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Trina Stephenson
Tstephenson@gshom.org
Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan

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Our weekly all-camper activities became entirely camper-coordinated. They found a dead hummingbird and spent an entire lunch hour facilitating its funeral service complete with singing “in the arms of the angels”

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We had guests from around town! The local reptile rescue brought huge bearded dragons for our fantasy camp week

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Our camp runs 8am-4pm with early drop off at 7:30am and late pick up until 5:30pm.

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8-4pm with 2hours of aftercare from 4-6. 

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8-4pm with 2hours of aftercare from 4-6. 

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Are you able to or how are you bridging the gap between day camp and your resident camp?

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What are the hours of your camp operating in? 

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What are the hours of your camp operating in? 

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Does anyone want to share a fun activity or game they play at their camps?

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We are currently only requiring full vaccination or a negative test for our overnight camps

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Public agency so no we can’t require vax.

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Can we show a raise of hands whos camp is requiring the vaccine?

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Can we show a raise of hands whos camp is requiring the vaccine?

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Not requiring vac

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We refunded.

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Depends

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Yes.

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Seems like we had a free pass from complaints in 2020 but this was short reprieve and they returned in 2021

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Camps did away with these, saving money and letting us do real camp stuff

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Day camps got much admiration for opening the past two summer. Is that why registration seems to be booming?

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We found our youngest campers came to uswithout basic institutional knowledge.  Camp helped them learn this skills.

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Counselors cannot use them unless they’re on break and out of sight of campers. Campers cannot use them at all.

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Safety procedures were excellent 👏

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Day camps are never shown real love!

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Less is more- programmatically

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Do we do these?

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Silver linings

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Staff feel more connected to camp because they’re working harder

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Silver lining

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Camp can change lives