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Camp IRL Communication
A camp to ignite your child’s communication and active listening skills.
Week of August 3 - August 7
This week will focus on teaching kids the now forgotten art of communication. We want to remind them that relationships are built on love, empathy, and compassion. We will test our knowledge on how to be an active listener, and showcase ways to show patience, compassion and empathy through community service. We will learn how others communicate and explore an immersion experience where we will see what it is like to be deaf or hard of hearing for a morning. Students will participate in a sign language workshop. We will work on a week long project where campers will interview a volunteer Senior from the Madison Senior Center. They will create a podcast highlighting their interview subject and their lives. Every afternoon we will play a variety of communication games and learn the importance of the act of noticing. We will brainstorm ways to be more active in our approaches with peers and learn common etiquette in regards to communication. Kids can even work to earn raffle tickets throughout the week for our Camper Only Summer Grand Prize Giveaway! This giveaway is to help encourage our campers to continue to do random acts of kindness for their communities and families/friends! Raffle tickets will be chosen September 1st for gift cards and other fun things like video consoles and more!
As a reminder, all camps have a choose your own adventure style feel. Campers can choose what projects they like based on their loves! In the afternoons, campers get to choose from a choice of stations that include arts, scratch computer programming, STEM/Science Projects, and culinary exploration or music stations. We will also do weekly excursions as listed below! All of our campers can win raffle tickets for a grand prize drawing we’ll have at the end of the summer.
Located in downtown Madison WI with convenient curbside drop off & pick up. You don’t even have to leave your car as our counselors will be waiting to sign your camper out with ID. Drop off location is at 101 N. Carroll St. Base camp will be at Groove Madison at 14 W. Mifflin St. Camp will be throughout the downtown area with exploration of many different locations as a part of our daily routine. We will walk to all locations!
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CANCELLATION POLICY: Please check out our Camp Cancellation Policy for our refund policy.
WAITLIST: If enough interest is shown for a camp, we may decide to repeat it and cancel less popular camps. That decision will be made by April 1st, 2020.
Why choose Ignite Camps?
Communication. Community. Character Building.
Our intention. Unlike other local camps, our first and foremost goal is to create a camp that helps children become their best selves. We still do the fun stuff all the other camps do but everything from activities, projects, and games model positivity, empathy, gratitude and connection. We do daily gratitude journaling everyday to help reinforce the practice of appreciation. We want to prove that young kids can do BIG things!
Community Connection. We’ve created a program that highlights connection to our local Madison community. We want to raise awareness on ways that our children can be involved and garner excitement towards helping those in need.
Our programs. Not any aspect of our camp time is fillers. We spend hours consulting with experts in child development, empathy and gratitude growth mindset exploration.
Our counselors. Our camp counselors are chosen for their love of children. We hand pick and curate our staff and we keep our counselor to camper ratios at 1:10. Staff is chosen for their pursuit of excellence in working wiht children.
The Ignite Family. Once you become a part of Ignite, you become a cherished member of our community. Our Summer Camp kids are invited to FREE events throughout the year at Groove Madison. These events are meant to help support the knowledge they acquire at camp. The spirit of community will continue year round and these are only open to camp registrants.