for camp
JIM CAIN
Learn how to use music, singing and dancing to
create unity, community and connection. Simple, basic songs and
dances will be used to illustrate the power of music in your daily schedule,
evening program or closing activity.
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• Participants will learn behavioral and positive psychology
strategies that promote grit, self-control, and a growth mindset.
Location: Room 418
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
JIM CAIN, Author, Teamwork & Teamplay
CAREN BARUCH-FELDMAN
• Participants will learn thinking strategies
that promote grit, self-control, and a growth mindset.
Team Building is More than a Game It’s a Way of Life!
Location: Room 308
• Learning the evidence-based practices that
modify challenging behaviors: the “how?”
• Participants will learn the latest research in
the areas of self-control, grit, and growth
mindset.
• At the end of this session, participants will
learn to identify their camp values and look
at them through different lenses.
• At the end of this session, participants will learn
to look at the world in Team rather than I.
DAN COLGAN
• At the end of this session, participants will learn to “MacGuyver”
concepts into interactions on their own.
During the workshop, participants will engage in a few team building
exercises, look at results from working as a team and be given tools on
how to think in TEAM when working with boards, staff and campers.
DAN COLGAN, Founder and Creator of Events, Rock Paper Team, LLC
Parent Partnerships: Finding Path to
Better Communication
Location: Room 302
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will identify and discuss parent
concerns, including those tied to special
needs.
• Participants will improve communication
methods and attitudes in addressing parents.
MARIANNE ESOLEN
• Participants will increase sensitivity to communication breakdowns
and barriers with parents.
Parents can be the MOST important partner in maintaining and growing
strong camp programs. And yet, parent communication can be at times
complicated, challenging and time-consuming. This is especially true of
today’s parents, and even more complex for parents of children with any
type of special need, whether social, physical or psychological. This workshop explores the parent perspective, highlighting underlying needs and
issues that can lead parents to drive camp staff crazy. We will focus on
helping staff gain a deeper understanding, stronger communication skills
and improved strategies for handling ongoing parent relations.
MARIANNE ESOLEN, LCSW, Counselor/Consultant, Child
Champions Network
Inspiring Today’s Counselors: How
To Train Staff Members Afraid of
Making Mistakes
Selling Techniques Applied to
Consulting Services – How They Can
Apply in the Camp Environment
Location: Room 304
Location: Room 402
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Understand the underlying causes of the
perfectionist culture and how it can prevent
counselors from taking healthy risks.
• Refine the stories that demonstrate what
makes your camp special.
ANA HOMAYOUN
• Recognize successful strategies for alleviating
counselor anxieties and helping counselors redefine failure and
learn how to effectively ask for help.
• Create a staff training that addresses these issues and sets the
foundation for a healthy summer.
Many of today’s counselors grow up in a perfectionist culture and experience an intense fear of failure that prevents them from taking healthy
risks and using mistakes as an opportunity for growth and development.
In this presentation, noted author Ana Homayoun describes the root
causes of the perfectionist culture and how it can affect camp culture.
She provides practical strategies to develop staff training that redefines
failure, promotes healthy risk taking, and addresses underlying anxieties.
ANA HOMAYOUN, Author, Educator, Green Ivy Educational
Consulting, LLC
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Jeff will share with you how PwC partners all around the world are
trained to respond to these types of questions. We will then explore
how these approaches can apply to your day-to-day responsibilities.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
MATT JACKOWITZ
• Identifying errors related to sexual abuse
and sexual abusers.
• Identifying ineffective efforts intended to
protect children in light of GOOD information.
• The participant will leave with creative ideas
for special events.
GREGORY LOVE
• Session Participants are now prepared to receive good information
to understand (and reduce) sexual abuse risk.
ADAM BARANKER
MATT JACKOWITZ, Camp Walt Whitman
ADAM BARANKER, Jeff Lake Camp
JOEL SHAPIRO, Camp Ramaquois
A camp experience is meant to enrich the life of a child. Child sexual
abuse (by an adult or a peer) can significantly impact the child, the family
and the camp. No one wants this to happen, but the reports continue.
What we believe shapes what we do. Most parents and staff believe
WRONG things (or not enough of the right things) about abuse and abusers. As a result, the abuse and the abuser remain undetected. This session
will identify a number of misconceptions/errors and how they lead to risk
to children. For example, this session will address an unhealthy reliance
on criminal background checks and the failure of visual profiles. Once
some of the misconceptions are identified, the session participants are
ready for GOOD information. Once we better understand the risk, we are
in a position to reduce that risk—and protect our children.
GREGORY LOVE, Director, Abuse Prevention Systems
JOEL SHAPIRO
College Access for CITs and Campers
Location: Room 416
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Location: Room 303
• At the end of this session, participants
will understand the importance of college
access programming at camp.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identify easy relationship-building ideas.
• At the end of this session, participants will
gain resources and tools to develop college
access programs at their camps.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of
powerful connections with parents and staff.
• Distinguish between when and where to use
surface and deep-welling relationships skills.
The session will address such questions as: When someone asks you
what makes your camp special, do you have 3 great reasons? Do you
have stories to back up each of the 3 reasons? What is the one tough
question you hope they do not ask you? Are you prepared to respond
in a non-defensive manner? What is the best way to respond to an
objection so that you address their true, underlying concerns? How best
to jointly develop a new or special program so you gain the full buy-in
of all those involved? What steps can you take to close a sale?
Location: Room 301
• The participants will leave with ideas for
how to increase the impact of special events.
All People Care About is How You are
Going To Treat Them: Improving
Your Staff and Parent Relationships
• Learn how to close the sale and deal with the “silent objection.”
Sexual Abuse - We Cannot Protect
Our Children From a Risk We Do
Not Understand
Location: Room 320
The panel will present ideas for how to take
special events from fun to meaningful. Special
events are often tied to a camp’s culture and
traditions, but not always; sometimes they are
just a fun diversion from the regular program.
The panelists will talk about special events in
general terms, and also share what their respective
camps have done to increase the impact of special
events in their camp communities. The panel consists of two day camps and one residential camp.
JEFFREY KAUFMAN
JEFFREY KAUFMAN, PriceWaterhouseCooper, Retired
Putting the “Special” into Special
Events
• The participants will be encouraged to revisit
the purpose of special events at their camps
to determine if they are time-fillers or if they
are a meaningful aspect of their program.
• Discover how to customize how you describe
your camp’s experience so that it meets a
child’s (and their parents’) needs and goals.
STEPHEN MAGUIRE
This brand new session that will highlight the importance of relationship
building among camp staff and parents. If treated well, most reasonable
people are easy to work with. This interactive session will give
administrators and owners a chance to really understand the importance
of building positive relationships with everyone.
STEPHEN MAGUIRE, Professional Speaker and Camp Consultant,
Go Turnstone
GLO RODRIGUEZ
• At the end of this session, participants will develop an action plan
on how they can incorporate college access programs at their
summer camp.
In this session, you will learn about the importance of college access
programs for teen campers, how to incorporate college access programs
into your summer camps and gain resources and tools that will aid you
in the development of a college access program.
GLO RODRIGUEZ, Fiver Children’s Foundation
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Hands-On Nature
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Best Spent $50–$150K CAPX:
10 Renovation Projects to Drive
Enrollment & Make Memories
• Learn to build and incorporate nature
activities into your existing camp program.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Location: Room 202
Location: Room 322
• Get ideas for how to best spend your annual
facilities improvements budget.
• Participate in a variety of simple, hands-on
nature activities.
• Learn strategies and techniques to help
campers explore nature on your own
camp property.
ELENA MORGAN
Your camp property provides amazing opportunities for discovering the natural world. You don’t
need a science background to engage campers
in your camp outdoor environment. Learning is
most effective through hands-on experiences.
Learn to use discovery and inquiry methods
instead of focusing on facts and identification.
MARY ANN LEWIS
Participate in simple but powerful nature activities
that can be used at your camp. Learn helpful “do’s and don’ts” when
working with campers in the outdoors. Using tried and true methods
utilized at our camps, you will leave equipped with resources and experiences necessary to excite your campers and staff to get outdoors.
ELENA MORGAN, Director of Outdoor Program and Lake Rickabear
Day Camp, The Girl Scouts of Northern NJ
MARY ANN LEWIS, Director of Outdoor Program and Jockey
Hollow Day Camp, The Girl Scouts of Nothern NJ
The Big Picture
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Discuss on/off season marketing strategies
with other camp directors.
• Identify the surprising number of customers.
PETER ROSS
PETER ROSS, Founder, 829 Studios
1) Making bunks even more special 2) The best fire circle ever 3) Nailing
the first impression: critical improvements to what it looks like when you
drive in 4) Trails and paths: turning simple paths into journeys 5) Using
terrain to make a dramatic experience 6) Cutting a big window to make
a great view from your dining or gathering hall 7) Big porch: add a big
porch to an activity building to expand rainy-day options 8) Meeting
points: create a meeting point for each bunk cluster and activity district
9) Re-cladding with character: change vinyl siding to wood on a few
critical buildings 10) Paint palette: if you’re planning to re-paint anyway,
get ideas from an architect
MARIE S.A. SORENSEN, AIA, Architect / Principal-in-Charge,
Sorensen Partners | Architects + Planners, Inc.
VO C E PRES ENT S :
ROBYN TANNE
ROBYN TANNE,
Harbor Haven
JON DEREN,
Camp Manitou
SCOTT BRODY,
Camps Kenwood
& Evergreen
OPEN TO ALL
ATTENDEES
JON DEREN
SCOTT BRODY
Learning About Transgender
Campers
Move from ‘Good to Great’ with
Stakeholder Input About Your
Product!
Location: Room 315
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• To learn about ways in which transgender
youth (current and prospective campers)
can be integrated into traditional residential
camp environments.
Location: Room 313
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Be motivated to secure stakeholder input.
• Understand the process methodology.
JOANNA WARREN SMITH
Whether you’re struggling to meet minimum capacity or managing wait
lists, you’ll benefit from an intentional parent and camper evaluation
process that starts day 4 and continues throughout the summer. Parents
and campers become invested, while leadership gains insight about
expectations and reactions. Through an easily managed series of surveys,
focus groups and parent interactions, you’ll gain access to information
that will inform decisions about how to keep your program relevant, vital
and in demand.
JOANNA WARREN SMITH, President, Camp Consulting Services
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• Gain enough knowledge to explain the project to an architect or
contractor.
Location: Room 309
So much emphasis is placed on individual marketing strategies that we sometimes have a hard time seeing the big
picture. I left CampMinder Camp last year with a ton of new ideas but
didn’t know how best to implement, manage and evaluate them. I
ended up creating a super basic framework that morphed into our new
year-round marketing plan. In addition to being helpful, it also exposed
several of our shortcomings. In this collaborative session, we’ll customize
a marketing plan for each
of your different customer segments. Get ready to work together, share
ideas and be surprised.
• Translate input into actionable items to
improve product.
MARIE S.A. SORENSEN
Time to Get a Real Job: How
to Make a Summer Spent as
a Camp Counselor So Valuable
That It Will Be Seen as the
“Ultimate Internship”
Location: Room 321
• Visualize your marketing plan from an entirely
different perspective.
• See examples of what these projects
look like.
• To learn about transgender youth developNICK TEICH
ment and its relation to the residential camp context.
• To be able to make informed decisions about working with families
of trans youth and families of other campers who may have concerns.
This session will explore the emerging area of transgender campers. We
will start by explaining processes that transgender youth go through and
the obstacles they may face. This session will give some tools, tips and
basic education that will enable directors and other staff to learn about
options to work with transgender campers and their families. There will
be plenty of time for questions.
NICK TEICH, CEO, Camp Aranu’tiq of Harbor Camps
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The Economy, the Consumer, and
Your Camp
How to Connect with Your Local
College or University
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Gain perspective on broad trends driving
the current environment for businesses.
• Participants will be given a framework of
ideas for collaboration between their camp
and local colleges and universities.
• Participants will gain a basic understanding
of Student Development Theory and what
NEIL JOHNSTON
role it can play in shaping their camp staff.
• Participants will learn best practices for interacting with student
affairs professionals and the opportunities they can bring to
their camps.
After spending time in both fields, I am excited to share my thoughts
about how camps and higher education can benefit each other. Not
only are we employing similar populations, there are opportunities for
enhancement and off-season collaboration. Come hear about how your
local college or university can be the next great resource for your camp!
Location: Room 315
• Understand how global macroeconomic
themes can impact small local businesses
such as camps.
Location: Room 314
GREGG FISHER
• Learn how the economy is affecting the middle-class consumer
and explore the resulting risks and opportunities for camps.
For investors in financial markets and businesses alike, the current
economic backdrop presents both challenges and opportunities.
Hear from Gerstein Fisher’s Gregg S. Fisher about some of the major
trends shaping the current business climate, including how technology
and globalization are transforming the landscape for businesses,
workers and consumers alike.
GREGG FISHER, Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Gerstein Fisher
NEIL JOHNSTON, Resident Director, University of Pittsburgh/
Sheldon Calvary Camp
Creating a Culture of Change: How to
Get Your Staff to Buy In
Giving Voice: Bringing Music
Technology to Your Summer Camp
Location: Room 312
Location: Room 304
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identify effective strategies for getting staff
to understand the rationale behind why you
are trying to implement change.
• Discuss some methods that are ineffective for
getting the buy-in from staff for effecting change.
JARED GELB
• Identify some behaviors of great camp management that will help
your camp have the potential to move to the next level.
Camps often need to walk the fine line between maintaining traditions
and customs while also implementing innovative programs and instituting change. The latter can be even more challenging if your staff
members, particularly your veteran and key ones, aren’t on board. This
session will explore how to get those people on your side, get them to
adopt your philosophies about change and set the trend for being
better than you’ve ever been as a camp. It’s not easy, of course, but
there are some effective methods to getting your staff to buy in.
JARED GELB, Assistant Director, Camp Ramaquois
Theme Programming: The
Imagination Awakens
PETE KALVERT, Founder/Director, Music Ascension
Location: Room 202
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Leading a Collaborative and
Productive Meeting
• Tap into your creativity and campers’ imagination to create awesome themed activities
using a simple 5 step process.
• Create a program that will have your campers
learning vital skills without even knowing it.
Location: Room 402
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
JAMES GOODGER
• Use dramatics and storytelling to engage campers and get staff
working together having a blast.
Camp activities for the youngest campers with a dramatic twist. Not all
of us can “use the force” but we can all use the imaginations of our staff
and youngest campers.
This is a unique yet simple approach to themed camp programming for the
little guys (ages 4–7) that can incorporate a combination of physical education, teambuilding, drama, storytelling, arts and crafts and, of course, FUN!
Join James for a fast-paced, highly interactive workshop that will have YOU
experiencing and creating memorable play experiences that your younger
campers will never forget and will be sure to tell their parents about!
JAMES GOODGER, YMCA of Montclair
• A hands-on vocational training ground in
music production and music composition
for campers.
• A consistent and insightful exchange
between campers and professional
PETE KALVERT
musicians/music producers.
• Successful goal setting/achievement through camper performances
as well as short and long-term musical projects.
We believe campers are deeply and powerfully awakened when we
show them that we are indeed listening. We believe great things happen
when we equip our young people with a belief in themselves. What if
we equipped our young people with the joy and belief in themselves
that comes from taking ownership of their ideas and their own creativity?
That deep confidence, that feeling is not a fleeting thing. It lasts. Since
1999, Music Ascension has brought teaching artist residencies to summer
camps throughout the United States. We have built recording studio
facilities from the ground up in order to provide campers with access to
industry standard recording/musical equipment. In this session, camp
directors will learn how to create forums for campers to enjoy an inspiring
opportunity to find and develop their own individual creativity and
means of self-expression.
• Discover techniques to structure and drive
a collaborative meeting.
• Explore how to achieve team buy-in to a
jointly developed and agreed upon goal.
JEFFREY KAUFMAN
• Learn how to clarify next steps and drive
actions once the meeting is over.
Test whether techniques utilized in leading meetings in the consulting
industry have applicability in your camp environment. Do you have an
agreed purpose at the start of every meeting? Do all attendees openly
share ideas? Are new and creative solutions codeveloped by the team?
Are actions captured and responsibilities assigned? Is a follow up call/
meeting set to sustain momentum?
JEFFREY KAUFMAN, PriceWaterhouseCooper, Retired
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Really Know How Campers are Doing
During The Summer
Creating the Best Infrastructure for
Your Camp
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identify and implement effective strategies
for gathering information from campers
about their experience at camp.
• Identify and implement effective strategies
for gathering information from staff about
their campers’ experiences at camp.
• Identify and implement effective strategies for
using information gathered during the summer
to help campers improve their camp experience.
• Identify the characteristics of what makes
some camps so aesthetically pleasing.
Location: Room 320
Would you like to answer those worried parent
calls with more detailed information about each
child? Would you like to give your staff more
timely feedback based on specific camper suggestions? Do you ever learn about an issue after the
summer and wish you had known sooner so you
could have been more proactive? Being able to
monitor if campers are happy is vital to a camp’s
success. We have created a comprehensive
process including meetings, feedback forms,
questionnaires, and face-to-face interactions that
will keep you in the loop and not bog you down
during your busiest time.
PAUL KROUNER , Co-Director, Camp Schodack
MATT KROUNER , Co-Director, Camp Schodack
KAREN OFFITZER, Assistant Director, Camp
Schodack
Location: Room 303
PAUL KROUNER
STEPHEN MAGUIRE
• Distinguish the difference between what
looks good and is acceptable vs. what looks outstanding and gets
campers in the door.
MATT KROUNER
KAREN OFFITZER
Changing the Culture of Praise at
Camp: Why “Good Job” is the Most
Dangerous Phrase at Camp
Location: Room 302
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Location: Room 301
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Recognizing the grooming process, the
behaviors of an abuser to prepare a child
for abuse.
GREGORY LOVE
• With an understanding of the grooming process, it is now possible
to evaluate the effectiveness of camp safety systems.
A camp experience is meant to enrich the life of a child. Child sexual
abuse (by an adult or a peer) can significantly impact the child, the family
and the camp. No one wants this to happen, but the reports continue.
After identifying errors and misconceptions (Session 1), it is necessary to
provide good information to parents and staff to better understand the
risk of sexual abuse, generally, and how that risk may unfold in camp
programming. As addressed in Session 1, abusers have no visual profile.
You cannot recognize this risk “visually”—you must recognize this risk
behaviorally. What are these behaviors? The key is understanding the
“grooming process.” This session will discuss abuser characteristics, the
grooming process and common grooming behaviors (focusing on how
grooming may unfold at camp). Once we understand the grooming
process, we can identify AND reduce risk to children and those who
serve them.
GREGORY LOVE, Director/Partner, Abuse Prevention Systems/Love
& Norris
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Come join Steve for this brand new session as he share the characteristics,
traits and qualities of the most beautiful summer camps he has ever
seen. (You will not have had to be at Part 1) Steve has worked with over
650 summer camps in the last 11 years and has seen some of the most
amazing places in the business. An amazing physical plan doesn’t happen
by mistake. There is a tremendous amount of hard work and attention
to detail that go into making a camp look great. This session will focus
on the best of the best, how they got that way and what it takes to
maintain their greatness. It’s not just all about having the money; it’s
also about having the right eye to see the beauty and bring it to life for
campers, staff and family members.
STEPHEN MAGUIRE, Professional Speaker and Camp Consultant,
Go Turnstone
Sexual Abuse - Correctly Identifying
and Responding to Abuse
• Understanding the importance of reporting
abuse and suspicions of abuse.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding
of having a keen eye and attention to detail.
• Participants will gain a better understanding
of the research being conducted about the
competency of college students to handle
DAVID MALTER
stress and criticism.
• A clear picture of how the Culture of Praise at camp is failing camp staff.
• 7 Creative and Impactful solutions to re-establishing how praise
works at your camp.
This ground-breaking session will explore the challenges we face with
today’s camp staff and the cultures of praise they’ve grown up with at
school, sports leagues and at home. Dave will introduce some of the
research being conducted right now on the effect the culture of “good
job” has on the performance of college students. Dave will define the
problem, and then explore creative solutions that camp directors can
employ to re-create the culture of praise at their camp to be meaningful
and not just another impediment to this generation’s development, so
when the going gets tough your staff doesn’t head for the beach.
DAVE MALTER, Director, Touro University- Master’s in Camp
Administration and Leadership
Managing Annoying People
Closing the Experience Gap of Our
Nation’s Urban Disadvantaged Youth
Location: Room 308
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Location: Room 418
• Identify employees who drain your energy.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Demonstrate three tactics for effective
relationship development.
• Participants will understand the extent and
significance of the “experience gap” among
urban youth.
• Master skills to “unblock” untenable
interactions.
ILENE MARCUS
It’s a common scenario: Someone that works for
you pushes your buttons. You get annoyed at whatever they say or do.
Whether it’s a quirky trait or a common courtesy greeting, you are irritated.
It doesn’t impact the person sitting next to you or anyone else in the
room. Just you. You, the direct supervisor of this person. You are
responsible for their performance, not their idiosyncrasies. You must
manage their work. They are good at what they do, but their behavior
gets you irritated. And it wastes time. As a senior manager, if your productivity falters, so does the productivity of your team. In this fast-paced
workshop, you will learn new communication skills and practical
applications for engagement to shift the relationship paradigm and
accelerate efforts to create an energized cohesive team culture.
ILENE MARCUS, CEO, ISM, Consult Inc.
Ask A Lawyer
Location: Room 322
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• This session is designed as a question and
answer session, which provides participants
with the opportunity to ask a lawyer questions
related to the operation of a child care
program. All issues are open for discussion
and the presenter tries to tries to give quick
concise answers so as to include as many
participants as possible.
RONALD MCGUCKIN
• This session will provide legal edification regarding any question
the attendee might have.
• This session will provide a broad knowledge of current legal issues
important to the field of early childhood education.
Focused on the issues common to child/adolescent care agencies, this
workshop offers practical techniques for effectively dealing with a variety
of problems encountered in the successful operation of a quality program.
Participants will obtain general information regarding conflict resolution,
confidentiality, personnel issues, infectious disease policies, Family
Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act and other crucial
issues facing child care providers. Bring your concerns and questions to
this workshop and ask a lawyer.
RONALD MCGUCKIN, Attorney, Ronald V. McGuckin and Associates
• Participants will explore ways to help close the
experience gap.
MARC MEYER
• Participants will become familiar with business and development strategies to provide
increased opportunities for disadvantaged
youth at their own camps.
Any disparity in academic performance in
groups of children is an achievement gap with
which we are all too familiar as certain groups of
students perform better academically for a variety
of reasons, from race and ethnicity to socioecoKENDALL RICHARDS
nomic status and location of schools. This gap is
seen clearly in graduation and college admissions rates. Yet what may
be more insidious and harder to grasp in college admissions is the
experience gap. How can this gap be closed to make disadvantaged
urban youth more competitive in college admissions and better prepared
for life after school? How do we provide young people with limited
resources and connections some assurance that their academic achievements
are not overlooked by college admissions officers simply because the
only things on their record are decent test scores and solid grades? To
be competitive in college admissions, the experience gap must be closed
in part by providing disadvantaged kids access to world-class summer camps.
MARC MEYER, Managing Director of MS and HS Design, Success
Academy Charter Schools
KENDALL RICHARDS, Senior Dean of Scholars at Success Academy
Charters
VO C E PRES ENT S :
Hiring Camp Parents: How to
Hire and Work with Parents of
Your Campers Effectively and
Successfully
Location: Room 309
• Hear different philosophies about hiring
camp parents and preparing them to
be successful!
DAVID MILLER
• What happens when the camper
isn’t working out?
• What happens when the staff
member isn’t working out?
• Positions where this works well or
not well.
• What are the options for compensation
(barter, salary with reduced tuition)?
MINDY JACOBS
DAVID MILLER, Starlight
MINDY JACOBS,
Timber Lake Camp
SUSIE BASKIN,
Camp Champions
JORDAN DALE,
Surprise Lake
Camp
OPEN TO ALL
ATTENDEES
SUSIE BASKIN
JORDAN DALE
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Camp Video is Alive and Well
Location: Room 404
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Location: Room 201
• Participants will become focused on the details
needed to produce a successful camp video.
• They will become more proficient in the
vocabulary of the technology.
• Most significantly, they will begin to identify
the most important content points they want
JAKE PACKARD
to present in their future camp videos and gain
insight on how to make them visual and come alive as a video clip.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Join us for a spirited discussion! First, I will begin with a short history of
video technology including where we are now and where we may be
headed. Then, we will go hands-on and review a variety of camp videos
to help attendees formulate their approach to their own camp video
and how to accomplish that through the production process. The goal is
to help attendees begin to focus their sights on the challenging task of
producing the right video for their own organization.
This one of a kind session uses experiential
learning and brainstorming so you leave with
fundamentals of summer camp evening programs and camp fires.
JAKE PACKARD, Creative Director, First Take Video
Social Media in a Crisis: How to
Communicate Online When
Everything is Going Wrong
Location: Room 313
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will leave with: A plan to implement at their camp for using social media
before, during and after a crisis to help reach
stakeholders, meet the needs of current
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parents and communicate with concern.
• Participants will leave with: An understanding of how to draft blog posts,
tweets and Facebook posts in response to a death at camp, accident
at camp, death of core team member or weather related incident.
• Participants will leave with: Action items for how to fully create a
social media communication plan for any given crisis.
Social media can be both an accelerant and an extinguisher of a crisis.
This session will help camps understand how to use social media during
a crisis to reach stakeholders, meet the needs of current parents and
communicate with compassion, concern and empathy. Having a social
media communication plan in place can significantly reduce the amount
of time wasted during a crisis. Camps will leave this session with
communication goals, draft blog posts and more.
BLAKE SUNSHINE, Social Media for Summer Camps Marketer,
Social Summer Camp
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Evening Programs & Camp Fire
Ideas for 8 to 800!
• Learn the components of creating a quality
evening program.
• Brainstorm ideas for evening programs for
all group sizes.
• Learn a model for campfires to properly end
off your camp day with quiet campers in a
reflective mood.
First you will learn a successful model for a
campfire that properly wraps up your camp day
or session. This model is applicable to overnight
and day camps. Nothing gets you going like a
summer camp fire in the morning!
DAN WEIR
JEFF DALY
Learn the components of creating a quality evening
program and then have the opportunity to brainstorm ideas relevant to
the size of your camp.
This session is perfect for those that want to let loose, join in on some
songs and skits, and leave ideas to implement this summer.
DAN WEIR, Director of Camping Services, Frost Valley YMCA
JEFF DALY, Co-Founder & Director, 3 Adventures
How to Build an Amazing Staff Before
and Throughout the Summer
Location: Room 310
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• How to recruit a great staff and not settle.
• Motivate and make your staff feel needed.
• How to maintain a connection to staff all
year long.
RUTH ANN WEISS
How to recruit, train and motivate an amazing
staff. Rumor-free summers with everyone working
together for the campers. How to reward and make your staff feel good
without spending a fortune.
RUTH ANN WEISS, Director/Owner, Eagles Landing Day Camp
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GENERAL SESSION – KEYNOTE SPEAKER
JOHN JACOBS, Co-Founder & Chief Creative Optimist, Life Is Good
Brand is good: Building a Community of Loyal
Customers
Location: Hall A, Second Level
In this keynote, John delves into the importance of community building,
a vital aspect of business that goes much beyond accumulating followers
on Facebook. He shares the strategies implemented to develop a genuine
message of positivity and getting it across to not only his customers, but
himself and his employees (Life is Good HQ includes a bar and music stage
among its many perks) so that, wherever you look at it, it is a message
worth following and investing in. More than ever, today’s customers
have the ability to see right through a company or organization’s intentions,
and John’s lessons will help any audience member’s message feel, look
and sell right.
John Jacobs is co-founder and chief creative optimist of The Life is
Good Company, which spreads the power of optimism through inspiring
art, a passionate community and groundbreaking nonprofit work. John
and his brother Bert launched their business with $78 in their pockets,
selling t-shirts in the streets of Boston. Today, Life is Good is a $100
million positive lifestyle brand sold by over 4,000 retailers across the US
and Canada.
John wrote and illustrated his first poorly spelled book at the age of
five. He’s been writing and drawing ever since,
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graduating from the University of Massachusetts
with dual degrees in English and art. He
began designing and selling t-shirts with
his brother Bert during his senior year.
After five years traveling in their van
together, the brothers officially launched
Life is Good.
When John is not creating inspiring
content, he enjoys outdoor adventures with
his family, awkward dancing and diving into
the water to catch things.
To inspire others to choose optimism and
grow the good in their lives, Bert and
John wrote Life is Good: The Book - How
to Live with Purpose and Enjoy the Ride,
published by National Geographic in
September 2015.
John has been awarded honorary doctorates
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from several universities for entrepreneurship, business innovation and
philanthropy. He and Life is Good have been featured on CNNMoney,
CNBC’s Business Nation, ABC News’ Nightline, NBC’s The Today Show,
and in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, and
Men’s Health, among others.
Bert and John are the youngest of six siblings from Needham, MA. They
credit their mother as the first powerful optimist in their lives and the
inspiration for Life is Good.
Book Signing
Join Keynote, John Jacobs, for a book signing of his book,
Life is Good: The Book
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IN THE ACA BOOKSTORE
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MARCH 8 FROM 12:30–1:00 PM
TRI-STATE CAMP CONFERENCE
AWARD WINNER:
BILLY HOCH, Camp Watitoh
Born on Visiting Day and raised in camp,
Billy Hoch has been the year-round
director of Camp Watitoh since 1989,
having spent nearly every summer of his
life at camp— first as a camper, and then
as a counselor, boys’ head counselor and
program director.
A graduate of Franklin & Marshall College
and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of
Law, Billy served as an assistant district
attorney in Bronx, NY before returning to
camp as a full-time career.
Billy has been a member of ACA-NYNJ’s Public Guidance Service
Committee since 1990, and has chaired that committee from 1996–2004
and again since 2011. He has served as a board member and section
delegate to the national conference during that time. Billy is also a past
member of the Tri-State program committee and currently serves on the
ACA-NYNJ’s legislative committee. He is president of the Western
Massachusetts Camp Directors Association and vice president of the
Massachusetts Camp Association.
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His wife, Debbie; son, Joshua and mother, Sandy—all life-long campers—
join him at Watitoh every summer.
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Division Head/Head Counselor
Roundtable
Location: Room 401
Are you a head counselor or division head? This
session is for you. Come share your ideas on
staff supervision, parent communication, working
with campers and being part of your camp’s
leadership team. We will talk about all of these
topics in an open and supportive forum.
Trips, Trips, and more Trips....
DANI ACKERMAN
DANI ACKERMAN, Associate Director,
Elmwood Day Camp
PETER GOLDBERG, Office Manager, Woodmont Day Camp
Food Glorious Food!
Location: Room 419
Come prepared to share and talk about all
aspects of food service, including staffing,
menu planning, ordering and so much more!
Standards & Accreditation
Meet ‘N’ Eat
SAM BOREK, Woodmont Day Camp
SAM BOREK
RESIDENT CAMPS: Open Mic
with Michael
Location: Room 402
A winning formula: Your questions—plus specific
and practical answers from top camp expert,
best-selling camp author, and staff trainer Michael
Brandwein—equals a Tri-State Meet ‘n’ Eat
session you don’t want to miss. Bring your
questions, but most of all bring your pen and a lot
of paper! Michael will apply his well-known
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“use-it-immediately” techniques and creative
solutions to provide the secrets to building and enhancing outstanding
camp programs. The session will begin with some solid gold tips from
Michael on great ways to make 2016 your best year ever. Then, we’ll turn
it over to you for your questions, issues and challenges—and you’ll get
specific strategies and methods you can implement right away for success. Please join us for a solution-packed session that will get you energized and recharged!
Location: Room 420
Join members of the ACA, NY & NJ Standards
Committee for lunch and to be a part of the
discussion on all things standards. This will be a
great opportunity to connect with standards
experts, learn about the important changes to the
accreditation process and get all your questions
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answered. This is also a great forum to learn about
the benefits about becoming an ACA Visitor. See you there!
KYLE MEDEIROS, Associate Director of Standards, ACA NY&NJ
Park and Rec Camps Roundtable
Location: Room 416
Municipally run summer camps and rec programs
face unique challenges and restrictions. If you
run one of these camps and are interested in
meeting other directors, come enjoy a meal
with your peers to share your experiences. In this
interactive session, we will discuss topics and
then brainstorm ideas together. Bring your ideas
and challenges, and we can face them together.
MICHAEL BRANDWEIN, Educator / Author / Staff Trainer
JESSICA NEGLIA, Riegel Ridge Summer Camp
Everything Day Camp
What’s Next for You?
Location: Room 404
Day camps have so many different components
to them: enrollment, staffing, transportation,
marketing and programming, just to name a few.
In this interactive roundtable session, we will talk
everything day camp. Bring your questions and
ideas and be ready to support other day camp
professionals!
GREGG LICHT, Director, Elmwood Day Camp
GREGG LICHT
Location: Room 417
Girl Scout camp is a unique experience all in
itself. Each camp has similarities due to the
mission of Girl Scouting, but each Council and
camp within those Councils run things their own
way. Grab your lunch and join in a roundtable
discussion about what different Councils have
found to work (or flop) when it comes to
weekend camp programming and summer camp.
Bring some of your best (or worst) ideas with you
to share with other GS camps.
Location: Room 418
In this roundtable session, we will focus on your
own career development. How do you transition
from your organization to another one? How do
you know if you are ready to be a director?
What are the best ways to make contacts in this
industry? What should you be doing now to
make sure you are ready for the next steps in
your career? Bring your questions and your
ideas and be ready to share!
MARK NEWFIELD, Iroquois Springs
Girl Scout Roundtable
APRIL BEATTIE
APRIL BEATTIE, Camp Director/Program Manager, Girl Scouts of
Eastern Pennsylvania
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Location: Room 403
Does your camp have a travel program, or are
you interested in starting one? Join us for a Meet
‘N’ Eat to discuss your best and safest practices
for your travel program. Where do you send your
campers? How do you travel there? How do you
get the best deals? What makes your program
successful? What are your travel policies and
PETER GOLDBERG
procedures? Bring your questions and, more
importantly, be ready to share your ideas with other camp professionals
to foster discussion that will help enhance your camp’s travel program.
JESSICA NEGLIA
MARK NEWFIELD
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10 Things Your Program Director
Isn’t Telling You
Partnering with Parents Through
Year-Round Education
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will learn what creates dissatisfaction for or threatens a program director,
thus leading to a barrier in communication.
• Participants will learn specific tactics for how
to support their middle management and
RUBY COMPTON
what signals to look for when middle
management staff are struggling or unhappy.
• Participants will be validated in the work they are doing to foster
growth in younger leaders and learn how much middle management
relies on their superiors for guidance, and tactics for providing this
guidance.
The program director can be the hub of information in a camp community, and there are simply some things that program directors aren’t telling
their superiors. This session is designed for the person at the top of the
organizational chart to understand what their middle management is
really thinking and how to create a more open and honest relationship
with their program director so the critical information will make its way
to the right people. Want to know how to keep your program director
around year after year? Hear from a program director who is in the
trenches and is not afraid to tell it like it is.
• Participants will learn how to identify educational needs for the parents they work with.
• Participants will learn how to best evaluate
parent programs and get parent feedback.
MARY LEE DINSKI
• Participants will be able to to identify various
programming opportunities to best engage parents.
Working with and creating relationships with parents is so important
when working with children; however, parent programming and education
is a challenge for most. Do you want to better engage, educate and
communicate with parents during the non-summer months? This session
is an opportunity to learn and share best practices as well as gain a better
understanding of how to create and implement valuable parent programs
throughout the year. We will discuss parent volunteer committees,
socials and educational workshops, and how to best implement these
things throughout the year.
Location: Room 315
STEPHANIE “RUBY” COMPTON, Summer Camp Program Director,
Green River Preserve
Social Media Wellness: Developing
and Implementing Effective Policies
for Your Camp Community
Location: Room 304
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identify emerging social media and new
technology, especially around anonymous
and ephemeral mobile apps.
