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