The OEP Summer Experience consists of day camps for students entering grades 1-6, an overnight offering for students entering grades 4-6 and three unique teen expeditions. All expeditions are wonderful journeys into distinct and remarkable wilderness environments and will engage students in leadership, self-awareness, adaptability, community building and resourcefulness, all while having the time of their lives!

The Trekker series offers both day and overnight camps and is full of excitement, adventure, and learning for youth entering grades 4-7. This series offers exciting opportunities for personal challenge, self-awareness, environmental responsibility, and community building.

The Explorer day camp series encourages students entering grades 1-3 to learn about themselves and the environment, explore their community, and create new and lasting friendships. Activities include Birds & Worms, Denver Zoo Animal Education, a trip to the aquarium and more. The OEP Summer Experience: where campers realize their potential!

Young Americans Center for Financial Education is a nonprofit organization that offers a variety of day camps for young people who want to have FUN while learning something useful!

Junior Money Matters (2nd & 3rd graders) explores fun things about money, banking and the world of work and lets kids run their own life-like town.

Running Your Own Biz (3rd & 4th graders) helps kids explore what kind of business they might want to have and the basics of what it takes to get started.

Be Your Own Boss (5th & 6th graders) focuses on the datails of starting and running a successful business, including writing a business plan, and concludes on Friday with a Small Biz Kid Expo.

Young AmeriTowne (4th & 5th graders) teaches youth about banking, government, advertising, and more, then allows participants to work in a business and run their own life-like town.

Girls Can (5th & 6th grade girls) is an introduction to the world of money, business, careers and endless opportunities for young women, and includes meeting with successful women in a variety of exciting careers.

International Towne (5th & 6th graders) focuses on foreign currency, global trading and cultural awareness, and allows participants to explore and travel a world of 16 countries.

Money $ense participants (6th & 7th graders) explore and practice valuable financial concepts (that many adults don't understand), then play our Money $ense Game of Life.

Our summer camps are one week long, Monday through Friday, 9 am - 3:30 pm. They are held at Young Americans headquarters facility - 3550 E. 1st Ave. in Denver, or at the Belmar facility - 401 S. Pierce St. in Lakewood. Registration can be done via phone, fax, email or on our website.

The five-day camps introduce kids to the exciting sport of fencing. Students will learn to fence and develop an understanding of how fencing's strategy, rules, and conduct relate to the history of swordsmanship. All equipment and protective gear is provided in the camp fees.

Beginner camps are offered: June 13-18,2005, July 18-22, 2005, and August 1-5, 2005.

All camps will focus on foil, fencing's primary training weapon, with additional instruction in epee and saber available.

Nathan Anderson, DFC Head Coach and former all-American, all Ivy-League fencer (University of Pennsylvania), will teach these camps with an emphasis on basic and intermediate attacks and parries. These camps offer a great way to learn the sport of fencing in a fun, relaxed environment.

Camp Tzivos Hashem is a travel camp, with a central base in Denver, Colorado. During the summer the camp travels throughout the Southwestern United States. While the majority of time is be spent touring Colorado and Utah, the camp also explores other states such as Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Nevada.
Designed for kids between the ages of 10 an d 15, the camp provides a program fit for the age group. Dissimilar to a teen touring program, CTH is most accurately described as being “a camp with wheels”.
Though constantly changing locations, the program focuses on experiencing rather than sightseeing. Rather than rushing in and out of places the camp takes its time to live the experience at each encounter. The activities done are unique to each place traveled, whether it’s rafting on the Great Salt Lake, a Football game in Yellowstone, or Alpine sliding in the Rocky Mountains. The intense flow of summer fun continues day after day. Travel time is usually limited to around two hours a day and will normally not be done at once.
Our day starts early in the morning and therefore we make sure campers get plenty of sleep at night. All weeknights are spent in campgrounds. Campers will sleep in warm, comfortable, and spacious cabin tents with air mattresses or pads. We carry with us a large number of tents; each will house no more than four campers. Counselors’ tents will be in close proximity to campers’ tents and will be marked. This allows for quick counselor access should a problem arise during the night. Campers’ tent assignments will always be members from his bunk to allow for age appropriate socialization. Before bedtime every night we try to have a campfire under the stars to let the days events culminate. The majority of campgrounds that we stay at are equipped with showers and other amenities to take care of individual needs. As we plan to travel through many places and try not to have long travel time during the day, we occasionally will do an all night drive in the bus (this will be done very rarely).

Cherry Creek State Park, located in Greenwood Village, Colorado, is an ideal place to learn sailing. Children will experience the exhilaration of sailing in a safe and controlled environment. Youth meet at Community Sailing of Colorado, LTD's sailing beach and shelter at the Cherry Creek Marina, located on the northwest side of the lake. Cherry Creek is easily accessible by car or bicycle via the parks northwest or east entrance or by walking and public transportation from the northwest entrance. Call 303-757-7718 for information or to register.

Standley Lake, Westminster, Colorado, is an ideal place to learn sailing. Instruction, sailboats, park pass and safety equipment are included. Standley Lake is located 1 1/2 miles West of Wadsworth Blvd., in Westminster, on 100th Ave.. Youth meet at Community Sailing of Colorado, LTD's sailing beach and shelter located on the north side of the lake just west of the boat ramp. Standley lake is easily accessible by car or bicycle via the parks north entrance located 1 1/2 miles west of Wadsworth Blvd. at the intersection of 100th Ave. and Simms; or by bicycle or a short 10 minute walk through Jefferson County Open Space at 100th Ave. and Owens St. on the north side of the lake. Please note: A parks pass to enter the park is included in the tuition. Call 303-757-7718 for information or to register.

Parents, Don't Blow It ! Register Early. Space for our kids sailing program will go quickly. Space is limited. Registration is being accepted now. Call 303-757-7718 to confirm space availability on the telephone.

Beginning junior sailors start sailing on Sunfish or Optimist Prams. Advanced junior sailors are able to sail on Lasers, Lightnings, Bucaneers, Snipes, Hobie Cats and other advanced and complex sailboats.

Orbis Challenge Denver is an immersion in global leadership for 40 high school students. Participants will be introduced to topics including economic, environmental, health, and social challenges that the world faces in the 21st century. The program is a 16-day summer competition styled after the “Amazing Race,” where teams of four will be presented with daily challenges. Each activity is designed to hone leadership skills that focus on awareness, creativity, and innovation.

In this first step toward global leadership, participants will learn to utilize international resources found within the Denver-metro area. Program highlights include exposure to local governmental, nonprofit, and business leaders, using the Denver-metro transit system, competing for prizes, and exploring this year’