• Develop an effective camp policy around
ANA HOMAYOUN
social media use and communication both
during camp and year round.
• Effectively communicate and implement a social media policy with
parents, camp staff and campers, and learn how to deal with
potential issues.
Today’s campers and counselors deal with an onslaught of social
media pressures year round, and those pressures can easily seep into
camp culture. In one minute, Snapchat users share 284,722 Snaps,
YouTube users upload 300 hours of video, and Instagram users like
1,736,111 photos. In this presentation, noted author Ana Homayoun
highlights the latest trends, provides strategies around developing
an effective social media policy and communicating the policy with
parents, camp staff and campers.
ANA HOMAYOUN, Author, Educator, Green Ivy Educational
Consulting, LLC
Location: Room 401
MARY LEE DINSKI, Camp Director, Camp Fiver
Excellent Expectations: How to Teach
Staff to Set Positive Group Rules &
Enforce Limits
Location: Room 303
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Demostrate how to set expectations with
a positive approach.
• Learn specific techniques for how to get
staff to set limitations.
• Gain the confidence to be firm and fair with
their limits and consequences.
Deborah Gilboa, MD and Michael Brandwein
team up for a unique session that shows exactly
how staff can establish excellent expectations for
behavior and create a terrific camp group culture
from the very first day of a session. Replace
“going over the rules” with an engaging and
more positive approach that builds respect and
increases responsibility. Get specific techniques
and training materials to help staff learn how to
set and maintain limits and to be both firm and
fair with more confidence.
DEBORAH GILBOA
MICHAEL BRANDWEIN
DEBORAH GILBOA, Family Physician, Parenting and Youth
Development Expert, AskDoctorG.com
MICHAEL BRANDWEIN, Educator, Author and Staff Trainer
In Praise of Criticism
Location: Room 312
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Finger Lickin’ Good
Location: Room 402
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Great resources!
• Lots of ideas for all types of programming!
• Displays of fun and exciting equipment to
use in your cooking program.
Let’s talk cooking programs in camp, whether
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it’s in a kitchen at camp, over a campfire, on a
barbecue, no bake or maybe competitions like Kids’
Cook Off or Iron Chef! We’ll share lots of ideas with you, equipment to
use, resources for recipes and more, for daily program, clubs, campfires,
special events or electives.
CRICKET SNEARING, Administrative Director, Sesame/Rockwood
Camps
• Identify obstacles to candid feedback.
• Learn ways to translate accurate observations to digestible feedback.
• Create a culture at your camp that uses
“coaching criticism” skillfully.
CHRIS THURBER
You’re doing a good job when you tell other
people they are doing a bad job. Sure, that’s an
over-simplification, but without candid feedback, your staff stagnate.
Want growth? Then learn how to offer “coaching criticism” that plays to
strengths, inspires change and clarifies goals. Stop beating around the
bush and then beating yourself up for not saying what needs to be said.
Learn to be a leader people love because you bring out the best without mincing words or crushing egos.
DR. CHRIS THURBER, Psychologist & Educator, CampSpirit &
Phillips Exeter Academy
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Fundraising for Special Projects at
Nonprofit Camps
Rhythmic Creativity and Jamming
Activities: How to Fill Up Downtime
Using Rhythm and Groove.
Location: Room 419
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Location: Room 202
• At the end of the session, participants
will be able to identify potential funding
opportunities for their camps.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will have a draft for a
fundraising pitch.
• Participants will gain an understanding of
how to facilitate group rhythm activities.
ADAM JACOBS
• Participants will have ideas of how to recruit prospective donors.
We will review the basics of “selling” nonprofit camp programs to
prospective funders. The session will include an overview of identifying
potential funding opportunities within your camp and finding potential
donors. We will look at small government and foundation grants,
developing nonprofit boards of directors to help fundraise and asking
individuals for donations. The session will include the chance to
create a fundraising pitch and to outline a letter of appeal.
ADAM JACOBS, Executive Director, Kids Creative
Philanthropic Opportunities at
YOUR Camp
Location: Room 321
• You will be able to let loose, play and connect
with others.
ADAM ISSADORE
• Attendees will leave with content that will allow them to fill
moments of unstructured downtime with campers and staff.
In this interactive session, participants will learn how to facilitate activities
based on rhythm. Learn practical applications to fill downtime, whether
waiting with campers to enter the dining hall or filling up time in the
bunk during a rainy day. You do not need to have musical experience to
be able to lead and facilitate these activities. The goal is to have fun
and create group rhythm using hand claps, snaps, beat boxing and
using small objects as improvised instruments. There will be opportunity
for participants to practice leading and facilitating. Come have fun, learn
and jam together. These are great ideas for time fillers. Introduce these
ideas to staff at staff trainings and pre-camp orientation so that staff is
able to lead them with campers.
ADAM ISSADORE, Founder, Path To Rhythm
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• At the end of this session, attendees will
have a set of programs to implement at
camp to help raise awareness and/or money
for a cause that matters.
• Attendees will learn about post-camp
opportunities to keep their camp community
engaged philanthropically.
VO C E PRES ENT S :
MOLLY HOTT
Location: Room 309
• Participants will learn ways to speak to their
camp community in accordance with their
camp mission when it comes to philanthropy,
asking for money, raising awareness and
giving back.
As camp professionals, we profess to our camp
community that our efforts are to make the
world a better place- But how can we expand
that feeling beyond the fences of our physical
locations? 21st century families wish to associate
themselves with businesses and products that
align with their own personal belief systemsand the new wave of adults believe heavily in
philanthropy and helping those in need.
Join us as we address the importance of giving
back and paying it forward through camp. How
can we raise money and awareness for organizations that matter to our communities during the
summer and the off-season? How can we integrate philanthropy into camp programming and
how do camps tactfully ask their families for
“more money”? How do camps determine the
right organization(s) to match their camp mission?
Can camps set up their own foundations? How
can we tastefully acquire PR through our efforts?
ANDY PRITIKIN
DAWN EWING
This session will speak to day and resident
camps, private and non-profit- as we seek to
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widen our tent of positive influence outside our
camps, throughout our local communities and beyond.
MOLLY HOTT, Executive Director, SCOPE (Summer Camp
Opportunities Promote Education)
ANDY PRITIKIN, Owner/Operator/Founder, Liberty Lake Day Camp
and Everwood Day Camp
DAWN EWING, Project Morry
CHRISTIE KO, Fiver Children’s Foundation
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Crisis: Review of 2015 Incidents
and What Can We Learn
Inevitably, if you work at a summer camp
long enough you will be faced with a crisis
of significant magnitude. Prevention on
all levels comes first, followed closely by
a planned response for a variety of different
situations. Sadly, the greatest prevention
and response planning comes from learning
through your own experiences or perhaps
those of your colleagues when a crisis
occurs. Session panelists will share specific
crises they have endured at their own
camps and what can be learned from
their situations.
DAYNA HARDIN
JAY JACOBS,
Timber Lake Camp
DAYNA HARDIN,
Lake of the Woods
TONY STEIN,
Echo Lake
ALAN SILVERMAN,
Moshava Camp
OPEN TO ALL
ATTENDEES
JAY JACOBS
TONY STEIN
ALAN SILVERMAN
Beyond the Basics: Analyze Camper
Retention to Make Your Product
Better!
Test Your Insurance IQ!
Location: Room 320
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Location: Room 313
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will understand camper retention
and why it is important.
• Participants will learn to segment their population to better understand camper experience.
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• Participants will learn how to use retention
information to make decisions that improve
their camp.
• Review recent real-life camp claims and
learn from them.
• Obtain the knowledge to make sure you are
purchasing the best coverage in this changing
world/environment.
• Gain a better understanding of the covearge
you have, what else is available in an evolving
insurance market and make better purchasing
decisions
MICHAEL LABADORF
MATT KAUFMAN, Assistant Director, Ramaquois Day Camp
JOANNA WARREN SMITH, President, Camp Consulting Services
This fun, informative and interactive session will
feature a presentation of real-life camp claims
and some valuable lessons learned, as well as
an insurance quiz, designed so participants can
better understand what coverage they have,
what they don’t, and how to make better insurance purchasing decisions. The insurance market
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constantly evolves, and traditional camp policies
alone may not provide all the protection you need. We will also discuss
areas of potential claims that camps have not generally focused on and
how best to protect your organization, as well as the difference between
insurable risks and uninsurable business risks.
Small Things are Big Things: 8
Easy, DIY Ideas to Increase Revenue
and Loyalty
MICHAEL LABADORF, Executive Vice President, Sobel Affiliates, a
Brown & Brown Company
KIMBERLY BRECKER, Vice President - Camp Department, Sobel
Affiliates, a Brown & Brown Company
Delve deeper into your retention data to
identify strengths, weaknesses and opportunities
to improve the camper and parent experience.
Through a case study, you’ll see how critical
retention analysis is to your product refinement,
and together we’ll come up with creative
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solutions. After the session, a 3-step homework
assignment will provide you with quantifiable information that will help
you deliver an improved program in 2016.
Location: Room 316
Acorns to Oaks: Essentials for
Camper Leadership Programs
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will learn how and why small
acts can mean big things to parents and
campers.
Location: Room 318
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
JAMIE SIMON
• Participants will learn 8 easy, do-it-yourself
ideas that can increase revenue and improve customer loyalty.
• Participants will leave with projects that they can immediately
implement into their camp programs.
Yes, small things can mean big things. With just a little time and some
creativity, you can turn one small act into a momentous occasion that
will both increase your revenue and improve customer loyalty. These 10
easy, do-it-yourself ideas will show you how to turn personal relationships
into actual dollars and create “lifers” out of your campers. This session
is guaranteed to send you home with ideas that you can immediately
implement into your camp program and proves that big things do come
in small packages!
JAMIE SIMON, Director, Landon Summer
Focus on Fitness Fun
Location: Room 201
MARIANNE ESOLEN, LCSW, Counselor/Consultant, Child
Champions Network
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identify opportunities to incorporate
movement in the day outside of scheduled
activity time.
• Participate in activities that integrate
readiness with movement.
• Leave with ideas to increase physical activity
throughout a camper’s day.
• Participants will learn youth development
principles as tied to camp.
• Participants will identify their current needs
and goals in offering a leadership program.
MARIANNE ESOLEN
• Participants will learn key ingredients to
successful leadership programs.
In today’s competitive economy, camps compete for opportunities to
engage and retain older teens. The challenge of building a meaningful
and effective leadership program can be daunting, and even good
programs can be greatly improved with more intentionality and strategy.
Youth development research is a powerful foundation for building a CIT,
JC or LIT program. This workshop will match the theory with practical
plans to build or refresh your camp’s leadership program. We will discuses
key principles, ingredients and steps to create a camper leadership program
that makes a difference for your teens and camp. This workshop is
geared for those starting a leadership program or those seriously looking
to rethink and reinvent their existing program.
JEFF MUSHKIN
Want to learn a few trade secrets from research projects that demonstrated REAL fitness outcomes in elementary and middle school-aged
youth? Attend this dynamic session and learn activities that maximize
enjoyment while addressing the 5 components of fitness. You’ll give this
presentation a grade of FF—for Fitness Fun!
JEFF MUSHKIN, Director of Development, SPARK & Sportime
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Living 10 for 2: The Social Impact of
Summer Residential Camp on the
Development of the Self in Teen Girls
Counselor Toolkit: Concrete
Strategies for Managing Campers’
Emotions and Behavior
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will compare data on self-efficacy
and self-esteem at each type of camp (co-ed,
single gender and brother-sister).
• Learn concrete tools for helping campers
when they experience strong emotions.
Location: Room 314
Location: Room 418
ALEXANDRA MAUTNER
• Participants will be able to use the data to
evaluate and improve program and staff development.
• Participants will learn how the benefits of each type of camp
(co-ed, single gender and brother-sister) can be related to the
classroom and sports teams.
How do single gender versus co-ed and brother-sister residential camps
impact girls’ self-esteem and self-efficacy? As a high school student, I
have spent three years gathering participants from over 40 traditional
residential camps. This session will present findings from an evaluation
of the impact of gender composition on the social development of
teenage girls. The survey, distributed to over 150 girls across the country,
measured collective self-esteem and self-efficacy. Implications for camp
program providers will be discussed.
ALEXANDRA MAUTNER, Student, Byram Hills High School
Location: Room 317
• Learn a system for training counselors in emotion management
and behavior management.
Great counselors are amazing at forming relationships with their campers
while also doing an excellent job of managing daily tasks and difficult
situations. When campers experience strong emotions or misbehave,
counselors thrive when they have concrete tools that help them improve
the situation. This session will present a system for teaching counselors
foundational skills in emotion management and behavior management.
The strategies covered are grounded in cognitive behavioral theory and
presented in an interactive way, using movie clips and discussion. The
goal of this session is to build on the knowledge you already have in
order to facilitate your ability to train your staff in these skills. You will
leave with a framework and materials for providing your counselors with
a toolkit that they can refer to all summer long.
Distinguishing Your Camp With a
$500K New Building: What it Looks
Like and Where to Put It
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identify different strategies to address
behavioral challenges.
Location: Room 322
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
ALEX MELLOR
• Take away a new session to teach staff during
orientation that will empower them to address behavioral challenges
at camp with confidence.
Hey! Camps for individuals with special needs, are you ready for the
behaviors your campers are going to throw at you this summer? Will
your staff be ready? Is your bag of tricks for addressing behavioral
challenges full or empty? Join us to discuss many different strategies to
address behavior difficulties that can arise during the summer with your
campers, staff and even with some parents! This session provides you
with ideas to try when you are tearing your hair out during the summer,
and also provides a great session to lead in orientation! We’ll make sure
your bag is never empty again!
ALEX MELLOR, Program Director, BCBA, Camp Huntington
• Get a handle on how to understand
the issues of undertaking a large new
construction project.
• See examples of what great new buildings
can look like.
MARIE S.A. SORENSEN
• Learn what a great building can give you in performance and function.
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:
• The first impression: Impressive and larger than me!
• Where is my place here?
• Tradition Opportunities
• Welcoming newcomers
• Seeing each other all together
• Why acoustics matter: decibel range that does not cause fatigue
There and Back Again - From
School-Year Programs to Summer
Camp and Back Again
• Proportions and views to outside
• Temperature comfort
• Distinctive roof shapes
Location: Room 416
• Porches & eaves: Where to go when it rains & keeping the
windows open when it rains
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• What are key differences/opportunities
between summer camp and year-round
school-age programs?
WHERE TO PUT IT:
• Where should it be?
ZACHARY MURAL
• How to plan, promote and implement a
program using the space and resources you have available
(hint: it’s more about relationships, intent and capitalizing on
teachable moments than it is about “stuff”).
• How to help staff shift their mindset/perspective and embrace
the summer camp program as their own.
Making the transition from school year/school-age programs to summer
camp and back (usually in a weekend) can be a challenge for even the
most seasoned program managers. In this session, we’ll look at proven
strategies to help you transform your program into “camp,” how to sell
the program to parents and staff, and what to avoid when making staffing
decisions for summer.
ZACHARY MURAL, Vice President of Education, Minnieland Academy
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LONNIE SARNELL
LONNIE SARNELL, Psychologist; Girls’ Head Counselor, Metropolitan
Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy; Tyler Hill Camp
The Ultimate Bag of Tricks - Behavior
Edition!
• Distinguish from the “carrot and the stick”
reward and punishment framework.
• Learn strategies for managing camper behavior,
both proactively and as problems arise.
• What’s there now?
• Where can you move that building or activity that’s there now?
• If you can’t move that building or activity - planning two moves ahead
MARIE S.A. SORENSEN, AIA, Architect / Principal-in-Charge,
Sorensen Partners | Architects + Planners, Inc.
6 + F MY PLAN FOR THE DAY
CAMP SHIRT WEDNESDAY
(Wear your camp apparel!)
BLOCK D
BLOCK E
5K FUN RUN
7:30 AM–5:00 PM
REGISTRATION OPEN
8:30–9:30 AM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
BLOCK D
9:45–10:45 AM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
BLOCK E
10:45 AM–5:00 PM
EXHIBIT HALL OPEN
10:45–11:45 AM
FREE COFFEE WITH
EXHIBITORS
11:00 AM–4:30 PM
ACA FULL STANDARDS
COURSE (ROOM 421)
12:30–1:30 PM
MEET ‘N’ EAT SESSIONS
12:30–1:45 PM
VOCE (MEMBERS ONLY)
SESSION WITH LUNCH
(ROOM 412)
2:00–3:00 PM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
BLOCK F
3:15–4:15 PM
CONCURRENT SESSION
BLOCK G
4:15–5:00 PM
EXHIBIT HALL
5:30–7:00 PM
WEDNESDAY NIGHT SOCIAL
AT THE SHERATON HOTEL
(SIGN UP NOW AT
REGISTRATION!)
MEET ‘N’ EAT SESSIONS
6+
7:15 AM
BLOCK F
BLOCK G
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Terrific Training 2016: Top of the
Tool Box Techniques & Activities
to Teach Outstanding Leadership
Skills to Staff
8:00–9:30 AM
Arts and Crafts Make ‘N’ Take
Location: Room 402
Come to this hands-on session to try
some fun projects from our arts-and-crafts
exhibitors. This is your opportunity to
make ‘n’ take home some of their favorite
projects. Each camp will be able to make
one project per vendor (one person doing
all or several people doing one of each).
The vendors will be back in the Exhibit
Hall at 10:30 AM to answer questions.
Location: Room 304
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
CRICKET SNEARING
• Get ready-to-use methods to boost staff performance and leadership.
CARA CORRADETTI
Summer Camp: The Gilgamesh
of the Modern World
Keep your staff motivated, excited, participating and learning with creative
training activities, materials and techniques you won’t find anywhere else.
You can plug these into your existing training right away to get staff to
develop and immediately practice outstanding skills in working with
each other and campers, including communication, group leadership,
handling behavior, teamwork and collaboration, customer service and
more. Engage your staff in fresh ways that lead to real skill development
that will be used every day to lead with success.
MICHAEL BRANDWEIN, Educator/Author/Staff Trainer
Location: Room 322
Back Pocket Ideas for Teambuilding
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Location: Room 202
• Gather the right stories to help parents
understand the value of your camp.
• Develop your own structure to quickly and
effectively illustrate unique parts of your
camp program.
MICHAEL BRANDWEIN
• See demonstrations of great ways to present training that will
motivate and involve staff.
CRICKET SNEARING, Administrative
Director, Sesame/Rockwood Camps
CARA CORRADETTI, Camp Canadensis
OPEN TO ALL ATTENDEES
• Take home creative, original and practical
staff training activities that will grab attention
and interest and maximize staff learning and
performance.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Awareness of new activities for teambuilding.
• Back pocket things to do with minimal props.
TRAVIS ALLISON
• Teach staff and campers how to tell their own camp story.
To families who have no summer camp experience, what we do is
INCREDIBLY WEIRD. In some cultures sending your children away to by
“raised” by others is just shameful. To many people White Hot American
Summer IS summer camp. As camp pros, we know in our hearts that
summer camp is an experience that every child needs. In this session,
Travis Allison will walk through a practical process for preparing to speak
to new camp families in a way that will help them truly understand the
benefit that you have to offer their child. We’ve got great stories!
TRAVIS ALLISON, Speaker/Consultant, Go Camp Pro
• Rainy day activities, cabin activities and
things to do in small groups at camp.
Author Jim Cain shares his favorite, newest and
best collection of team and community building
activities featuring those in his back pocket guides.
JIM CAIN
JIM CAIN, Author, Teamwork & Teamplay
Planning Activities for Campers
with ADHD
Location: Room 316
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Keep your activity times short.
The Keys to Effective Delegation in
a Totally Accountable Culture
• Let them choose what they do.
• Be flexible.
Location: Room 314
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Higher productivity and efficiency in all
areas of work with less stress.
• Easy methods to eliminate misunderstandings
in delegation.
• Techniques to track work to completion so
nothing falls through the cracks.
DIANA BLOOM
In this session, Diana Bloom will teach take-away actionable systems
that can be implemented immediately to achieve higher productivity
and efficiency in all areas of a camp organization. Today’s session will
sharpen delegation, improve project management for year-round work,
strengthen communication and eliminate mistakes, while creating a
Totally Accountable culture
DIANA BLOOM, Productivity and Efficieny Coach, Mike Scott and
Associates
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One of the problems that occurs throughout
JOSEPH CENDROWSKI
camps with an open campus is making sure each
camper is accounted for. Having campers with short attention spans
and lacking impulse control poses a problem for that accountability.
This session will focus on how to keep campers with ADHD engaged in
different activities throughout the day while still being accountable for
where they are. In the first part of the session, participants will gain an
understanding of the needs of those campers and some ways to meet
those needs. In the second part, the participants will discuss and share
strategies and ideas to keep activities new and exciting.
JOSEPH CENDROWSKI, AIC Coordinator, The Gow School Summer
Program
Managing Camper Behavior: Better
Strategies for Better Outcomes
Raising Social Media Savvy Teens in
the Digital Age
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Techniques for getting better information
from parents, including the critical questions
you need to ask parents.
• Understand today’s popular teen social
media platforms.
Location: Room 312
• How to position yourself with prospective
camper families so you are both inviting and
discriminating at the same time.
Location: Room 321
BOB DITTER
• How to determine if there is a potential camper behavior issue
before camp!
According to the most recent survey conducted by the National Institute
of Health (NIH), mental stress and disturbance is at an all-time high and
rising among children 10–18 in the United States. Chances are that if
you haven’t seen an increase in anxiety, depression and other mental
health maladies in both your campers and staff, you will soon!
Bob will discuss ways of identifying potential camper behavior issues
and offer techniques for making better assessments. Learn what to ask
and how to follow up with parents in ways that don’t frighten them
away while still giving you the critical information you need. This is the
first of a 3-part series. Each session stands alone, so you can attend one,
two or all three independently. A fast-paced session with a focus on
great information and critical strategies.
• Identify how colleges are using social media
to recruit and assess applicants.
• Work with teens and young adults to build
an authentic, discoverable and robust digital
presence that includes camp.
ALAN KATZMAN
A thought-provoking and insightful presentation to understand how
teens can harness the powers of social media while avoiding its dangers
in support of college admissions, internships, scholarships and career
placement opportunities. This seminar examines the evolution of social
media: from a seemingly private outlet for youthful self-expression and
friendly interactions to the very public and mainstream media platform it
has become. College admissions, scholarship committees and employers
(including summer camps!) routinely examine students’ social media
pages and see activities that are often intended to impress friends rather
than demonstrating their academic and career interests. The seminar
also provides specific recommendations on how to finally get through to
teens about how they can evolve their social media to create a compelling
presence for colleges and employers—that includes their camp experiences.
BOB DITTER, Therapist
ALAN KATZMAN, Founder and CEO, Social Assurity LLC
The Invasion of the Digital Devices:
Understanding the Impact and
Control of Cell Phones in Camp
Program Evaluation 101
Location: Room 416
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Develop an evaluation plan for your
summer program.
Location: Room 301
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Develop or improve your program
evaluation tools.
• How digital technology influences offline
social interactions.
• How communications change using digital
technology.
ELIZABETH ENGLANDER
• Methods to engage and educate campers and parents.
This session will review the ways that children use digital devices and
how digital interactions impact the real-life, in-camp interactions
between children. Simply banning cell phones during the camp day
does not erase their impact on behavior and social aggression. In contrast,
informal educational efforts, used by trained counselors, can help greatly
reduce problems brought on by digital interactions. Ways to educate
parents and to encourage their willing cooperation with camp rules will
also be discussed. Different in-camp approaches to addressing digital
use will be reviewed in light of recent research on children’s use of
devices, games and social media. Attendees will leave with concrete
ideas and approaches they can implement in their own camps.
DR. ELIZABETH ENGLANDER, Professor and Director, Massachusetts
Aggression Reduction Center, Bridgewater State University
Us & Them
CHRISTIE KO
Are you thinking about evaluating your summer
programs, but you don’t know where to begin?
Have you begun evaluating your summer programs,
but you’d like to continue the conversation and
learn new tips on how to improve your methods
or your survey tools? If either applies to you,
then this session is for you! Mary Lee Dinski and
Christie Ko have been developing evaluation
plans, creating surveys, and analyzing data for
nearly ten years at Camp Fiver, the cornerstone
MARY LEE DINSKI
summer program of the Fiver Children’s
Foundation. You will walk away with sample tools, tips and strategies for
making summer program evaluation effective and achievable!
CHRISTIE KO, Executive Director, Fiver Children’s Foundation
MARY LEE DINSKI, Deputy Executive Director and Camp Director,
Fiver Children’s Foundation
Building a Retirement Income Plan
Location: Room 303
Location: Room 310
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• To identify the key behaviors that create
an Us and Them relationship at camp.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identify and understand the six financial
risks in retirement.
• To create a strategy that enables the community
to function and collaborate as one.
• To have fruitful conversations with key stakeholders who influence the behaviors of others.
• Connect with other organizations engaged
in program evaluation.
• Learn ways to address the six retirement
financial risks.
JAY FRANKEL
Having an US & THEM mindset permeate a camp environment weakens
the community and makes accomplishing cultural change significantly
more challenging. A camp inherently will struggle with US & THEM.
Whether between leadership and staff, group counselors and activity
staff, or directors and parents, this session identifies the steps to take to
recognize and shift this detrimental way of thinking and doing.
JAY FRANKEL, Founder/President, True To Life Training, LLC
• Learn strategies for creating a sound
retirement income plan.
MATTHEW LEOPOLD
This session will provide an overview of our retirement strategy, discuss
the difference between accumulation and distribution, go into detail
on the six risks of retirement and outline three strategies for creating a
sound retirement income plan: income for life, protecting your assets
and leaving a legacy.
MATTHEW LEOPOLD, Wealth Management Advisor, Northwestern
Mutual
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Supporting Youth of Color:
Addressing Race Relations at Camp
Medical Emergencies At Camp: What
You Can Do To Be Better Prepared
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will gain a better understanding
of race relations in the United States.
• To better assess whether your medical staff
have the proper skills necessary to handle an
emergency situation.
Location: Room 315
• Participants will understand the impact of
racism on our youth and how to confront
these issues.
Location: Room 320
JANE LEDESMA
GREGORY MAZARIN
• Participants will learn how to empower youth of color in the
camping community.
• To determine what can be done to make your camp better
prepared to handle medical crises.
As the camping industry races to provide youth with useful 21st century
skills to help them develop into healthy, happy and successful adults, we
must also consider the issues of race the United States is facing. When it
comes to having difficult conversations, racism is usually the “elephant in
the room” that most of us are uncomfortable discussing. Regardless of
who we are and where we come from, racism unfortunately impacts us all,
and this is especially true of the children we serve. As camp professionals,
it is important that we understand the history of racism in the United
States and how it directly affects the work that we do in the world of
camping. This session is meant for us to come together and have those
difficult discussions, while putting into focus the challenges that many of
our children are facing every day and how we can best support them.
Camps need to be better prepared to handle a true medical emergency.
The purpose of this session is to discuss the role of health centers from
the perspective of a medical professional. My background as an emergency
medicine physician combined with my years of experience in the camp
setting give me a unique insight into this subject. Although the vast
majority of patients seen in the health center are for minor complaints,
it is imperative that camps be prepared for the worst-case scenario.
Response times for an ambulance are longer at camp. Although many
camps have physicians, most of these doctors have extremely little training
treating emergencies, especially in the pediatric population. Furthermore,
the health centers themselves are ill equipped to handle these situations.
My intention is to provide general advice so that camps can continue to
use the same system they currently have in place but be better prepared
to handle a true medical crisis. The first 30 minutes are crucial.
JANE LEDESMA, Program Supervisor, Fiver Children’s Foundation
The Scapegoat...The Bully...
The Stereotype...
GREGORY MAZARIN, Physician
Location: Room 411
In Crisis Response, Great Plans Are a
Smart Thing; Training Is Everything!
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Foster mutual support and cooperation
among campers.
Location: Room 313
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Raise awareness on the traps of stereotyping.
• Understand through a variety of dramatic
strategies how a scapegoat may feel.
MICHAEL LEVINSKY
This highly interactive workshop examines how easy it is to fall into the
trap of labelling children. Through a number of dramatic strategies,
participants will create a character based on a piece of literature, identify
characteristics of that character and, in groups, will present a tableau
portraying that character in a variety of camp environments. Whether
you are a staff member, director or camp administrator, you will leave
this workshop with a fresh approach to a universal camp dilemma. This
workshop will not only heighten awareness, but will leave you with a
fresh and exciting workshop to run with your staff during pre-camp.
Throughout this experiential forum, participants will find the results not
only surprising, but inspiring as well.
MICHAEL LEVINSKY, Director, Crestwood Valley Day Camp
Kids Today: The New Look of Youth
Development in 2016
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Learn how and why some approaches to youth
development are more effective than others.
• Learn how to maximize your camp’s impact
on the healthy development of every camper
despite the external pressures they face.
• What are the laws, regulations and standards
that control emergency plan training?
• How will lawsuits affect you and your organization? How to protect your management?
BO MITCHELL
• What are—versus what should be—the overriding attitudes of managers in training employees in emergency
response? What are the obstacles and consistent mistakes
organizations make in emergency training?
Smart plans are critical. But, if we don’t get the words off the paper and
into people’s heads, we have failed. Sandy Hook reinforces that training
for all hazards—tornado, fire, active shooter, chemical spill, camp
evacuation, etc.—is everything given that your people can’t and won’t
run to look at binders for response in a real emergency. What are the
legal requirements for training? What are the current practices and
obstacles in organizations regarding training? What are the proven ways
to train for emergency response? How does your organization compare?
BO MITCHELL, President/Founder, 911 Consulting
Location: Room 418
ZACHARY MURAL
• Develop practical techniques and skills to create a vision, improve
communication and avoid potential pitfalls that can derail your
progress in helping youth achieve their maximum potential.
Do we really need another youth development session? Absolutely! As
technology, high stakes testing and a push to do more, more, more have
an increasing impact on youth, we must all constantly revisit what youth
development is and how we do it at camp. In this session we’ll look at the
psychological impact of today’s world on campers and discuss how we
can (and in some cases already do) support the development of the
whole person in just a few short weeks of camp.
ZACHARY MURAL, Vice President of Education, Minnieland Academy
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• To learn whether your health center is
properly equipped to handle an emergency.
Power Presentations: From Camp
Fairs to Camp Tours
Cooperative Activities and Games:
Making the Connections
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Knowledge of key presentation/sales skills.
• At the end of this session, the participants
will have experienced a selection of new
creative and exciting cooperative games and
activities that they can bring back to their
camps for use in their camp curriculum.
Location: Room 308
Location: Room 201
• How to utilize these skills in different
recruiting scenarios.
• Valuable insight into asking power questions
and utilizing closing skills to turn prospects
into clients.
MERYL MOSACK
Back by popular demand, this jam¬packed session is designed to give
attendees an overview of some basic sales and presentation skills that
will help you articulate your camp’s value proposition to potential campers
and parents in a variety of settings. The session will cover some examples
of how to apply these skills in different scenarios, including a table at a
camp fair, a tour for parents and kids at the camp and also a presentation
to large groups at the camp or other location. You will learn the importance of knowing your audience and your situation in order to present
the benefits of your camp effectively in any setting. We will also be
covering the “power questions” you must ask to help you communicate
effectively, and, of course, key sales and closing techniques to help you
turn a prospect into a registration!
MERYL MOSACK, Chief Inspiration Officer, M Squared Marketing
JOHN SMITH
• By the end of this activity session, the participants will have
gained knowledge into using group and cooperative ideas and
equipment to foster more group cooperation, problem solving
and leadership activity in camper participation.
• After participating in this session on Creative Cooperative Activities
and Games: Making the Connections, the participants will be able
to bring back new games, equipment and cooperative activity
philosophies. Cooperative games lead to making the camp situations
more cooperative, less confrontational and creates and environment
for problem solving and building leadership skills.
This interactive activity session will allow the participants to use several
creative games and activities, including Fisherman’s Tangle, Skill Trac,
Swiss Cheese Parachutes, The HitchHiker, Project Adventure and Air
Lites. If you are all looking to add cooperative activities to your camp
curriculums, then this session will allow you to do the activities, learn
them and be a camper again. See how Challenge Tarps work, walk
together with Team Walkers and Pop a Noodle Bit. Find some new
tricks with new equipment!
JOHN SMITH, Educational Consultant, FlagHouse
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Managing Camper Behavior: Counseling
Skills for Camp Professionals
#Trending: Staying on the Pulse of
Teen Activities
Location: Room 312
Location: Room 202
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Strategies on how to stay on the pulse of
today’s teen.
• Games, special events and activities to make
your teens’ summers more meaningful and fun.
• Walk away with 7–10 new activities!
• A road map that serves as a guide for
handling sensitive conversations
• Five specific ways to validate campers, staff,
parents and others
ADAM BARANKER
The popular teen app Vine gives you 6 seconds to create a video
masterpiece and have it go viral. That 6 seconds is about the same
amount of time you have before your teens think your activity is outdated.
How do we stay on the pulse of what activities teens want, how they
want it and when it is no longer #trending? In this session, through
gameplay, movement and collaboration, we will be participating in and
learning about how to stay on the pulse of teen activities. It is time to
have some fun, and it’s time to make sure your teens are having it too!
ADAM BARANKER, Assistant Director, Jeff Lake Camp
The Staff Have Arrived! Now What
Do I Do? Creating Staff Buy-In
and a Positive Camp Culture
through Staff Development
Bob will explore the nuances of skillful conversations that increase
connection and improve performance. In this seminar, you will learn
even more powerful ways to validate campers, staff, parents and
colleagues while learning key phrases that bring about change. Learn
about radical acceptance, shame attenuation, normalization, the role of
guilt, pride and shame in communication and other powerful and
advanced techniques, like how to establish emotional safety or create a
culture of accountability at camp! Demonstration, role-play and discussion
will accompany video clips and individual and group exercises. This is a
fast-paced session with a focus on skills.
What is the Future of Summer Camp?
Location: Room 302
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LAUREN BERNSTEIN
• Participants will understand the shifting
market.
• Will identify challenges and opportunities
• Will have ideas to base transition strategies.
How do you take care of staff from the moment
they arrive? How do you set up pre-camp that builds
a purposeful and intentional community? In this
session, we will share exciting ideas and motivational ASHLEY SEDEROFF
videos that will enhance staff development and buy-in while improving
your camp culture. We will share some ways that we have strategically
utilized our leadership team and returning staff members to create a
warm and inclusive environment from start to finish! We will also highlight
some of our most successful staff development and training activities.
Join us for an informative session that will provide you with new and
exciting ways to motivate and train your staff for summer 2016.
Is summer camp becoming an anachronism? Times are
JAY JACOBS
changing. The composition of our market is changing.
Our traditional consumers have different interests, and our ready access
to summer staff - both leadership and counselors is diminishing.
Technology is redefining the way we live. Parent expectations and the
way they raise their children has changed—and will continue to. How do
camps adapt to these changing realities to not only stay relevant, but
also flourish as we begin to approach the 2020s?
JAY JACOBS, Camp Director & CEO, TLC Family of Camps
The Journey of a Returning Camp
Family: Let’s Help Them Feel as
Important in Year 2 as They Did in
Their 1st Year with Us
Location: Room 316
LAUREN BERNSTEIN, Owner/Director, Camp Walden
ASHLEY SEDEROFF, Camp Walden
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Effective Meeting Management
• Effectively assess the communication needs
of returning camp families.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Create a plan for next steps, including how to go through this
exercise with your full time team.
Location: Room 314
• Keep meetings on track and on time.
• Get total clarity on all actions’ steps before
the meeting ends.
• Create meetings that buy back time.
DIANA BLOOM
In this session, Diana Bloom will teach take-away
actionable systems that can be implemented immediately to achieve
higher productivity and efficiency in all areas of a camp organization.
Today’s session provides the essential skills of developing and conducting
every meeting in accordance with an established process. Meetings
become fewer, shorter, more productive and more effective immediately,
while creating a Totally Accountable Culture.
