Camp Speers - Grades 8-11

Traditional and Specialty residential camping programs give campers entering the 8th through 11th grades an opportunity to experience an exciting assortment of activities ideal for older campers.

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Staff

A 1:6 staff to camper ratio is maintained within the cabin group. Counselors are typically college students and/or recent college grads who have studied and worked in education, recreation and/or a related field. Staff are selected for their experience in working with children/teens and display good character and knowledge of camp programming.

Facilities

Our facilities are second to none with beautiful, spacious log cabins that accommodate up to 14 campers and counselors. Other log cabin style buildings provide indoor activity and dining space. Our private, 42 acre lake provides the base for swimming, boating, and fishing. Miles of trails wind through our 1,100 acres offering hikers, mountain bikers, and horseback riders with a variety of terrain. Our ranch boasts two riding arenas and a fully equipped barn surrounded by paddocks. Archery and riflery ranges, arts & crafts studios, climbing towers, obstacle courses, high ropes course, and fields for games offer campers more great places to have FUN!

Health Care

Our air-conditioned, well equipped Health Lodges are staffed 24 hours per day with a highly qualified team of medical professionals. They manage daily medications, triage & treat injuries & illnesses, and work with medical providers to ensure that we meet our campers’ health care needs.

Camp Daily Life

Coaching periods - Campers select those activities that they most want to experience and learn more about. They participate in those activities for 1 – 2 hours each day (M-F) for a week. Our progressive approach ensures that they build upon the knowledge and skills they acquired during previous days – guaranteeing challenge and achievement and keeping them engaged and enthusiastic. A sample of Coaching Period activities are listed below:

Archery Aerobics Arts & Crafts Basketball Canoeing Ceramics Climbing Tower Cooking Drama Digital Arts Fishing Healthy Living Kayaking Land Sports Long Distance Swimming Mountain Biking Newspaper Outdoor Living Riflery Sailing Swim Lessons

Cabin Time – Cabin groups work together to decide what activities they want to do that day. Not only do they get to experience a full range of options, the emphasis on group decision making causes the cabin group to develop stronger cohesiveness and appreciation of each member of the group.

Master Schedule Hour - Campers choose from amongst the day’s activity offerings to discover and experience something new and/or unusual. Sample activities include blueberry picking, hikes, free swim, tie-dyeing, and improvisation.

Evening Programs – Skits, dances, Capture the Flag games, scavenger hunts, and campfires are just a few of the evening programs that bring the campers together to share even more fun.

Special Events occur throughout the camp session with many scheduled for Saturdays & Sundays. Carnivals, Theme Days, Olympics, Overnight Campouts and Chapel gatherings are just a few favorite.

New for 2012

Camp Speers-Eljabar YMCA believes that the benefits of our high quality summer camp expereince should be available to every child and teen. For this reason we have instituted a voluntary 4-tier pricing program.

Tier 1 most closely pays the true cost of camp and Tiers 2 & 3 are subsidized rates that enable other families to also send their children to camp. Tier 4 is our Open Campership Program. This option is available to assist those families whose financial need is greater than can be met through Tiers 2 & 3. The Tiered Pricing Program is designed to offer campership support to families from a wide range of individual financial situations.

2012 RATES
Deposit of $150 per week due at registration

Tier One - $852 first week, $788 each additional week
Tier Two - $795 first week, $735 each additional week
Tier Three - $738 first week, $682 each additional week
Tier Four - Please contact our office
to request a Financial Aid packet

2012 DATES

Campers may be enrolled for one week - eight weeks
in any combination throughout the summer

Week 1 Sunday, July 1st - Saturday, July 7th
Week 2 Sunday, July 8th - Saturday, July 14th
Week 3 Sunday, July 15th - Saturday, July 21st
Week 4 Sunday, July 22nd - Saturday, July 28th
Week 5 Sunday, July 29th - Saturday, August 4th
Week 6 Sunday, August 5th - Saturday, August 11th
Week 7 Sunday, August 12th - Saturday, August 18th
Week 8* Sunday, August 19th - Saturday, August 25th

Horseback Riding Options / Rates

Horseback Riding Lessons: Monday - Friday, one hour per day lessons
Tier One - $ 125 per week
Tier Two - $120 per week
Tier Three - $115 per week

Riders Roundup (Ranch Camp): Monday - Friday, three hours per day
Tier One - $ 160 per week
Tier Two - $152 per week
Tier Three - $146 per week
(*Riders Roundup not available this week)
Horse Lovers Camp (August 19 - 25):
Tier One - $852
Tier Two - $795
Tier Three - $738

Registation & Deposit

All camp fees must be paid in full by July 1st
Upon receipt of your registration, we will provide you with payment plan options of equal monthly installments or three installments due on February, April and June 1st.