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E
ight times this summer, buses filled with children will
set out for a new session of a unique camp. Future sci-
entists, actors, artists and chefs will be taken to an
intensive, five-day experience intended to immerse the
campers in their specially chosen area of interest.
"Imagitivity" describes what's offered at this new type of spe-
cialty camp, says Stan Trompeter about the Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan
Detroit-sponsored program.
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Trompeter
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camps director, says the
camp will focus on arts and
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sciences for youngsters from
kindergarten through fifth
New JCC day camp
grade.
offers everything
Named in a contest for
JCC staff, the camp is subti-
from dinosaurs and
tled, "Where creativity and
magic to computers
imagination meet."
"The camp is an ongoing
and cooking.
process. As long as swe have
creativity and imagination,
we can keep adding opportunities to the camp," explains JCC
Development Director Nevin Kanner, who, combined the two
thoughts to give Imagitivity Camp its name:
Running from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday, June 19, through
Friday, Aug. 10, at the Jimmy Prentis Morris Building of the
JCC, the camp in Oak Park will offer each of its 15 one-week
classes at least twice during the summer.
Trompeter says each week will feature a different hands-on
topic, unlike those held at the JCC's traditional summer-camp
programs at the Kahn Building in West Bloomfield. The
Imagitivity Camp's classes are based on suggestions from parents,
who were surveyed about "what they would want that is new and
She'll Liebman Dorfman can be reached at (248) 354-6060, ext.
246, or by e mail at sdolfinan@thejewishnews.com
Stan Trompeter laughs with past JCC Day Camp counselors.
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