SuperCamp is an international educational summer camp program which introduces students to accelerated learning academic skills and life skills. The program is held in several different locations around the world, and has been attended by over 56,000 students since it was founded in 1982.
SuperCamp is run by the Quantum Learning Network (QLN), a California-based educational organization. The SuperCamp program aims to teach students skills which will make studying any subject a faster, easier, more enjoyable and less stressful process. The camp's life skills curriculum focuses on developing communication skills, building stronger personal relationships with family and friends, developing teamwork and leadership ability, boosting creativity and problem-solving ability, and setting clear goals. The camp uses metaphors such as an outdoor ropes course and board-breaking to help students develop strategies for overcoming barriers to success.
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The President of the QLN, Bobbi DePorter, first studied accelerated learning methods with the educational pioneer Dr. Georgi Lozanov in the 1970s. These methods became the basis of the SuperCamp program which DePorter co-founded in the early-1980s with Eric Jensen and Greg Simmons and further developed with husband/partner, Joe Chapon. The first SuperCamp was held in 1982 at Kirkwood Meadows, California.
The program has since grown rapidly. Presently, camps are held every summer at several college campuses throughout the United States, including Stanford University, UCLA, Loyola Marymount University, Cal State San Marcos, the University of Washington, Colorado College, Wake Forest University and Brown University.
SuperCamp was first held outside the United States in 1990, when camps were conducted in Moscow and Singapore. The program is now held every year in various countries in Asia, Europe, Central America and North America.
Since 1982, over 54,000 students worldwide have been through the SuperCamp program.
SuperCamp has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and many other major publications.
SuperCamp programs teach the following skills:
Academic Skills
Life Skills
The camp also provides year-round support through on-going contact at its grad support website and at the SuperCamp Facebook fan page, which helps graduates review and integrate the skills that they have learned at the camp into their home and school lives.
The following SuperCamp programs are conducted the United States:
Variations on this structure exist outside the United States in order to make the program relevant and appropriate for students in the local school system in each country where the camp is held. A "Youth Forum" program for ages 8-10 used to be run in the US and continues to be held overseas.
There is also a SuperCamp Parent Weekend program, which parents of students who attend SuperCamp can attend.