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BOB DITTER
BOB DITTER, Therapist
Location: Room 301
• Identify several ways in which to create a
positive camp culture for both new and
returning staff.
• Discuss different staff development
techniques through video incorporation
and engaging activities.
• Learn different staff development activities
that are fun, interactive and can be used during
orientation and throughout the summer.
• What elements of safety are essential for
sensitive conversations?
DIANA BLOOM, Productivity and Efficieny Coach, Mike Scott and
Associates
• Compare our communication with new
camper families vs. returning camper families.
COREY DOCKSWELL
Why are we more intentional with new families than with those who are
returning? We know what our new families need from us in terms of
communication and support—let’s determine the needs of our returning
families. We will discuss how we can be as intentional as possible with
ALL of our families, so that families feel as valued and important in Years
2, 3 and 4 as they do in their first year with our camps. The model for
this session will be resident camp. The information will be applicable to
both resident and day camps.
COREY DOCKSWELL, Director, Camp Wicosuta
Early Childhood Summer Camp
Programming On a Budget!
Stitch and Unwind – Hot Trends,
Cool Ideas and Fun with Needlearts.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Create fun themes with limited resources.
• Craft Ideas to bring back to your camp.
• Repurpose everyday items into fun and
exciting camp memories.
• Where and when to source craft materials
for your camps.
Location: Room 419
• Make a typical day magnificent and exciting
through creative themes for early childhood
campers.
Location: Room 402
YVETTE DUKES
Participants will gain some insight on fun, new and fresh themes to
incorporate into daily summer camp programming. Discover how to use
everyday materials found around your camp site, home, office, nature
area or dollar stores that will make your program exciting and fun. Learn
how to make a planetarium in your your dining facility from old swimming
pools, solo cups and spray paint. This is just an example of the takeaways
each participant will learn about. Come with a mind open for creativity
and learn how to look at what you thought was no longer useful in a
whole new way!
YVETTE DUKES, Early Childhood Program Director, Oak Hall
Summer Program
Harnessing the Power of Failure
at Camp
• Make a fun needle arts project.
Join the team from The Handwork Studio as
we talk about trends and ideas in needlearts
that you can bring back to your camp this
summer. In this hands-on session, you will learn
about simple yet adorable, campy craft projects
that will wow your campers. Be prepared to
get frustrated, laugh, make mistakes, create
something fun and learn a new skill. No
experience necessary, just a sense of adventure.
LAURA KELLY, Owner/President, The Handwork
Studio
JULIA YOSEN, Camp Director, The Handwork
Studio
ANA CASTRO, The Handwork Studio
ELEANOR WILLIAMS, The Handwork Studio
LAURA KELLY
JULIA YOSEN
Location: Room 318
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identify benefits of choosing “challenging”
over “easy” when learning to grow, and how
to foster that in a camp environment.
• Learn skills for overcoming frustration, trying
new things, handling conflict and avoiding
bullying in a camp setting.
ANA CASTRO AND
ELEANOR WILLIAMS
DEBORAH GILBOA
• Build towards leadership, employment and community involvement
where resilience is a required skill.
In a culture dedicated to achievement, children fear failure like nothing
else. Dr. G demonstrates how paths that lead to true success all require
learning about, experiencing and overcoming failure. She shares how to
empower kids to learn and grow with skills needed to be resilient when
they fall flat, get up and go for it all over again and how camp professionals
can play an important role in this process. Dr. G addresses the most
common reasons that kids, parents and camp professionals all fear failure,
and how to help all embrace the opportunities it offers for success.
DEBORAH GILBOA, MD, Family Physician, Parenting and Youth
Development Expert, AskDoctorG.com
VO C E PRES ENT S :
All Things Pricing
Location: Room 309
A discussion of directors’ thoughts
on pricing decisions.
STACY KOTELOV, Banner Day Camp
ARTHUR KESSLER, Ramaquois Day Camp
MITCH REITER,
Camp Towanda
ANDY PRITIKIN,
Liberty Lake
Day Camp and
Everwood Day
Camp
KEN SCHAINMAN,
Camp Mohawk
OPEN TO ALL
ATTENDEES
STACY KOTELOV
ARTHUR KESSLER
MITCH REITER
ANDY PRITIKIN
KEN SCHAINMAN
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How to Make a Camp Video that
Makes Your Camp Stand Out
The Fatal Flaw in Your Active Shooter
Response
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• How my video can be different.
• How do we prepare for tactical response?
How do we train employees in our tactical
response?
Location: Room 310
Location: Room 313
• What’s wrong with my current video.
• How I can make the most of my new video.
Most camps have or are making videos these days.
MIKE PERLOW
But most look just like the next one. How can your
camp video stand out in the crowded camp world? How can your video
catch the eye of a prospective kid and his/her parents? We’ll discuss
creative approaches and techniques that will help deliver a UNIQUE
camp video. We’ll also discuss new and innovate ways to make the most
of your new video. Attendees are encouraged to bring their current
video on DVD or flash drive, and Mike will share and critique them as
time allows.
MIKE PERLOW, President & Founder, Perlow Productions, LLC
The Most Powerful 2: 2 Concepts That
Will Completely Enhance the Culture
of Your Camp
Location: Room 201
• Identify the 2 most important concepts to
improving 95% of your camp culture.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
STEPHEN MAGUIRE
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the 2 most important
primary concepts in summer camp today.
Do you want to completely enhance the culture of your summer camp
and make it more awesome than it already is? If your answer is yes, this
is the session for you! Come join Steve for this brand new session,
based on his cutting-edge research and field experience from the summer
of 2015. It’s quite simple: there are 2 concepts and ideas that every
camp can incorporate that will solve 95% of their staff and camper issues.
By implementing these 2 ideas, you can alleviate homesickness, strengthen
staff/camper relationships, improve staff morale and much more! You
will be able to use them as a platform and jumping point as you move
forward in the work of your youth development professional space.
STEPHEN MAGUIRE, Professional Speaker and Sumer Camp
Consultant, Go Turnstone!
Concussions
Location: Room 315
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identify a concussion.
• Manage a concussion.
• Understand a concussion.
ROBERT LAWRENCE MEYER
ROBERT LAWRENCE MEYER, CampMDs
GREGORY MAZARIN, Physician
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DOJ, FBI and NYPD report that active shooter incidents have quadrupled
in 2013–14 versus the previous five-years’ average. Three people die
and 3+ are injured in the “average” active shooter incident. Your
response is dramatically different at each part of your camp and in each
one of your structures. This webinar will turn very tactical. If you’re easily
offended or nauseous, don’t register. You will learn how to create plans
and procedures and how to train your emergency team and rank-andfile employees. Presentation Method: Multi-media.
Racquets and Roll Games and Activities
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
In-depth discussion focusing on the
pathophysiology of concussions and
the current protocols that are in place.
• What is our liability exposure for NOT doing this right? For not
doing it at all?
BO MITCHELL, President/Founder, 911 Consulting
Location: Room 304
• Distinguish the difference between good
and great summer camp staff members.
• Who can we turn to create our tactical response
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and tactical training? What are the laws and
regulations applicable to our planning and training?
• At the end of this session, the participants
will have discovered a selection of racquet
games and activities using paddles and nets
that they can bring back to their camps for
immediate use in small and large groups.
• In this activity session, the participants will have
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gained knowledge into using paddles and balls
to create activities and games for their campers to use on land
and on water.
Looking for new and exciting activities with racquets? Trying to find
games that with challenge your campers? Come to this activity session
on Racquets and Roll. We will play a little Pickle Ball, Speedminton,
Goodminton, Spikeball, 4 Square, No net beachball volleyball, 4 Court
Beachball Volleyball and more!
JOHN SMITH, Educational Consultant, FlagHouse
Kickin’ Kitchens: Safety,
Hygiene and Best Practices
Location: Room 303
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identify hygiene and safety hazards
in commercial kitchens.
• Organize and implement a smooth
workflow for a multi-lingual crew.
• Revise inefficient, contaminated and
wasteful practices in the kitchen.
CHRIS THURBER
Come digest a fresh course on safety, hygiene and workflow.
Most directors spend zero time in the kitchen, so they miss
opportunities to improve dining services. Here’s your chance!
Learn the 10 places health inspectors look (but chefs ignore),
the 5 mistakes kitchen staff make (without even knowing it), the
3 keys to communication (when 2+ languages are spoken in the
kitchen), the 2 best ways to prepare healthy food (that kids
actually eat) and the #1 cause of injury.
DR. CHRIS THURBER, Psychologist & Educator, CampSpirit
& Phillips Exeter Academy
Unravel the Online Space: Major
Web Marketing Tools Available
& What Strategies Camps are
Utilizing
Location: Room 404
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identify opportunities and issues, what
needs more investigation and what needs
shoring up.
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• Find out what other camps are doing and what is
working well and what has been tougher to
implement.
• Understand better how to use the web to test and market
alternative businesses to your community and on your
property.
Overview of the evolving and sometimes confusing web marketing
toolkit for camps: email, social media, paid search marketing,
seo, website content and analytics. Focus will be on not just
traditional programs, but also on newer services camps are
doing and how the web advances this. In-house versus outsourcing and the costs and benefits to pursuing various
strategies will be considered. As well we’ll discuss how camps
are testing and marketing alternative businesses utilizing their
properties and reaching existing and new customers. You’ll
learn how to evaluate your present efforts and what is possible.
You will leave with areas you identify to dig further. You will
also leave with a better understanding of how to track and
measure your efforts and real costs. This will include but not
focus on social media, but rather more so on Google, Yahoo
and Bing efforts and paid advertising on Facebook.
ERIC STEIN, President, Eswebmarketing
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Program Speed Dating
Women in Camp
What is the next big/creative thing for your
camp’s program? We are always asking ourselves
this question. Is it a new special event? A new
field activity? A new indoor activity? A new dress
up day? All of our camps may have the next big
thing—we just don’t know it! Come to this Meet
‘N’ Eat session to share and learn new innovative
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programming ideas with your camp industry peers.
Collaboration and learning in this session may be the key to unlock your
“next big thing” at camp in the summer of 2016!
This meet and eat gives you the opportunity to build powerful and
meaningful relationships with other women in the camp profession.
During this time you will have the chance to network and learn from
one another as we talk about the strength and compassion that
makes women great leaders in the camp industry.
Location: Room 401
Location: Room 418
CAROLYN DORFMAN, Camp Walt Whitman
RACHEL MAX, Director, Shibley Day Camp
MARY LEE DINSKI, Camp Director, Camp Fiver
ADAM BARANKER, Assistant Director, Jeff Lake Camp
Traditions and Rituals
Location: Room 419
Camp traditions and rituals are an important
part of camp. They not only bring your camp
community together, they can make or break a
summer! It could be a special event (like Color
War), rainy day activity (like Garbage Bag
Fashion Show), theme day (Wacky Wednesday)
or how you celebrate someone’s birthday, just
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to name a few. Please come prepared to share your
cool and different traditions/rituals that will really WOW us!
DREW BITTERMAN, Director, Camp Watitoh
Resident Camp: Let’s Talk All
Things Medical
Location: Room 404
Sick call. Nurse management. Camp doctors.
Medication administration. Bumps and bruises.
Local pharmacies. Running a camp health center
is a multifaceted operation that takes intentionality
and carefully thought out systems. Join us for a
roundtable discussion on health center best
practices. Together, we’ll explore the challenges
of managing a health center and hopefully walk
away with some new ideas for 2016! Please be
prepared to discuss your camp’s greatest health
center strength as well as your greatest challenge
in this interactive session.
JACKIE BRETHEL, Associate Director,
Camp Cobbossee
ALISSA GIRLING, Associate Director,
Camp Winadu
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MARY LEE DINSKI
Idea Sharing for Camps that Have
Multiple Sites
Location: Room 416
Do you have multiple camp sites, perhaps in
multiple states? Are you a non-traditional camp
that struggles with training remote staff, hiring
in multiple states or setting up multiple camp
sites? Join us for a Meet ‘N’ Eat to discuss and
share best practices unique to camps who operate
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multiple sites, are located in multiple states or partner
with other camps to provide your niche programming. Come hear about
ideas from other camps on what technology is available for on-boarding
staff, training, logistics and supply distribution. Share ideas on managing
quality control when you can’t be everywhere at the same time and how
to manage staff remotely. Learn about different state regulations.
Mistakes We Have Made and
Learned From!!
Location: Room 417
ALISSA GIRLING
Location: Room 420
Camp professionals always tell our campers that
mistakes are great and that they can learn from
them. Do we follow our own advice? What are
mistakes that we have made at our camps, and
have we learned from them? In this interactive
session, we will share our mistakes, what we
learned, and what we are doing to prevent them
from happening again. Bring your mistakes and
be ready to share!
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GREGG LICHT, Director, Elmwood Day Camp
A&C Meet ‘N’ Eat
LORILEE CHIEN
Location: Room 402
CRICKET SNEARING
This year’s Arts & Crafts Meet ‘n’ Eat is all about
recycled projects! Join us as we share ideas for
new crafts made from materials you’ve already
got on hand. Join fellow art enthusiasts in sharing
your own project ideas and pick up a few new tips
to enhance your camp art program next summer!
LORILEE CHIEN, Program Coordinator,
Project Morry
MICHAEL CLARKE, The Fresh Air Fund
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RACHEL MAX
LAURA KELLY, Owner/President, The
Handwork Studio, LLC.
Not for Profit Programming
Non-profit camps, have your voices be heard...
again! Last year we had an overwhelmingly
positive response during our non-profit focus
group forum. This year, we would like to continue
that upward momentum by doing some strategic
planning and organizing to continue meeting the
diverse needs of the non-profit camping sector.
Let’s continue to brainstorm ideas, share concerns
and create more relevant sessions and leadership
representation in the association.
CAROLYN DORFMAN
MICHAEL CLARKE
CRICKET SNEARING, Administrative Director,
Sesame/Rockwood Camps
CARA CORRADETTI, Camp Canadensis
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What Everyone Should Know: Special
Needs Training for Typical Camps
Growing the Good: Expanding Your
Non-Profit Program
Location: Room 304
Location: Room 305
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will learn how to break down
kids’ behavior and diagnoses for frontline
staff so they better understand what to do
and how to keep their expectations high.
• Participants will learn about various models of
expansion through case studies and discussion.
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• Participants will learn 6 techniques and how to
apply them to their entire population of campers
• Participants will learn the best ways to train these skills and then
coach their staff on how to employ them.
Every camp, staff member and camper can benefit from behavior management techniques that make the rules and expectations clear. This
session breaks down the 6 most relevant and simple techniques that
come straight out of the playbook for campers with special needs. They
will create a program and culture that is more accessible to more kids.
The bonus is that these techniques are actually good for everyone! Load
up your staff training with easy-to-use strategies for success!
SCOTT ARIZALA, Consultant & Trainer, The Camp Counselor
SARA DEREN
• Participants will identify 3 possible barriers to
success and the resources needed to overcome them.
Once you get a taste of the impact camp has on children in specialized
populations, you’ll want to reach as many of those children as possible.
In this session, you’ll learn about the factors involved in scaling your
business model to grow the number of campers you’re able to serve
while maintaining the quality and culture of your program. We’ll discuss
topics such as:
• Best Practices for expanding a camp program
• Case Studies on organizations that have successfully created a
scalable model
• How to identify partnerships that will help you succeed
• Pitfalls and obstacles along the way
New Games & Activities for the 21st
Century
This could be the first step to expanding your program, or a way to
realign your vision in an already growing organization. Either way, you’ll
leave with fresh ideas and ways of thinking that will guide you through
the next phase of growth.
Location: Hall A
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will have new skills to connect
with others.
SARA DEREN, Executive Director, Experience Camps
• Participants will learn to create new activities
with new props.
• Participants will discover their unique teaching style. GARY AUERBACH
Ideas and activities presented are for both staff training/on-boarding
and campers and families. Focus is on simple and quick games that
engage all ages and abilities. Frisbees, flarbles, straws, scarves, feathers,
string and much more.
GARY AUERBACH, Director, ChampionofPlay.com
Working More Effectively with
ADHD Campers
Location: Room 312
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• What the three major components of
ADHD are.
• What the various benefits and challenges of
medication are and how to manage them better.
• How to establish a more positive alliance with
parents of ADHD campers.
Super Simple Ways to Entertain
Campers
BOB DITTER
According to the NIH, the number of children in the US with ADHD will reach
12.5% by summer 2016. Come find out what techniques and strategies have
been helping camp professionals across the country manage the
disorganization, impulsivity and inattention associated with ADHD. This is a
fast-paced session with a focus on great information and great skills.
Location: Room 201
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Build a tool-kit of effective and engaging
games for campers of all ages, perfect for
anytime in the camp day.
• Learn simple activities that are easy to teach
your staff to spread fun throughout camp.
• Participants will identify strategic considerations
for expanding their own non-profit camp programs.
BOB DITTER, Therapist
RYAN CANUELLE
• Discover strategies for implementing new and
innovative program ideas.
This high-energy and interactive session offers tons of easy-to-implement
games and activities to make ordinary camp moments extraordinary.
These innovative activities mix elements of charades, sense memory,
improvisation, relay races, and group challenges in a way that can be
applied anywhere, from the field to the amphitheater, at a moment’s
notice. This session is relevant for anyone from the seasoned camp
director to the first time counselor.
RYAN CANUELLE, Director of Education and Programming,
Mainstages
Process vs. Product: Making Crafts
Developmentally Appropriate for
Preschool Campers
Location: Room 402
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will understand process art vs
product art.
• Participants will go home making a process
art project.
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• Participants will learn to incorporate sensory learning into process art.
Join me as we redefine what art class is for preschoolers. We will use our
senses to focus on the process of the art instead of the outcome. Using paint,
texture items, scents and our IMAGINATION, we will create beautiful,
frame-worthy art projects to bring to our littlest campers this summer!
JILLIAN GLICK, Director of Youth and Camp Engagement, Camp
Chaverim
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Discover the Unimaginable
At Your Service: Incorporating a
Meaningful, Camp-focused Volunteer
Project into Your CIT/ LIT Program
Location: Room 315
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• See what ultimately holds the individual/
camp back from reaching the next level.
• Feel inspired to push campers and staff to
go beyond their own limits.
• Understand the nature of beliefs in effective
leadership.
Location: Room 318
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Creating a different kind of CIT service
project.
MARC ELLIOT
For nearly 20 years, Marc Elliot lived with Tourette’s Syndrome, a disorder
deemed by most in the medical community as involuntary and incurable.
It’s estimated he ticked around 25 million times over that time period. He
traveled extensively around the nation to deliver a message of compassion
and tolerance that ultimately earned him national speaking awards at the
age of 26. Astonishingly, with the help of top scientific and human potential
innovators, Marc completely overcame his Tourette’s in 2010 using only
mind-over-body and now lives tic free. Now 30, with his inspiring presentation “Discover the Unimaginable,” Marc shares his unprecedented story to
plant the seed for leaders, organizations and individuals to break through
the unimaginable.
MARC ELLIOT, Inspirational Speaker, Elliot Productions
Death During the Camp Season...Are
You Prepared?
Location: Room 322
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will learn about developmentally
appropriate grief reactions.
• Participants will learn how to support
grieving campers.
• Participants will learn how to support grieving staff. CATHY FISCHER
Campers suffer loss wherever they are: camp, school or home. If not dealt
with appropriately, these experiences can leave deep emotional scars for
campers and/or staff. Learn how to help staff deal with a camper or fellow
staff member,who has suffered the death of a parent, sibling, grandparent,
friend, pet or fellow camper before, during or after the camp season.
CATHI FISCHER, A.M. Skier Partner, Clinical Camp Consultant, A.M.
Skier Insurance
• Bringing camp to a new community.
• The nitty-gritty logistics of how to execute
this kind of service project.
NICKI FLEISCHNER
Participating in community service has become a widely important, and
popular, part of teenagers’ lives, and it’s about time the camp community
embraced it in full force! Camp offers the unique opportunity for community service to go beyond the traditional “volunteer at a soup kitchen”
approach and to be a dynamic, impactful and fun experience for CITs/LITs.
This past summer, I planned and led a service trip to the Dominican
Republic for 23 CITs from a private camp in New York, during which they
ran a one-week day camp for seventy 8-to-11-year-olds who had never had
a summer camp experience. Through careful, creative planning and by
partnering with a local NGO, our CITs were able to bring all of the magic of
camp—from crafts projects to skippy ball, scavenger hunts to Color War—
to an underserved community with minimal on-the-ground resources. It was
not only a special experience for our Dominican campers, but also a
memorable learning opportunity for our CITs. In a nutshell, it was the best
counselor training I could ever imagine. In this session, I will use my
experience planning and leading this trip as a model for how to incorporate a similar service project to your own CIT/ LIT program. Whether
your camp chooses to bring campers to another country, or to organize a
mini-camp or set of activities at a local daycare or lower-income
community, there is tremendous potential in exporting the values, activities
and spirit of camp to those who do not have the opportunity to attend
camp themselves. From partnering with another organization and getting
your CIT/LITs in the right “service frame of mind,” to the nitty-gritty of
organizing, planning and executing programming on the ground, this
session will cover everything you need to make the biggest impact for
both the children you work with and your CIT/LITs! Now is the moment for
groundbreaking community service at camps!
NICKI FLEISCHNER, CIT Program Director, Camp Scatico
Two Inches Taller
Location: Room 316
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will learn different empowering
techniques to connect with youth.
• Participants will learn how social media can
be used for good.
• Participants will be reminded of how important
(and lacking) character building development
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is in and out of schools.
Nate Lombardi will lead an interactive talk about social media, empathy,
bullying and the power of community in the youth today. How can we strive
to make every person we encounter every day feel “two inches taller” as they
walk away from us? He will play games and use audience participation as he
does with students, utilizing body percussion, beatbox and rapping.
VO C E PRES ENT S :
Traditions – When to
Keep or When to Move On?
Location: Room 309
Talk about their experiences and changing
traditions.
• Talk about the process of deciding
that a tradition is still relevant.
• Where does picking your battles factor in?
NATE LOMBARDI, President, The Groovy Projects Inc.
• Looking for both specific examples
and overall philosophy
Are We Who We Say We Are?
• Discuss the process of how you get
rid of traditions.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• What does it take to move the culture
of your community?
Location: Room 404
• Understand what mission means in concept.
• Understand what mission looks like in practice.
• Learn what roles managers, staff and participants
play in developing mission.
Mission-driven public service organizations require
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consistent care and self-analysis. This session explores,
questions and tests whether a service organization is mission-driven in
either theory or practice. Participants will be taught how to gauge their
own organizations. Each attendee will receive a user-friendly management
tool to take back to their agency for self-diagnosis.
FELIX URRUTIA, Executive Director, Hands In 4 Youth
GORDON JOSEY
GORDON JOSEY,
Breezemont
EPHRAM CAFLUN,
Wekeela
RICHIE GERSTEN,
Brant Lake
MARC HONIGFELD,
Trails End Camp
OPEN TO ALL
ATTENDEES
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EPHRAM CAFLUN
MARC HONIGFELD
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Interviewing that Works!
Location: Room 314
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Understanding of the key steps to a
successful interview.
• Knowledge of how to use Power Questions
to learn what you need to learn about each
applicant.
MERYL MOSACK
• Tips on organizing/tailoring your interviews
towards finding the right applicants for a specific job.
This informative program will take participants through the cycle of
preparing for and conducting interviews that work. Yet, before an interview
can “work,” there of course must be a solid job description, and interviewers must know the key skills, traits and personalities the position
requires. We will discuss these important ingredients, and then go on a
journey through an organized interview and successful outcome. It is
important to note that a successful outcome can mean either an interview
resulting in a hire OR an interview that recognizes when a candidate is
not right for the position! After all, what could be worse than hiring the
wrong person for such an important job? Topics covered to include:
Preparing for the interview, conducting the interview, closing the interview
and next steps.
MERYL MOSACK, Chief Inspiration Officer, M Squared Marketing
Managing Campers, Not Changing Them:
A Mindful Approach To Camp Counseling
Location: Room 321
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Using mindfulness to reduce counselors’
stress levels.
• Strategies to effectively manage campers’ behaviors.
• Appropriate techniques connecting and
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motivating campers.
Counselors have the wonderful opportunity to facilitate life-long camper-tocamper relationships as well as connections to their camp. Staff who understand the difference between managing behaviors and changing children
create a more welcoming, happy and healthy environment that allows
campers to thrive and grow. This can be an unmatched and rewarding
experience for everyone involved. Dr. Matt will teach techniques that counselors can utilize to remain calm and supportive while understanding the
subtle differences between managing behavior versus controlling campers.
MATT PULEWITZ, Clinical Psychologist, 10 for 2 Training
Camper Progress Reports: Using Free
Google Apps to Increase Retention
and Referrals
Location: Room 308
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• You will learn that although progress reports
over the telephone are ostensibly about an
update for the parent, there is long-term value
in the conversation surrounding that report.
MATTHEW SMITH
• Progress reports boost retention because parents who truly
understand your camp are more likely to return. Progress reports
boost referrals because those parents are better able to explain
the value of your camp to their friends.
• Google Apps offer an easy way to gather and analyze feedback
from counselors.
Progress reports might be a hassle, but they’re worth it: they make sure
campers aren’t falling through the cracks, and they increase your retention
and referrals. Use free Google Apps (1) to gather feedback from your
counselors, (2) to make important adjustments mid-session, and (3) to
give parents insightful reports. Directors and assistant directors, please
come learn about progress reports, their benefits, and our mistakes. I
will include step-by-step instructions for the apps.
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Transforming Your Infirmary into
a True Emergency Center: Picking
the Best Doctors, Best Equipment
and Best Care
Location: Room 313
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Understand how you can upgrade your camp
infirmary equipment, supplies and procedures
to deliver emergency room quality and care
on your campus.
• Determine whether you need to re-evaluate
your current policies, procedures and
personnel (doctors, nurses and support)
and learn how to recruit and implement
new procedures.
• How to communicate your new level of care
and procedures with parents and staff.
MITCH REITER
MARK MERLIN
The medical care and safety of campers will always
be a high priority and concern for families and camp
professionals. With many residential camps situated miles and even
hours from quality hospitals, we want to empower camp directors with
the knowledge and insight on how to take their own health care centers
to the next level of care. During this session, Dr. Mark and Mitch will
share emergency room best practices that you can and should be
implementing at your camp infirmary.
MITCH REITER, Owner/Director, Camp Towanda
MARK MERLIN, Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician and
Head Infirmary Doctor, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and
Camp Towanda
Camp Financing 360
Location: Room 310
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of
the banking tools and products available to
camps to fund anything from day-to-day
operation to long-term, strategic investments.
• Lean about how bankers see the world: financing
fundamentals including evaluation of credit
analysis and qualification process.
HEINRICH STRAUCH
• The camp as capital, and how to make it
work for you.
Sound financial footing allows camp owners and
operators to sleep at night and focus on providing
the best possible camp experience for their
campers. Our goal is to provide a full overview
of the tools and products available to fund a camp’s
needs throughout its yearly operational cycle as well
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as its life-cycle. We also want to shed some light on
how a bank(er) looks at a loan application, covering the evaluation of
credit for the qualification process, cash flow analysis, financial statement
analysis, determination of debt service coverage ratio, collateral valuation
issues, Loan-to-Value (LTV) standards and determination, and the
appraisal dilemma. Plus, we will talk about the evaluation of principals
and guarantors with regard to personal credit strength, debt-to-income
ratio, net worth, liquidity, character and financial resources. We hope to
have an interactive session where attendees outline their specific needs
and allow us to suggest potential funding solutions.
HEINRICH STRAUCH, Commercial Loan Officer, Jeff Bank
BRYAN FLYNN, Commercial Portfolio Administrator, Jeff Bank
Six Ways New Staff Get Drunk
Location: Room 303
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Understand the vulnerabilities
and strengths
of new staff.
• Identify the unhealthy personal and
interpersonal risks that new staff take.
• Learn leadership techniques aimed at
transforming smart, young staff.
CHRIS THURBER
Lust, power, cliques, stimulants, arrogance and alcohol. These
are the lethal quicksand pits into which all new staff risk sinking.
Stay one step ahead of the incident reports by learning to
anticipate the temptations that can derail even your smartest
young staff. We all have emotional, social and cognitive
vulnerabilities, but your new staff lack the field experience and
grit to choose the hard right over the easy wrong. Unless, of
course, you design training specifically aimed at equanimity,
foresight and friendship. Learn how to transform your biggest
liability into your hugest asset.
DR. CHRIS THURBER, Psychologist & Educator,
CampSpirit & Phillips Exeter Academy
Better Practices in Coaching
and Athletic Instruction
Location: Room 202
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will observe tested
activities to use in training their
athletic staff.
• Participants will learn through fun
group exercises how to give existing
athletic activities a fresh new approach.
JAMIE CHADWIN
• Participants will be exposed to various
methods of cultivating a camp appropriate level of competition.
How often are athletic staff members
hired based on their playing experience
rather than ability to teach the sport? Strive
to challenge all levels of camp athletes
through a structured, focused approach to
your athletic program. Turn your energetic
FRANK DECEMBRINO
staff into coaches and role models that will
capture the attention of your camp athletes from all levels of competitiveness and participation. This session is for camps and organizations
that want to maximize their staff in regards to the level(s) of athletic
instruction they provide.
JAMIE CHADWIN, Owner, Camps for Camps
FRANK DECEMBRINO, Owner/Director, Ambler Sports Academy
& Ripkin Quickball
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It’s Not me, It’s You (Or Maybe It is Me)
Active Campers, Active Games
Location: Room 304
Location: Room 202
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• At the end of this session, participants will
learn how to support campers’ positive
behavior through active games.
• Participants will learn how to re-frame
leadership in terms of the issues, problems
and annoyances they have.
• By deconstructing issues, participants will
develop a sense of what they bring to their
issues as well as a framework for leadership
growth and development.
• At the end of this session, participants will
learn the fundamentals of managing group games.
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• Participants will learn several new ideas and strategies for leadership
development when problem solving: systems, solutions and skills.
Is it possible that our biggest issues with staff, campers, parents and our
organizations can be understood by or are even related to our leadership
skills? Whether or not you can draw that conclusion, this session will
attempt to break down some of our biggest problems through the
framework of our leadership skills. What causes these issues; why do we
react the way we do and how can we develop in order to better lead
our programs? These issues highlight the systems, solution, and skills
that will help guide us to be more productive and effective leaders.
SCOTT ARIZALA, Consultant & Trainer, The Camp Counselor
Theater For Everyone
Location: Room 201
• Grow your bag of tricks in effective character
games, variety performances and interactive
mysteries for campers of all ages.
Location: Room 320
• Learn theater activities and add creativity to
larger blocks of camp time.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will learn the harms of keeping
children safe from all risks, and the benefits
of allowing them to test their limits.
DEBBIE AUSBURN
• Participants will learn how to develop a
defensible and balanced approach to risk
management, including handbooks, waivers
and staff policies.
Protecting children is the highest priority for
camps, but recent studies show significant
psychological harm from keeping children too safe.
Children who never face adversity enter adulthood
ill-equipped for its challenges. Camp is an unrivaled DONNA CAUDELL
opportunity for children to overcome their fears
and test the limits of the physical world. Having a balanced approach to
risk management requires educating parents about the benefits of
age-appropriate risks, as well as careful oversight of staff and children.
This session will help camps develop balanced policies that allow
children to test their limits and learn how to deal with adversity, while
better explaining to parents and avoiding lawsuits.
DEBORAH AUSBURN, Attorney at Law, Taylor English Duma LLP
DONNA CAUDELL, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science,
Truett McConnell College
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GERALD BOLDEN, Summer Camp Director/ S.A.Curriculum
Instructional Specialist, Wonders Summer Camp
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Managing Risks: Helping Children
Conquer Fear, Reassuring Parents
and Fending Off Attorneys
• Participants will learn how to convince parents
of the need for age-appropriate risks.
• At the end of this session, participants will learn GERALD BOLDEN
games to share with their team members to assist
with their professional development.
Learn how to support campers’positive behaviors and social-emotional
learning through active games. You will learn some of the fundamentals
of managing group games, including setting clear expectations, modeling
good sportsmanship, encouraging fair play and building gross motor
skills. Get ready to be active!
RYAN CANUELLE
• Discover new ways of thinking and
implementing innovative camp programming.
Many of the skills taught in theater can be applied to the camp community.
For anyone actively involved in camp programming, this session provides
in-depth tools, games and resources to create effective programming
using theatrical practices and activities as a foundation for unique camp
programs like evening programs, rainy days and theme days.
RYAN CANUELLE, Director of Education and Programming, Mainstages
Day Camp Transportation From
Hagstrom Maps to Google Maps
Working with Youth of Color: The
Backpack They Bring to Camp
Location: Room 404
Location: Room 308
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will be able to identify
microaggressions at camp and how to avoid
them.
• To understand how other camps do
transportation
• To share and acquire ideas for a better
transportation season
• To know that there are common challenges
that all camps face in transportation
This workshop is an exchange of ideas. The first
part is what we at Mohawk do in day camp
transportation. We run over 150 buses daily for
our campers. We will discuss the lessons learned
in the transition to the digital age. The second
session is an open panel discussion with all of
the attendees. How do they do transportation?
Door-to-door or common point pick-up and
drop-offs? Buses, SUV or cars? Professional drivers
or counselor drivers? CDL issues?
TODD DISSTON
ROBERT NAPULI
SIMONE GAMBLE, Chapter Leader/Liberation Program Organizer,
The Brotherhood Sister Sol
Location: Room 416
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
CAMERON BOCK
• Understand the skills that Chinese educators
and parents hope that “camp education”
fosters.
• Understand the challenges and opportunities
of creating camps in China.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
STEVE BASKIN
• Learn how to create successful camp
experiences for campers from China.
• Design ongoing training for all levels of
seasonal staff.
• Make better use of in-camp time for staff
development that stretches beyond
supervision.
JAY FRANKEL
Orientation is an excellent way to introduce staff
to camp’s culture, policies and expectations. It is not, however, the best
time to develop tangible skills and increase job performance of our
staff. Jay helps camp professionals create an intentional training and
coaching design that takes place after pre-camp orientation. Learn how
to leverage the first 7–10 days of actual camp for developing a staff
beyond the basics.
JAY FRANKEL, Founder/President, True To Life Training, LLC
Technology in Art Activities in an
Unplugged Camp
In recent years, certain Chinese educators and
parents have developed a deep interest in
“camp education.” Specifically, they are
intrigued by the ability of camp to foster “noncognitive” skills, like communication, leadership
and teamwork. They also see camp as a way to
cultivate innovation. In this session, we will
SCOTT BRODY
discuss efforts to create both day and resident
camps in China. We will also describe the growing trend of Chinese children
attending US camps and how to make their experiences successful for
the campers and the camp.
STEVE BASKIN, Director, Camp Champions
SCOTT BRODY, Owner/Director, Camps Kenwood & Evergreen
You Teach the Way You Were Taught!
25 Ways to Improve Your Staff
Training Teaching Techniques
Location: Room 411
Location: Room 315
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identify how to teach staff training activities.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Exciting new projects and programs for
your arts departments
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding
of good timing and placement of staff training
activities.
• What these different technologies actually cost
• How this camp included new technologies
while still maintaining an unplugged community
In this session, we will examine the spectrum of issues that youth of color
carry along with their identities to camp. Although camp is seen as an
escape from the urban realities our youth come from, there is still a lot of
work that we have to do as camp professionals to best support them. We
will be looking at how to do this work through an anti-oppressive lens, as
well as understanding how our privilege and power show up in these
interactions with our youth, such as through microaggressions.
China and “Camp Education”,
Unexpected Partners
Location: Room 312
• Increase the job performance and
satisfaction of staff by making better use
of a critical learning time.
SIMONE GAMBLE
• Participants will learn to build a safe space for all identities at
their organizations.
TODD DISSTON, Director of Transportation,
Mohawk Day Camp
ROBERT NAPULI, NYC Transportation
Coordinator, Mohawk Day Camp
CAMERON BOCK, Transportation, Mohawk
Day Camp
In-Season Training: The First
7–10 Days
• Participants will address internalized biases
around race.
