How to Use Camp Work as a Resume Builder
You can leverage your camp work experience to support your future career. While we think camp work is the bees knees, we know that not...
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Curtis Mcfall
- Oct 1
- 4 min
11 Reasons Every Young Person Should Work at a Summer Camp
Finding meaningful work as a young adult can be tough. Usually our high school and early college summers are about earning enough to sock...
Curtis Mcfall
- Aug 31, 2021
- 1 min
A Love Letter to Camp
After a long, cold winter, there’s nothing sweeter than arriving at camp for a week (or two!) of fun, friends, and new adventures. We’ve...
Curtis Mcfall
- Jul 14, 2021
- 2 min
A Day in the Life at Camp
If you’re a first-time camper you might be wondering “what’s a typical day at camp?” While there’s no such thing as a “typical day” here,...
Madeline Lauver
- Jun 8, 2021
- 3 min
Creativity over Conformity
Almost three months ago to the day I woke up, brushed my teeth, and put my clothes on backwards. It was Reverse Day, a camp-wide,...
Charlie Driker-Ohren
- Apr 13, 2021
- 3 min
Leading by Example
A few summers ago a group of older campers approached me. They had created a new game—Empires—and wanted to play it for evening program....
Neil Shah
- Feb 10, 2021
- 4 min
On Agency and Working with Youth
Perhaps one of the biggest bummers I can remember from being a teenager was feeling that my emotions were not valid, being made to feel...
Curtis Mcfall
- Jan 20, 2021
- 2 min
Camp is Back! And it's More Important than Ever
Summer is just around the corner and we couldn’t be more excited to welcome campers back to camp. At Camp Carvela, Camp Lookout, and...
Micah Leinbach
- Sep 1, 2020
- 4 min
Our Identity Based Leadership
If you’ve been on a Crystalaire trip you know we talk about a lot of boxes. We draw them in the sand, lay them out in rocks and twigs, or...