Camp Schedule & Model
Staffing Structure & Roles
Curriculum
Randos
100
8:30am - 9:15am
9:15am - 3:00pm
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Check-in
Camp Day
Extended Care
100
Will be CPR/First Aid Certified
Everyone!!
100
Either simplified art or science project from existing 2020 curriculum
Examples: Supernova judo robots, Star spin art machines, and Nebula Grand Canyon collages.
Inside Project Time
100
Will be leading all of Extended Care
Interns!
200
12:1
10:1 (Illinois)
Camper to staff Ratio!
200
Their main job is to create a safe and fun camp experience for their team of up to 12 campers. They will be with the same group of kids for all rotations, throughout the week: leading them, responding to their needs, building a team and teaching them our curriculum and the GIA.
Group Instructors
200
Super simple paper/ cardboard based projects
Still hands-on, innovation based projects but with simplified materials and techniques to account for campers being outside
Outside Project Time
200
Staffers stay six feet apart from each other and kids, hold staff huddles/meetings outdoors, etc.
Sanitize all high touch surfaces
Everyone wears masks all the time, except when eating and drinking.
Hand washing breaks & hand sanitizer use scheduled throughout day
All snacks/lunch outdoors, kids spaced six feet apart, groups spaced 15 or more feet apart.
Daily health screening for kids and staff.
All ways we are creating a COVID safe experience
300
We will have this available from 3-6pm but not in the morning.
Extended Care
300
Starts work in the morning (8am or 10:45am) and leaves before the camp day is over.
Camp Interns
300
Teams will play games that are already COVID safe (like many circle games) or have been modified to be COVID safe (for example: having campers run in individual lanes)
Cheer time is a new addition here. During this time campers will learn their age group cheers, create their team cheer, and learn classic camp songs and chants.
Choice time with COVID safe options (lanyards, paper airplanes, pipe cleaner crafts, free draw) will continue to be part of the Outdoor Play rotation
Outdoor Play Time
300
Inventory Boxes during camp set-up
I9 Verifications
Camper Groupings
All things CDs don't have to do any more!
(there may be an I9 here or there)
400
Group Instructors will be running these every morning (10 min) and afternoon (15 min). These will be used for team building, pin distribution, games, and reflection.
Team Times
400
Starts work at 10:45am and may stay until 6pm...but probably will leave earlier.
Extended Care Intern (EC Intern)
400
Is responsible for all curriculum materials prep
Camp Interns!
400
drastically simplifying check-in table material needs and processes (with training to support)
closing enrollment on Fridays (including PM EC) for the following week, no walk-up enrollments (including EC)
eliminating AM EC
simplifying hoodie & pin distribution (ie: Group Instructors grab what they need from a self-service station)
no camper shirts this summer
we’ve gone nut-free
All ways we are simplifying camp to make things easier to run
500
30 min camp-wide games that are played as individual teams before or after eating lunch and run by Interns. Include the following:
Monday: Get-to-Know-You Palooza (2-3 GTKY games)
Tuesday: Chickenopoly (done as an individual team)
Wednesday: Field Day (themed variations of Ship To Shore)
Thursday: Water Relay Race (don’t worry - kids won’t get soaked!)
Friday: Camp Carnival (“carnival” games centered around reflecting on the week)
Rubber Chicken Challenges
500
This will occur 2 weeks prior to your camps start date.
The transition to you as your camp staff manager.
Also, when telescope training will launch and we will share specific camp set-up information, oh and they will join your camp site specific Slack workspace.
500
Campers will sign up for a theme just like CG campers and there will be one main project for the week for that theme.
Olympics: Go Karts
Toys: Water Blaster
National Parks: Camp Chair
Meteors Curriculum
500
Why we do this.