JASON SEBELL
STEPHEN MAGUIRE
• Distinguish between great use of timing and reaching a point of
diminished returns.
We all want new and fresh programming ideas for our art departments,
but we also want to keep camp “camp.” Learn about one overnight
camp’s technological innovations in photography, film making, woodshop, music and arts and crafts, and how they did it while still keeping
their kids off of apps and the internet.
Come join Steve for this brand new and highly interactive session that will
give you some immediate takeaways to improve your staff training in 2016.
We will highlight HOW to teach/facilitate staff training as well as when and
where to do this. It’s all about good timing, good activities and a great use
of time. This session will emphasize how to tie all of this together.
JASON SEBELL, Director, Kenwood & Evergreen
STEPHEN MAGUIRE, Professional Speaker and Summer Camp
Consultant, Go Turnstone
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What Does an Inclusion Program
Look Like?
Location: Room 310
VO C E PRES ENT S :
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Layers of Operations
• Staffing needs.
Location: Room 309
• Camper and family needs.
• Understanding that inclusion is being a part
of what everyone else is, being welcomed
and embraced.
ELYSE MILLER
Every summer, millions of children are afforded the opportunity to participate in summer camp programs, ranging from the traditional day and
resident camps to specialty camps. These experiences are meant to
provide these children with the ability to develop new skills in a fun and
safe environment. It seems that there is an endless amount of choices
for typical children, while the choices are much more limited for families
who have a child or children with special needs. Many of these children
spend their summers in twelve month programs in their school district
due to the lack of options. Buckley Day Camp’s Inclusion Program provides
a typical camp experience for children with special needs. Is your camp
thinking of starting a program? It is important to understand what an
inclusion program looks like—know that is not just for those who have
special needs but also mental health and medical needs.
Running a camp is no different from
managing a town or small city. We are all
responsible for providing water, electric,
waste disposal, food, medical services
and much more. You will learn ways to
effectively operate your “town” from
the perspective of four seasoned camp
professionals.
SCOTT RALLS, Southwoods
MARK TRANSPORT, Owner/Director,
Camp Taconic
MARK MAJOR, International Sports
Training Camp
MICKEY BLACK, Camp Director,
Pine Forest Camp
SCOTT RALLS
MARK TRANSPORT
ELYSE MILLER, Inclusion Coordinator, Buckley Day Camp
Hello Mother, Hello Father: How to
Prepare Parents for Camp in an
Anxious Age
Location: Room 314
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identify the specific fears and questions
camp parents have in this anxious age.
OPEN TO ALL
ATTENDEES
MARK MAJOR
• Address those fears and questions proactively
ALLISON SLATER TATE
to engage parents and encourage them to
send their kids to camp.
Advanced Retargeting On Google
and Social Media: How to Find
Your Customers All Over the Web
• Use social media and technology in a way that helps parents
understand the benefits of summer camp.
Location: Room 322
It’s an anxious age in parenting, and for many families, sending children
to sleepaway camp now seems like a scary and intimidating prospect. In
this age when camp could be seen as a haven for our children from social
media and all things tech, some parents are hiding a second cell phone in
their children’s trunks so they will have it at camp—if they will even send
their kids to camp at all, but why? How can camps engage and prepare
parents for camp so that they can fully enjoy the opportunity for their
kids? We will explore the aspects of what scares parents most now, how
to address those fears and how social media can help in the endeavor.
• Participants will leave this session with:
A basic knowledge of creating, targeting
and running search, contextual and social
media retargeting campaigns.
ALLISON SLATER TATE, Editor/Freelance Writer,
www.allisonslatertate.com
• Participants will leave this session with:
Action items for how to reach their customers
anywhere on the web and information on
state-of-the-art retargeting capabilities for
their summer camp.
MICKEY BLACK
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
BLAKE SUNSHINE
• Participants will leave this session with:
Hands on instructions to begin a new retargeting campaign immediately. Camps will be
able to implement this information as soon
as they return home.
ERIC STEIN
What if you could reach your potential camp families anywhere on the
web? With retargeting you can! Reach your future customers where they
are hanging out on the web instead of waiting for them to find you. This
session will cover basic search, contextual and social media retargeting
to help you find your customers and reach them with your camp’s
message. Participants in this session will leave with hands-on instructions
to begin a new retargeting campaign immediately!
BLAKE SUNSHINE, Social Media for Summer Camps Marketer,
Social Summer Camp
ERIC STEIN, President, Eswebmarketing
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Tubular Creations
Combating Infections and Allergic
Reactions at Camp
Location: Room 402
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Location: Room 316
• Participants will discuss the advantages of recycled
art, and what it means to recycle versus reuse!
• Participants will make at least three to five
craft projects made using paper tubes (toilet
paper, paper towel and wrapping paper tubes).
• Participant will explore creative recycled art.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
JEN HARGRAVE
Come cut, twist, color, poke and tape paper tubes (toilet paper, paper
towels and wrapping paper tubes). We’ll reuse the tubes to make kaleidoscopes, rain sticks and art pieces. Plan to come make three to five
projects but leave with directions for even a few more.
JEN HARGRAVE, Program Coordinator, The Fresh Air Fund
• Identify common signs and symptoms
of strep throat, conjunctivitis and
gastroenteritis.
• Distinguish between myths and science in
preventing common camp illnesses.
• Demonstrate how to strategically place
Epinephrine autoinjectors around camp.
MARK MERLIN
Learn to create evidence-based protocols at your camp for strep throat,
conjunctivitis and gastroenteritis. It’s not just the medical treatment—it’s
how to clean the cabins and checking all of the other kids. Learn how
you prevent outbreaks and treat kids before these diseases get easily
transmitted to staff and campers.
Also, learn how to deal with allergic reactions and Epinephrine autoinjectors based on the best science. Understand why we often misuse
benadryl and how to strategically place Epinephrine around your camp.
The Department of State’s
Exchange Visitor (J-1)
MARK MERLIN, Physician, Camp Towanda
Location: Room 321
Program which includes approximately
25,000 students and youth workers placed
at summer camps throughout the United
States as cultural exchange visitors on the
Camp Counselor or Summer Work Travel
DEENA F. PINCKNEY-COOPER
exchange programs. If your camp hosts
international J-1 counselors or staff, this
session is essential in learning your role
and responsibility as a host of exchange
visitors. This session hopes to engage
camps on the key initiatives of the Bureau
of Educational and Cultural Affairs and
how these fit into the Summer Camp
experience enjoyed by J-1 participants
working as counselors and staff.
NADINE ZAATAR
Panelists: (All Employees work
in the Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs)
DEENA F. PINCKNEY-COOPER,
Program Analyst, Office of Designation
NADINE ZAATAR, Program Analyst,
Office of Private Sector Exchange
Administration
JENNIFER NUPP, Policy Analyst,
Office of Policy & Program Support.
Moderator: MATTY LAYMAN,
Indian Head Camp
Cash Flow & Budgeting Strategies to
Support Your Camp All Year Round
JENNIFER NUPP
Location: Room 401
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Build a working 12-month cash flow and
budget for the organization.
• Develop strategies for how to generate
multiple streams of income.
• Create an action plan for next steps on how
to maximize cash flow throughout the year.
OPEN TO ALL ATTENDEES
MATTY LAYMAN
PAMELA CAPALAD
One of the toughest parts about running a camp is that your main cash
flow all happens in a small 3–4 month window. In this workshop, we
will talk through some of the obstacles you face when it comes to
budgeting and planning for your camp’s finances. We will then build
simple financial models and discuss how to develop additional streams
of income and create a budget to help smooth out your camp’s cash
flow throughout the year.
PAMELA CAPALAD, President, Pockets Change
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What Happens When You Let Kids
Choose? Lessons from “No Rules”
Camp
Location: Room 312
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will hear about what worked
and what didn’t when it came to creating a
new kind of summer camp community.
SCOTT ARIZALA
• We will compare and contrast the outcomes
of more philosophical ideas in camping like electronics, program
structure, bed time and participation.
• Participants will learn the 5–7 positive take-aways that any camp
could use to develop more child freedom and choice.
In the summer of 2015, we started a brand new camp with one basic
idea in mind: You should be treated the way YOU want to be treated.
Could we have a camp that ultimately lets kids choose and be free to
do what they want, and at the same time have a lasting positive impact?
We will dive into the issues of technology at camp, free-choice versus
progressive programming, the limitations on choice and the default
mode of adult-convenience-based rules and procedures. Come find out
what happened when 5 industry leaders tried to take out the structure
and rules to develop a community where everyone’s voice mattered.
SCOTT ARIZALA, Consultant & Trainer, The Camp Counselor
30 Little Things that Make Big Things
Happen!
Location: Room 308
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Leadership
• Culture
• Communication
SAM BLOOM
“Pay attention to the little things because little things
make big things happen!” Join me to learn the 30 things you must do
this summer and this year to make your camp great!
John Wooden, legendary College Basketball coach at UCLA known for
winning ten NCAA championships in a 12-year period, once said, “It’s
the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”
This concept holds especially true in the world of resident and day
camps! The little details that are focused on throughout the summer
AND the off-season are what bring the big picture to life.
Let’s talk about Leadership, culture and communication, and once you
realize the truth behind “Little things make big things happen” you’ll
never again view the details of your camp as boring or insignificant!
SAM BLOOM, Director, Emma Kaufmann Camp
Preventing Sexual Abuse at Camp
Location: Room 305
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Preparing campers and their parents pre-camp.
• Scare molesters and pedaphiles away
• Educate staff about the signs and symptoms
of abusers
Sexual abuse at camps and other congregate care NORMAN E. FRIEDMAN
facilities is increasing. Learn how to prevent it, spot
molesters who have slipped through and how partnering with parents
before the camp season can all but eliminate this problem. Join a
demonstration and discussion with the author who created “The No
Touch Zone,” a concept taught to campers by their parents at age five,
repeated at camp on day one, and added to staff training.
NORMAN E. FRIEDMAN, Executive Director - A.M.Skier Partners Camp Training Consultant, A. M. Skier Insurance Agency
Excellence by Example, Positive Behavior
by Precision: Fast Ways to Develop
Great Behavior in Campers
Location: Room 303
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Learn how to model and teach by example
specific characteristics and qualities that make
campers great people.
MICHAEL BRANDWEIN
• Develop your own abilities to produce real
youth development every day at camp and also how to teach it to staff.
• Take-home methods you can use immediately to take advantage
of “invisible opportunities” to build outstanding camper behavior.
It’s our most important mission: using the camp experience to produce
better people. We tell our staff that we want them to be role models
and that we want them to teach kids great character and qualities, but
this won’t really happen unless we give staff practical tools they can use
every hour, every day to produce real youth development. In this exciting
session, Michael demonstrates exactly what to say and do to help kids
succeed and acquire characteristics that make the world a better place.
Learn specific things that we can teach by example and simple, highly
effective ways they can be taught. Develop kindness, caring, teamwork,
sportsmanship, creativity, thinking skills, respect, responsibility, confidence
and more. You’ll learn to do this yourself and take home original activities
and materials that will teach staff to be developers of outstanding people.
MICHAEL BRANDWEIN, Educator / Author / Staff Trainer
Engagement to Giving - Cultivating
Donors for Your Organization
Location: Room 310
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Measure the engagement levels of your
community.
• How to cultivate donors and make them
feel valuable
• How to set up a “culture of giving”
JAMES MCRAE
Cultivating members of your community to become donors to your
organization can be a difficult task. In this session, we will discuss how
to make that transition and how to maintain a “culture of giving.”
JAMES MCRAE, Sr. Associate Director, Camp Michigania, Alumni
Association University of Michigan
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Fostering Nature Connection for All Ages
Location: Room 202
Pool Management, Training, and
Staff Oversight
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Location: Room 320
• Participants will learn best practices from
various environmental education programs
and which activities are best for specific age
groups.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will learn how to use both primitive
RUBY COMPTON
and technological tools to get people outside
and foster curiosity to then grow their nature connection.
• Participants will leave this session excited about exploring the
natural world and facilitating others’ connections to it.
• To recognize the most important
characteristics when hiring your pool staff
• To improve the organizational structure of the
campers and the pool staff during lessons
and free swim
FIONA KEARNEY,
AILEEN BUCCIERO
• To understand what role the pool director
plays in lesson quality, safety, class organization and training
Facilitation 101: Designing &
Delivering Meetings that Matter
Running an effective camp swim program requires a great deal of coordination and communication between the camp director, pool director,
assistant directors, water safety instructors, lifeguards and camp counselors.
Evaluating and testing students for level, organizing group classes, setting
goals, creating lesson plans, training lifeguards and counselors, and
communicating with parents about goals and expectations are paramount
to running a successful swim program. Camp directors have the difficult
job of hiring the right people who can integrate each part of this process.
The pool director’s job is not done once the students are tested, the
lessons are set up and the lifeguard rotation is finalized. The hardest part
of the pool director’s job is overseeing the lessons, maintaining lesson
quality and tracking student progress. This discussion will help you
organize the areas that need the most focus and oversight in order to
create a superior swim program.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
FIONA KEARNEY, Owner, Aqua Tots
AILEEN BUCCIERO, Owner, Aqua Tots
Many common nature connection activities are designed for preschool
age children; however, the need for an appreciation of the natural world
in all ages has become a clear deficit in our technology-driven world. In
this session, learn both innovative and time-tested activities that will instill
a love of the outdoors into your youngest campers and your oldest staff.
Explore real activities that can be adapted to urban or wilderness settings
and require minimal materials and staff training to implement.
STEPHANIE “RUBY” COMPTON, Summer Camp Program Director,
Green River Preserve
Location: Room 313
• Participants will learn the theory of how
humans think (human levels of thinking).
• Participants will learn how to apply the theory
of how humans think to designing and delivering
more effective and meaningful meetings in a camp HANNAH DUBIN
context (all examples and practice will involve camp-specific settings).
• Participants will learn tips and tricks to running engaging, effective,
fun, productive, well-planned, human-centered meetings that will
be more meaningful for all involved!
We all know that to run a camp effectively you need to facilitate multiple
meeting types, with different audiences and changing meeting goals,
but are these meetings as effective as you want them? This session will
teach you the theory behind the way people think and the skills for how
to design meetings to support human decision-making and collaborative
productivity. We will also learn and practice key skills needed to facilitate
and run valuable meetings. Participants in this workshop will add tools
to their facilitation toolkit by learning about the facilitation skills needed
to both design for and deliver effective, meaningful meetings.
HANNAH DUBIN, Consultant / Facilitator / Trainer, Han Ban Can
Consulting
Managing Communications in an
Emergency
Location: Room 318
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Understanding how to prepare for all risks,
including emerging threats in 2016.
• How to create media response protocols, parent
communication plans and other communications.
GARY KIMBALL
• The impact of technology on emergency response
planning, including the pros and cons of social media during an
emergency.
Whether it’s a natural disaster, medical emergency, accident or sexual
abuse, emergencies have the potential to damage your camp and your
business for years to come. Learn the emerging camp threats in 2016
and the secrets to planning for and communicating effectively in today’s
high-speed world: the role of leadership, building an effective plan,
communicating with media and families, and the impact of social media.
GARY KIMBALL, AMSkier Partner, AMSkier Insurance
How to Sell Like a Star When You
Hate Sales
Location: Room 321
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• How to shift your mindset so you’re eager
to call someone you don’t know.
• How to create a connection and get someone
interested in what you’re selling.
• The 1 sentence that has gotten me an almost
100% success rate with closing a sale.
LARA MCCULLOCH
Cold calling. Those two words are responsible for more anxiety and cold
sweats than “hungry dinosaur” and “disgruntled mailman.” If you’re anything
like I was, you would rather pluck your eyelashes out one by one than make a
call. But would you believe that I (someone who had no sales experience and
an aversion to being “salesy”) actually learned to love cold calling? AND my
calls resulted in $3.5MM in new business opportunities in a $7MM business?
Want to know how? In this session I’ll break down exactly how I learned
to sell (like a star), even though I hated sales.
LARA MCCULLOCH, President, READY2SPARK
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18 Tools (All Free) for Making You
More Productive
V O CE PRE SEN TS:
Location: Room 316
Changing Behaviors and
Trends in Girls
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• The Information Age is upon us. If you want
to stay competitive, the culture of your office
should be open to regularly employing new
tools and adjusting workflows.
Location: Room 309
GIRLS!! The experience of being a pre-teen
to teenage girl in today’s society has
changed dramatically over the last couple of
years. Veteran directors will share changes
they have noticed in girls today and how
these changes are impacting on the camp
environment. You will have the opportunity
to learn strategies and techniques for
supporting and mentoring girls from the
moment they arrive at camp, throughout
the summer and as they enter back into their
school world. We will work together to
answer questions, share videos, and offer
tips on how to help girls treat each other
better and create a positive
culture of kindness
and inclusion.
STEPHANIE REITER,
Camp Towanda
DAWN EWING,
Project Morry
LAUREN BERNSTEIN,
Camp Walden
LAUREN BERNSTEIN
CAT SANGSTER,
Camp Wawenock
STEPHANIE REITER
You may be constrained by time and money; but not by productivity—in
the office, productivity is an x-factor. There are new tools (web-based
services) that can help you increase your productivity in the office. Here
I will present my 18 favorites (with an emphasis on marketing). I have
organized these tools into six categories based on how we use them:
security, organization, collaboration, marketing, website management
and innovation. All of these tools are free. Questions welcome.
DAWN EWING
MATTHEW SMITH, Director, Longacre Camp
Turn Up Down time - Games for Fun
and Purpose!
Location: Room 201
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
CAT SANGSTER
Imagine the Possibilities! 7 Ways
to Innovate With Your Team and
Flex Your Brain
Location: Room 317
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• To lead a group to solve problems and
come up with new ideas
NANCY SHENKER
• To apply technology to the brainstorming
process
This fun, lively and inspirational session will
teach camp directors and senior staff seven
incredible and interactive techniques for
problem-solving and planning—methods used
by big brands, government groups, think tanks
and community organizations. Go beyond the
SAM GENNAWEY
post-it note as you learn to use real-life methods
(like the IDEA WALL) and applications (that can
be shared remotely) to brainstorm and problem-solve. One program
will even get a chance to engage the group in a “team think” and
work with other participants on solving his or her unique problem. These
time-tested techniques can help camps and summer programs flex their
brains and come up with creative new solutions (and build consensus)
for a wide variety of challenges. Plus, we’ll all have fun doing it!
NANCY SHENKER, CEO, theONswitch
SAM GENNAWEY, Senior Associate, Katherine Padilla and
Associates
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MATTHEW SMITH
• 18 ideas for new tools.
OPEN TO ALL ATTENDEES
• To inspire creative thinking and engage
multiple staff members, building consensus
• Someone on your staff should be responsible
for identifying new tools.
• Learn how to teach games to staff.
• Incorporate teamwork and conflict resolution
into games.
• Acquire knowledge of games to be played
with limited or no equipment.
PAUL CULFF
During the camp season your staff will have many
opportunities to lead games for their campers.
This session is developed for your staff orientation
so you can transfer the game knowledge to
your counselors. Contrary to popular belief,
‘down-time’ is not a dirty word, ‘down-time’
(or ‘group games’, or ‘wait, I thought we were
supposed to have art... but where’s the instructor
time’) are really important moments in our day
where you and your group have an opportunity to
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get to know each other. These are the times of day
which are going to creep up and blindside you and your staff (as they
blindside everyone) in the first few days of camp. In this session you will
learn not only how to teach games, but how to use games to teach. You
will learn how to play games in any area (large or small) and with limited
to no equipment!
PAUL CULFF, Asphalt Green
PEDRO RAICOVICH, Asphalt Green
The Local Lifecycle: Converting Your
Community into Loyal Registrants
Location: Room 315
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Understand phases of the Local Lifecycle,
significant consumer behaviors at each
phase, and how to meet the customer where
they are in the buying process.
• How to distinguish your camp from the
CAMARIN WANAMAKER
competition based on what today’s parents
say they are actually looking for.
• Effective strategies for nurturing and converting leads across all
channels—paid, organic, social and offline.
We surveyed over 1000 families on their children’s activities and buying
habits to better understand their journey to purchasing camp. Guided
by our original research and a decade of industry experience, we’ll draft
a marketing calendar with you to drive registration, build loyalty and
create raving camp fans. If you want to better understand your buyer
and nurture customer relationships year-round, join us for an interactive
session exploring the Local Lifecycle.
CAMARIN WANAMAKER, Strategic Business Manager, ACTIVE Network
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Alumni Engagement - Are They Really
Engaged?
The Perfect Storm - When Crisis Calls
Location: Room 308
Location: Room 310
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identifying the difference between crisis
and non-crisis scenarios
• Identifying what good alumni engagement
looks like.
• Enhancing communication skills critical to
handling crisis management
• Begin to build a plan for your own alumni
engagement.
• How to translate that engagement to support
of your program.
JAMES MCRAE
Before alumni become major supporters of your camp, they need to feel
continually engaged. The deeper the engagement, the more loyal the
alum will be. In this session, we’ll discuss how to get them and keep
them engaged with your program.
JAMES MCRAE, Associate Director, Camp Michigania - Alumni
Association University of MIchigan
My (Camp) Kids and My (Camp)
Family: The Struggles of CampWork-Life Balance
Is there a difference in a crisis vs. non-crisis situation, or is it how you
actually deal with the situation? Charles R. Swindoll says, “Life is 10%
what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.” So how will you
respond? This session is designed for camping professionals who are
responsible for handling the most challenging of scenarios and for those
seeking to get a greater understanding of the responsibility we have to
our staff, campers and their families. Real-life experiences relating to
death, viruses and staff firings will be discussed. Walk away from this
session with an applicable framework that can be used before and
during any situation and allows for your greatest strength to shine
through in the most difficult situations.
SAM BLOOM, Director, Emma Kaufmann Camp
Location: Room 312
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Outcome Objectives and Program
Assessment Tools
• Participants will reframe the idea of worklife balance. We will work to stop trying to
attain and just try to be.
• We will break down the skills that facilitate
a balanced experience and then develop
some strategies to develop those skills.
• Understanding an applicable framework that can
be used to effectively deal with any crisis situation SAM BLOOM
Location: Room 316
SCOTT ARIZALA
• Participants will take away several questions,
challenges and ideas to use in developing a
more balanced approach to work, engaging
with their supervisors, significant others,
family and the like.
No one has actually figured this out... which is the
key to figuring it out! This session will shatter the
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old idea of “work-life balance” as some sort of
attainable thing, and recreate it as an organic, evolving and developing
sense or state. It’s not a goal; it’s an experience. If we can deconstruct
the skills and concepts underneath that experience, we can build
an individual and family approach to taking on an all-consuming,
passion-driven profession like camp.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Learn how to utilize the Outcome Surveys
and Program Assessment tools provided
by ACA.
• Learn where to access the tools and additional
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resources.
• Learn how to effectively utilize the findings from program evaluations.
Learn how to better supervise your staff, maximize the quality of your
programs and better communicate the benefits of your camp. The best
part is: The tools are already developed, tested and available for you to
use. This presentation will include a comprehensive review of the tools
offered by ACA to measure outcomes and conduct a program assessment.
These two separate evaluation methods are power resources which
provide concrete, objective feedback.
MARGARET TANTILLO, Consultant, Harvest Development Group
SCOTT ARIZALA, Consultant & Trainer,
The Camp Counselor
STEPHEN MAGUIRE, Professional Speaker and Summer Camp
Consultant, Go Turnstone!
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Counterproductive: Protecting the
Community from Ourselves
Putting the “Wow” in Lesson Plans
Location: Room 305
Location: Room 304
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Learn the basics of Howard Gardner’s
multiple intelligences in order to implement
them into lesson plans. Gardner’s intelligences are: visual/spatial, musical/rhythmic,
nature, mathematical/logical, interpersonal,
intrapersonal, verbal/linguistic and bodily/
kinesthetic.
• To identify and deepen understanding
around the counterproductive behaviors that
currently exist in camp that are contradictory
to camps mission, values and goals.
JAY FRANKEL
• To shift camp’s culture to rid the community
of poor habits and confusing role modeling.
• To establish new behaviors to better support a consistent,
mission-driven camp environment.
Join Jay Frankel and the actors of True To Life Training as they hold up
a mirror to the common behaviors staff and supervisors demonstrate
that contradict camp’s mission, goals and values. Leave this session with
a clear plan to discover and eliminate counterproductive behaviors,
rituals, and habits that may currently be tolerated at camp.
JAY FRANKEL, Founder/President, True To Life Training
Your Best Leadership Team Ever:
Powerful Ways to Make Staff
Supervision Truly Superb
Location: Room 303
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
MICHAEL BRANDWEIN
• Teach supervisors, directors and other team
leaders superb methods to motivate and coach staff to higher
professional performance.
• Provide better and more useful evaluation and feedback, handle
difficult and undesired behavior, and help every staff person raise
her or his performance level.
Investing in the development of our leadership team is one of the smartest
things we do in running a camp. We know that one of the key secrets to
a terrific camp is a highly trained leadership team—supervisors, program
directors, head counselors and other administrative staff. But there is
limited time to advance their development, and how do you know what
to teach them that will make a big difference in your camp? In this new
session, Michael provides more original and practical activities and techniques you can use to help your leadership team bring out the best in
staff and program. It includes great techniques to coach and motivate
staff to higher performance, provide more useful and frequent feedback
and evaluation, set skill development goals, handle difficult or undesired
staff behavior and more. This session shows you exactly what to teach,
how to teach it and how to get team leaders to practice and master
these highly effective techniques.
MICHAEL BRANDWEIN, Educator / Author / Staff Trainer
Five People Skills Every Camper
Needs To Learn
Location: Room 321
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Work with other participants in the room to learn different ways
to inspire campers through interesting teaching techniques.
The skills in camp activities may remain the same, but how an instructor
teaches the skills can make all the difference to a camper! Put the
“wow” in lesson plans by changing the “how” of implementation. If
your counselors are already good teachers but need a little help to
make their lessons more exciting for the campers, then this session is
for you. With simple techniques inspired by Howard Gardner’s multiple
intelligences, staff will learn different ways to teach skills in soccer,
swimming, boating and any other activity that’s taught at camp.
Participants will leave with many ideas to implement easily into a lesson
plan to accommodate different learning styles that campers have. Make
your lesson plans sing by attending this session!
The Drumming Celebration! Drumming
for Fun and Creative Expression!
Location: Room 202
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• By the end of this session, participants will
learn a number of icebreaking activities to
inspire the camping community.
• By the end of the session, participants will learn
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a number of exercises to release the stress
and anxiety of both campers and staff.
• By the end of the session, participants will learn activities to
empower and boost the self-esteem of campers.
This experiential music-making program uses hand drums and rhythm
instruments to engage participants in expressing themselves rhythmically
in positive and creative ways. Participants will be instructed initially how
to use their physical body to create various rhythms. They will then learn
to use rhythmic instruments, including shaker eggs, soundscape drums,
boomwhackers and other hand drums and rhythm instruments, in fun
and engaging ways. Exercises and rhythm games will support building
self-esteem, identifying and expressing positive emotions, fostering
trust, exploring non-verbal and verbal rhythm exercises, encouraging
and promoting individual and group creative expression and learning a
peer-accepted skill. Small and large group activities involve the use of
voice, structured and unstructured rhythm-based experiences, as well as
providing age-appropriate rhythm-playing techniques. All rhythm instruments provided, and no experience necessary.
ROBERT LAWRENCE FRIEDMAN, Owner, Stress Solutions, Inc.
• Identify five essential people skills.
• Describe strategies camp personnel can use
to facilitate campers making friends.
EILEEN KENNEDY-MOORE
Every child has trouble with social relationships in some way, at some
time: making a new friend, handling conflict, dealing with teasing or
jealousy. These are all typical struggles, but they can be painful. A camp
environment provides special challenges and opportunities for learning
to get along. This presentation describes five essential people skills and
offers practical strategies for helping children to feel more comfortable
and confident in social situations.
EILEEN KENNEDY-MOORE, Author & Psychologist
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• Take away techniques inspired by multiple intelligences to infuse
into instructional avenues in all activities offered at camp.
SUSAN CHENET, Director, Camp Wa-Klo for Girls
• Participants will get specific and practical
activities and techniques to train leadership
team members to bring out the best in staff.
• Describe strategies camp personnel can use
to help campers minimize conflicts.
SUSAN CHENET
Inspiration... Elation... Motivation...
Fundamentals of Effective Swim Lessons
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Know the elements of giving feedback.
• To attain a broader knowledge of the
fundamentals of swimming, which will
improve the camp’s swim program
Location: Room 313
Location: Room 320
• Demonstrate the skills of giving formative
feedback using interactive methods.
• Understand the importance of timeliness when
giving feedback (seizing the moment).
• To learn how to design and execute effective
lesson plans for all different swim levels.
MICHAEL LEVINSKY
This highly interactive workshop will clearly
demonstrate through audience participation, discussion and interaction,
just how important the power of words can be. It may be surprising to
find that the effects of positive vs. negative feedback can have somewhat
equal results. Workshop participants will witness how positive and
negative feedback can affect motivation in campers, staff and administration.
The outcome of this extremely practical camp session will leave participants
not only invigorated, but with the knowledge and tools of how to
implement new and exciting strategies into their daily operations at
camp. Be prepared to laugh and learn in this very unique, one-of-a-kind
experiential forum.
MICHAEL LEVINSKY, Director, Crestwood Valley Day Camp
When you think of summer camp you can’t help but think of swimming.
How do you get your campers to not only enjoy the pool, but actually
learn to swim? In this session, we will cover several topics including:
camper evaluations and group placements, safety skills that save lives,
water adjustment, fundamental aquatic skills needed to learn to swim
independently and how to run an effective swim class for all levels
(non-swimmers to swim team ready). We will also discuss the importance
of lesson plans and instruction consistency to set your swim program
above the rest.
FIONA KEARNEY, Owner, Aqua Tots
AILEEN BUCCIERO, Owner, Aqua Tots
Sharing is Caring: Strategies to
Transform Your Non-Camp Space
into a Young Camper’s Dream!
Science in a Snap
Location: Room 201
Location: Room 402
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Participants will bring home strategies to turn
indoor spaces into exciting vehicles for play
and how to best utilize outdoor space.
• Participants will recognize age-appropriate
activities for 2 through 5 year olds.
FIONA KEARNEY,
• To gain a better understanding of the
AILEEN BUCCIERO
practical safety SKILLS (not safety rules) that
can save a camper’s life, and hopefully these lifesaving skills will
be incorporated into the swim programs.
JILLIAN GLICK
• Participants will learn best practices for
sharing spaces with other programs.
Are you a day camp that functions as a school
during the year? Do you compete with bigger
camps whose grounds are only used for camping?
Do you want to keep your preschool-aged campers
engaged in developmentally appropriate camp
settings? Do you just want some fresh ideas for
MARK GUTMAN
your preschool camp program? Join us as we share
our experiences with preschool aged children (up to 5 years) in a setting
without traditional camp facilities. We will discuss/ play/ learn how to/
share ideas/ laugh about: .... -Strategies and ideas you can implement
to help change the feel of your space to make it appropriate for camp.
-Utilize the space you have to the best it can be. -No pool? No problem!
Water activities that are even better than a pool. -Set some guidelines
on age appropriateness of activities for our youngest campers. -Learn to
implement imagination and creativity to change the framework of a
traditional theater program.
JILLIAN GLICK, Director of Youth and Camp Engagement,
Camp Chaverim
MARK GUTMAN, Assistant Camp Director/ Director of Youth
Engagement, Camp Rodef Shalom
• Participants will be more confident in
presenting science content in a handson manner.
• Participants will learn and participate in
science activities that are easily replicable.
• Participants will discover new ways to
infuse science into everyday camp life.
We’re all familiar with arts and crafts and indoor
games, but have you ever thought about using
science activities as rainy-day plans? Infusing
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and
Math) into your summer programming is easier
than you might think! Using simple, everyday
materials, learn how you can make science easy
and fun for staff and campers alike. This handson, active workshop will allow participants to
“be the camper” as they predict, observe and
test some of our most messy, reactive and
memorable science activities. These activities
will be short and sweet, and give you the
teaching tools you need to take them straight
to camp. Like we say at The Franklin Institute,
“Science is everywhere.”
ADRIENNE KIMBALL, Assistant Director of
Museum Programs, The Franklin Institute
Science Museum
CHARLES MUHLER, The Franklin Institute
RACHEL CASTRO, The Franklin Institute
DEBRA CROWE, The Franklin Institute
ADRIENNE KIMBALL
CHARLES MUHLER
RACHEL CASTRO
DEBRA CROWE
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What Can Camps Learn From Today’s
Successful Startups?
The Current State of The Summer
Camp Business
Location: Room 317
Location: Room 314
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Identify what makes startups successful in
today’s environment
• Gain a better understanding of how times
are changing and how marketing your camp
may need to change to keep up.
• Understand the history of camp.
• Have a new perspective on how their program
fits into the greater universe of summer programs.
• Identify areas for expansion and growth.
SCOTT ROSENBLUTH
• Explore ways that camps can use some of these popular startup
tactics to grow their business.
If you haven’t noticed, we now live in an ondemand market where startups
like Uber, Handy, Seamless and Oscar seem to be growing in popularity.
These companies, along with many others coming out of Silicon Valley
are not only successful because of their product and having their finger
on the pulse of a marketplace, but the way they choose to grow their
business, their cutting edge human resource practices, the perks they
offer to their employees (and early users) and their understanding of
how to reach prospective customers through targeted experiential and
social marketing campaigns. In this session, we will explore elements of
startup success and how you can apply some of these concepts and
ideas to your business and camp.
SCOTT ROSENBLUTH, Assistant Director, Camps Equinunk & Blue Ridge
Fundraise Using Your Asking Style
to Be More Comfortable and Effective
Location: Room 315
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Learn your Asking Style and its strengths
and challenges.
• Learn how to apply your Asking Style in
concrete ways to the asking process.
BRIAN SABER
• Learn how to make a strong case for support
that is authentic to who you are and compelling to your donor.
Almost 90% of all charitable gifts come from individuals and the largest
gifts come from asking one-on-one in person. Accessing these gifts is
critical to fulfilling the mission of your organization. So how do you do
it? There’s no one right way to ask for a gift. Who you are and what you
bring to the table are critically important. When you ask in a way that
suits you personally, you will be more comfortable and more effective.
Join Brian to learn about your Asking Style, its specific strengths and
challenges, and how to apply your Style to be a a more comfortable and
effective fundraiser. Which prospects might be the best fit? How do you
make a strong case for support in your own voice and from your own
perspective? What do you need to watch out for during the meeting?
When you use your Asking Style to fundraise, you will be able to cultivate
and solicit individual gifts that allow your organization to fulfill its vision
and have the biggest impact possible!
BRIAN SABER, President, Asking Matters
DANIEL ZENKEL
Paid summer programs for children, both for-profit and
not-for-profit, are a multi-billion dollar business. The 3,000+ programs
represented at Tri-State constitute a modest subset of that business.
This session will explore trends in children’s summer programming and
how “traditional” and “non-traditional” day and resident camps fit with
those trends. Topics will include: the evolution of summer camp, the
impact of regulation and demographics, recent trends such as consolidation,
changing session lengths, specialization and professionalization.
Expansion and growth opportunities will also be discussed.
DANIEL ZENKEL, Partner/ President, The Camp Professionals/
Berkshire Sports Academy
Building Relationships that Foster
a Growth Mindset
Location: Room 318
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Make language choices that positively
impact a camper’s mindset.
• Model effectively so campers become more
independent.
• Reflect on their behaviors and tools, and rethink PATTY MCGEE
practices that might not get the results they want.
In this session, Patty McGee will share the latest research on mindset
and how it impacts our performance and our happiness. She will offer
concrete examples and tools that leaders and counselors can use when
building relationships with campers. Participants will leave the session
with 4 moves they can make that impact campers’ mindsets and level of
independence. All campers can leave the summer experience with a
newfound sense of confidence and independence with the right kinds of
support. Specifically, you will learn moves around language choices and
how the ways we frame interactions and choices for campers have a
huge impact. You will also learn effective ways to model so campers feel
empowered to make choices on their own. Much of the session will be
based on the new book Mindsets and Moves (Corwin, 2015).
