SuperCamp

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Our participants are similar to those in a typical classroom. While students' grades range from straight A's to failing, the majority are somewhere in between. We believe everyone possesses enormous potential and can be successful in school and in life – if given the tools and confidence to learn and grow. High achievers tell us they appreciate gaining learning skills that reduce their study time, refine communication strategies, and life skills that enhance their relationships. Students who are struggling due to low motivation, self-esteem and/or poor grades will discover new techniques to help them hurdle the barriers that blocked their progress in the past.

High achievers tell us they appreciate gaining learning skills that reduce their study time, refine communication strategies, and life skills that enhance their relationships. Students who are struggling due to low motivation, self-esteem and/or poor grades will discover new techniques to help them hurdle the barriers that blocked their progress in the past.

Students benefit at all ages. In fact, there's so much to learn, we recommend students attend all levels, learning new skills and gaining new insights each time. We encourage students to move through each camp program, continuously building on their Quantum Learning skills, to help with middle school and high school or primary and secondary school.

Unlike most summer camp programs, we have the students "24/5", twenty-four hours a day for five days in an orchestrated learning environment that uses a very specific design frame. A prime directive of SuperCamp is that we seek to get into the students' world and understand them, which builds trust and earns us the right to teach. Throughout the five days, we build on mini-successes, so by the end of the camp we are celebrating the students' successes.

Our camp is an academic and life skills program. The following will be covered:

Academic Skills: Reading, Writing, Mind-Mapping (note-taking) and memory skills
Life Skills: Communication, Relationships, and Creative Problem-solving
Leadership Skills: communication, teamwork, mentoring, goal-setting, personal motivation, leadership styles. (Junior Forum-Leadership Team)

Our US facilitators will conduct the camp in English. There hasn't been a problem with comprehension or language. We hire local bilingual team leaders who can translate for the students if they have questions. We also have a roughly 50/50 ratio of kids who speak English as a second language and kids who are native English speakers so your kids won't have any problems meeting new friends.

Except for Day 1 (Registration Day), Day 4 or Day 5 (Outdoor Adventure) and Day 10 (Graduation)

7:30 am Wake up time
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am Academic skills session
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Team activities session
4:30 pm Afternoon activities
6:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm Life skills session
10:30 pm In bed, Lights out

The schedule is not set hard - it may be flexible because the facilitators may decide to change the time to suit other activities.

We will take from 30-48 students.

We try to create a mixture of students for each team - e.g. students from different schools, different countries, language, age, and gender. Team mates of the same gender will also room together. We prefer to have pre-camp friends on different teams so that students will socialize with others rather than stick to their own friends. There will be plenty of opportunities for pre-camp friends to get together during camp.

We rent our venue from Noah's Ark Hong Kong located on Ma Wan Island. All the facilities are air conditioned. You can visit the venue's website: http://www.noahsark.com.hk.

Yes, team leaders will room in the same dormitory and same floor as the students. During the lights out period, team leaders ensure the students are safe in their rooms and sleeping. Students know which rooms their team leaders are in and know that they are accessible at all times. In addition, there is a team of security guards monitoring the venue 24 hours a day.

IIn addition, there is a team of security guards monitoring the venue 24 hours a day.

The venue has on-site catering providing balanced and nutritious meals every day. There will also be several special meals such as a graduation dinner. We ask parents to let us know if their child has any special dietary needs.

Most days from about 3:30pm – 5:30pm, students will be able to choose a sport or activity to participate in. It is their supervised free time. They can choose from sports such as basketball, soccer, badminton, ping pong, or join an arts and crafts session, play board games, or even read in a quiet corner.

We will have one day off campus on either Day 4 or Day 5 depending on which camp. We arrange buses to bring the students and staff to a ropes course venue to participate in a day of outdoor challenges and ropes events similar to Outward Bound. The events will be run by a professional ropes events company. It is the most talked about day and usually the highlight of the program.

We usually will have around 5-10 students from overseas in each camp. These students usually attend international schools in China, USA, Thailand, Malaysia and Taiwan.

PParents think as highly of our SuperCamp staff as their kids and we do. And with good reason. The people we hire are enthusiastic, supportive and committed to positively impacting lives. The great majority of the camp's staff are Education majors or graduates. Not surprisingly, most of the staff return year after year because they enjoy the experience of working with successful people in a dynamic accelerated learning program.

Facilitators, the most visible leaders at SuperCamp, are chosen from among the top professional teachers and trainers in the United States. Hundreds of applicants go through our selection process and only a few are chosen to train with SuperCamp. Many of our Facilitators have advanced degrees and, more importantly, all have a natural ability to engage every student and bring out their personal greatness. Facilitators receive 200-300 hours of on-site training in Quantum Learning methods before they direct the summer camp program.

Our team leaders are compassionate, enthusiastic, and positive role models for children and teens. They also receive more than 40 hours of intensive training prior to the programs. They are carefully interviewed and selected and from top universities in Hong Kong, United States and England. Our local team leaders speak English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

The student to staff ratio is at least four-to-one. Students are assigned to teams, headed by two team leaders. One team leader is from the United States and one team leader is from Hong Kong. Among other responsibilities, team leaders help supervise and support the students and are assigned to the same dormitories, providing 24-hour assistance.

We follow the US curriculum. The only difference would be that sometimes the content taught may not be relevant to kids living in Asia such as using the memorization tool to memorize the US presidents or the US capitals. We would change that content to memorizing the Asian capitals of the top Asian countries. Therefore, the academic skills and life skills we teach are exactly the same but the content that we use will be relevant to Asia.

Parents are invited to attend a Parent Program and Closing Ceremony on the last day of the program. On that day facilitators will brief parents on what the kids learned over the five days. After the program, students will join their parents for the Closing Ceremony.

Students can be reached at any time through the SuperCamp/Noah's Ark office number which will be provided after registration. Since the camp is only 5 days, we recommend that parents allow their children to enjoy the camp with no mobile phone distractions.