Blog Post #1

So far I have done a ton of research. I have found out that it is not just residential overnight camp that exists in the real world, there is a lot more types of camps. I have learned how camps actually started and the reasoning for them. I have learned how the structure of the camp is more important than any single part of it. I have also learned how sometimes you have to find the line between controlling the kids as a counselor and letting them free. I have learned different tactics on how to be a great counselor and how to run an overnight camp.

New questions that have risen are what is the role of counselors in camp? How do you learn to positively impact teens on how they are brought up? Is there statistical evidence that says how much camp has helped teens?

My project is still on the same path as it was before. The goal before was to study the relationship between psychology and overnight residential camp. The only part that has changed is the details of the relationship. What I mean is the different questions that I am asking.

I plan on interviewing either somebody from the American Camp Association or Andy Schlensky who was my camp director. I plan on doing that soon and am very excited to do so. Also I plan on keeping up with my blog posts. And soon I will start my book and outlining my paper on my parents should send their kids to overnight camp. This will focus on the real benefits in the kids development if they go to camp.

Jordan Cloch

Introduction

Hey people. My goal for my senior project is to find out the psychology behind residential overnight camp and the kids that go there. There is a ton of research and plenty of articles about how everybody should go to camp and I am really trying to find out why. Is there a positive psychological effect of going to camp. If there is, how? Why? Where does it come from? How do you implement an environment that nurtures kids? There are lots of questions that I want to answer, in the end I want to write a research paper on telling parents why they should send there kids to overnight camp. Hopefully I will have enough research and evidence that I will be able to do so. I think it wont be a problem.

                I want to do this because of the great experiences I had going to overnight camp. Is it really true that everybody is positively nurtured in camp like I was? I really want to know what is so special about it to everybody. I went to camp for 8 years and loved most of it. So I want to see why.

                My plans for the project are relatively simple. I am reading Children in groups: psychology and the summer camp by Alice Van Krevelen. After that, if necessary, I will be interviewing a professional in the overnight camp directory field. I will also be making 7 blog posts that are about the book that I am reading.

Thanks,

Jordan

Introduction

Hey people. My goal for my senior project is to find out the psychology behind residential overnight camp and the kids that go there. There is a ton of research and plenty of articles about how everybody should go to camp and I am really trying to find out why. Is there a positive psychological effect of going to camp. If there is, how? Why? Where does it come from? How do you implement an environment that nurtures kids? There are lots of questions that I want to answer, in the end I want to write a research paper on telling parents why they should send there kids to overnight camp. Hopefully I will have enough research and evidence that I will be able to do so. I think it wont be a problem.

                I want to do this because of the great experiences I had going to overnight camp. Is it really true that everybody is positively nurtured in camp like I was? I really want to know what is so special about it to everybody. I went to camp for 8 years and loved most of it. So I want to see why.

                My plans for the project are relatively simple. I am reading Children in groups: psychology and the summer camp by Alice Van Krevelen. After that, if necessary, I will be interviewing a professional in the overnight camp directory field. I will also be making 7 blog posts that are about the book that I am reading.

Thanks,

Jordan