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I respect your work, but I must say this: "You are terrible."

Why you might ask? Well ask any kid who has been forced off to Bible Camp or some other humiliating childhood summer activity.

Keep up the great work!

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I'll take that as a compliment. I own a tech camp in 10 locations nationwide, and if you told an athletic kid he had to spend 8 hours/day 5 days a week in an air conditioned room staring at a screen, he'd think it's horrible. For all my tech-y kids that come to camp, the thought of playing soccer in the sun horrifies them! It's just funny, and bible camp doesnt sound too bad--i mean, it's not band camp or anything!

As a former teacher at one of those camps, I can attest to having kids there who loved being there and learning. What kids end up doing in their summers should be a ongoing dialogue between the parent and their child, without any voice overpowering the other.

The assumption that some kind of camp is needed. I say, camp can stifle the youth's initiative, as it provides a constant irrigation of the senses with no effort (other than the activity of course).

Spending weeks with your friends wandering, making up games, looking at the world and thinking - happens on lazy summer days, not at camp.

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