PATTY MCGEE, Consultant, Gravity Goldberg, LLC
A Candid Camp Conversation - What
Do Parents Honestly Think About...
Location: Room 301
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Consider various parent perspectives when
it comes to tough questions.
• Think about what new camper parents care about.
• Appreciate why parents choose one camp
over another.
What does it mean to be a camp parent? Come
find out what parents are really looking for in a
camp. We will share our candid, honest answers
about what you as camp professionals always
wanted to know! Our lively panel of new camp
moms will discuss: -Our biggest worry as a new
camp parent -What competition means to us
-What made us choose our camps -If we sent our
child solo or with friends and why -How we wish
camps dealt with homesickness -Pictures vs. no
pictures -Bullying policies -Level of communication:
what’s ideal -Other: what
would YOU like to know?
AMY STAUB
ALLISON CHAYUT
AMY STAUB
ALLISON CHAYUT
REBECCA FARBER
MICHELE FIERMAN
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MICHELE FIERMAN
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GENERAL SESSION – KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Angela Duckworth, Psychologist & Leading Researcher On Grit
True Grit: The Science of Success
Location: Hall A, Second Level
Who succeeds in life? In this talk, Angela Duckworth presents her influential
work on grit—the tendency to pursue long-term goals with perseverance
and passion. She describes the predictive power of grit for performance
in a variety of fascinating contexts. Duckworth has studied groups like
the West Point cadets, National Spelling Bee competitors, rookie teachers,
students from the Chicago Public Schools—all people performing in
high-stress environments—to look at the correlation between grit and
achievement. Drawing from these examples and others, Duckworth
explains what makes gritty individuals different from others and
shares her belief that grit “can be instilled and cultivated by anyone,
anywhere and at any time in life.”
Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth is a leading researcher in the study of
GRIT and self-control. She is a professor of psychology at the
University of Pennsylvania and a co-founder of the Character Lab. Her
TED talk has received over seven million views, and she has been
profiled in The New York
Times Magazine and National
Geographic. In 2013, she
was awarded a MacArthur
Genius Grant.
Prior to her career in research,
Angela founded a non-profit
summer school for low-income
children, which won the Better
Government Award for the
state of Massachusetts. The
school was featured as a
Harvard Kennedy School case
study. Angela has also been a
McKinsey management consultant and,
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for five years, a math teacher in the public schools of San Francisco,
Philadelphia and New York City. Her first book, Grit: Passion,
Perseverance, and the Science of Success, will be released in spring
2016 by Simon and Schuster.
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Baker, Katie
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Baruch-Feldman, Caren
Baskin, Steve
Baskin, Susie
Beattie, April
Bernstein, Lauren
Bitterman, Drew
Black, Mickie
Bloom, Diana
Bloom, Diana
Bloom, Sam
Bloom, Sam
Bock, Cameron
Bolden, Gerald
Borek, Sam
Brandwein, Michael
Brandwein, Michael
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Brecker, Kimberly
Brethel, Jackie
Brody, Scott
Brody, Scott
Bucciero, Aileen
Bucciero, Aileen
Caflun, Ephram
Cain, Jim
Cain, Jim
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Capalad, Pamela
Castro, Ana
Castro, Rachel
Caudell, Donna
Cendrowski, Joseph
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Chenet, Susan
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Daly, Jeff
Decembrino, Frank
Deren, Jon
Deren, Sara
Dinski, Mary Lee
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Disston, Todd
Ditter, Bob
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Dorfman, Carolyn
Dubin, Hannah
Dukes, Yvette
Elliot, Marc
Englander, Elizabeth
Esolen, Marianne
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Fierman, Michele
Fischer, Cathi
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Fleischner, Nicki
Flynn, Bryan
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Friedman, Robert Lawrence
Gamble, Simone
Gelb, Jared
Gennawey, Sam
Gersten, Richie
Gilboa, Deborah
Gilboa, Deborah
Girling, Alissa
Glick, Jillian
Glick, Jillian
Goldberg, Peter
Goodger, James
Gutman, Mark
Hardin, Dayna
Hargrave, Jen
Homayoun, Ana
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Honingfeld, Marc
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Issadore, Adam
Jackowitz, Matt
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Kalvert, Pete
Katzman, Alan
Kaufman, Jeffrey
Kaufman, Jeffrey
Kaufman, Matt
Kearney, Fiona
Kearney, Fiona
Kelly, Laura
Kelly, Laura
Kennedy-Moore, Eileen
Kessler, Arthur
Kimball, Gary
Kimball, Adrienne
Ko, Christie
Ko, Christie
Kotelov, Stacy
Krouner, Matt
Krouner, Paul
Labadorf, Michael
Ledesma, Jane
Leopold, Matthew
Levinsky, Michael
Levinsky, Michael
Lewis, Mary Ann
Licht, Gregg
Licht, Gregg
Lombardi, Nate
Love, Gregory
Love, Gregory
Maguire, Stephen
Maguire, Stephen
Maguire, Stephen
Maguire, Stephen
Maguire, Stephen
Major, Mark
Malter, Dave
Marcus, Ilene
Mautner, Alexandra
Max, Rachel
Mazarin, Gregory
Mazarin, Gregory
McCulloch, Lara
McGee, Patty
McGuckin, Ronald
McRae, James
McRae, James
Medeiros, Kyle
Mellor, Alex
Merlin, Marc
Merlin, Marc
Meyer, Marc
Meyer, Robert Lawrence
Miller, David
Miller, Elyse
Mitchell, Bo
Mitchell, Bo
Morgan, Elena
Mosack, Meryl
Mosack, Meryl
Muhler, Charles
Mural, Zachary
Mural, Zachary
Mushkin, Jeff
Napuli, Robert
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Newfield, Mark
Nupp, Jennifer
Offitzer, Karen
Packard, Jake
Perlow, Mike
Pinckney-Cooper, Deena
Pritikin, Andy
Pritikin, Andy
Pulewitz, Matt
Raicovich, Pedro
Ralls, Scott
Reiter, Mitch
Reiter, Mitch
Reiter, Stephanie
Richards, Kendall
Rodriguez, Glo
Rosenbluth, Scott
Ross, Peter
Saber, Brian
Sangster, Cat
Sarnell, Lonnie
Schainman, Ken
Sebell, Jason
Sederoff, Ashley
Shapiro, Joel
Shenker, Nancy
Silverman, Alan
Simon, Jamie
Slater Tate, Allison
Smith, Joanna Warren
Smith, Joanna Warren
Smith, John
Smith, John
Smith, Matthew
Smith, Matthew
Snearing, Cricket
Snearing, Cricket
Snearing, Cricket
Sorensen, AIA, Marie S.A.
Sorensen, AIA, Marie S.A.
Staub, Amy
Stein, Eric
Stein, Eric
Stein, Tony
Strauch, Heinrich
Sunshine, Blake
Sunshine, Blake
Tanne, Robyn
Tantillo, Margaret
Teich, Nick
Thurber, Dr. Chris
Thurber, Dr. Chris
Thurber, Dr. Chris
Transport, Mark
Urrutia, Felix
Wanamaker, Camarin
Weir, Dan
Weiss, Ruth Ann
Williams, Eleanor
Yosen, Julia
Zaatar, Nadine
Zenkel, Daniel
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DANI ACKERMAN, Elmwood Day Camp
dani@elmwooddaycamp.com
Dani Ackerman is the associate director and
staffing director of Elmwood Day Camp. She
holds a master’s degree in education. Prior to
joining Elmwood year round, she was an integral
part of the leadership team at Woodmont Day
Camp. Her professional experience working
with children includes teaching at a special
needs school in Westchester. She is an active
member of the EPIC and Project Morry Young
Professionals committees.
TRAVIS ALLISON, Go Camp Pro
travis@camphacker.tv
Travis Allison has become one of the top
go-to international experts and consultants in
the summer camp and recreation industries.
He is one of the most popular camp speakers
at coast to coast conferences in the US and
Canada. He co-founded Go Camp Pro,
produces and manages the highly popular
CampHacker.TV podcasts and founded the
Summer Camp Professionals group on Facebook.
His particular expertise is in innovative strategies
to use social media and other online marketing
tools for camper recruitment and retention.
JAMES ANDERSON, Global 360
jamesanderson78@qq.com
James Anderson is the owner and founder of
Global 360, an International Education
Company located in the New York
Metropolitan area. He holds a BA of Music
from William Paterson University located in
New Jersey. For seven years he was the facilitator for Educational and Cultural Experiences
for International Students at the oldest and
largest Christian Day School in the New York
Metropolitan area. During his employment
at this school he developed the American
Experience, an English immersion program
that provides students with the opportunity
to improve their English while experiencing
American Culture. James believes that
International Educational programs will
provide students with a quality cross-cultural
experience, enhancing the skills needed for
today’s global citizen.
SCOTT ARIZALA, The Camp Counselor
scott@thecampcounselor.com
Scott is the leading expert, trainer and
consultant in summer camp, working with
youth programs and thousands of staff across
the country. He is the award-winning author
of S’more Than Camp, and founding faculty
member of the online staff training resource
ExpertOnlineTraining and Go Camp Pro. He
is the executive director of three camps for
kids with special needs.
GARY AUERBACH, ChampionofPlay.com
info@championofplay.com
Skills learned at camp last a lifetime! Presenter
Gary Auerbach went on to become a world
110
champion of freestyle frisbee and play at 4
World Ultimate Club Championships. His
unique approach to teaching fun and skills
with frisbees will keep your staff and campers
playing forever.
DEBORAH AUSBURN, Taylor English
Duma LLP
dausburn@taylorenglish.com
Deborah Ausburn has defended youth-serving
organizations throughout the U.S. in matters
ranging from physical injuries to claims of
sexual abuse. She has served for more than
30 years with youth organizations as a social
worker, criminal prosecutor, board member,
foster parent, and attorney. She volunteers
with numerous community organizations,
serving on the boards of the Anna Crawford
Children’s Center in Woodstock and Hillside,
Inc. in Atlanta and the Youth Protection
Committee for the Atlanta Area Council of
the Boys Scouts of America.
KIMBERLY AYCOCK, Camp 2 Campus
Learning Solutions
kimdaycock@gmail.com
Kim Aycock, MST, has 25+ years of experience
blending the skills of a master teacher with
the knowledge of a seasoned camp expert.
She trains camp staff at all levels and speaks
professionally at regional and national conferences. Kim has the ability to connect with
and motivate learners of all ages through
her innovative and interactive presentations.
More information can be found on her
website: www.kimaycock.com.
KATIE BAKER, Camp Akeela/Momentum
Behavioral Health Services
kmobrycki@gmail.com
Katie’s life after graduating from Miami University
in Oxford, OH, has consisted mainly of two
things: summer camp and applied behavior
analysis (ABA). During her summer months,
she works at Camp Akeela as a head counselor,
and the rest of the year she is a lead behavior
therapist for Momentum Behavior Health
Services. She earned a master’s degree in
ABA in May of 2015 and spent the summer of
2015 putting the principles of behavior analysis
to the test in a traditional summer camp setting.
RYAN BALL, Sidwell Summer
BallR@sidwell.edu
Ryan Ball, Assistant Director of Auxiliary
Programs at Sidwell Friends School, directs
Sidwell Summer’s largest day camp, catering
four separate programs to roughly 350 campers,
aged 3 to rising grade 10. She manages Sidwell
Summer’s Sponsorship Fund and coordinates
Sidwell Friends School’s Music Lesson Program.
Prior to beginning her work at Sidwell in 2010,
Ryan worked in the Summer Programs
Department at The Lawrenceville School in
Lawrenceville, NJ. A former Division I athlete,
Ryan has her Bachelor’s degree in Elementary
Education and Sociology from The University
of Richmond and her Master’s degree in
Education from Marymount University.
ADAM BARANKER, Jeff Lake Camp
adam@jefflakecamp.com
Adam Baranker started at Jeff Lake in 1992 at
the age of 4 and has been a part of the Jeff
Lake family ever since. His mother was a Jeff
Lake camper and counselor in the 70s, so it
was natural when he followed suit. During his
24 years at Jeff Lake, Adam has been a camper,
CIT, AIDE, junior counselor, senior counselor,
color war captain, and now assistant director.
Aside from always leading cheers and camp
spirit, Adam is the CIT/AIDE director; manages
the camp’s social media, team-building
program, and staffing; and assists in special
events and programming.
CAREN BARUCH-FELDMAN,
ExpertOnlineTraining.com; Harrison
School District
drcarenfeldman@msn.com
Caren Baruch-Feldman, Ph.D. is a licensed
clinical psychologist and a certified school
psychologist. Dr. Baruch-Feldman has a strong
interest in camping. She worked for eight
years as the camp psychologist at Ramah Day
Camp in Nyack. At Ramah and at other camps,
she has trained camp counselors based on
psychological principles. She developed a
handbook that has been used at Ramah
camps that focuses on positive and proactive
approaches to working with campers. In
addition, Dr. Baruch-Feldman is a staff member
on expertonlinetraining.com. She has developed
training videos focusing on Jewish principles
and best practices in psychology that have
been used by camps across the county.
Providing in-services and interactive workshops
is a highlight of Dr. Baruch-Feldman’s professional life. Dr. Baruch-Feldman received her
undergraduate degree from Barnard College
of Columbia University and received her
doctorate in clinical child psychology and
school psychology certificate from St. John’s
University. Dr. Baruch-Feldman trained at the
Albert Ellis Institute and is a fellow and supervisor in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
(REBT), a type of cognitive behavioral therapy.
STEVE BASKIN, Camp Champions
steveb@campchampions.com
Steve and his wife, Susie, direct Camp
Champions in Texas. He has been a camp
professional for 21 years. Steve is also a partner
in Everwood Day Camp in Massachusetts and
Camp Pinnacle in North Carolina. Steve serves on
the ACA board and blogs for Psychology Today.
SUSIE BASKIN, Camp Champions
susanbaskin@campchampions.com
Susie Baskin is the owner and executive director
of Camp Champions in Marble Falls, TX. In 1995,
she and her husband, Steve, bought the camp
from the founders. Prior to camp ownership,
Susie worked in hospital administration. She
received her bachelors from the University of
Michigan and her MBA from the Kellogg School
at Northwestern University. Susie was appointed
by the Texas commissioner on education to the
Expanded Opportunities Learning Council, a
small group of professionals examining the best
practices for out of school learning. She is also
part of TXPOST, the Texas Partnership for Out
of School Time. She and her husband live year
round at their camp and have raised their four
children there.
APRIL BEATTIE, Girl Scout
abeattie@gsep.org
Ape is a lifetime member of Girl Scouts and a lifelong camper. Upon graduation from high school
she became a staff member at the Girl Scout
Camp she grew up at, Tweedale. She has been
working at Girl Scout camp ever since, and is currently the Camp Director of Camp Mosey Wood
in Pennsylvania. This summer will be her 15th
summer working at Girl Scout Camp and 24th
summer overall going to camp. She received a
Bachelor’s degree in Health and Physical
Education- Teacher Certification from West
Chester University. That teacher training has
helped to form the philosophies that Ape takes
into camp to teach both her campers and staff.
LAUREN PINE BERNSTEIN, Camp
Walden, NY
lauren@campwalden-ny.com
For over 10 years Lauren has been the Owner/
Director of Camp Walden, a traditional, coed,
overnight camp in the Adirondacks. For fifteen
years prior, she had worked on the leadership
team and as a director for some of the finest
day, resident, nonprofit and private camps
including Equinunk & Blue Ridge, Spring
Lake Day Camp, Lake Bryn Mawr Camp and
the YMCA Camp Nassau. Lauren is a past
board member of the American Camping
Association and is presently on the Board of
Trustees of Project Morry. She holds a
Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education
from the University of South Florida, a
Master’s degree in Reading from SUNY
Albany and a Master’s degree in Leadership
and Administration from the Bank Street
School of Education in New York City.
Lauren has taught in public and private
schools and has served as a Vice Principal
prior to owning Camp Walden.
DREW BITTERMAN, Camp Watitoh
drew@campwatitoh.com
Drew Bitterman is the director of Camp
Watitoh, a coed overnight camp in the
Berkshires of Massachusetts. Having spent 13
years at Watitoh as a camper and staff member,
his dream was always to be a camp director.
Since joining the industry over 15 years ago,
he has been the program director and associate
director of overnight camps in the Northeast
and a director of a NJ day camp, before
returning home to Camp Watitoh.
MICKEY BLACK, Pine Forest Camp
mickey@pineforestcamp.com
Mickey Black has been a camp director for 31
years and is the 3rd generation of a 5 generation
camping family. Mickey and his family own
and operate 3 resident camps, Pine Forest
Camp founded in 1931, Lake Owego Camp
for boys and Camp Timber Tops for girls.
They also operate short term specialty camps
and an extensive pre and post group business.
The camp organization is located on 1,000
acres, employs 700 staff and serves over 1,400
children each summer. Mickey is past president
of the Association of Independent Camps (AIC).
DIANA BLOOM, Mike Scott and Associates
Diana@TotallyAccountable.com
Productivity and efficiency coach Diana Bloom
travels throughout the United States as a leading
authority on how to create a Totally Accountable
Culture. Diana spends her summers as head
counselor at URJ Camp Coleman in Cleveland,
Georgia, supervising 7 unit heads who oversee
80+ bunk staff and over 400 campers per
session. Participants around the country have
gained knowledge and tools during her seminars,
enabling them to immediately implement
permanent changes in their personal and
professional lives. Her techniques are presented
in a manner that can be quickly understood
with measurable results. Diana’s humorous,
engaging and straightforward training style
has helped thousands of people achieve
dramatic change in their lives. She grew up in
Rockville Centre, Long Island and graduated
from Binghamton University with a BA in
Judaic studies. Diana earned her MA in Jewish
history from NYU where she attended as a
fellow of the Skirball Center.
SAM BLOOM, Emma Kaufmann Camp
sbloom@jccpgh.org
Sam Bloom has been part of the camping,
sports and recreation community for 28 years.
Sam’s camping experience includes sports
director, aquatics director, unit head and
program director, and for the past 20 years he
has been an overnight camp director at Emma
Kaufmann Camp in Pittsburgh and Herzl Camp
in Minneapolis. Additionally, Sam is currently
the director of sports and recreation and
director of Maccabi programming at the
Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh.
Sam has also been a program supervisor and
teacher as well as a director of day and travel
camps at the Jewish Community Center in
Pittsburgh and the assistant director of day
camps at the Jewish Community Center in
West Palm Beach, Florida.
GERALD BOLDEN, Wonders Summer
Camp
gbolden@wonderschildcare.org
Gerald is a seasoned school-age professional,
who for the past 11 years has held a variety of
leadership roles at Wonders, including program
director, curriculum and instructional specialist
and summer camp director. Gerald’s 25 years
of experience in the field have been enriched
by the connections made with children and
families, and strengthened by effective teamwork; these characteristics are the foundation
of his training philosophy.
SAM BOREK, Woodmont Day Camp
Sam@woodmontdaycamp.com
After graduating law school, Sam became the
program director at Camp Laurel in Maine and
then the administrative director of Elmwood
Day Camp. Sam and his wife Ilisha were lucky
to be able to follow their dreams when they
became the current owner/directors of
Woodmont Day Camp in New City, NY. Sam
is a proud parent of two sons, who have been
lucky enough to grow up at Woodmont.
CAMERON BOCK, Mohawk Day Camp
cameron@campmohawk.com
Involved in transportation for 7 seven years,
doing attendance and managing the bus
monitors.
MICHAEL BRANDWEIN,
Educator / author / staff trainer
mail@michaelbrandwein.com
Michael (michaelbrandwein.com) has made
presentations in all fifty U.S. states and on six
of the seven continents. He is the number
one best-selling author in the camp field, with
five consecutive bestsellers on training and
leading staff who work with young people:
Training Terrific Staff (volumes one and two),
Skill of the Day: What Great Leaders of Young
People Do & Say, Super Staff SuperVision
and Learning Leadership: How to Develop
Outstanding Teen Leadership Programs at
Camp. Michael is an internationally recognized
expert on youth development in education,
camps and school age programs. He wrote
and presented three Emmy Award-winning
television programs on communicating with
children. He has served on the national board
of directors of ACA and has received two
national honors from ACA for his training of
directors and staff throughout the world. In
2014, he received the prestigious Kerns Award
for Advancement of Professional Development
in Camps. He does staff training for individual
camps and is a frequent national and state
keynoter at conferences for youth development
organizations and educators. His Juris Doctor
degree is from the University of Chicago.
KIMBERLY BRECKER, Sobel Affiliates,
a Brown & Brown Company
kbrecker@sobelins.com
Over twenty years of experience insuring
children’s summer camps as vice president
of one of the nation’s largest camp insurance
brokers. Former camper and proud mom of
two young campers. Personally manages the
firm’s camp department and enjoys building
great working relationships with all of our
camp customers.
JACKIE BRETHEL, Camp Cobbossee
jackie@cobbossee.com
Jackie Brethel is the associate director at Camp
Cobbossee in Monmouth, ME. Jackie has been
a full time camp professional since 2010. Prior
to working in camping, Jackie was an elementary
school teacher in New York. She holds a bachelor’s degree in childhood education from
SUNY Cortland. Jackie is an active member of
the ACA, volunteering on the Tri-State Program
Committee, is a former member of the EPIC
Committee, and has served as the Tri-State
Hospitality Chair since 2011. At Cobbossee,
Jackie uses her experience in childhood education to focus on residential life and developing
relationships with camp families.
SCOTT BRODY, Camps Kenwood &
Evergreen
scott@kenwood-evergreen.com
Scott Brody is the owner and director of
Camps Kenwood & Evergreen and the
Founder of Everwood Day Camp. He also
serves as the national vice president of the
ACA and is deeply involved in ACA’s public
policy work. He is an emerging expert on the
teaching of non-cognitive 21st-century skills
at camp. Scott has spoken extensively about
the camp experience to audiences of camp
professionals, grant makers, CEOs, leading
educators and government decision makers.
AILEEN BUCCIERO, Aqua Tots
office@aquatots123.com
Aileen Crampton Bucciero and Fiona Crampton
Kearney own and operate Swim Tank, home
of Aqua Tots, a swim school that currently has
over 1600 students enrolled in classes each
session. Students ranging in age from 4
months to 13 years follow a uniquely designed
curriculum that uses specific teaching techniques
based on each child’s level and age.
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EPHRAM CAFLUN, Wekeela
ephram@campwekeela.com
Ephram A. Caflun is the owner and director of
Camp Wekeela in Hartford, Maine. He has
been at Wekeela since 1997. He has a BS in
psychology from SUNY Oneonta and an MSW
from Yeshiva University. Ephram was on the
2014 Tri-State business track committee. He
has been a speaker at Tri-State several times.
This will be Ephram’s 21st year at Tri-State.
Ephram is also on the ACA New England camp
champion committee and an ACA standards
visitor. He is also a proud member of VOCE.
Ephram is a proud, die-hard Mets fan.
JIM CAIN, Teamwork & Teamplay
jimcain@teamworkandteamplay.com
Teambuilding guru Dr. Jim Cain is the author
of a dozen best-loved books filled with team
and community building activities from around
the world.
RYAN CANUELLE, Mainstages
support@mainstages.com
Ryan received his master’s degree in educational theater at New York University, where
he collaborated with top teaching artists and
educational leaders to create and administer
creative curriculum for educational institutions.
As director of education and programming
for Mainstages, Ryan oversees and facilitates
innovative programming for over 18,000 children
yearly. Ryan honed his love of camp as a
theater specialist and supervisor at Camp
Poyntelle Lewis Village, where he learned the
intricacies of maximizing creative impact at
camp while reaching educational goals.
PAMELA CAPALAD, Pockets Change
pam@pocketschange.com
Pamela Capalad, CFP® stumbled into financial
literacy because she needed a summer job
and a place called The Money Camp was hiring.
She found herself teaching week-long camps
where kids learned how to budget, use credit
cards wisely, save their money, start businesses,
and invest in the stock market. After three
years of teaching scores of kids (and adults!),
she was convinced that there was a crippling
need for financial literacy education, so she
took her literature degree from UC Santa
Barbara and made her way to New York City,
where she thought she could get the best
insights on how the financial industry really
worked. Seven years later, she is still wading
through vast amounts of information (and
earned her Certified Financial Planner™
designation in the process) so she can continue
to demystify the complex world of finance for
Pockets Change kids and for her Brunch &
Budget clients. You can catch her on the
internet waves every Sunday at 2:00 PM ET on
Bondfire Radio.
ANA CASTRO, The Handwork Studio
Ana@thehandworkstudio.com
With an enthusiasm for working with children
and a background in the visual arts, Ana
enjoys teaching students at The Handwork
Studio traditional techniques to make their
own new personal works of art. She believes
every child’s unique sense of style is to be
celebrated and embraced.
She has a BFA in Fibers and Textile Studies
from The University of the Arts.
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When Ana is not teaching at The Handwork
Studio, she has an avid studio practice for her
visual and performance work shown in local
and international art galleries.
RACHEL CASTRO-DIEPHOUSE,
The Franklin Institute
rcastrodiephouse@fi.edu
Rachel Castro-Diephouse is a former chemistturned-science educator with a passion for
making science understandable and exciting
to people of all ages. As an educator and
curriculum developer at The Franklin Institute,
Rachel focuses on translating science concepts
into engaging, interactive activities for a wide
variety of audiences, including preschoolers,
school groups, and adults. She has worked
with the Institute’s Discovery Camp program
since 2009 and has developed and led camp
activities about everything from animal adaptations to projectile physics to spy-craft and
forensic science.
DONNA CAUDELL, Truett McConnell
College
dcaudell@truett.edu
Donna Caudell was an educator and school
counselor for 29 years, working with thousands
of parents and students. She has her Ed.S. in
Educational Leadership and currently teaches
as an assistant professor of behavioral studies
at Truett McConnell College.
JOSEPH CENDROWSKI, The Gow
School Summer Program
jcendrowski@gow.org
Joe Cendrowski is the activity instructional
clinic coordinator at the Gow School Summer
Program. This is his fourth year in that position.
During the school year, he teaches math, coaches
cross country and lacrosse and is a dorm parent.
He enjoys working with kids and has been an
avid sport enthusiast his whole life. He loves
that he can spend his summer organizing
different sports and activities for young kids
and make their summers enjoyable as well.
JAMIE CHADWIN, Camps for Camps
coachchadwin@gmail.com
Jamie Chadwin is the owner and director of
Camps For Camps, a network of instructional
programs that travel to camps and organizations.
He has conducted clinics and training sessions
for both campers and staff at dozens of camps
on the east coast, while also directing the TOP
Basketball Camp. Chadwin enters his eleventh
season as a head basketball coach, having
spent time at both the high school and collegiate levels. Chadwin has guided teams to the
NCAA Division III Tournament as well as gold
medals in international tournaments. A graduate
of the University of Delaware with degrees in
health and physical education, Chadwin
teaches physical education in addition to his
coaching roles. Chadwin has more than 18
years of experience in the camping industry,
formerly serving as program director at Pine
Forest Camp in Greeley, PA.
ALLISON CHAYUT
allison.chayut@gmail.com
Allison Chayut is an organizer in NYC, who has
a passion for anything related to her twin boys.
She is actively involved with Manhattan Soccer
Club, travel basketball, and fitness in general.
Prior to her current role as crazy busy mom,
Allison was the director of sales for HUGO
Boss for ten years.
SUSAN CHENET, Camp Wa-Klo for Girls
schenet@campwaklo.com
Susan Chenet is one of the directors at Camp
Wa-Klo for Girls in New Hampshire where she
has worked for 31 summers. Chenet has an
MFA in playwriting from the University of New
Orleans, an MA in dramatic studies from the
University of London, and has presented at
the ACA-National and ACA-New England
conferences. Chenet took what she learned as
a theatre teacher in Louisiana and infused camp
with innovative programming ideas. She serves
on the board of the NH Camps and is also an
ACA visitor. Chenet has authored four resource
books for camps and kids: Incorporating Theatre
into the Camp Setting, 50 Nifty Theatre Activities
for Kids, Another 50 Nifty Theatre Activities
for Kids, and 101 Bunk Activities.
LORILEE CHIEN, Project Morry
lorilee@projectmorry.org
Lorilee Chien is currently the leadership, life
skills, college, career and coach program
coordinator at Project Morry. Project Morry is
a long-term education and enrichment nonprofit anchored in a summer program serving
six different underserved communities. With
over 10 years of youth development experience,
she is passionate about young people, education, access and equality.
MICHAEL CLARKE, Fresh Air Fund
mclarke@freshair.org
Michael Clarke joined The Fresh Air Fund in
1999 full time as a member of the Community
Outreach Department where he was responsible for recruiting and registering 3000 plus
children for Fresh Air Fund summer programs.
He became the Coordinator of the Secondary
Schools Connections Program in 2000. In the
summers of 2002, and 2003, he served as
Assistant Director of Camp Hayden-Marks
Memorial and Camp Mariah, respectively.
From 2004-2014 he was Director of The
Career Awareness Program (Camp Mariah),
and for 2013 & 2014 directed the organization’s Camp Hayden-Marks.
He is currently the Director of the Fund’s
Sharpe Reservation in Fishkill, NY. The Fresh
Air Fund’s Sharpe Reservation is the 2,000
acre site located in the Hudson Highlands
near Fishkill, NY. It is the site of the Fund’s
five summer programs where 3,000 children
attend during the summer, and an additional
10,000 children during the off-season.
Prior to his work at The Fresh Air Fund, Mr.
Clarke was a Social Studies Teacher in
Northern NJ. He has been a mentor and tutor
for the Canaan Baptist Church. Mr. Clarke is a
graduate of Kean University with a Bachelor of
Arts in Public Communication and Secondary
Education (History), and holds a Masters of
Public Administration with a concentration in
Public Policy from Long Island University. In
addition, Mr. Clarke has taught SAT- Prep
classes to high school students.
He currently sits on the Board of Edwin Gould
Services for Children and Families and is the VicePresident & Chair of the Program Committee.
DAN COLGAN, Rock Paper Team, LLC
dan@rockpaperteam.com
Dan Colgan is founder of Rock Paper
Team—a team building company using his 20
years experience in team development. Dan
worked in secondary and higher education,
plus immersion experiences, bringing youth
and adults together in team settings for service, educational and social experiences. Now
Dan brings those experiences to provide interactive programs for leadership teams and participants to gain insights while having fun and
building relationships.
STEPHANIE “RUBY” COMPTON,
Green River Preserve
ruby@greenriverpreserve.org
Stephanie “Ruby” Compton is the summer
camp program director at Green River Preserve.
She worked previously as an experiential
education teacher at Nature’s Classroom Atop
Lookout Mountain and in a variety of program
roles in both day and overnight YMCA camps
in Nashville, TN. She is one of the hosts of the
camp leadership training podcast CampCode
and is a proud member of Western North
Carolina EPIC.
CARA CORRADETTI, Appel Farm
Arts Camp
cara@canadensis.com
Cara Corradetti is the Assistant Camp Director
at Appel Farm Arts Camp. With a decade of
professional camp experience under her belt,
she is excited to share her passion for the arts
with all of her fellow camp crafters at TriState
this season!”
DEBRA CROWE, The Franklin Institute
dcrowe@fi.edu
Debra Crowe has also been with our Discovery
Camp program since its earliest days and has
been integral in finding new and effective
ways to make camp planning, safety, and
“down time” procedures beneficial to campers,
parents and camp staff alike. You can usually
find Deb in her cubicle protectively guarding
her most up-to-date attendance sheets and
allergy action plans. Be nice to Deb. She is
always up to mischief, right 99% of the time,
and constantly obsessing about her dog,
camera, soccer team, museum and public
transportation. She also has lots of LEGOs.
PAUL CULFF, Asphalt Green
pculff@asphaltgreen.org
Paul is the Sports Director at Asphalt Green
and acts as Assistant Camp Director during
the summer. For over 10 years, Paul has been
working with children in a variety of roles with
his primary goal being to teach them valuable
life lessons through sports and camp. Hailing
from Australia, Paul didn’t get the traditional
day camp experience since it isn’t customary
over there, however he loves the environment
day camp provides for children. There are too
many benefits to list, including the freedom it
gives children to express themselves, learn
new skills, build confidence and develop new
friendships. Favorite Camp Game = Switch
JORDAN DALE, Surprise Lake
jordan@surpriselake.org
Jordan has a bachelor’s degree in psychology
from Syracuse University, where he was also
class president and valedictorian. He has a
law degree from Stanford and is a “retired”
member of the bar in Illinois and New York.
He started at SLC as a camper at age 12 and
was a counselor, unit supervisor, support
supervisor and division supervisor. He has
now been the executive director since May,
1986. He has served on the boards of directors
of The American Camp Association’s New
York Section, the Cold Spring Area Chamber
of Commerce, the Association of Jewish
Sponsored Camps, and the New York State
Camp Directors Association, where he has
also served as president. He is currently the
chair of the New York State Children’s Camp
Safety Council, to which he was appointed by
the governor, and he is the past chair of the
Association of Federation Camps.
JEFF DALY, 3 Adventures
jeff@3Adventures.com
Jeff Daly is Director of IENA’s 3 Adventures
International Camp Staff program. He has spent
the past 24 years in the Camping Industry as
Camper, Counselor, and Camp Director. Jeff is
an established trainer and speaker, having
presented and worked with young people all
over the world through camping.
Jeff has previously worked as Director of
Camping Services with the Frost Valley
YMCA. In addition he has worked with the
Philadelphia Freedom Valley YMCA, and
served as Executive Director of the Kennett
Area YMCA in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
Jeff volunteered internationally working with
at-risk youth in Africa via Global Camps Africa,
as well as serving in his local community on the
Board of The Garage Community Center in
Kennett Square and the Longwood Rotary
Club. He currently serves on the Board of
Dragonfly Forest, a summer camp for children
with autism and other special medical needs.
Jeff lives with his wife, and two children in
Kennett Square, PA.
FRANK DECEMBRINO, Ambler Sports
Academy & Ripkin Quickball
Contact@AmblerSportsAcademy.com
• Bachelor’s degree in movement studies and
exercise science from East Stroudsburg
University
• Master’s degree in educational leadership
from St. Joseph’s University
• Coordinator of health, physical education at
Unified Arts Cheltenham High School
• Head baseball coach at Cheltenham High
School (2005-2014)
• Former associate scout for the Milwaukee
Brewers Baseball Club
• Honored to serve as director, coach, and
manager of Suburban 1 Carpenter Cup Team
SARA DEREN, Experience Camps
sara@experience.camp
Sara Deren is the founder and executive director
of Experience Camps, one-week camps for
children who have experienced the death of a
parent or sibling. She received her MBA from
Columbia University, where she also met the
guy (and future husband) who would inspire
her to leave her corporate job and join the
world of summer camp. She now combines
her background in business with her love of
camp to create life-changing opportunities for
grieving children across the country.
JON DEREN, Manitou
jon@campmanitou.com
Jon Deren is co-owner and director of Camp
Manitou in Maine, where he began as a ten
year old camper, 30 years ago. Jon was a
camper, counselor, and group leader at
Manitou before purchasing the camp at the
age of 23, with former bunkmates.
In 2007, Jon co-founded Manitou Experience
for Grieving Boys, now called Experience
Camps, and soon after helped develop Acting
Manitou for the Performing Arts. Jon has
served on the Board of Directors for the
American Camping Association NY/NJ Section
and co-chairs the ACA NY/NJ Teen
Leadership Conference.
MARY LEE DINSKI, Camp Fiver
Mary@fiver.org
Mary Lee Dinski (Deputy Executive Director)
has been with the Fiver Children’s Foundation
since 2003. She holds an undergraduate
degree in multi-cultural dynamics in education
from Gettysburg College and a master’s in
social work from Fordham University. Before
joining Fiver full-time, Mary coordinated the
after-school program at CAMBA, a Fiver partner
organization in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Currently, Mary oversees all staff development
efforts and year-round programs.
