Campers will receive four hours per day of instruction that will help them prepare for
the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Our SAT tutors use the highly regarded
Maine Prep material to help students
kick-start their academic preparation for the
College Board exams. This program excels at equipping students with the skills they
need to maximize their potential on standardized tests in the fall.
The
Maine Prep curriculum
teaches specific content and test-taking techniques, and builds confidence heading
into the test. SAT preparation such as
essay writing practice will
also help students in many of their other school classes.
Campers
will be in class for two hours in the morning and two in the afternoon. In between classes the campers will be able to participate in
summer camp recreational activities or summer
athletic training led by
camp counselors. Recreational activities include kayak paddling, swimming,
dodgeball, and beach volleyball.
Training options include soccer, running,
jump rope,
medicine ball drills, or
splitting wood with an axe.
Each
evening features a campfire that includes contests, readings, music, and
encouragement for high standards such as hard work, initiative, preparation, and
community service. The SAT Prep camp program strives to help campers discover
harmony between standardized test preparation and all the other educational
efforts they make for their body, mind, and spirit.
Camp
counselors include college students who have had diverse and successful
experiences as honor roll students,
athletes, actors, musicians, and
community service volunteers. Camp counselors excelled in school,
and are terrific role models for campers who are trying to find their way
through high school classes, social distractions, family life, civic life, and
the demands of extracurricular high school music, debate, and sports programs.
Our staff emphasizes teaching, encouragement, motivation, and humor during the
five day program.
Campers will be closely supervised at night by counselors in the cabin and counselors on patrol
between the girls' cabin area and the boys' cabin area and throughout the peninsula.