Humanist/Atheist/Agnostic Summer Camps for Kids

[Charles]

This sounds pretty neat. The exact opposite of the religious brainwashing camps a lot of young victims attend.

http://west.campquest.org/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifest...RbI_story.html

Our Mission

Camp Quest provides an educational adventure shaped by fun, friends and freethought, featuring science, natural wonder and humanist values.
Values we teach: integrity, empathy, creativity, critical thinking, and community.

Our Vision

Camp Quest envisions a world in which children grow up exploring, thinking for themselves, connecting with their communities, and acting to make the most of life for themselves and others.

Our Goals

Through our programs, we seek to:

• Develop supportive communities for freethinking families
• Foster curiosity, scientific inquiry, and critical thinking in young people to enable them to draw their own conclusions
• Cultivate reason and empathy as foundations of an ethical, productive and fulfilling life
• Provide a safe and fun environment for personal and social growth
• Encourage exploration of the natural world
• Promote open dialogue that is marked by challenging each other’s ideas while treating each other with respect
• Raise awareness of positive contributions made by atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers, and other nontheistic people to our society
• Demonstrate atheism and humanism as positive, family-friendly worldviews

[Malcolm Wright]

Sounds good. Values are great. I'd probably send my kid there if I had one.
It makes me a little sad they need to almost apologize for atheism and humanism, 'as positive, family-friendly worldviews' in the last line... but I guess in the US that might be necessary...