We believe life is an adventure and you've got to hop on rather than watch it go by. Our approach is to keep active but also knowing when to take it easy with restful days on the beach, and evenings around the campfire. Students participate in a wide variety of daytime recreational activities. When the sun goes down, we'll go to comedy clubs, dance clubs, TV tapings, crazy karaoke, baseball games, movies, bowling, mini golf and virtual reality. Trips travel throughout North America, Canada, Europe, Costa Rica, Africa and Australia. Trips range from 18-42 days, for students ages 13-17 (in coed age compatible programs) with a separate program for students ages 17-19.

This workshop will provide participants a perfect environment, where through hands on experience, they learn the techniques of video production as a method of self expression while in a diverse environment with other participants from different cultural backgrounds. In 2009, given the theme, "Japan in New York", each group will explore aspects of Japanese culture and business in New York, which will afford participants the opportunity to learn about cross-cultural communication and diverse aspects of New York. Participants will take English as a Second Language (ESL) or Japanese as a Second Language (JSL) classes. They will learn their target languages and have opportunities to use those languages through various activities and dormitory life. There will also be many activities lined up, such as computer music creation, dance, cross-cultural events, field trips to Broadway musical, etc.

Help your child learn a new language or progress toward fluency this summer. SmartNoise offers summer mini-camps in Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, French, and English as a Second Language. Small classes are taught by native-speaking instructors in our Westchester County language center. Childrens' classes (ages 5-11)feature a wide variety of different teaching methods so all learners benefit. Games and prizes are used to motivate children to learn while they have fun. Language workshops for teens are also offered. Private and semi-private tutoring is available for adults and children all year.

Mommy & Me classes are offered for children five and under who attend with a caregiver. Music, Spanish, and Japanese classes available.

"Come Home to Camp;" this is the heart of the Onyahsa experience- for the new camper or the veteran alumnus. Since its inception well over a century ago, YMCA Camp Onyahsa has been a refuge for youth and families. Then as now, it offers security, authenticity, peace, and exciting fun; as necessary today as ever. In a beautiful wooded setting, on the edge of the lake, we don't only enjoy recreation; we aim to "re-create" in the Great Outdoors.

Celebrating its 107th year in 2005, Camp Onyahsa offers an exciting, genuine, and rewarding experience for any camper. Nestled in its own wooded bay on northern Chautauqua Lake, we offer traditional camp sessions, specialty camps, academic programs, teen activities, leadership development programs, extensive waterfront classes, outdoor environmental education, and much more. Each of our weeks has a fun and educational theme as the focus of its activities, and is implemented by caring, committed and competent staff members.

Campers live in rustic single-sex, age-graded cabins, tents, or cab-ents (cabin-tents) under the supervision of carefully selected and trained staff members. The Camp's directors and health staff also reside on site, and provide 24 hour per day supervision, and the Camp has a staff to camper ratio of at least 1:8.

All campers participate together in our special activities, such as campfires, skits, Club Time, theme nights, Olympic games, village nights, and other all-camp programs. Meanwhile, through age-group cabin and tent living with their adult counselors, campers learn as members of small groups to share and live cooperatively. The activities and living areas are staffed with well-qualified and highly committed counselors, who share the goal of making a stay at Onyahsa a truly rewarding experience for all members of the Camp Community.

The Onyahsa mission is to foster the healthy Spiritual, Intellectual, and Physical well-being of Camp Participants from diverse backgrounds within a nurturing outdoor environment, while creating a meaningful sense of Community among them through an active learning experience.

Here we seek to encourage Spiritual growth- through a non-denominational stress on compassion, social justice, human rights, and the strengthening of faith in a loving Creator; Intellectual growth by fostering tolerance, self-awareness, and multi-cultural mutual understanding- the foundations of peace; Physical health, an appreciation for the gift of life and a responsibility to nurture it; and the creation of Community- an authentic experience of belonging created by diverse members who share traditional common values including honesty, caring, respect, and responsibility.

The Onyahsa experience is set in a beautiful, natural outdoor environment, and is fostered by committed, caring and competent staff members and volunteers. Our goal is to provide a genuine, safe, healthy, and happy camp experience for youth and families through life-enriching, "back-to-basics" organized summer and year-round programs.

Join us for this wonderful, exciting, and necessary experience. And whether it's for the first time or the hundredth, Come Home to Camp Onyahsa.

GirlSummer at Emma Willard is an academic summer program for girls in grades 7-12. Courses include: Spanish, French, College Prep, Model UN, Mock Trial, Creative Writing, Performing Arts, Fine Arts and Computer Science and Technology.

Since 1814, Emma Willard School has been one of the nation's leading college preparatory boarding and day schools for young women. At Emma Willard every possible resource is dedicated to helping students develop the values and skills that form the foundation of a life of accomplishment, leadership and fulfillment.