Programs

Camp

Join the EVkids Camp Team

EVkids Camp has been providing Boston youth with a life-changing summer immersion experience for over forty years. We are currently hiring Camp Counselors for the 2024 Camp season. For five weeks in Granville, VT, Camp Counselors will live, work, and share communal space with a dedicated team of education professionals and small groups of campers aged 12-18 from Greater Boston. If you are interested in providing a unique summer camp experience, please review the details and application process below.


2024 Camp Dates

Spend a week or two in the Green Mountains of Vermont with a dedicated team of education professionals at EVkids' nine-acre site. Our structured camp activities are designed to build character, community, and sportsmanship. From volleyball to archery to theatre improv, chess, and climbing Vermont's 4000-foot peaks, our immersive summer experience teaches challenging life lessons in perseverance and accomplishment. EVkids camp offers three sessions based on the age and grade the student has completed as of June 2024:

LIT Session (10th-11th grade): June 27- July 5
Session 1 (6th and 7th grade): July 7-12
Session 2 (8th and 9th grade): July 14-26

Fill out the interest form below to learn more about EVkids Camp.

 

Camp Life

EVkids Camp is a family-style experience where campers learn respect, communication, and how to serve and be served. Campers, counselors, and co-directors all share communal space and the responsibilities of cooking and cleaning up.

A rotating team of campers plans and participates in cooking lunch and dinner each day. Whether the camper is new to the kitchen or a seasoned chef at home, cooking together builds community, fosters care for each other, and teaches kitchen safety.

Camp Staff

With three professional Camp Co-Directors and six college-age counselors, EVkids Camp offers a 2-to-1 camper-to-staff ratio. Counselors have experience working with youth and complete a multi-day training prior to campers’ arrival. All staff are CORI/SORI checked and trained in child safety.

Camp Activities

Workshops

Groups of campers rotate through different workshops each day, planned and led by counselors. Activities range from archery to yoga, from chess to ping pong, from drawing to volleyball.

Swimming

Daily trips to nearby Blueberry Lake allow for respite and cooling off. An on-staff lifeguard determines each camper’s swimming level and oversees the kids as they enjoy the water. The adjacent blueberry bushes for which the lake are named occasionally provide the ingredients for dessert later that evening.

Hiking

Every week, EVkids campers will make it to the top by hiking one of the many nearby mountains. Hiking is an opportunity for campers to push themselves physically and mentally. Staff and campers will work together to overcome obstacles on the hikes, both physical and psychological, and everyone enjoys munching on a sandwich while gazing out over Vermont from the top of a mountain.