Aerie Experiences is offering one week Wilderness Expedition Camps tailored for young men and women aged 13-17. Participants will spend eight days and seven nights exploring the south east’s scenic wilderness and their own infinite potentials. Our strength based, prescriptive program is designed and sequenced to build confidence and competence through challenge and accomplishment readying the participant for life’s transitions and challenges, such as schooling, preparing for college, and everyday stressors such as socializing and networking. This course is intended to:

 Be Fun
 Encourage independence
 Coach self-advocacy
 Instill a sense of responsibility
 Develop self-reliance
 Solidify and expand identity development
 Provide opportunity for role testing


The program is designed to be fun, exciting, challenging and to inspire enduring recreational
pursuits. Program activities include:
 Canoeing
 Hiking & Backpacking
 Rock climbing
 Rappelling
 Adventure based counseling activities
 Basic camp craft
 Fire starting
 Camp cooking
 Water purification
 Plant identification
 Wilderness navigation

Our Campers:
Our programs are designed to offer wilderness and camp experiences for nontraditional campers. Ideal candidates for this program include children and teenagers navigating:
 Learning Disabilities
 Autism Spectrum Disorders
 Neurobiological Disorders
 Aspergers Syndrome
 Pervasive Developmental Delays
 Nonverbal Learning Disabilities
 ADHD

Our campers come from loving and involved families but at times struggle with home, school or social environments. Whether due to poor understanding of social cues, language processing issues, inattention or other learning deficits, many of our campers have struggled to establish and maintain meaningful and positive relationships in some mainstream environments.

Through adventure-based counseling activities, close cohort living and interdependence our participants will have the opportunity to:
 Discover individual strengths
 Identify and practice effective communication habits
 Build friendships
 Build community
 Improve ability to function within a group.
 Enhance group trust levels

Over one hundred years of wilderness, educational and therapeutic experience between our staff and no more than a 4:1 student to staff ratio ensure the safety, individual attention and accommodation needed to provide for a meaningful and memorable experience.

$99 per week Includes:
*Breakfast, Lunch, Afternoon Snack
*Themed Creative Curriculum with Bible Focus
*Art Activities, Computer Lab Activities, Water Day Activities
*Once a week Field Trip
Below is a Summer Camp 2011 Overview:

May 31- June 3 Beach Theme Visit Stone Mountain-Ride the Ducks
June 6-June 10 Animals Theme Visit Atlanta Zoo or Noah's Ark
June 13- June 17 Science/History/Flag Day/Father's Day Theme Visit Fernbank Museum
June 20-June 24 Nature/Outdoors Theme Visit Callaway Gardens
June 27-July 1 America Theme Visit World of Coca Cola
July 4-July 8 Summer Fun Theme Visit Kids Castle / Picnic
July 11-July 15 Ocean Theme Visit The Georgia Aquarium
July 18-July 22 Multicultural Week - Multicultural Celebration
July 25- July 29 Community Theme Visit Library, Courthouse
August 1- August 5 Back to School Theme - Back to School Bash

Free Registration before May 31!! ($ 50 after May 31)

Each day begins with relaxation and focus exercises; and moves on to connection exercises, scene and character study. Once we have developed good acting form within the improvisational scene work, we practice and learn many fun improvisational games.

On the last day of camp, family and friends are invited to join us as we show off what we’ve learned over the week through a full fledged Improv Show!

Week One: June 11 - 15
Week Two: June 25 - June 29
Week Three: July 9 - 13
Week Four: July 23 - 27
Week Five: July 30 - August 3


* Camp meets Monday through Friday, 9am - 2pm

(Drop off begins at 8:45am)

* Performance on Friday at noon.

* Children should bring lunch every day

Early enrollment before April 1, 2012 will receive $25 off!

Camp Toccoa, owned and operated by Camp Fire USA Georgia Council, has been enriching the lives of children and families for over 80 years. Throughout our rich history we have made use of our natural setting on 150 acres in beautiful Northeast Georgia. Our trails, waterfalls, lake, ropes course, nature center, lodge, and other activity areas help campers learn about and enjoy nature.