TODD DISSTON, Mohawk Day Camp
todd@campmohawk.com
I have been in transportation for 4 years, learning
from a camp legend, Steve Schainman. From
Wall Street to house renovations, I somehow
ended up in camping, which is now my true love.
BOB DITTER, Therapist
bobditter@gmail.com
Bob Ditter is a well-respected child, adolescent
and family therapist from Boston who works
nationally and internationally with people
who work with children. Bob is a noted camp
consultant and trainer and has been quoted
in The New York Times, The Ladies Home
Journal, Parent Magazine, USA Today and The
Boston Globe, to name a few. Sports
Illustrated called him “camping’s most articulate
spokesperson.” He has also appeared on the
NBC Today Show, Good Morning America
and the ABC Evening News. He served as
consultant to America’s Camp, the camp for
the children whose parents were killed in
the airplanes and Twin Towers in 2001, and
currently serves as Board President of Boston
Explorers, an urban day camp for children.
Bob continues to bring fresh perspectives and
cutting edge information on brain science,
child development and staff development to
the best traditions of children’s summer camps.
COREY DOCKSWELL, Camp Wicosuta
corey@campwicosuta.com
Corey received her bachelor’s degree in
sociology from Emory University and a master’s
in social work from New York University. Prior
to becoming co-director of Camp Wicosuta,
Corey spent several years working at a coed
resident camp and as an administrator of a
day camp. Prior to that, she spent three years
as the director of special programs for the
American Camp Association’s New York
Section office.
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CAROLYN DORFMAN, Camp Walt
Whitman
carolyn@campwalt.com
Prior to becoming a director, Carolyn worked
as the Executive Director of the National Law
Enforcement and Firefighters Children’s
Foundation in New York City. Carolyn spent
seven years in Knoxville, Tennessee first
graduating with a Master’s Degree in Sports
Management from the University of Tennessee
and then working as Assistant Athletic Director
for the Women’s Athletic Department. Carolyn
played four years of collegiate basketball at
Dalhousie University where she graduated
with a degree in Recreational Management.
Carolyn’s prior camp experience includes
working as the Director of Glencoe Day Camp
and many summers coaching at basketball and
volleyball camps throughout the US and Canada.
Carolyn and her husband Jed are joined each
summer at camp by their three children, who
have been able to experience the magic of
Walt Whitman every summer of their lives.
HANNAH DUBIN, Han Ban Can
Consulting
hannah@hanbancan.com
Hannah Dubin’s company, Han Ban Can
Consulting, focuses on people problem-solving
through leadership training, organizational
development and facilitation. Completing her
master’s degree at the University of Waterloo,
Hannah studied the connection between camp
and optimal learning environments. She has
worked at over a dozen camps across North
America holding senior camp positions and
director roles, including director of leadership
at Me to We, a global social enterprise steering
quality youth development programs across
North American, Ecuador, Nicaragua, China,
Ghana, Kenya and India. As a facilitator, Hannah
provides design and process support for participatory organizational change management.
Recently, Hannah has been training senior
camp staff teams on the skills that help peoplemanagers achieve their goals. She goes by
“Hannah Banana” in the camp world, and
even got married at camp!
DR. ANGELA DUCKWORTH,
Psychologist & Leading Researcher
on GRIT
Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth is a leading
researcher in the study of GRIT and self-control.
She is a professor of psychology at the
University of Pennsylvania, and a co-founder
of the Character Lab. Her TED talk has
received over seven million views, and she has
been profiled in The New York Times
Magazine and National Geographic. In 2013,
she was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” grant.
Prior to her career in research, Angela founded
a non-profit summer school for low-income
children, which won the Better Government
Award for the state of Massachusetts. The
school was featured as a Harvard Kennedy
School case study. Angela has also been a
McKinsey management consultant and, for
five years, a math teacher in the public schools
of San Francisco, Philadelphia, and New York
City. Her first book, Grit: Passion, Perseverance,
and the Science of Success, will be released in
spring 2016 by Simon and Schuster.
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KATIE DUFFY, Asphalt Green Day Camp
kduffy@asphaltgreen.org
Katie is the Camp Director at Asphalt Green.
She is looking forward to her tenth summer at
Asphalt Green this year! Each year, Katie is
thrilled to welcome campers to our two beautiful
facilities in Manhattan. She is proud of the
fantastic team that she works with to create a
summer full of wonderful memories for hundreds
of children. Katie loves to be a part of the
American Camp Association and enjoys attending
the ACA Tri-State Camp Conference every
year in March.
YVETTE DUKES, Oak Hall Summer
Program
ydukes@oakhall.org
Yvette Dukes is a summer camp professional
charged with providing day camp programming
for kids ages 3–5 at the Oak Hall Summer
Program. She has served in this capacity for the
last 3 summers and brings over 15 years of
summer programming experience. Ms. Dukes
is known for utilizing exciting themes from
everyday materials to bring programming to
life for our youngest campers.
MARC ELLIOT, Elliot Productions
marc@marcelliot.com
Marc Elliot is an international speaker and
author of the book What Makes You Tic?
whose messages have reached nearly 1 million
people. Despite living a life with Tourettes and
an intestinal birth defect, Marc found refuge
and peace in the many summers he spent at
Shwayder Camp in the mountains of Colorado.
His mission is now to help leaders and organizations see what’s possible in the face of adversity.
ELIZABETH ENGLANDER, Bridgewater
State University
ekenglander@gmail.com
Elizabeth Kandel Englander is a professor of
psychology and the founder and director of
the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center
at Bridgewater State University, a center which
delivers programs, resources and research for
the state of Massachusetts and nationwide.
She is a nationally recognized researcher and
expert in the areas of bullying and cyberbullying,
and children’s use of technology. She was
named Most Valuable Educator of 2013 by the
Boston Red Sox because of her work in technological aggression and how it interacts with
peer abusiveness in general. Dr. Englander
was a nominee for the 2015 National Crime
Victims’ Service Award and is the chair of
the Cyberbullying Workgroup for the Institute
of Child Development and Digital Media,
collaborating with the National Academy of
Sciences. Dr. Englander was the special editor
for cyberbullying issues of the Journal of the
American Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry and the Journal of Social Sciences,
and has authored more than a hundred
articles in academic journals and books. She
is the author of two books: Understanding
Violence and Bullying and Cyberbullying,
published by Harvard Press.
MARIANNE ESOLEN, LCSW, Child
Champions Network
marianne.esolen@yahoo.com
Marianne Esolen is a licensed clinical social
worker and consultant with more than 20 years
of professional experience working with both day
and resident camps, schools and youth agencies.
She is a retired camp director and remains active
as staff with a number of special needs camps. As
a trainer and consultant, she has expertise in the
areas of program design, strategic planning,
leadership, communication, crisis response, stress
management, and community-building. Marianne
maintains a private counseling practice on Long
Island, serving children, teens and adults.
She has served as a speaker for ACA, Children’s
Oncology Camp Association, National Alliance
for Grieving Children, New York State Education
Department, New York State Health Department,
United Way and Boys and Girls Club. Above all,
Marianne believes first and foremost in fostering
resiliency and promise in people and programs.
DAWN EWING, Project Morry
dawn@projectmorry.org
Dawn Ewing is the executive director of
Project Morry. Prior to joining Project Morry,
Dawn worked with Amy and Morry Stein at
Camp Echo Lake. She received a B.S. from the
University of Maine, Orono. She is a former
ACA National Board member, past chair for
the Tri-State Camp Conference, currently sits
on the ACA NY-NJ Board as the professional
development chair, the advisory council of
Sole Ryeders and Friends, the advisory board
of A BroaderWay, is a member of the New
York State Safety Advisory Council, an ACA
standards visitor and an active volunteer for
the Ben Appelbaum Foundation.
REBECCA FARBER, Occupational
Therapist
rfarber25@gmail.com
Rebecca Farber is an Occupational Therapist
who has spent most of her career working with
developmentally delayed children in the New
York City public schools. Most recently she is
working in an adult day care with people with
visual impairments and various physical
disabilities. She resides in Westchester, NY
with her husband Dave, two sons, Sam and
Jake and daughter, Ava.
MICHELE FEIRMAN, Michael’s Mission
michelefeirman@gmail.com
Michele Feirman is the Event Manager at
Michael’s Mission. Michele has extensive
event planning experience working in the
entertainment and not-for-profit industries.
Michele has managed events for numerous
charitable organizations including the
Melanoma Research Foundation, Voices
Against Brain Cancer, Live, Love and Laugh
Foundation and A Caring Hand. She is also an
avid supporter of many organizations which
are close to her heart, including Cycle for
Survival, in which she has participated for the
past four years, raising money for research
into rare cancers. Michele lives on Long Island
with her husband Mark, two sons, Jared and
Dylan and daughter, Falyn.
CATHI FISCHER, A.M. Skier Insurance
cjs9295@comcast.net
Cathi Fischer, LCSW is a family therapist who
works with children, adolescents and families
in a variety of settings throughout the Tri-State
area. She is a clinical camp consultant, a private
practitioner, as well as a social worker at a
public school in New Jersey. Cathi has spent
many years as a facilitator of family therapy
and couples groups at Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center’s Department of Psychiatry. The primary
focus of Cathi’s work with camps is to assist
children and staff in supporting the social/
emotional development of children.
GREGG FISHER, Gerstein Fisher
gfisher@gersteinfisher.com
Gregg S. Fisher is the chief investment officer
of Gerstein Fisher, an investment management
firm he founded in 1993. Gerstein Fisher employs
a quantitative, research-based investment
approach that is grounded in economic theory
and common sense. Mr. Fisher is responsible
for the management and oversight of the
firm’s investment process, including portfolio
management, trading, risk control and investment
strategy development. A CFA charter holder
and Certified Financial Planner®, Mr. Fisher is
a member of the CFA Institute, the New York
Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA) and the
Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance
(the Q Group). Mr. Fisher holds a degree in
finance from SUNY Buffalo. He currently
serves as an adjunct professor teaching a
graduate course in personal investment
management at the NYU Polytechnic School
of Engineering.
NICKI FLEISCHNER, Camp Scatico
nfleischner@gmail.com
Nicki Fleischner has never missed a summer at
camp—as a camper, counselor division leader,
and presently, CIT program director. She is
currently a Henry MacCracken Fellow at NYU,
earning her master’s in global journalism and
Latin American studies. She has studied and
volunteered in Cuba, Colombia and the
Dominican Republic. This past summer, she
led a group of 23 CITs from Camp Scatico (in
New York) to the Dominican Republic to run a
one-week day camp (in partnership with the
Dream Project) for 70 8-to-11-year-old children
who have never had a camp experience.
BRYAN FLYNN, Jeff Bank
bflynn@jeffbank.com
Bryan Flynn has been with Jeff Bank since
2006 holding the position of credit analyst
prior to becoming the Commercial Portfolio
Administrator. He is a member of the Board of
Directors for the Sullivan County Chamber of
Commerce Foundation where he has held the
position of Treasurer for the past seven years.
He has a BS in Business Economics from SUNY
Oneonta. Having lived in Sullivan County as a
child, he is knowledgeable of summer camps
having attended day and overnight camps
growing up.
JAY FRANKEL, True To Life Training, LLC
jay@truetolifetraining.com
In 1999, Jay began True To Life Training out
of a vision inspired by his work in corporate
America, people development and theater.
Today Jay leads the team of incredibly innovative
educators, actors, trainers and instructional
designers that make up True To Life. Their
ability to illustrate and provide realistic answers
to the challenges of working with children,
teens, college students and adults makes their
training a truly unique experience. In addition
to providing training services, Jay Frankel is a
highly regarded consultant to both summer
camps and schools in the United States and
Canada. He is responsible for leading groundbreaking institutional strengthening initiatives
and start-up ventures for the Foundation for
Jewish Camp, as well as providing consulting
services to schools and small businesses in the
areas of organizational change, staff development, leadership, performance management
and customer engagement.
NORMAN E. FRIEDMAN, A. M. Skier
Insurance Agency
normanfr@optonline.net
Awarded the Hedley S. Dimock Award in 2014
for his lifetime efforts focused on sexual abuse
prevention. Norman, associated with the
A.M.Skier Agency for the last 16 years, has
assisted with their mission of abuse protection
at their more than 400 camps.
ROBERT LAWRENCE FRIEDMAN,
Stress Solutions, Inc.
stress.solutions@gmail.com
For the past 30 years, Robert Lawrence Friedman,
MA, has provided his dynamic and exciting
rhythm-based programs to audiences throughout
the United States, Europe and Asia. Drawing on
his experience as a professional drummer, school
teacher and entertainer, Robert has provided
captivating and interactive rhythm-based
programs to tens of thousands of audience
members on the ability of the drum to transform,
engage and delight. His programs are
appropriate for children and young adults
ages 3 to 19. Robert was featured on the
year-long Discovery Health Channel documentary, Class of ‘75, The Morning Show on
Today (NBC), NY One News, Fox News, and
E Television. Mr. Friedman is the author of
the books The Healing Power of the Drum
and The Healing Power of the Drum - A
Journey of Rhythm and Stories. He has offered
his unique rhythm-based programs to such
camps as Mohawk Day Camp, Coleman
Country Day Camp and Park Shore Day
Camp, as well as PS 5, PS 200 and to teachers
of the Board of Education. Robert Lawrence
Friedman is a professional member of the
National Speakers Association.
ELYSSA GAFFIN, Director, Young
Judaea Sprout Brooklyn Day Camp
Elyssa.Gaffin@youngjudaea.org
Elyssa Gaffin is the Director of Young Judaea
Sprout Brooklyn Day Camp which opened in
2015. Elyssa has over 15 years’ experience as
a non-profit professional, is a graduate of
Cornell University and holds a Master of Public
Administration in Non-profit Management
from Baruch College. Elyssa has a deep
connection with Jewish camping, dating back
to her childhood and teen years, where she
spent 6 years as a Jewish summer camper
(including a magical summer in Israel) and
then 2 years as a counselor at Jewish summer
camp. As a Program Manager at the Foundation
for Jewish Camp for 5 years, she managed fellowship programs for camp staff, hired and
managed faculty, supervised curriculum development and organized and directed camp staff
leadership training conferences. Additionally
in her career, Elyssa has taught English to
young children in the Canary Islands, and has
worked for the noble causes of landmine
removal, improved public health in NYC, and
AIDS vaccine research. Currently, Elyssa and
her husband, Bryan, live in Manhattan with
their children, Zavier, 9 and Lilia, 7, two very
happy campers.
SIMONE GAMBLE, The Brotherhood
Sister Sol
gamble.simone@gmail.com
Simone Gamble has earned a BA in adolescent
social studies education and history from
Hunter College and also her MSW in community
organizing from the Silberman School of
Social Work at Hunter College. Simone
Gamble has worked in various roles for 10
consecutive years at Camp Fiver, including
camp counselor and assistant camp director.
Simone Gamble currently works at the
Brotherhood Sister Sol. She is one of the
facilitators of the Liberation Program, which is
a youth-led activism/organizing collective that
is currently focused on issues of fair policing.
Simone is also an active member of the East
Flatbush Cop Watch Team, which is a community
led group that monitors police activity and
shares, “Know Your Rights” information with
the local community and works to create a
Cop Watch culture both locally and nationally.
JARED GELB, Camp Ramaquois
jgelb@ramaquois.com
Jared Gelb has worked at Camp Ramaquois, a
premier day camp in the NYC northern suburbs,
for the past 29 summers, where he started as
a counselor and has gradually moved up to his
current responsibilities. During the off-season,
Jared is an assistant director at the camp, with
specific responsibilities as the personnel director.
During the summer months, Jared also serves
as the director of the boys’ groups. In addition
to his year-round camp responsibilities, Jared
is also a high school teacher and department
chairperson in social studies at Suffern High
School in Suffern, NY. He has spoken for many
years at various ACA conferences and has
been hired by many camps to conduct staff
training and consulting. Jared and his wife
Staci are the proud parents of three children.
SAM GENNAWEY, Katherine Padilla
and Associates
gennawey@yahoo.com
Sam Gennawey is the author of The Disneyland
Story: The Unofficial Guide to the Evolution of
Walt Disney’s Dream, Universal Versus Disney:
The Unofficial Guide to America’s Greatest
Theme Park Rivalry, and Walt Disney and the
Promise of Progress City. He has also contributed
to numerous books, magazines and websites.
His unique point of view is generated by his
passion for history, his professional training as
an urban planner, and his obsession with
public spaces that respect people. This interest
has brought speaking invitations from Walt
Disney Imagineering, the Walt Disney Family
Museum, the American Planning Association,
the California Preservation Foundation, the
California League of Cities, Floridians for
Better Transportation, and many others. He is
also a frequent lecturer on college campuses.
He is currently a senior associate at the planning
firm of Katherine Padilla and Associates.
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RICHIE GERSTEN, Brant Lake
richieg@brantlake.com
Richie is a 3rd Generation Camp Owner/
Director of Brant Lake Camp. 2016 will be
Brant Lake Camp’s 100th under one family’s
ownership/directorship. I have a master’s
degree in education from University of North
Carolina/Chapel Hill and have spent every
summer of my life at Brant Lake. I was a teacher/
coach for 30 years.
GENE GIAMMITTORIO,
Congressional Camp
ggiammittorio@csov.org
Gene Giammittorio graduated from West
Virginia University with a Bachelor of Science
degree in Recreation, Parks and Tourism
Resources. Gene has worked for Congressional
Camp for 8 years. He is a Wilderness First
Responder. Away from Congressional, Gene
likes spending time with his really big family,
hanging out with his friends, hunting, fishing,
hiking, kayaking, and basically anything else
outdoors.
DEBORAH GILBOA, MD, AskDoctorG.com
drg@askdoctorg.com
Dr. G (Deborah Gilboa, MD) is a youth development expert, family physician, international
speaker, author, media expert and mom of
four boys. A well-known figure in the North
American camping community, she is the
parenting expert on CBS’ Pittsburgh Today
Live. Dr. G contributes regularly to Huffington
Post, Your Teen magazine, Yahoo Parenting,
national magazines like Real Simple,
Consumer Reports, Parents and Parenting,
and is seen on every major TV network. She’s
been involved in summer camp for 40 of her
45 summers so far. She is the author of the
book Get the Behavior You Want, Without
Being the Parent You Hate.
ALISSA GIRLING, Camp Winadu
alissa@campwinadu.com
Alissa Girling is the associate director at Camp
Winadu in Pittsfield, MA. Alissa has been on
the program committee for the Tri-State
Camp Conference for several years. Alissa
holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana
University and a master’s degree in school
counseling from LIU. Alissa was a K–8 guidance
counselor in NJ prior to joining Camp Winadu.
Alissa uses her formal education experience
and years of camp experience to focus on
campers and families at Winadu.
JILLIAN GLICK, Camp Chaverim
jglick@bethor.org
Jillian Glick is currently the director of youth
and camp engagement at Congregation Beth
Or and Camp Chaverim outside of Philadelphia,
PA. She enjoys spending her summers with
preschool-aged campers and making early
camping experiences ones to be remembered
for a lifetime!
PETER GOLDBERG, Woodmont Day Camp
peter@woodmontdaycamp.com
Peter is a graduate of William Paterson
University with a degree in business management. He continued at Montclair State to earn
a Master of Education. Peter taught middle
school in Fair Lawn, NJ and was named
Teacher of the Year in 2011. Peter has been
involved in summer camps since 1997. In
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2002, he became a counselor in a teen travel
program and later became the director of that
program. After traveling for over a decade,
Peter left teaching to join the Woodmont Family
full-time, where he continues to coordinate
their travel program, manage the office and
organize their transportation.
JAMES GOODGER, YMCA of Montclair
jgoodger@montclairymca.org
James began his camping career as an
International Camp Counselor at Campus
Kids, NJ. After seven years at resident camp
and graduating university with a Bachelor of
Arts degree in theatre and performing arts
from Warwick University in England, James
enjoyed 15 years at the YMCA of Montclair in
NJ serving in various roles including director
of camping services.
James is now the executive branch director of
the South Mountain Branch of the Metro
YMCA of the Oranges in NJ.
As a related arts faculty member at the
Montclair Community Pre-K, James has developed a preschool physical education curriculum,
“Mr. James and the Magical Closet,” in which
students become characters in his stories and
embark on adventures that blend physical
education, teamwork, group skills, communication and the dramatic.
James is a frequent presenter at ACA Tri-State
and at other youth-based organizations around
the Tri-State Area.
MARK GUTMAN, Camp Rodef Shalom
mgutman@templerodefshalom.org
Mark Gutman is a seasoned camp professional,
working at summer camps across the country
for the past ten summers. He is currently the
director of youth engagement and assistant
camp director at Camp Rodef Shalom Day
Camp in Northern Virginia.
DAYNA HARDIN, Lake of the Woods
dhardin@lwcgwc.com
Dayna Hardin is an owner and director at Lake
of the Woods and Greenwoods Camps in
Michigan where approximately 1300 boys
and girls attend from around the world each
summer. Dayna came to Lake of the Woods
as a 10 year old camper. It was her life-long
dream to one day become the owner/director
of “her” camp and that dream became
reality in 1997. Her camps are now part of
CampGroup, a company that owns 17
independently run day and sleep-away camps
throughout the East Coast and Midwest, of
which Dayna is also the President. Dayna
is the past Vice President of the American
Camp Association’s (ACA) national board
where she served for 7 years. She is also the
Past President of the Midwest Association of
Independent Camps (MAIC). She is the cofounder and President of SCOPE Midwest, an
organization that sends underserved children
from the inner city of Chicago to non-for-profit
overnight camps throughout the Midwest.
Over the past 8 years SCOPE-Midwest has
sent over 1500 children to camp through
SCOPE Midwest. She has two boys Dylan (17)
and Tyler (13) who love the camp experience
as much as she does!
JEN HARGRAVE, The Fresh Air Fund
jhargrave@freshair.org
Jen is a life-long crafter; her main hobbies
include scrapbooking and knitting, but she has
gone though many craft life stages, including
stenciling, stained glass and embroidery.
During her 10 years at a Michigan Girl Scout
Camp, she was the craft specialist for many
years officially and in a mentor role. Since
then, she has done activities with kids and
families at three different outdoor education
centers. Jen has offered craft workshops at the
ACA New England Conference for the past
ten years as well as last year at Tri-State.
BILLY HOCH, Camp Watitoh
billy@campwatitoh.com
Born on Visiting Day and raised in camp, Billy
Hoch has been the year-round director of
Camp Watitoh since 1989 –- having spent
nearly every summer of his life at camp – first
as a camper, and then as a counselor, Boys
Head Counselor, and Program Director.
A graduate of Franklin & Marshall College
and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law,
Billy served as an Assistant District Attorney
in Bronx, NY before returning to camp as a
full-time career.
Billy has been a member of ACA-NYNJ’s
Public Guidance Service Committee since
1990, and has chaired that committee from
1996-2004 and again since 2011. He has
served as a Board Member and section
delegate to the national conference during
that time. Billy is also a past member of the
Tri-State program committee and currently
serves on the ACA-NYNJ’s Legislative
Committee. He is President of the Western
Massachusetts Camp Directors Association
and Vice President of the Massachusetts
Camp Association.
His wife Debbie, son Joshua, and mother
Sandy – all life-long campers, join him at
Watitoh every summer.
ANA HOMAYOUN, Green Ivy Educational
Consulting, LLC
ana@greenivyed.com
Ana Homayoun is a noted teen and millennial
expert, author, speaker and educator. She is
the author of That Crumpled Paper Was Due
Last Week, The Myth of the Perfect Girl, and
the forthcoming book, Social Media Wellness.
She travels around the world running workshops
and giving presentations about promoting
overall wellness. Her work has been featured
in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune,
San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, ABC
News, among others, and she is a frequent
guest on NPR.
MARK HONIGFELD, Trail’s End Camp
marc@trailsendcamp.com
CMarc Honigfeld is the owner/director Trail’s
End Camp in Beach Lake, PA. Marc was first
introduced to the world of summer camp at
age 15 when he attended Camp Twin Hills.
He went on to work as a counselor at Camp
Roosevelt during his summer breaks while at
George Washington University. Like many,
Marc loved camp but believed his camp days
were over when he graduated from college.
After meeting Rona, they spent their summers
at camp while Marc was obtaining his Law
Degree from Boston University. After a brief
career in law, Marc began to work for Trail’s
End. In 2008, Marc helped to create Chestnut
Lake Camp in Beach Lake, PA.
Marc’s dedication to the summer camp
experience extends beyond the gates of
Trail’s End. He has served on the Board of
Directors of the New York Section of the
American Camp Association, as Co-President
of the Wayne County Camp Association and
as Chairperson of Summer Camp Opportunities
Promote Education.
Marc lives in New York his wife Rona and their
two girls, Kylie and Mackenna.
MOLLY HOTT, SCOPE (Summer Camp
Opportunities Promote Education)
molly@scopeusa.org
Currently executive director of SCOPE
(Summer Camp Opportunities Promote
Education), Molly Hott has dedicated herself
to positively impacting the lives of children
and staff through her 20 years of work within
the camp industry.
After receiving her bachelor’s degree in social
relations from Lehigh University, Molly began
paving her way in the camp industry by working and volunteering with the American Camp
Association (ACA) in the New York office. She
quickly became involved in the preparation for
the Tri-State Camp Conference; this connection
gave her the chance to volunteer while helping
to give children from all socioeconomic backgrounds the opportunity to live and breathe
summer camp.
Molly then worked at Oasis Children’s Services
and helped to launch, develop and direct their
first Long Island day camp, Oasis on the North
Shore. From there, Molly became the assistant
director of Camp Matoaka in Maine. She
returned to New York and became the director
of and an instrumental part of the development,
creation and implementation of Passport NYC
at the 92nd Street Y, a residential, specialty
camp for teenagers in NYC. Molly also consulted with camp professionals on effective
teen programming and provided professional
coaching within after school programs and
summer camps for Ramapo for Children.
ADAM ISSADORE, Path To Rhythm
adam.issadore@gmail.com
Adam spent his childhood summers as a
camper and “staff kid” at Camp Akiba in the
Pocono Mountains of PA. He credits camp for
impacting his life and inspiring him to pursue
his passion. Adam is a professional musician,
drummer, educator and facilitator. He has over
fifteen years of experience teaching children
at the Third Street Music School in NYC. As a
performer he has toured the U.S. and Europe
playing drum set with jazz, rock and hip hop
artists. In 2008, Adam founded Path To
Rhythm Group Drumming Programs as a way
to share his passion for drumming with as
many people as possible. Since that time, Path
To Rhythm has worked with the most respected
summer camps and has drummed with thousands
of people, while inspiring countless numbers
to discover drumming.
MATT JACKOWITZ, Camp Walt Whitman
matt@campwalt.com
Matt grew up in Livingston, NJ, and has been a
part of summer camps since he was 9 years old.
Matt (better known as “Jacko” at camp) started
his camp career at Camp Echo Lake as a camper,
seasonal staff and full-time staff member.
Among his numerous summer roles through the
years, he served as their program director for 8
summers. Prior to starting his full-time work in
2006, Matt worked for a year as an intern at the
American Camp Association’s New York office.
In 2016, Matt joined the full-time team at Camp
Walt Whitman as a staffing coordinator. Matt
continues to stay involved with ACA in a variety
of ways. He serves as a standards visitor and
works on the program committee for the
Tri-State CAMP Conference. Matt also works
with Project Morry as a co-chair of their Dare to
Dream event. He is a hopeless Mets fan who will
never say no to a chipwich.
ADAM JACOBS, Kids Creative
adam@kidscreative.org
van together, the brothers officially launched
Life is Good.
When John is not creating inspiring
content, he enjoys outdoor adventures with
his family, awkward dancing and diving into
the water to catch things.
To inspire others to choose optimism and
grow the good in their lives, Bert and John
wrote Life is Good: The Book/ How to Live
with Purpose and Enjoy the Ride, published by
National Geographic in September 2015.
John has been awarded honorary doctorates
from several universities for entrepreneurship,
business innovation and philanthropy. He and
Life is Good have been featured on CNNMoney,
CNBC’s Business Nation, ABC News’ Nightline,
NBC’s The Today Show, and in the New York
Times, the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine,
and Men’s Health, among others.
Adam founded Kids Creative with his brother
Stephen in 2000. Starting as a summer camp
where 12 kids wrote a play, Adam has worked
to make Kids Creative a premier arts and
peace education organization in New York
City, bringing arts and academic programs to
almost 2,000 youth annually through summer
camps, after school programs and workshops.
Adam has an undergraduate degree in
international politics and a master’s degree in
peace education, both from Columbia
University. He is a sought-after thinker in the
intersection of conflict resolution and the arts,
giving talks and workshops at Columbia
University, The University of Istanbul, Vassar
College, The Peace and Justice Studies
Conference and more. He holds a certificate
in fundraising from Community Resource
Exchange and has raised over $9 million for
education programs in NYC.
Bert and John are the youngest of six
siblings from Needham, MA. They credit their
mother as the first powerful optimist in their
lives, and the inspiration for Life is Good.
JAY JACOBS, TLC Family of Camps
jay@campTLC.com
NEIL JOHNSTON, University of
Pittsburgh/Sheldon Calvary Camp
wneiljohnston@gmail.com
Beginning as a camper in 1962, Jay Jacobs
has spent every summer since at sleep-away
camp. In 1967, his parents sent him to Timber
Lake Camp, where he ended up working,
purchasing it when just 24-years-old in 1980.
Still active as Timber Lake’s director, he has
built a successful camp business that now
includes three sleep-away camps, four day
camps, a day school, and a philanthropic foundation. Married with two grown children, he is
the founder of SCOPE and is active politically.
JOHN JACOBS, Co-Founder & Chief
Creative Optimist, Life is Good
John Jacobs is Co-founder and Chief Creative
Optimist of The Life is Good Company, which
spreads the power of optimism through inspiring
art, a passionate community, and groundbreaking
nonprofit work. John and his brother Bert
launched their business with $78 in their pockets,
selling t-shirts in the streets of Boston. Today,
Life is Good is a $100 million positive lifestyle
brand sold by over 4,000 retailers across the
US and Canada.
John wrote and illustrated his first poorly
spelled book at the age of five. He’s been
writing and drawing ever since, graduating
from the University of Massachusetts with dual
degrees in English and Art. He began designing
and selling T-shirts with his brother Bert during
his senior year. After five years traveling in their
MINDY JACOBS, Timber Lake Camp
mindy@camptlc.com
Mindy Jacobs is the owner-director of Timber
Lake Camp in Shandaken, New York. For the
past 30 years, Mindy has dedicated herself to
developing and fostering positive relationships
with the campers, parents and staff that she
works closely with. Mindy prides herself on
creating special bonds and friendships with
everyone in the Timber Lake Camp family.
She is currently a board member of the Riley
Sandler Memorial Foundation; a foundation
that dedicates itself to character building
programs that help children build self-esteem
and confidence.
Neil worked for 10 summers and 4 years full
time at Sheldon Calvary Camp in Conneaut,
OH. After leaving Calvary Camp in 2013, he
pursued his Master of Education at the
University of Pittsburgh while also working as
a full time resident director through the Office
of Residence Life. Neil is excited to help build
a bridge between higher education and camping,
and believes that there is great potential for
both to help each other.
GORDON JOSEY, Breezemont
gordon@breezemont.com
Gordon Josey has more than 25 years of vast
camping experience. He started working in
camping the summer of 1990 as a counselor,
before becoming Head Counselor and
Associate Director of various camps in
Pennsylvania and Maine. For the past 15
years, Gordon has been the owner/director of
a prestigious overnight camp in West Virginia,
Camp Twin Creeks and is now thrilled to be
the owner / director of Breezemont Day
Camp, bringing his enthusiasm and years of
expertise to this innovative day camp.
PETE KALVERT, Music Ascension
info@musicascension.com
A consummate singer/songwriter, teaching
artist, audio engineer, and music producer,
Pete Kalvert has proven himself to be a
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galvanizing force for music education as the
founder and director of Music Ascension.
Kalvert oversees music programs at Chapel
Hill Academy, The Fed Cap School, Camp
Echo Lake, Camp Laurel, Lake of the Woods
and Greenwoods Camp, and Trail’s End
Camp. In 2015, Music Ascension partnered
with Newark Public Schools to bring our
unique programming to underserved students
through Newark. Each of these programs
has been customized to serve their unique
populations. Pete is a dually certified teacher
of music and teacher of social studies by the
State of New Jersey.
ALAN KATZMAN, Social Assurity LLC
alan@socialassurity.com
Alan Katzman is a social media education
pioneer and founder of Social Assurity and
Social Assurity University, the leading online
social media training program for high school
and college students. He has lectured extensively at high schools, colleges, fraternities and
organizations around the country to educate
and empower students and parents to use
social media for college and career advantage.
Alan’s articles have been featured in influential
publications such as IvyWise, Business Insider,
and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the
co-moderator of the popular #digcit bi-weekly
Twitter chat, a presenter at the Digital Citizens
Summit and a member of the advisory board
of The Social Network Channel. Alan is a
business and legal executive entrepreneur
with background in technology and software,
compliance, human resources and investigations. He went to Camp Summit from
1966–1978.
JEFFREY KAUFMAN,
PriceWaterhouseCooper, Retired
jeffrey.s.kaufman@gmail.com
Jeff Kaufman is a retired partner with the
accounting, tax and consulting Firm of
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Since Jeff
retired from the firm, he has continued in a
consulting role for the past 4 1/2 years. Jeff
has spent the past 15 years coaching and
training his partners to prepare and hold
effective business and sales meetings. Jeff
was also a lead author of the firm’s sales
methodology and the related training courses.
In this role, he has trained PwC teams around
the world. Last year, Jeff was assigned to
Singapore, where he coached sales teams,
and led training in 10 Asian countries. Jeff has
also previously been a member of the Frost
Valley YMCA board of directors.
MATT KAUFMAN, Camp Ramaquois
mkaufman@campramaquois.com
Matt has spent every summer since 1984 at
Ramaquois—11 as a camper, 7 as a counselor
and the subsequent years in various administrative positions, including his current role as
assistant director. He received undergraduate
and graduate degrees in operations research
and industrial engineering from Cornell
University. Matt’s passions at camp include
program development, staff training and camper
engagement. Outside of camp, Matt enjoys
hiking, reading, website development and
spending time with his nieces and nephew.
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FIONA KEARNEY, Aqua Tots
office@aquatots123.com
Fiona Crampton Kearney and Aileen
Crampton Bucciero own and operate Swim
Tank, home of Aqua Tots, a swim school that
currently has over 1,600 students enrolled in
classes each session. Students ranging in age
from 4 months to 13 years follow a uniquely
designed curriculum that uses specific teaching
techniques based on each child’s level and age.
LAURA KELLY, The Handwork Studio
Laura@thehandworkstudio.com
Laura Kelly has been the owner of The
Handwork Studio, a kids’ needle arts, machine
sewing and fashion camp, since 2001. As a
niche-market camp, The Handwork Studio
passes down the tradition of teaching knitting,
machine sewing, embroidery and fashion to
kids 5–16. Besides its own locations, THS partners
with residential, day, recreational and independent school camps and The Girls Scouts.
In 2015 THS was in 40 locations and 8 states.
EILEEN KENNEDY-MOORE,
Independent Practice
EileenKennedyMoore@gmail.com
Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD is an internationally
published author and Princeton, NJ psychologist
specializing in children’s friendships. She is a
professor for The Great Courses, serves on the
advisory board for Parents Magazine, and
blogs for Psychology Today. She has been a
featured guest on The Today Show and other
national television and radio shows and is
frequently quoted in major magazines and
newspapers.
ARTHUR KESSLER, Ramaquois
akessler@campramaquois.com
Owner/ Director of camp Ramaquois for the
last 43 years. Past Vice President of Day Camp
division of New York ACA. Honored with wife
Natalie by NY ACA as “Legends of Camping”.
