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Stars Rise at Startup Summer Camp
Young entrepreneurs develop start-up companies
and compete for large prizes.
Having just finished his sophomore year at Stanford
University, Sam Altman spent this summer holed up in a Cambridge,
Massachusetts, apartment paid for with a little bit of startup
funding, writing code for hours on end and eating so much ramen
he ended up sick from vitamin deficiency.
Altman loved it so much he hopes he and his two partners in
discount noodles and 12-hour coding binges won't ever become
juniors.
He might well get his wish. His fledgling company is close
to signing a deal to test his location-based social-networking
software with one of the country's largest cell-phone providers,
and is in talks with prominent Silicon Valley venture capital
firms.
Camp Gives Lift to Aspiring Pilots
Teens get a chance to fly at this special
camp for minority youths.
Shane Harvey said he sometimes wondered if he
would ever get a chance to fly an airplane solo. He and more than
a dozen other teens got the chance to try out their wings a couple
of weeks ago thanks to a unique camp called Flight Line.
The two-week camp takes minority teens who are fascinated with
flying and teaches them beginning skills, in hopes they will
eventually study to become professional pilots.
Money-no-object summer camps
Luxury camps for the experience of a lifetime.
Put down the graham crackers and marshmallows
and pick up the Michelin Guide; it's time to take summer seriously.
"The days of leaving your kids behind in a schoolyard
for the day are gone," says Jeff Soloman, executive
director of the National Camp Association, a nonprofit summer
camp placement service. "Sometimes it's a matter of
going further away from home to find the unique experiences."
Arts and crafts? Please.
Family: Camp Finance
These camps are aimed at teaching finance
while keeping the summer fun
April 23, 2007 issue - Arts, crafts and archery
may be fun, but how useful are they? A growing number of summer
camps aim to give kids something they can really take to the bank:
financial knowledge.
Most of these camps use games, skits, fake paychecks and "moolah
jars" to teach 10- to 18-year-olds how to buy low, sell
high, appreciate deferred gratification and tell their assets
from their debits. (Hint: "Assets feed you, liabilities
eat you," according to Fiscally Fit Kids Money Camp in
New City, N.Y., fiscallyfitkids.com.) Typical activities include
micro-economies, where kids spend their paychecks on items they
need and "win" when there's cash left over for wants,
and field trips to businesses.
How To Pick The Right Sleep-Away Camp
Some tips to help you choose the right
sleep away camp
(CBS News) NEW YORK If you've decided to send
your child to a sleep-away camp this summer, there's plenty to
consider when selecting a camp, or camps, and there are more to
pick from than ever.
On The Early Show Monday, Kiwi magazine Editorial Director
Sara Gragnolati told co-anchor Hannah Storm the wealth of choices
means you can zero in on your child's interests when crafting
his or her camp experience.
And, even though Gragnolati focused on sleep-aways, most of
the guidelines she offered apply to day camps, as well.
Disabilities Don't Take Fun Out Of
Summer Camp
An article on children with disabilities
at summer camp.
(CBS 2) CHICAGO For a lot of kids, it wouldn't
be summer without summer camp, hours of fun outside, learning
new games and meeting new friends.
However for kids with disabilities, camp can make summer especially
meaningful. There’s a special camp where the kids are
learning they can be athletes.
The kids at "Camp Schwab" are on the move. The camp
teaches adaptive sports and other fun things to do outside.
"The goal of the camp is to let all children with disabilities
know they're athletes and they can be athletes and athletic
participation is fun and they can do it," said Dr. Lisa
Thornton of Camp Schwab.
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