Transportation Available 25.00
Free Food program Breakfast,lunch, snacks
Coed Facility
Chapel Experience
Extended Hours 35.00 weekly

Camp Archaeo is an unforgettable experience of learning and fun! Your children have the opportunity to embark on an incredible adventure like no other and uncover history for themselves. So put the text book on the shelf and let history come alive for your children as they experience unique and exclusive hands-on activities which are both fun and educational.

Under the instruction and care of our awesome staff, campers will be assigned to tribes, inspired by the ancient tribes of Israel in the Bible, where they will have to work together as teams to accomplish appointed goals. They will have the opportunity to actually handle real artifacts from the ancient world such as coins and pottery, learn archaeological techniques and what Archaeology is all about, perform an actual archeological dig, explore the ancient world, learn survival and adventure skills, become more familiar with the Bible as well as learn and develop teamwork and leadership skills while they grow and mature spiritually.

Our instructors are trained professionals and have years of experience in their fields. Your children are guaranteed to have the best learning experience possible in their care.

So our question to you is, can you dig it?

Special 30% off of One Full Week of half day and full day camps.

Youth Technology Learning Center (YTLC) is an innovative creative technology based enrichment center offering spring camp for ages 6 to 14. Our camp will turn spring break into an exciting and memorable week of fun! We are offering a choice of full day or half day camp at a daily and a weekly rate. The following is a list of the classes offered:

Lego WeDo Robotics (ages 6 to 8) - Campers will be enthralled with building vivid real world life models with Lego's where they create their own programs for a robotic model that moves and makes a variety of sounds.

Lego Simple Machines & Motorized Mechanisms (ages 9-11) - For the more experienced builder campers will explore motorized mechanisms by building Lego simple machines and experiment with movement through robotic races.

Lego NXT Mindstorms 2.0 Robotics (ages 12 to 14) - The vastly experienced builder will fascinate in the challenges of building a full scale robot, provide programming, and experiment in robotic capability.

Carnival Ride (ages 6 to 14) - Campers will construct carnival ride models utilizing K'Nex kits which will be filmed using stop animation and used in our movie making class.

Video Game Creation (ages 8 to 14) - Campers will create their very own imaginative 2d virtual gaming world, complete with levels of difficulty, backgrounds, protagonist and antagonist characters, and music. Each camper will have their very own created video game provided on disk for them to play and show off to friends!

Movie Making (ages 6 to 8) - Campers can let their imagination and creative spirit combine in a class where they will create a movie utilizing animation, videography, and special effects!

Join Cochran Mill Nature Center for a fun-filled week at Junior Naturalist Camp! Designed for children entering 2nd through 5th grades, campers will experience a combination of environmental education and outdoor recreation, while exploring topics and activities related to nature and the outdoors. Themes and activities differ each week so campers enrolled in multiple sessions will have new and exciting experiences for a summer of fun!

Weekly themes for 2012 - Wet, Wonderful Water; What's in the Woods?; Monkeying Around, Nocturnal Animals, Fossils & Rocks; Can You See Me Now?; Totally Terrific Turtles; Animal Olympians. Campers also experience programs focused on Birds of Prey, Bats and Reptiles, hiking, canoeing and fishing.

Cochran Mill Nature Center also offers Camp Cricket for children entering kindergarten and first grade this fall. Campers will learn about reptiles, birds, insects, native wildlife of Georgia, gardening, and more! We’ll hike, fish, canoe and have loads of fun!

Campers who have completed 5th through 8th grade and have outgrown our Junior Naturalist Day Camp can participate in an exciting Adventure Camp program. Each day campers will leave Cochran Mill Nature Center for wilderness outings including hiking, orienteering, canoeing, and wildlife studies. On Thursday night, there will be a camp-out in the nature center field, including a campfire, cookout, and night hike!

Cochran Mill Nature Center is located just 20 minutes south of Atlanta in Palmetto, Georgia. The center's log structure is located by a pond on fifty privately-owned, heavily-wooded acres. Whether hiking, participating in an environmental education program or dropping by for a relaxing hike or day by the pond, Cochran Mill Nature Center has something for you. Visit us today!