GARY KIMBALL, AMSkier Insurance
garyk@amskier.com
Gary Kimball has managed camp emergencies
for nearly two decades and has specialized in
crisis communications for 30 years. He is
executive director of Camp-ALERT Network,
an emergency management service offered by
AMSkier Insurance for the children’s camp
industry, and president of a Philadelphia-area
public relations agency, Kimball Communications.
He has taught communications at Muhlenberg
College and DeSales University. He earned a
bachelor’s degree in government from Colby
College and a master’s degree in journalism
from Boston University.
ADRIENNE KIMBALL, The Franklin
Institute Science Museum
akimball@fi.edu
The Franklin Institute is the premier science
center in Philadelphia, striving to inspire a passion
for science and technology. With 9 years
experience running the museum’s day camp,
each summer I see campers grasp meaningful
concepts and deepen their friendships in a
hands-on, open-ended, inclusive way. We
would like to share some of these tips and
techniques to help all camps put the STEM
back in summer in simple, engaging ways.
Discovery Camp at The Franklin Institute is a
coed, science-themed day camp for campers
in grades PreK–9th. We run 12 weeks in the
summer, during spring and winter break, and
at any times schools are out. I have my BS in
elementary education, with a focus on special
education. Most recently, the camp has partnered with the occupational therapy department
at Salus University to facilitate trainings and
support for our camp staff working with kids
on the autism spectrum. I have presented at
the Association of Science and Technology
Center’s (ASTC) annual conference, the PA
Occupational Therapy Association’s (POTA)
conference, and at the Nanoscale Informal
Science Education Network’s (NISE Net)
conference.
CHRISTIE KO, Fiver Children’s
Foundation
christie@fiver.org
Christie Ko served as a unit director and camp
director before becoming the executive director
of the Fiver Children’s Foundation in 2009.
She holds an M.S. in social work from Columbia
University and a B.A. in speech pathology
from Hofstra University. Prior to joining Fiver,
Christie completed two years of national
service in the AmeriCorps National Civilian
Community Corps in Washington, DC, and
worked as a social worker in the areas of
homelessness, HIV/AIDS and mental illness in
New York City. Christie currently serves on the
board of directors for the ACA NY-NJ and
NYSCDA.
STACY KOTELOV, Banner Day Camp
stacy@bannerdaycamp.com
Stacy Schwartz Kotelov is a second generation
owner and executive director of Banner Day
Camp in Lake Forest, Illinois. She has been
involved in camping her entire life. Although
Stacy is involved in almost every aspect of
camp, her primary focus is working with
campers, parents and staff as well as leading
Banner’s leadership team. Banner Day Camp
is the premier day camp in the Midwest, serving
campers, families and staff for over 50 years.
MATT KROUNER, Camp Schodack
matt@schodack.com
Matt is thrilled to be carrying on his family
tradition as a camp director. Having grown up
through the ranks at Camp Schodack - from
camper to Leadership Trainee to Counselor
to Head Staff Member to Assistant Director
to Director – Matt knows and is involved with
every aspect of camp. Matt is a licensed
clinical psychologist and worked as a therapist
with children, families and adults in a number
of clinical settings. For his doctoral research,
Matt wrote his dissertation on homesickness,
becoming an expert in successful summer
camp adjustment.
PAUL KROUNER, Camp Schodack
paul@schodack.com
Paul has spent every summer of his life at
Camp Schodack since the camp was founded
in 1957. He worked as kitchen manager, bunk
counselor and assistant director until he and
his wife, Linda, became owner/directors in
1970. After a successful career as a classroom
teacher, Paul received his Doctorate in
Education and became an elementary school
principal and then Assistant Professor of
Education at Wheaton College. In the 1970s
he chose to devote himself to camping full
time, and is looking forward to his 46th camp
season this coming summer. Paul has served
on the boards of ACA New England and the
NY State Camp Directors Association, and has
been a presenter at Tri-State on four previous
occasions.
MICHAEL LABADORF, Sobel Affiliates,
a Brown & Brown Company
mlabadorf@sobelins.com
Fourth generation insurance broker handling
the special insurance needs of children’s
summer camps since the early 20th century.
Former camper and camp parent with 35
years individual experience insuring summer
camps and child-related risks of every type
and variety across the USA.
SCOTT LANTZMAN
housedad01@gmail.com
An ACA member and Tri-State attendee since
1994, Scott Lantzman has spent his entire
professional career in the world of not-forprofit Jewish day camping and is currently
seeking to purchase a camp of his own. He
was a member of the second graduating class
of Touro Univeristy Nevada’s MS in Camp
Leadership and Administration program. Scott
is a former member of the ACA, NY & NJ
Board and is completing his final year on the
Tri-State Program Committee. An Acorn
Society and VOCE member, Scott has been
presenting at Tri-State since 2000. Since 2006
he has facilitated the New Director Orientation
throughout the country and served on a
National task force to restructure the curriculum.
He is proud to have had the opportunity to
share his love for camp with almost 1000 new
and upcoming camp directors over the years!
JANE LEDESMA, Fiver Children’s
Foundation
jane@fiver.org
Jane Ledesma has worked at Fiver Children’s
Foundation since 2011. She graduated from
Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in
human development. This is Jane’s second
year working full-time for Fiver Children’s
Foundation as the program supervisor for
elementary school, providing engaging
out-of-school-time activities for Fiver participants in New York City. She also provides job
training skills for Fiver’s older youth during the
summer and serves as Fiver’s parent liaison
throughout the year.
MATTHEW LEOPOLD, Northwestern
Mutual
matthew.leopold@nm.com
Matthew Leopold, CFP®, is a wealth management advisor with Northwestern Mutual in
New York City. His practice focuses on helping
individuals and small businesses achieve their
financial goals. He will listen, clarify and help
prioritize your goals and aspirations before
developing a financial strategy designed to help
you achieve your vision for the future. He grew
up in the camping industry as a camper and
counselor in both day and overnight camps.
MICHAEL LEVINSKY, Crestwood
Valley Day Camp
mike.levinsky@crestwood.on.ca
Mike Levinsky brings a wealth of both camp
and education experience to the Tri-State
Camp Conference. He has spent the last 42
consecutive summers at camp as a camper,
staff member, and camp administrator. He has
worked at over 11 different residential and day
camps over the past 26 years, most notably as
director of The Crestwood Valley Day Camp
and program director for several years at both
Camp White Pine and Camp Manitou, as well
as other roles at Bayview Glen, Walden (New
York), Tamarack, Wahanowin, Northland and
Tamakwa. He has presented a variety of workshops for the Ontario Camping Association as
well as staff training sessions at various camps.
Mike has been a teacher for the last 20 years
and is currently a faculty member at The
Crestwood Lower School in Toronto, Canada.
He is a graduate from the University of Arizona
where he received his BFA with a major in
drama production. He later spent many years
acting in Los Angeles and eventually moved
back to Toronto, where he received his postgraduate degree in education. He currently
lives in Toronto with his wife, Elyse; 3 children,
Aidan, Justin and Lauren; as well as their
Golden Doodle, Sedona.
MARY ANN LEWIS, The Girl Scouts
of Nothern NJ
mlewis@gsnnj.org
For 8 years, Mary Ann Lewis has been the
director of outdoor programs at Jockey
Hollow Day Camp, owned and operated by
The Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey. She
has an undergraduate degree in elementary
education and a certification in environmental
education. During her 25 years of employment
with the Girl Scouts, she has also served as
the program director and environmental
education specialist, developing and executing
weekend nature programs at the camp for
girls grades K through 12. Her passion lies in
teaching children to experience and enjoy
their natural surroundings, hoping to inspire
them to become environmental stewards.
GREGG LICHT, Elmwood Day Camp
gregg@elmwooddaycamp.com
Gregg is the director of Elmwood Day Camp.
Prior to that, he was the executive director of
Crossroads Diversity Program, an organization
that brings teenagers from different backgrounds
together and uses the arts to explore issues
of diversity. Gregg is the former Program
Chair of the Tri-State Camp Conference and a
frequent speaker at camp and other youth
development conferences. Gregg is on the
board of directors of the Ben Appelbaum
Foundation and Kids Creative.
NATE LOMBARDI, The Groovy
Projects Inc.
nate@thegroovyprojects.com
Nate Lombardi is a product of Pennsylvania
Camps. His parents met and married at Camp
Ministerium, and he was born as they were
running Bear Creek Camp. Nate was a camper
there until he was 17 years old. He returns
annually to the reunions and keeps in touch
with the family friends. 3 years ago he started
The Groovy Projects after shooting an antibullying music video with Tony and Emmy
Award-winner Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso. The
video was featured on 20/20, and over 100
celebrities have retweeted their videos since.
Nate and the volunteer staff use artistic, interactive and life-changing projects to empower
the student and explore character development.
The curriculum meets the students where they
are at with pop culture and music and then
takes them to the deeper issues. Many of the
games and techniques used are from the
camp and theater world. To encourage bravery,
community and empathy is on the top of our
list while exploring their passions.
GREGORY LOVE, Abuse Prevention
Systems
gslove@lovenorris.com
Gregory Love is a sexual abuse attorney with
over 20 years of experience in sexual abuse
litigation, consultation and crisis management.
This work has led to a unique understanding
of how sexual abuse risk unfolds and is
prevented. Love is a partner at the Love &
Norris law firm, and is the founder and director
of Abuse Prevention Systems (APS) and
MinistrySafe. Representative clients include
the United States Olympic Committee,
Philadelphia Insurance Companies, and several
of the nations largest camps, private schools,
churches and non-profits. APS provides training,
tools and resources to protect children and
those who serve them.
STEPHEN MAGUIRE, Go Turnstone
goturnstone@gmail.com
Steve Maguire is a veteran in the fields of
education, summer camp and organizational
health. He is an award-winning educator. He
has been teaching, coaching and working
with schools for the past twenty years. Upon
graduation from Plymouth State University in
1997, Steve began working as a middle school
teacher and coach. He is a full time public
school teacher with 19 + years in the classroom.
11 years ago, Steve began presenting
professionally. He has facilitated trainings and
consultations at over 650 organizations in the
last 11 years! He is a member of the faculty for
Expert Online Training, the premier online
staff training resource in the world. He has
been both a keynote and education session
hit at every conference he’s presented.
MARK MAJOR, International Sports
Training Camp
mark@international-sports.com
Mark Major is the Director of International
Sports Training Camp and Trout Lake
Retreats. He has been involved in the camping
industry for over 25 years and speaks locally,
nationally and internationally on topics related
to the camping industry. Mark is a former
teacher and has served on the ACA Keystone
Council of Leadership for over 10 years and
has helped to organize, create and develop
many of their conferences. He is also a Board
Member with the Pocono Mountain Visitors
Bureau and is involved with PA.C.A.. He is
passionate about developing sustainability in
the summer camp industry and has been a
pioneer of turning ISTC and TL into a sustainable summer camp business.
JEFF MALLOY, Oak Hall School
jmalloy@oakhall.org
Jeff Malloy has been involved in summer
camping since 1980. He started with the
YMCA as a camper, Leader in Training,
Activity Counselor, Program Director, Day
Camp Director, and eventually Associate
Resident Camp Director. His career continued
with the YMCA of the Palm Beaches where
he spent two summers as a Branch Executive
overseeing 18 day camps serving 900 kids
daily. In the late 1990’s he made the switch
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to a private independent school auxiliary
programming serving at Oak Hall School
in Gainesville, FL where he operates over
130 camps each summer serving 2000 kids.
He also serves as the school’s Director of
Athletics. Malloy is active as a speaker with
the ACA and private camp conferences
and enjoys the networking of friends and
colleagues. Malloy is married to Samantha and
Father to Emily, age 10 who is a frequent flyer
in Dad’s camp programs. Go Gators!
DAVE MALTER, Touro University
Master’s in Camp Administration and
Leadership
david.malter@tun.touro.edu
Dave “Professor Dave” Malter, MA is the
director of the Touro University Master’s in
Camp Administration and Leadership. He
earned his BA in communication from James
Madison University and his MA in english/writing
studies from Montclair State University. Dave
has been involved with camps and youth
development for over twenty years as a camper,
counselor, administrator, teacher and consultant.
Dave grew up at Camp Discovery in New
York, where he spent 8 summers as a camper
and 7 summers primarily working with special
needs campers. He went on to become the
director of fun at Meadowbrook Country Day
Camp, and after several years joined the
American Camp Association’s New York
professional office working on Educational
opportunities. After leaving the ACA, Dave
joined Pine Grove Day Camp in New Jersey
as the assistant director. In addition to his
work with camps, Dave is a professor at
Temple University’s Fox School of Business.
Dave’s passion is deeply rooted in providing
educational content and opportunities for
camp professionals at all levels.
ILENE MARCUS, ISM, Consult Inc.
ilenemarcus66@gmail.com
Ilene S. Marcus is a recognized, hands-on
C-Suite Manager with a 30-year career in
operations, strategic management and new
business development. From summer camp to
tech pioneer DoubleClick and stalwart large
nonprofit organizations, Ilene has been on the
front-lines and has seen it all. Serving under
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Ilene spearheaded
NYC’s historic welfare reform, impacting over
10,000 employees and 1.2 million residents.
As adjunct faculty for 10 years at Columbia
University School of Social Work, Ilene pioneered
training hundreds of social workers to quantify
outcomes and meet the bottom line. Ilene
now heads ISM Consult, Inc., dedicated to
helping leaders create environments where
employees thrive personally and the business
grows to benefit the entire community. Ilene
mentors leaders on how to build an inspirational,
kind and joyful workplace culture. As a lifelong
camper, there may be spontaneous cheering.
ALEXANDRA MAUTNER, Byram Hills
High School
amautner98@gmail.com
Alexandra Mautner is a senior at Byram Hills
High School in New York. For the past three
years, she has worked with Dr. Barry Garst at
Clemson University to develop a study that
evaluates the impact of summer camp on the
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social development of teenage girls. Alex has
created a survey that was distributed to teenage
girls throughout the country. She will be
submitting her work to the Intel Science Talent
Search this November. Alex’s research was
inspired by the nine summers she spent at
Camp Wayne.
RACHEL MAX, Shibley Day Camp
rachel@shibleydaycamp.com
Rachel Max joined Shibley Day Camp as
Director in the Fall of 2015. Since the age of
three, Rachel has been attending camp. She
started at a local day camp followed by overnight camp. After many years as a camper,
she transitioned to the role of counselor and
then leadership staff. After graduating from
Penn State with a B.A. in Public Relations/
Advertising, she spent eight years working in
PR. Realizing that her true passion is camp,
she returned to camping in the summer position
of Operations Director of a co-ed residential
camp. In Fall of 2009, she joined the full-time
staff of Camp Wicosuta, an all-girls overnight
camp in NH. Rachel is very involved with the
camping industry. She is active in the American
Camp Association as she has served on the
Tri-State Program planning committee and is
also a standards visitor. Additionally, she has
worked closely with Project Morry, a year-round
youth development organization where she
served as their spring event chair.
GREGORY MAZARIN, Physician
gmazarin@optonline.net
Currently employed as a physician in the
emergency room of Jack D. Weiler Hospital in
the Bronx. I am an assistant professor of emergency medicine at The Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, treating both adults and children,
as well as training medical residents in the
emergency room. I graduated from Albert
Einstein College of Medicine with honors
(1996) and was chief resident of Emergency
Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical
Center (2000). I have been a physician at a
sleep-away camp for over five years, where I
was previously both a camper and counselor.
KAREN MCCANN MCCLELLAND,
Sidwell Friends School
McClellandK@sidwell.edu
Karen McCann McClelland has over 25 years
of experience in summer programs. As director
of Sidwell Summer which serves over 3200
campers annually, she coordinates the
marketing, hiring, program design/implementation, and evaluation of 12 different programs.
She presents annually at ACA Tri-State
conference and helped establish the
Independent School track. In 2006, she
founded Summer Summit, a professional
development event for Washington DC area
summer camp professionals.
LARA MCCULLOCH, READY2SPARK
lara@laramcculloch.com
A renowned, results-driven marketing expert
with over 20 years as a brand consultant for
multinationals like Cadbury-Adams, Unilever
and Shell, Lara brings “big brand thinking”
to small businesses. Her consulting firm is
focused on building growth, reputation and
evangelism for event companies around the
world. She’s been touted as a pioneering
force in the marketing revolution, founding
one of the world’s first twitter communities
and launching the New & Noteworthy podcast
called Start Some Shift. She’s travelled
throughout the world as a keynote speaker
and workshop facilitator, changing the way
that event companies think about their brands.
The culmination of Lara’s passion and experience
has heralded leadership posts on numerous
industry advisory boards, a monthly column
for an international magazine and recognition
with three national awards for dedication,
spirit and leadership as well as the esteem
of Industry Innovator. She graduated from
Ivy Business School’s prestigious Executive
Program, but it’s the title of mom that brings
her the most pride.
PATTY MCGEE, Gravity Goldberg, LLC
patty@drgravitygoldberg.com
Patty McGee is a literacy consultant with
Gravity Goldberg, LLC. and author of the
upcoming book Feedback that Moves Writers
Forward with Corwin Literacy. Patty’s passion
and vision is to create learning environments
where teachers and students discover their
true potential and power. Patty’s favorite
moments are when groups of teachers are
working with students collaboratively in the
classroom. She does her best literacy research
by practicing on her two children, ages 9 and
15. Prior to her work as a literacy consultant,
she was supervisor of professional learning in
literacy with the Northern Valley Curriculum
Center. Previously, Patty was a fourth grade
teacher, a library media specialist, and a literacy
coach. Patty received her bachelor’s degree
in elementary education at Loyola University in
Maryland, an associate school library media
specialist certification through Rutgers University,
and her Master of Education in teacher leadership through Montclair State University. Patty
has also studied literacy and literacy coaching
through Teacher’s College Reading and
Writing Project and Iona College. Mrs. McGee
has received the Milken Educator Award
(2002), worked as a consultant for Workman
Publishing, Scholastic, and Corwin Press, and
served on several committees for the New
Jersey Department of Education. Furthermore,
she has been an adjunct professor at Montclair
State University and presenter at the NCTE,
ASCD and Learning Forward National
Conference.
RONALD MCGUCKIN, Ronald V.
McGuckin and Associates
ronm1126@aol.com
Mr. McGuckin is a graduate of Duquense Law
School and is the owner of Ronald V. McGuckin
and Associates Law Firm, which represents
child care agencies in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, and has consulting agreements with
child care agencies across the country. Because
of his extensive expertise in the area of law
affecting the child care industry, Mr. McGuckin
has gained a national reputation as “The Child
Care Lawyer.” Having done so for over twenty
years, he continues to travel nationally and
train child care professionals in a variety of
issues including personnel, administration and
other management and legal issues.
JAMES MCRAE, Camp Michigania,
Alumni Association University of Michigan
jmcrae@umich.edu
After attending The University of Michigan,
James McRae pursued a career in student
leadership, alumni relations and, ultimately,
camping. While attending U of M, he served
as an activities counselor for the summer
engineering academic camps for several years.
In 2001, James started his professional career
with the university, which started his current
15 years of alumni relations. Along the way,
James has become a resource for leadership
training to students and professional staff. In
his current role as associate director of Camp
Michigania, James oversees the programs and
seasonal staff, and has been instrumental in
guiding the shifting culture of the camp.
KYLE MEDEIROS, ACA NY&NJ
kyle@acanynj.org
Before joining the American Camp Association
- New York and New Jersey team, Kyle was
the afterschool and summer camp coordinator
for a community-based organization in New
York City. Being in camping for most of his
life, Kyle has a deep passion for the lessons
that can only be taught at camp, and works to
enhance the experience not only for campers
but for parents and staff as well. With a background in music, he is always looking to bring
a creative aspect to his work and personal life.
He is dedicated to enhancing the summer camp
experience for all and can’t wait to continue to
develop and strengthen this exciting field.
ALEX MELLOR, Camp Huntington
amellor@camphuntington.com
Alex Mellor is a Board Certified Behavior
Analyst and has been involved in Camp
Huntington, a residential camp for children
and adults with developmental disabilities, for
12 years. This will be her fourth summer year
round, and her first as the Camp Director.
Alex spends her time during the summer
managing the staff and campers while also
addressing the behavioral aspects of camp,
increasing skill development and decreasing
behaviors which may hinder the campers’
independent functioning in the community.
MARK MERLIN, Newark Beth Israel
Medical Center and Camp Towanda
markamerlin@gmail.com
Dr. Mark Merlin is a board-certified emergency
medicine physician who has worked in the
adult and pediatric emergency department of
several hospitals. He coordinates prehospital
care (EMS) for approximately half of New
Jersey. Dr. Merlin works at Camp Towanda as
the opening and closing week doctor and
infirmary orientation leader. He will be returning
to Towanda for his 5th summer.
MARC MEYER, Success Academy
Charter Schools
marc.meyer@successacademies.org
After obtaining his Ph.D. in history, Marc
Meyer worked in higher education as a professor
and administrator. After 20 years in the ivory
tower, he was drawn to K–12 education. Marc
was director of academics and head of the
Ross School in East Hampton, and went on
to design The School at Columbia University,
subsequently becoming its first director of
curriculum and research. More recently, Marc
was the director of education and teacher
training for The Goldie Hawn Foundation,
developing and disseminating its socialemotional learning program. Marc arrived at
Success Academy in early 2013 to design its
first high school, and subsequently served as
founding principal. He now focuses on school
design and special initiatives, including Success
Academy’s efforts to close the “experience gap”
of underserved and low-income urban students.
ROBERT LAWRENCE MEYER,
CampMDs
campmds@gmail.com
Robert Meyer, M.D. graduated Downstate
Medical School in 1995, followed by a four-year
residency in emergency medicine at Jacobi
Medical Center. He has worked at Montefiore
Medical Center and Weiler Hospital, both in
the Bronx, New York. Dr. Meyer is an associate
professor at the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, and is an active teacher at the college.
He is director of the fourth year elective in
emergency medicine. Dr. Meyer has spent
eight summers working at a sleep-away camp
in Upstate New York.
DAVID MILLER, Starlight
david@campstarlight.com
David Miller is the Owner/Director of Camp
Starlight. He and his wife Allison purchased the
camp in 1999 from the camp’s original owners.
Prior to purchasing the Camp David was the
owner of Miller Entertainment Group, a talent
management company in New York City. The
company represented actors appearing on
Broadway and in television and film. He was
also an independent film producer. David was
born and raised in Newton, MA and earned a
B.F.A. from New York University.
ELYSE MILLER, Buckley Day Camp
eam6798@gmail.com
Elyse A. Miller, MA, LCAT, ATR-BC, ATCS,
BCPC, CLL is an assistant adjunct professor at
Hofstra University in the Creative Arts Therapy
Graduate Program. Ms. Miller is part of the
leadership team as well as the inclusion
coordinator with Buckley Day Camp.
Currently, she maintains a private practice and
speaks on many topics to school districts,
businesses and camps for staff development.
Her clinical experience includes working with
children, adolescents and adults; in and out
patient psychiatric; chemical dependency;
burn out; foster care; eating disorders; bullying;
family and couple therapy; trauma; child
abuse; bereavement; autism spectrum and
treatment planning. Ms. Miller is an art therapist
certified supervisor and supervises professionals
toward their ATR, LCAT and BC. Ms. Miller is
also a board-certified professional counselor;
she is a Certified Laughter Leader™ with The
World Laughter Tour, Inc. and uses humor and
laughter in her art therapy practice and teaching.
She has also published on the topic of creative
arts therapy and hope.
BO MITCHELL, 911 Consulting
BoMitchell@911Consulting.net
Bo Mitchell was police commissioner of
Wilton, CT for 16 years. He retired in February
2001 to found 911 Consulting, which creates
emergency, disaster recovery, business continuity,
crisis communications and pandemic plans,
plus training and exercises for organizations
like GE HQ, Hyatt HQ, MasterCard HQ, four
colleges and universities plus 25 secondary
schools. He serves clients headquartered from
Boston to LA, working in their facilities from
London to San Francisco. Bo has earned 20
certifications in homeland security, emergency
management, disaster recovery, business
continuity, safety and security. He also serves
as an expert in landmark court cases nationally.
JENNIFER MOOREHEAD, Science
Explorers, Inc.
jmoorehead@scienceexplorers.com
As Founder and current CEO of Science
Explorers, Inc., Jennifer Moorehead aka Jupiter
Jen, started her business in the garage of her
family home when her children were 4, 8 and
10. She started with 17 after-school science
clubs and has grown Science Explorers into 300+
locations today offering after-school programs,
summer camps and on-site field trips. She
has conducted various inquiry based science
programs throughout the United States and
Europe over the last 17 years with programs
in Italy, England, Spain and Croatia. She has
stayed true to her mission to educate, empower
and get families excited about science. The
company motto is “If it’s not fun, we’re not
doing it”, and “Jupiter Jen” lives that motto
every day. “Jupiter Jen” has received many
accolades including the “Making a Difference”
award through the Technology Council of
Central PA with Science Explorers and has been
nominated for “Educator of the Year”.
ELENA MORGAN, Girl Scouts of
Northern NJ
emorgan@gsnnj.org
Elena Morgan has dedicated her career to
helping children connect to the outdoors. Since
earning her master’s degree in environmental
education, she has worked at various nonprofit
organizations such as the Chicago Botanic
Garden, the Adler Planetarium, and the Boys’
Club of New York. In her current position, she
directs Lake Rickabear Day Camp and provides
year-round outdoor programs to girls throughout
northern New Jersey.
MERYL MOSACK, M Squared Marketing
merylmosack@gmail.com
Meryl has been training and coaching organizations and individuals in the areas of sales,
marketing and business development skills
almost since the beginning of her career. She
has conducted conference training sessions on
both local and national levels for the publishing,
real estate and camp industries. Her strong
background in sales and marketing, coupled
with her dynamic and entertaining approach
to content delivery will leave audience members
both informed and empowered. No matter
your position or level of experience, you will
walk away from her sessions with new and
valuable skills. Born and raised in New York
City, Meryl grew up attending summer camps,
was a counselor at a sleep-away camp during
college and is now a proud “camp mom,”
sending her two kids off for fun every summer!
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CHARLES “BUDDY” MUHLER,
The Franklin Institute
cmuhler@fi.edu
Charles “Buddy” Muhler is a museum educator
currently working as the Discovery Camp
Programs Supervisor at The Franklin Institute
Science Museum in Philadelphia. Buddy began
as a Discovery Camp camper and worked his
way up through the ranks as a CIT, Counselor,
curriculum creator and all-around camp legend.
For the past 16 years, he has inspired young
scientists through live science shows, dramatic
demonstrations, and camp’s coolest beard.
Buddy’s love for hands on science has influenced his creative approach to camp planning
and inspired a whole new future generation
of passionate science learners.
ZACHARY MURAL, Minnieland Academy
zmural@minnieland.com
Zachary Mural, Ph.D. has over twenty years of
youth development experience having worked
as a day and resident camp administrator,
counselor, YMCA branch director and multi-site
program supervisor. Zach has an MA in youth
development and a Ph.D. in educational
psychology and educational technology. In
addition to consulting and training, Zach is
the vice president of education for Minnieland
Academy, an Expert Online Training faculty
member, and columnist for Park and Rec
Business Magazine.
JEFF MUSHKIN, SPARK & Sportime
jeff.mushkin@sparkpe.org
Jeff Mushkin has a bachelor’s degree in physical
education, a master’s degree in public health,
and over 20 years of experience in physical
education, health and nutrition. Jeff currently
serves as the director of development for
SPARK Programs and lives in Louisville, KY.
Among his many roles, Jeff oversees the
development of SPARK curriculum, websites,
professional development workshops and
physical education resources for teachers. Jeff
is also an elite trainer and presenter for
SPARK’s workshops, conferences and monthly
webinars. He enjoys working with SPARK as it
helps him achieve his career goals for promoting
healthy lifestyles and improving physical activity
opportunities for children.
ROBERT NAPULI, Mohawk Day Camp
boon@campmohawk.com
Coordinator of the New York City area
transportation for over for 5 years.
JESSICA NEGLIA, Riegel Ridge
Summer Camp
director@riegelridgecc.org
Jessica Neglia is the parks & recreation director
for Holland Township, NJ. In her five years
serving the community, she has turned a small
summer rec program into a large and thriving
ACA-accredited summer camp. The Riegel
Ridge Summer Camp is a place for children to
learn and grow and, of course, have FUN.
Jessica’s background is in fitness and wellness
programming and has found the transition into
recreation fulfilling. She is the director of the
Riegel Ridge Community Center, where she runs
a fitness center, a seasonal outdoor pool, a
summer camp and programs for the community.
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MARK NEWFIELD, Iroquois Springs
mark@iroquoissprings.com
Mark Newfield has been the owner and director
of Iroquois Springs, a coed resident camp
located in upstate New York, since 2001.
Iroquois Springs serves children for either
three or six week sessions. Iroquois Springs
also serves as a conference and retreat center
throughout the spring and fall seasons. Mark
is currently the owner of several other camp
programs and youth sports facilities, including
Breezemont Day Camp in Armonk, NY,
Coastal Sports in Long Island and New Jersey,
and Coastal Soccer on Long Island. Prior to
purchasing Iroquois Springs, Mark was the
executive director at Camp Poyntelle-Lewis
Village, a coed residential camp. In addition to
his work at Iroquois Springs, Mark Newfield
has held several positions on the board of
directors for the American Camp Association
New York section and has chaired committees
including EPIC (Emerging Professionals in
Camping), Resident Camp Conference, and
the Morry Stein Fall Management Conference.
Lastly, he has been a mentor for the last two
Incubator Camp programs sponsored by the
Foundation for Jewish Camp, successfully
helping Passport NYC and the JCC Maccabi
Sports Camp get started.
JENNIFER NUPP, Bureau of Educational
& Cultural Affairs at the Department of State
Policy Analyst, Office of Policy & Program
Support – Jennifer manages the regulatory
and category review processes for Private
Sector Exchange.
KAREN OFFITZER, Camp Schodack
koffitzer@yahoo.com
Karen Offitzer grew up at sleep-away camp
and joined Schodack as a bunk counselor,
Group Leader, Color War General, and Girls
Head Counselor while completing her Bachelor’s
degree in Sociology and then her Master’s
degree in Public Administration from NYU and
an MFA in Creative Writing from the University
of Arizona. After several years as a professional
writer and university professor, she returned to
Schodack with her two children to work yearround as Assistant Director, focusing her energies on the happiness and safety of each and
every camper.
DAN O’NEIL, Congressional Camp
doneil@csov.org
Dan is the Director for Congressional Camp
in Falls Church, VA. Prior to his work at
Congressional, Dan spent 6 years in the
classroom and started his own tour and
travel company based out of Washington
DC. Dan also currently serves on the ACA
Virginias Leadership Council. This will be
Dan’s 13th summer with Congressional and
5th as Director.
JAKE PACKARD, First Take Video
jake@firsttake.com
I am a Harvard graduate, a member of SAG,
AFTRA, NABET, and IA. I founded First Take
Video in 1983 at the beginning of the home
video revolution, and have evolved professionally with all the changes brought about
through digital technology. I have been
producing camp videos for over 30 years, and
have spoken at ACA National Conferences
and the Tri-State Camp Conference many
times in the past. I am delighted to bring my
particular expertise in this genre to the Tri-State
this March, 2016, to assist all camp professionals
in the challenging field of video content via
internet application in the 21st century.
MIKE PERLOW, Perlow Productions, LLC
mike@perlowproductions.com
Mike Perlow is the president and founder of
Perlow Productions, a video production
company based just outside of Philadelphia.
Perlow spent more than 15 years as a TV
sportscaster before turning his television
production talents into the foundation for a
video production company. Perlow Productions
creates sales/marketing videos for businesses,
agencies, nonprofit organizations and a growing
number of resident and day camps, including
Camp Echo Lake, Camp Wicosuta, Camp
Judaea, Camp Eagle Hill, Camp JRF,
Breezemont Day Camp and JCC Camps at
Medford. Camps turn to Perlow Productions
when they want a video as amazing and
unique as their camp!
DEENA F. PINCKNEY-COOPER, Bureau
of Educational & Cultural Affairs at the
Department of State.
CooperPF@state.gov
Program Analyst with the Office of Designation,
Private Sector Exchanges, Bureau of Educational
& Cultural Affairs at the Department of State.
Deena’s portfolio consists of managing the J-1
nonimmigrant visa SWT & CC portfolios to
include the Australia-New Zealand Program.
Previously, Deena managed the J-1 Visa Intern
portfolio with special programming with the
Korea Work, English, Study, and Travel (WEST),
the Intern Irish, Work, and Travel (IWT), and
U.S-Mexico Intern programs, while ensuring
conformance to 22 CFR 62 and the health,
safety, and welfare of the participants.
JONATHAN PLUCKER, Johns Hopkins
University
jplucke1@jhu.edu
Prof. Jonathan Plucker is the Julian C. Stanley
Endowed Professor of Talent Development at
Johns Hopkins University, where he works in
the School of Education and Center for
Talented Youth. Previously, he was Raymond
Neag Endowed Professor of Education at the
University of Connecticut and Professor of
Educational Psychology and Cognitive Science
at Indiana University, where he was the founding
director of the Center for Evaluation and
Education Policy. He graduated with the B.S.
in chemistry education and M.A. in educational
psychology from the University of Connecticut,
then after briefly teaching at an elementary
school in New York, received his Ph.D. in
educational psychology from the University of
Virginia. His research examines education
policy and talent development, with over
200 publications to his credit. Recent work
includes a research collaboration with the
Partnership for 21st Century Skills and studies
of creative and affective assessment. His
books include Critical Issues and Practices in
Gifted Education with Carolyn Callahan,
Intelligence 101 with Amber Esping, and
Essentials of Creativity Assessment with James
Kaufman and John Baer. His work defining
and studying excellence gaps (http://cepa.
uconn.edu/mindthegap) is part of a larger
effort to reorient policymakers’ thinking about
how best to promote success and high
achievement for all children. Prof. Plucker has
worked on projects involving educators, schools,
and students in all 50 states and several other
countries. He is an APA and AAAS Fellow
and recipient of the 2012 Arnheim Award for
Outstanding Achievement from APA and
2013 Distinguished Scholar Award from the
National Association for Gifted Children.
ANDY PRITIKIN, Liberty Lake Day Camp
andy@libertylakedaycamp.com
Andy Pritikin is the owner/operator/founder of
Liberty Lake Day Camp in NJ, and a founding
partner at Everwood Day Camp in MA. Andy
was a professional musician and a tenured
music teacher who has worked in the
summer camp industry alongside mentors Ben
Appelbaum, Skip Vichness, Jeff Ackerman and
Jay Jacobs before starting Liberty Lake. He is
a longstanding board member of ACA-NY/NJ,
as well as the former Tri-State Camp Program
and Conference chair, Professional Development
chair, and currently the reigning president.
Andy is a founder and former president of the
New Jersey Camps Government Affairs
Project, an organization created to protect the
interests of all NJ summer camps, and has
become a national model for advocacy. Andy
consulted with two successful camps for the
Foundation of Jewish Camps’ Incubator
Program, is a board member of his local
Chamber of Commerce, an active supporter
of Project Morry and SCOPE, and created
the Liberty Lake Foundation to support children
in the areas local to Liberty Lake. In 2013,
Andy was named the NJ Leukemia and
Lymphoma Society Man of the Year. Andy has
two teenage children and a wonderful wife,
Jill, who enables Andy to do all.
MATT PULEWITZ, 10 for 2 Training
drmattpulewitz@aol.com
Dr. Matt Pulewitz is a clinical psychologist in
private practice for over 16 years. He is an
expert in family and group dynamics, providing
therapeutic services for all family members
(childhood/teens, parenting, family therapy as
well as marital/couples counseling). Dr. Matt
takes his expertise and shares it with the
camping community. He provides training for
both sleep-away and day camp staff with
regards to effectively motivating and managing
children, creating environments of positive
reinforcement, leadership development, bully
reduction, and proper expectations for different
developmental stages as well as different
gender concerns. Dr. Matt also provides
ongoing consultation while camp is in session for camp staff to address specific issues
and challenges that may arise during the
summer season.
