Check Out What’s new for Summer 2010!
Bounce to your heart's content on our new Water Trampoline!
Get your daily allowance of vitamins and minerals with vegetables from our newly expanded, and delicious, Camp Garden. Join us as we reduce our carbon footprint by producing some of the food we eat right at camp!
Especially for 9th and 10th Graders:
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9am Wake-up!
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Bog Only Breakfast!
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Late-Night Programming!
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New Bog Three Day Trips!
This summer 9th and 10th graders will have the OPTION to sleep late, take new and exciting electives while STILL participating in your favorite electives from previous summers.
Here's a sneak peak at some of the new and exciting Bog electives for Summer 2010!
Outdoor Adventure The Outdoor Adventure elective will allow campers to strengthen their knowledge of the outdoors while preparing for the brand new Bogrim trips!!! This summer Kingswood will be participating in the Junior Maine Guide Program (JMG), a long-established wilderness camping skills program sponsored by the Maine Youth Camping Foundation and the Maine State Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. This is an outdoor skills program designed to foster enjoyable, safe and healthy outdoor living experiences for youth.
Arts Festival This summer campers will have the opportunity to participate in the Jewish Arts Festival. The Jews Arts Festival is a way for camps to enhance and showcase the Jewish components of their camps. The Festival is a presentation of numbers by Jewish camps in the area. Campers will serve as the creative minds behind along with performing in the Kingswood number. Whether your interests are to be on stage or behind, we have a role for everyone!
Ropes education In the Ropes Education elective, campers will spend two elective rotations developing their climbing skills. Campers will learn ropes safety, how to belay, repel and tie knots while continuing to practice their climbing skills in preparation for a one day outdoor climb in North Conway New Hampshire!!! This exciting day trip will allow campers to put their skills to practice and try climbing outdoors in the rock climbing center of the Northeast!!!
Lifeguarding Through the American Red Cross GuardStart program, campers will be provided with a foundation of aquatic and leadership knowledge, attitudes and skills for future successful completion of the Red Cross Lifeguarding courses.
Bog Activities:
Camper/Counselor switch day, Counselor Hunt, Big Sister/Big Brother, Leadership Training and Opportunities
Late Night Evening Activities (9pm-10pm):
Star-gazing
Campfire, Song Session and S’mores
Mission Impossible –It’s a mission, an impossible mission, IT’S MISSION IMPOSSIBLE. Put on your camouflage, grab your flashlight and help us navigate through camp to pass this impossible mission – watch out for snipers or they’ll send you right back to the beginning!
In-house film festival, -Each bunk will work together to creatively write a script, act, film and edit their movie. Movies will be show at the 2010 Bogrim Film Festival.
‘Formal’ Dinner/Dance –Help us choose a theme, then put on your camp best and join us for an evening of festivities.
Service Projects:
JCC Maccabi Camp Kingswood will be teaming up with Camp Sunshine for a truly unique experience. Camp Sunshine is a camp that provides respite, support, joy and hope to children with life-threatening illnesses and their immediate families. Our teen campers will visit Camp Sunshine a few times over the summer to interact, play, and form a community with the campers at Camp Sunshine.
Camp Project:
10th grade campers will have the opportunity to give-back to camp. Working together to come up with and create a project that will last for years to come! For example: Work with nature Rob to create a Bog rendezvous in the Kingswood woods!
The list is limitless! Tell us what you’d like to see at camp this summer!
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