Description:
Do you love something so much - a sport, art, theatre, computers -- you want to achieve expertise or joy from it every waking hour? You can at ILC. Are you a Renaissance Camper wanting a one-shot taste of a multitude of neat stuff - mountain biking, ceramics, kayaking, magic -- without being chained to it until you're 45? You can.
ILC believes camp is not reform school, campers are not pre-programmed droids, and that all kids have a healthy sense of how they want to spend the precious summers of their youth. They can do this at the glorious green northern tip of the Pocono Mountains in any combination of four 2-week sessions, with other kids ages 6-17.
Independent Lake Camp:
To Respect and celebrate diversity: honoring people for whom they are, in an open-minded and open-hearted spirit of trust, acceptance, recognition, and kindness.
To Create a safe, supportive, exciting summer of discovery during which campers experience and connect to people of all ages and backgrounds, and in the process connect to all aspects of their own diverse selves as well.
To Understand that "fun" and "learning" should be synonyms (especially in summer!), leading to greater physical, emotional, and intellectual skills, comfort levels, and pride: observable gifts of growth with which the child returns home.
To Challenge counselors, staff, and all who work with our campers, to set the standard for, and to achieve, the ideal in positive, successful,life-enriching interactions with every single child.
To Nurture and endow young people with such a wealth of esteem for themselves, for humanity, and for the adventure and meaningful joy possible in life, that, entering the larger stage of adult community, they heal,repair, and enhance our world-at-large.
"Can't wait till next year! ILC is THE best sleepaway camp EVER!" - 2007 Camper
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