PEDRO RAICOVICH, Asphalt Green
praicovich@asphaltgreen.org
Pedro is the Associate Sports Director at
Asphalt Green and has played a role in the
Summer Day Camp program for 8 years.
During the summer months, Pedro’s main
emphasis has been on the operation and
logistics of the Senior Camp. Planning overnight trips, special activities and day trip
adventures occupies much of his time, but you
can bet that he always makes time to interact
and play with the campers. Though he has
been with the program for nearly a decade,
he acknowledges that every summer comes
with new experiences, challenges and triumphs.
“First and foremost, camp is meant to be a
memorable, life-changing experience for the
kids. Pedro feeds off of that prospect and in
turn finds that the summer is equally important
for him, personally and professionally”
SCOTT RALLS, Southwoods
scott@southwoods.com
Scott Ralls is the husband to Andrea Ralls and
the father of Emma, Sydney and Bailey. What
he call the very best part of his life! Scott is
the Founder/Owner/Director of Southwoods,
a co-ed residential camp in Upstate New York.
Along with Andrea, his wife, they also own
Summer Trail Day Camp and Summer Trails
Baseball Camp both in Westchester, NY. In
addition to these private ventures, Scott is an
original Founding Board Member of Project
Morry, having served as President, Treasurer
and the Co-Chair of a Six Million Dollar capital
campaign. Scott has also founded the Donna
Kaye Smith Scholarship Fund which provides
college scholarships for those in need. For
the last 30 plus years, Scott has dedicated his
professional life to the camp industry. Scott
began his ACA service as the Operations
Chair of the Tri State Camping Conference
and was part of the Steering Committee that
Moved the Conference to NYC then AC.
Over the last 30 years, Scott has sat on
three different ACA Executive Director Search
Committees Chairing two of these. He has
served on the ACA NY Executive Board
as Secretary, Treasurer, Vice-President for
Resident Camping and was part of the
Strategic Planning Committee that changed
the organizational structure of the NY ACA
board. He negotiated the existing affiliate
agreement between ACA NY/NJ and the
National ACA organization in addition to the
merger of the NY and NJ sections. Scott is the
Recent Past President of the ACA NY/NJ
Board of Directors. Scott has sat on numerous
national committees, the national leadership
committee, and is currently the Chair of the
Leadership Development and Awards
Committee for ACA NY/NJ.
MITCH REITER, Camp Towanda
mitch@camptowanda.com
Mitch Reiter has been the owner and director
of Camp Towanda in Honesdale, PA for 27
years. Mitch is also the president of SCOPE
(Summer Camp Opportunities Promote
Education). He served on the Tri-State steering
committee for several years and is currently on
the ACA-NY board of directors.
STEPHANIE REITER, Towanda
stephanie@camptowanda.com
Stephanie Reiter has been Co-Director of
Camp Towanda with her husband, Mitch for
27 years. When not at camp, Stephanie is
a talented artist encompassing painting,
sculpture, collage and ceramics.
KENDALL RICHARDS, Success Academy
High School
kendall.richards@saschools.org
Dr. Kendall Richards has been working in
education for over 15 years, and is currently
the Senior Dean of Scholars at Success
Academy High School of the Liberal Arts. Dr.
Richards received his B.A. in sociology from
SUNY Stony Brook and went on to complete a
Masters of Social Work and obtained his NY
State Licence in Social Work (LMSW) certification. Richards received his Ph.D. in education
at Walden University. After a career in social
work, Kendall began a “second career” in
education, working in a number of New York
school districts as a teacher, social worker, and
conflict resolution coordinator. After school
hours, Kendall is often found coaching both
girls and boys basketball.
GLO RODRIGUEZ, Fiver Children’s
Foundation
glorivette@fiver.org
Glorivette Rodriguez started working for the
Fiver Children’s Foundation in 2012 as their
college access counselor. At camp, Glorivette
facilitates a class for rising high school seniors
where students create a college list, begin
their personal statement and prepare for the
college process in the fall. Throughout the school
year, Glorivette helps participants navigate the
college process through one-on-one counseling
and monthly group workshops.
SCOTT ROSENBLUTH, Camps Equinunk
& Blue Ridge
scott@crazemgmt.com
Scott Rosenbluth is the assistant director at
Camps Equinunk & Blue Ridge, a brother/
sister camp located in Northeast Pennsylvania.
He brings nearly eighteen years of camp
experience as a camper, CIT, group leader,
program coodinator and now a director. After
passing the torch of his youth marketing firm,
which he founded back in 2009, Scott
launched CM in 2015, a management firm
accelerating the growth of startups across the
country and the world. Scott has been a
volunteer with the American Camp Association
NY and NJ for many years, serving as the
program chair for Camp Games For A Cause
and an active member of EPIC (Emerging
Professionals in Camping).
PETER ROSS, 829 Studios
peterross@829llc.com
Peter is the owner of an overnight summer
camp in New England as well as a camp-focused
marketing firm called 829 Studios. He works
with several private camps, helping to improve
their websites, marketing materials, social
media and business strategy. He has spoken
at ACA Tri-State, CampMinder Camp, and
several other ACA conferences. Remarkably,
they keep inviting him back.
BRIAN SABER, Asking Matters
brian@askingmatters.com
Brian Saber is president of Asking Matters,
home of the Asking Styles. Brian has been a
frontline fundraiser, nonprofit executive and
consultant for 30 years and has raised hundreds
of millions of dollars by personally soliciting
thousands of donors, coming to understand
the art of the ask in a way that few people do.
Because of his remarkable experience in asking,
Brian has been able to break down the process
of asking to its fundamental components,
making simple what for many seems daunting.
He knows how to persist through his own
anxieties, remembering again and again that
his success as a fundraiser makes a corner of
the world a better place. Brian has worked in
social service, education and the arts, raising
money for his alma mater, Brandeis University;
Northwestern University Settlement; and The
Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation, among
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others. He is currently a consultant to various
organizations around the country and presents,
trains and writes on fundraising and the art of
the ask.
CAT SANGSTER, Camp Wawenock
catriona@campwawenock.com
Catriona “Cat” Logan Sangster, together with
her husband, Andy, directs Camp Wawenock,
a full season residential girls’ camp on Sebago
Lake in Maine. Prior to coming to Wawenock
in 2005, Cat worked as Group Leader, Program
Director, Girls’ Head Counselor and Assistant
Director at Indian Head Camp in Honesdale,
PA. Cat is very involved in Maine Summer
Camps as a Board member, Chair of the
Education Committee and President Elect.
She is also an ACA Standards visitor, and was
co-chair of the Tri-State Program Committee
before moving to Maine. Perhaps the way Cat
has gained the greatest hands on experience
with girls is navigating the ins and outs of raising
two daughters, who are now both teenagers in
high school!
LONNIE SARNELL, Metropolitan
Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy;
Tyler Hill Camp
DrSarnell@MetropolitanCBT.com
Lonnie Sarnell, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical
psychologist at the Metropolitan Center for
Cognitive Behavior Therapy in New York City.
Dr. Sarnell specializes in cognitive behavior
therapy for the treatment of anxiety and mood
disorders in children, adolescents and adults.
She also specializes in sport psychology and
provides presentations and consultation to
individuals and teams related to performance
enhancement and personal concerns. Dr.
Sarnell received her Psy.D. in clinical psychology
from La Salle University after earning her B.A.
in psychology at Yale University. She completed
an APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship and
a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of
Delaware’s Center for Counseling and Student
Development, where she provided outreach
presentations on topics such as mindfulness.
Dr. Sarnell has spent 13 summers working at
Tyler Hill Camp in various roles, including
lacrosse director, athletic director, division
leader and her current position as the girls’
head counselor.
KEN SCHAINMAN, Mohawk Day Camp
ken@campmohawk.com
Ken is the former Director of Mohawk Day
Camp in White Plains, NY, where he led a
camp of more than 1000 campers for nine
years. Ken also spent two years as founder
and Director of SummerQuest Day Camp in
Bedford, NY. He is a former ACA-NYNJ
Board Member, and has a BA and MBA from
Duke University.
JASON SEBELL, Kenwood & Evergreen
jason@kenwood-evergreen.com
Jason decided to make Kenwood & Evergreen
his career when he was eight years old. After
graduating from Colgate University with
degrees in sociology and anthropology, Jason
worked for a short time as a scuba instructor
in paradise, and then began to work full-time
for Camp Kenwood & Evergreen. As a director,
Jason helps introduce families to the Kenwood
& Evergreen community through phone calls,
summer tours and off-season home visits. He
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manages the K&E website and all social media
platforms, and produces their many forms of
marketing and communication materials.
Jason has been a featured speaker at regional
and national camping educational conferences
for the past 14 years and is a standards visitor
for the American Camp Association. He is the
lead singer and guitar player in a bluegrass
band and is also the producer of a successful
reality show called The Jack & Max Show.
ASHLEY SEDEROFF, Camp Walden
ashley@campwaledn-ny.com
Ashley Sederoff has been working at Camp
Walden since 1999. In addition to working
for Walden year-round she also works in the
psychology department for the Toronto
District School Board. She is a graduate of
the University of Western Ontario where she
earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology.
She also holds a Master’s degree in Clinical
Developmental Psychology from York
University. As Girls Head Counselor, Ashley
works closely with the staff and campers to
ensure everyone has a safe, happy, and
successful summer. She brings a tremendous
amount of experience and leadership to the
camp setting.
JOEL SHAPIRO, Camp Ramaquois
joel@ramaquois.com
Joel Shapiro has spent practically his entire life
at private summer day camp. He was a camper
for 8 summers at Town and Country Day
Camp, and then spent the next 56 summers at
Blue Rill Day Camp, where he rose through
the ranks to become the director of the camp.
Currently, Joel has just completed his 3rd
summer as Director of Specialty Activities at
Camp Ramaquois, where he oversees all of
the specialties and specialists. Joel holds a
BA, an MS, and a post-graduate degree in
Educational Administration and Supervision.
NANCY SHENKER, theONswitch
nancys@theonswitch.com
Nancy A. Shenker is a camp marketing veteran
and innovator, with 10+ years’ experience
developing breakthrough programs for day,
overnight, teen and year-round programs.
She has worked with 50+ camps on branding,
marketing and social media initiatives and the
ACA (national and regional) on marketing/
training programs. The founder and CEO of
theONswitch marketing and a blogger for the
Huffington Post (as well as a camp mom), she
writes for Camping Magazine and business/
consumer publications. She is a graduate of
the University of Michigan, New York University’s
Graduate Publishing Program and Kellogg’s
Executive Communications Program at
Northwestern University.
ALAN SILVERMAN, Moshava
alan@moshava.org
Alan has dedicated his life to education. As
the Moshava Camp Director for the last 31
years, Alan devotes all his energy to the detail
that makes Moshava what it is today. Alan
served as a teacher of Science and Math and
as the Assistant Principal of General Studies at
SAR Academy in Riverdale NY, with degrees
in Education and Science Education. Alan
infuses Camp Moshava with his passion for
Judaism, Zionism and his love of educating
campers. He believes wholeheartedly that
“people have infinite value,” never failing to
recognize the potential in each camper and
staff member.
JAMIE SIMON, Landon Summer
Jamie_Simon@landon.net
Jamie Simon has been immersed in the world
of summer camps since she was a child, as a
camper, counselor and director. After earning
a master’s degree in education and teaching
in both public and private schools for numerous
years, she served as the camp director at
Browne Summer Camp in Alexandria, VA and
is currently the camp director at Landon
Summer in Bethesda, MD. She also founded
Jamie Simon Consulting, which is the result of
many years of hard work and a true love of the
summer camp experience.
ALLISON SLATER TATE,
www.allisonslatertate.com
aeslater@aol.com
Allison Slater Tate is a freelance writer, editor
and mother of four children (three of whom
are summer camp devotees). Her work has
appeared in the New York Times, the
Washington Post, the Huffington Post, The
Mid, Scary Mommy, and Brain, Child Magazine,
as well as on her eponymous website.
JOANNA WARREN SMITH, Camp
Consulting Services
campconsulting@verizon.net
Joanna has visited hundreds of camps and has
acquired a unique industry perspective on the
best business practices. Through individualized
strategies, she has enabled new camps to
develop, assisted troubled businesses in their
efforts to survive and has been instrumental
in the continuing success of established
operations. Ongoing focus groups with children,
teens and parents have enabled Joanna to
understand their expectations of camp and
what motivates families to inquire, purchase
and return.
JOHN SMITH, FlagHouse
john.smith@flaghouse.com
John L. Smith, 1989 NASPE National Physical
Education Teacher of the Year, 2005 NFHS
National High School Basketball Coach of the
Year. Over 300 National Presentations.
Graduate of Montclair State University. BA,
MA. Author of The 60 Second Countdown
activity book. 25 years recreation experience
in Glen Rock NJ. 40 Years teaching experience.
Presenter in 45 states.
MATTHEW SMITH, Longacre Camp
matt@longacre.com
Matt is a director at Longacre Camp, a
leadership camp for teens in Pennsylvania.
Matt is a co-leader of ACA’s Raise the Bar, an
initiative to help camps measure outcomes.
CRICKET SNEARING, Sesame/
Rockwood Camps
cricket@srdaycamps.com
Cricket is currently administrative director and
Rockwood Adventures teen travel director at
Sesame/Rockwood Day Camps in Blue Bell,
PA. Her over 30 years of camp experience
includes counselor, program director, arts &
crafts director and camp director at various
Girl Scout and private camps. She is a past
board member of NYSCDA and NJ Section
of ACA, and an ACA member for 31 years.
Cricket was a Tri-State Award winner from
Keystone and NJ Sections and a presenter at
National, Regional, various section meetings
and the Tri-State Camp Conference for the
past 25 years. She has been a member of the
Tri-State steering committee for the first 9
years, a program committee member for many
years and has attended all of the past Tri-State
Camp Conferences. Cricket received a Bachelor
in Art Education from Indiana University. Her
special camp and training interests include
crafts and programming—particularly special
events. Cricket’s hobbies and interests include
crafts, candy-making, painting funky furniture
and doing volunteer work.
MARIE S.A. SORENSEN, AIA, Sorensen
Partners | Architects + Planners, Inc.
msorensen@sorensenpartners.com
Marie is an accomplished architect of learning
spaces and writes about education and long-term
facility planning for ArchitectureBoston
Magazine. Her approach is to bring distinctiveness to buildings, landscapes and site
design to help camps stand out from the
crowd and to solidify campers’ growth in
unforgettable places that they look forward to
returning to year after year. Marie offers a
broad perspective on education—from new
ideas like “Maker Spaces” (unstructured labs
for campers to make printed 3D models and
develop robotics), to time-tested strategies
for rugged low-maintenance facility design. A
graduate of Yale and the University of California,
Berkeley, Marie attended camp every year of
her childhood following 6th grade and taught
photography at Belvoir Terrace Camp (Lenox,
MA) and environmental science at Darien
Nature Center Summer Camp (Darien, CT)
during and after college. She is an outdoor
athlete, frequent traveler, professor and
commissioned artist. In 2015, she was nominated
for the American Institute of Architects’ Young
Architects Award for her industry leadership
and breakthrough thinking about making
places memorable.
AMY STAUB, ExeclComm
amybstaub@me.com
Amy Staub is a corporate trainer for Exec|Comm,
a communication skills consulting firm based
in mid-town Manhattan. She lives in New York
City with her husband, Brian; and two boys,
Charlie (9) and Oliver (6). Amy fondly recalls
her summer camp experiences and stays in
touch with her “camp friends” from her first
sleep-away experience in 1984 at Camp
Kendale, as well as her friends from Camp
Tevya, where she happily returned to for five
summers after Camp Kendale closed down.
Amy has emailed with her Camp Tevya
bunkmates every day since 1996!
ERIC STEIN, Eswebmarketing
ericsteinwebads@gmail.com
Eric Stein grew up in camping, and his entire
family remains in the industry. His digital
marketing agency serves more than a dozen
camps nationally, focusing on search marketing
and analytics. He has spoken at camp conferences on these topics for some years.
TONY STEIN, Echo Lake
tony@campecholake.com
Tony grew up at summer camp and is a 3rd
generation owner/director of Camp Echo Lake
in Warrensburg, NY. In addition to his work at
Echo Lake, Tony has been involved in the
acquisition, start-up, ongoing operations and
sale of a number of camps and youth recreation
businesses. Tony is the past president of the
New York Section of the American Camp
Association and serves on the board of Project
Morry, a not-for-profit children’s organization
based in New York.
HEINRICH STRAUCH, Jeff Bank
hstrauch@jeffbank.com
Heinrich Strauch joined Jeff Bank in January
2015 as a Commercial Loan Officer.
Previously, he helped launch the Liberty
Community Development Corporation and
became its first executive director from 2005
to 2014. Earlier employers include MasterCard
and Deutsche Bank. He has a BA in business
administration from Hamburg University and
a MSc. in European studies from the London
School of Economics. A transplant from
Germany, Heinrich has been a full-time resident
of New York’s Sullivan County for 10+ years
and lives in Jeffersonville. Business calls aside,
he has never been to camp and feels like he
missed out.
BLAKE SUNSHINE, Social Summer
Camp
blake@socialsummercamp.com
Blake Sunshine spent over three years at
Facebook helping brands meet their business
objectives with social media. Combining that
experience with memories and lessons learned
from ten summers at camp, Blake has put
together a comprehensive social media program
to help summer camps reach new campers
and increase revenue. Blake currently consults
with over 40 summer camps regarding their
social media programs.
ROBYN TANNE, Harbor Haven
info@harborhaven.com
Robyn Tanne has been a special educator since
1977, working on both the elementary and
middle school levels. Her undergraduate
degree was from Boston University, while
graduate work was done at American
University.
Robyn taught in Maryland as well as in several
New Jersey school districts. After many years
as a teacher in a self-contained classroom and
as an inclusion teacher, Robyn then worked as
a transition coordinator on a child study team.
During the summers, Robyn maintained her
love of camp by working as a supervisor and
administrator at Harbor Hills Day Camp.
In 1996, Robyn, along with Skip Vichness, former
director of Harbor Hills, decided to create a
unique summer program environment for
children with mild special needs. Harbor Haven
was born in the summer of 1996 and opened in
the summer of 1997. The summer of 2016 will
mark Harbor Haven’s 20th summer!
Having retired from teaching, Robyn spends
all of the off-season time developing new
programming and hiring and training staff for
each wonderful summer as well as communicating with camp families and meeting with
new families.
MARGARET TANTILLO, Harvest
Development Group
margarettantillo@yahoo.com
Margaret brings over twenty years of experience
and proven success in nonprofit management.
Her employment includes a senior leadership
position for an organization with over 65,000
members and an 11 million dollar budget. Her
experience includes strategic planning, program
management, fundraising and board relations.
She also brings extensive experience in the
field of camping. Her camping experience
includes: aquatics, outdoor education, leadership
development and camp management with
both the Girl Scouts and YMCA. Margaret is
currently an ACA visitor. In the summer of
2014, she provided consulting services for
ACA - New England, which consisted of
conducting observations at eighteen summer
camps and consolidating qualitative and
quantitative information to summarize strengths
and weaknesses of camp programming and
operations, as well as making recommendations
for positive changes.
NICK TEICH, Camp Aranu’tiq of
Harbor Camps
nick@harborcamps.org
Nick Teich founded Camp Aranu’tiq of Harbor
Camps in 2009 as the world’s first overnight
summer camp for transgender youth. He is the
CEO and director of the camp, which has
multi-week sessions in New Hampshire and
California. In 2015, Aranu’tiq served nearly
500 campers. Nick is the author of Transgender
101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue
(Columbia Univ Press). Nick also is a PhD
candidate at Brandeis University. He lives with
his wife and two dogs in the Boston area
when not at camp.
DR. CHRIS THURBER, CampSpirit &
Phillips Exeter Academy
chris@campspirit.com
Dr. Christopher Thurber is devoted to educating
leaders. His innovative content is designed to
stir thinking about best practices at camps,
schools and corporations. Chris serves as a
psychologist and instructor at Phillips Exeter
Academy and is the co-founder of Expert
Online Training. He has been invited to deliver
keynotes and workshops on four continents
and has appeared on national television, radio
and worldwide print media. A proud father of
two boys, Chris and his wife Simonida, a
chemist, live in New Hampshire. Learn more
about Chris on CampSpirit.com and on
ExpertOnlineTraining.com.
MARK TRANSPORT, Camp Taconic
Mark@camptaconic.com
Mark is an owner/director at Camp Taconic in
Massachusetts and at Crestwood Country Day
Camp on Long Island. He has been connected
to the industry for over 40 years, starting as a
camper in 1965. In addition to the two facilities
he directs, Mark is a partner in two other
overnight camps in Upstate New York. For the
past seven years, he has done some consulting
on camp sales and facility planning as well.
Graduating from NYU College of Dentistry in
1981, he spent 26 years as a general dentist
before selling his practice in 2007. Mark is on
the board of A BroaderWay, which includes a
theater camp for inner city girls.
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FELIX URRUTIA, Hands In 4 Youth
furrutia@hi4y.org
Felix A. Urrutia Jr. is a graduate of SUNY
Empire State College and CUNY’s Hunter
College, where he earned a Master of Science
in urban affairs and completed the Executive
Management Program at Columbia University’s
School of Business, Institute for Not-for-Profit
Management. Before joining Hands In 4 Youth
(formally Vacamas) in September of 2013, he
held executive director positions at Bronx
Health Link and the NYC Police Athletic League,
and has 24 years of leadership experience in
the nonprofit and government sectors, with 18
years of start-up and change-management
expertise.
CAMARIN WANAMAKER, ACTIVE
Network
camarin.wanamaker@activenetwork.com
Camarin Wanamaker has been enabling camp
success for the past 8 years through a variety
of customer-facing roles—from camps support
manager to sr. account manager, and now
strategic business manager for the marketing
team. As a former camper and mother of 3
very active kids, the power of camp is near
and dear to her heart. When not researching
consumer buying habits and presenting at the
ACA conferences, Camarin can normally be
found cooking with two toddlers beneath her
feet, at her daughter’s dance studio or strolling
through Target with a latte.
LISA WAUGH, Sidwell Friends School
waughl@sidwell.edu
Lisa Waugh, Assistant Director of Auxiliary
Programs at Sidwell Friends School, spends the
school year coordinating the Lower School
AfterCare and SPARC enrichment program as
well as leading the marketing efforts for Sidwell
Summer. During the summer, she directs the
Kaleidoscope day camp and oversees all programs on our Bethesda Campus. Hailing from
North Carolina, Lisa has her Bachelor’s degree
in Elementary Education from Wake Forest
University in Winston-Salem and her Master’s
degree in Art History and Visual Culture from
Richmond University in London, UK.
DAN WEIR, Frost Valley YMCA
dweir@frostvalley.org
Dan Weir has 19 summers working at Frost
Valley YMCA under his belt. As director of
camping services, Dan oversees over 300 staff
and the 2,500 campers who attend Frost
Valley’s overnight summer camp programs
each year. He holds a master’s degree from
Stony Brook University specializing in youth
development and a bachelor’s degree from
George Washington University in psychology.
Dan sits on the New York State Camp
Directors Association Board and the American
Camp Association NY-NJ’s Board. Dan is a
lead visitor for the American Camp
Association. Over the past several years, he
has worked extensively on the Northeast
YMCA Camp Conference and Tri-State Camp
Conference. Dan has spoken at numerous
conferences on youth development and
summer camp. He is a frequent guest on the
podcast CampHacker.TV. Dan also enjoys
a good dad joke. You can follow him at
@danlovescamp and danlovescamp.com.
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RUTH ANN WEISS, Eagles Landing
Day Camp
ruthann@eagleslandingdaycamp.com
I have been a camp director for the past 12
years. I worked in camps prior to that in many
different capacities. I have a bachelor’s degree
in psychology. My past employment has been
as a kindergarten teacher and a corporate
trainer for a national clothing company.
ELANOR WILLIAMS, The Handwork
Studio
elanor@thehandworkstudio.com
Elanor has been crafting and working with kids
since she was one herself. She has skills in
knitting, embroidery and machine sewing.
While her grandmother got her started, many
of her skills are self-taught. With a BS in
Graphic Design from Drexel University, Elanor
is able to organize information in a way that is
clear and visually stunning. As Curriculum
Coordinator, she is able to imbue each project
with her passions for crafting, education and
instructional design. When she isn’t teaching
kids needle arts, Elanor can be found snuggling
her two cats, Pablo Picatso and Theon Greyjoy.
CINDY WYATT, Hi-Hills Day Camp
cwyatt@gsbschool.org
Watching children of all ages learn, explore
and challenge themselves is what Cindy
enjoys. Whether a three year old learning the
challenges of socializing and sharing to counselors learning to mentor campers Cindy takes
her years of experience and philosophy of
always leave a place better than you found it
and live each day to its fullest. A graduate
from Rhode Island College Cindy has worked
while raising three children. Cindy is happily
going into her 9th summer at Hi-Hills Day
Camp. Prior to Hi-Hills Cindy worked at
Wardlaw - Hartridge as the Athletic Director as
well as the Summer Programs Director.
NADINE ZAATAR, Bureau of
Educational & Cultural Affairs at the
Department of State
ZaatarNR@state.gov
Nadine Zaatar is a Program Analyst with
the Department of State, Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs. In her
position, Nadine monitors and evaluates
the program administration and implementation of the Summer Work Travel and
Camp Counselor J-1 Exchange Visitor
Program categories and is responsible for
the coordination of Department of State
visits to host camps and exchange visitors.
JULIA YOSEN, The Handwork Studio
Julia@thehandworkstudio.com
Julia Yosen graduated with a Bachelor of
Fine Arts from Green Mountain College.
She worked with the AmeriCorps as an arts
director, RA, wilderness challenge leader
and intern at the Carving Studio and
Sculpture Center. She continued as a lead
teacher at a day care/preschool center. In
2006, Julia joined The Handwork Studio.
Today, Julia is the executive camp director,
teaching young hands the art of needlecraft.
She is responsible for hiring and training
100+ staff members each summer.
DANIEL ZENKEL, The Camp
Professionals/ Berkshire Sports Academy
dan@dzenterprises.com
Daniel Zenkel is a partner in The Camp
Professionals, which offers comprehensive
consulting and sales and acquisition services
to for-profit and not-for-profit summer camp
owners and operators. He is the founder of
the Berkshire Sports Academy and was one of
the founders and former president and CEO
of CampGroup, LLC. He is a former president
of SCOPE and an ACA-NY board member. He
has spoken many times at the Tri-State and
ACA National conferences and has authored
many articles in Camping Magazine.
MICHAEL ZIGMAN, i2
michael@i2camp.org
i2 Learning brings week-long, hands-on STEM
programs to elementary and middle schools.
We partner with schools and other communitybased organizations to provide engaging,
hands-on STEM immersion programs to children
across the United States and throughout the
world. We work with school administrators and
teachers to select from our curated library of
week-long courses to tailor a program that is
best suited to the needs of their school. Courses
can be run for any grade (or combination of
grades) between fourth and eighth. Our programs
can be run in-school during the school year
as STEM immersion weeks, over spring and
winter breaks, and over summer for camps
and other enrichment programs.
Prior to i2, Michael spent 20 years helping
to finance, operate and advise technology
companies. He serves on the Board of
Governors of The New York Academy of
Sciences, as well as on the Board of Trustees
of The Graduate Center Foundation as well
as the Macaulay Honors College Foundation,
both of the City University of New York. He
received his B.A. from Dartmouth College.
SAVE THE DATE!
Tri-State CAMP Conference 2017
Tuesday, March 14 – Thursday, March 16
Atlantic City Convention Center
For more information, please contact: Samara Feinberg
Samara@acanynj.org 212.391.5208 x1014
ONSITE STAFF
TRAINING
AMERICAN
CAMP
ASSOCIATION
NY&NJ
Our team of experienced facilitators can come to your
camp and provide staff training for your entire site. We
customize each training session based on your needs,
considering age and experience of staff, issues from
previous summers, and new initiatives you would like to
start. Our staff specializes in teambuilding games and
activities, camper and staff management, and creating
positive camp culture.
Popular Titles Include:
• Group Dynamics & Development
• Good Supervision
• Fun, Educational Games & Activities
• Positive Behavior Management
• Bully Prevention
• Creative Camp Culture
• Creative Thematic Planning
“The training was amazing!
The entire group was
engaged and truly loved
their experience. Hands
down the best orientation
we have ever had.”
Private Day Camp
“The training provided by
ACA offered a much needed
outside perspective on
working with campers,
staying positive, and creating
life long memories.
Sometimes my staff need
to hear it from someone
else for it to really set in.
The workshop really helped
improve our staff culture.”
Independent School
For more information, please contact: Allison Wittenberg
Allison@acanynj.org 212.391.5208 x1019
• Songs, Chants, and Traditions
• Multiple Intelligences
• Summer Learning Strategies
We also offer Red Cross Courses
including CPR for the Professional
Rescuer and Responding to
Emergencies: First Aid
CAMP AWARD WINNERS
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NEW YORK:
Alan Stolz
NEW YORK:
Barry Royce
NEW JERSEY:
Muriel Smith
NEW JERSEY:
Jean Holinger
KEYSTONE:
The Lutheran Children &
Family for Service Foster
Care Program for Southeast
Asian Children
KEYSTONE:
Donald McClain
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NEW YORK:
Morry Stein
NEW JERSEY:
Turrell Fund
KEYSTONE:
Ted Halpern
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NEW YORK:
Ben Appelbaum
NEW JERSEY:
Mary Ellen Ross
KEYSTONE:
Millie Kriebel
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NEW YORK:
Charles Kujawa
NEW JERSEY:
Cricket Snearing
KEYSTONE:
Al Hare and Leonard Gordon
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NEW YORK:
Thelma Hurwitz
NEW JERSEY:
Trail Blazer Camps
KEYSTONE:
Elizabeth Sennott
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NEW YORK:
Joe Kruger
NEW JERSEY:
Newark Fresh Air Fund
KEYSTONE:
Marie Brainard Ray
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NEW YORK:
Tom Riddleberger
NEW JERSEY:
Thomas Stoll
KEYSTONE:
Roy Gulliford
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NEW YORK:
Jani Brokaw
NEW JERSEY:
Judy Myers
KEYSTONE:
Judy Arendt
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NEW YORK:
Stuart Chase
NEW JERSEY:
Harold Breene
KEYSTONE:
Howard Batterman
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NEW YORK:
Steve Schainman
NEW JERSEY:
Neil & Eleanor Van
Bodegom-Smith
KEYSTONE:
Pat Freiler
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NEW YORK:
Michele Friedman
KEYSTONE:
ADVOCATE FOR
YOUTH AWARD:
Frank Gerome
Morry Stein
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We would like to acknowledge former
award winners and thank them for their
continued support and dedication. The
awards are given every year to the individuals
or organizations who exhibit the most
commitment and dedication to their
respective sections.
NEW YORK:
Robert Fischer
NEW JERSEY:
Howard Patton
KEYSTONE:
Debra Zvanut
NEW YORK:
Jay Jacobs
NEW JERSEY:
Ron & Sandy Leiser
KEYSTONE:
Stephen M. Taylor
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NEW YORK:
Doug Pierce
TRI-STATE AWARD WINNER:
NEW JERSEY:
Ronald Martin
KEYSTONE:
Mickey Bonwit
Henry Skier, AMSkier Insurance
(New York, New Jersey, and Keystone)
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NEW YORK:
Skip Vichness
NEW JERSEY:
Dorothy Stivers
KEYSTONE:
Millie Kriebel
NEW YORK:
Andy Pritikin
NEW JERSEY:
George Novick
KEYSTONE:
Michael Chauveau
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NEW YORK:
Greg Finger
NEW JERSEY:
Valerie James
KEYSTONE:
Wayne Williams
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NEW YORK:
Dave Silverstein
NEW JERSEY:
Tom Riddleberger
KEYSTONE:
Frankie Graham
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TRI-STATE CAMP CONFERENCE
AWARD WINNER: Fred Guzman
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TRI-STATE CAMP CONFERENCE
AWARD WINNER: Corey Dockswell
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TRI-STATE CAMP CONFERENCE
AWARD WINNER: Steve Baskin
NEW YORK:
Jeff Ackerman
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NEW JERSEY:
YMCA Camp Ralph S. Mason
KEYSTONE:
Diane Bleam
TRI-STATE CAMP CONFERENCE
AWARD WINNER: Pete Shifrin
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NEW YORK:
Bev McEntarfer
NEW JERSEY:
Bob Jones
KEYSTONE:
Ed Shafer
TRI-STATE CAMP CONFERENCE
AWARD WINNER: Jennifer DeSpagna
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AWARD WINNER: Brian “Bubba” Cohen
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NEW YORK:
Andy Weiss
NEW JERSEY:
Aileen & David Levine
KEYSTONE:
Hal Scringer III
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AWARD WINNER: Doug Volan
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NEW YORK:
Dawn Ewing
NEW JERSEY:
Gerry Bownik
KEYSTONE:
Cricket Snearing
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NEW YORK:
Scott Ralls
NEW JERSEY:
Colleen Rountree
KEYSTONE:
Bob Miner
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Scott Brody
NEW JERSEY:
Ruth Hall
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Rev. Michael Nasser
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2016 TEEN LEADERSHIP
CONFERENCE
NONPROFIT CAMP CONFERENCE
SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: Project Morry
The ACA Not-For-Profit Camp Conference gives you the opportunity
to connect with your NFP colleagues to discuss ideas, debrief
experiences from the summer and to find comradery with other
camp professionals that are engaged in similar work.
Location: Bank Street College
of Education, New York City, NY
Do you want your C.I.T.s, Junior Counselors, and other teens to
arrive at camp with useful decision-making and youth development
skills? ACA is proud to bring you this special event allowing teens
to gain some of the same knowledge that camp professionals attain
from the Tri-State CAMP Conference. This one-day event brings
together camp leaders that range in grade from Freshman to Junior
year of High School. LEAD has been designed to educate our teens
on leadership, communication and professionalism as it relates to
camp and also how these skills transfer to the “real world”. This
conference will feature keynote speaker, Scott Arizala, informative
breakout sessions led by camp professionals, and fun with hundreds
of other teen leaders! Teens can add LEAD to their (ever growing)
résumés, and the conference will help them reevaluate camp as the
life changing experience it truly is.
OCTOBER 20, 2016
JOE KRUGER CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Location: Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Fort Lee, New Jersey
The Joe Kruger Educational Conference offers a unique opportunity
to learn about children and adolescents from outstanding professionals
in the field of Human Development. The sessions are presented by
individuals who understand the challenges facing camps today. This
conference is offered bi-annually.
EPIC WINTER WORKSHOP 2016
STATE OF THE GARDEN STATE
DECEMBER, TBD 2016
TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2016
Location: Coming soon!
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
This one-day event has been designed
to educate EPICs (Emerging Professionals
in Camping) on all-around best practices and help strengthen their
knowledge as camp professionals. This event is open to anyone in
the camp industry that considers themself an emerging professional.
Location: Camp Kiddie Keep Well, Edison, NJ
Join us at State of the Garden State to hear industry experts speak
on changes, updates and new happenings in the Garden State.
RESIDENT CAMP CONFERENCE
SEPTEMBER 13–15, 2016
Looking for a fun way to wind down after camp? The Fall Resident
Camp Conference offers attendees a chance to tour 6 overnight
camps in a particular region and experience how other organizations
run their programs and facilities. Re-energize after the camp season
by sharing an overnight experience with colleagues, discuss what
worked over the summer and what didn’t, and bring new ideas back
to your camp as the off-season begins.
Host Camps (Adirondack Area): Forest Lake Camp, Camps Baco
& Che-na-wah, Brant Lake Camp, Camp Echo Lake, YMCA Camp
Chingachgook and Camp Walden
DAY CAMP CONFERENCE
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Join us as we pay tribute to camping legend Ben Appelbaum’s
enthusiasm and service to our industry through a day dedicated to
day camp programs. The conference includes educational sessions
as well as a tour of the host camps’ grounds and facilities.
Host Camps: TBD
Unless otherwise specified,
register for these events at:
www.acanynj.org
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