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Winners’ Camp is a week- long residential accelerated learning program for tweens and teens designed to en- hance academic performance and social proficiency. It also gives teens the tools to make positive choices focusing on personal performance and the 5 R’s — respect, responsibili-
Social skills teachings in- clude communication for par- ent and teen understanding, as well as respect in teacher/ authority relationships. In- struction in conflict resolu- tion and advanced commu- nication techniques provide them with realistic ways to improve cooperation in their lives.
Camper Remi Krayeski crossing a ropes course, supported by her team members.
Our next camp is July 23- 29. For more information, to donate or register your teen, visit winnerscamp.com, email winnerscamp@gmail. com or call 808-372-1342.
Striving To Make A Sustainable Impact In Teens’ Lives
W By Jeannette Macaluso, Winners’ Camp administrator
inners’ Camp ty, resourcefulness, resilience These activities highlight the
for themselves and to have a keauhou (new beginning) as they create their own destiny.
Hawai‘i Lead- and restraint. seven habits of highly effec-
ership Academy Exciting low and high tive teens and mind-mapping just held its first spring break ropes courses implement throughout camp activities
Winners’ Camp Founda- tion is a 501(c)3 nonprofit ed- ucational organization. It was founded in 1985 by Delorese Malulani Gregoire and a team of committed graduates of Marshall Thurber’s “Busi- ness and You” Lifeskills Courses. Over the last 38 years, we have “graduated” more than 20,000 participants and 2,000 leaders.
program since 2019. This year’s event had 18 campers; seven were graduates of our summer camp and six were second-generation campers supported by a staff of 11 program graduates.
problem-solving tactics, goal achievement strategies and initiative, and partici- pants learn to recognize their own courage and self-confi- dence. Teens are encouraged to develop concern for oth- ers through teamwork and team-building. Through “tak- ing a chance” and learning to trust others, they discover the rich rewards of close and reli- able friends.
are taught for auditory, visual and kinesthetic learners.
Engaging academic activ- ities include memorization strategies, whole-brain think- ing and sensory integration.
We teach teens to make positive choices and awaken them to their personal and community potential. Our
PHOTO COURTESY CHRIS MCDONOUGH
retreat empowers teenagers to break through self-limit- ing beliefs and move toward greater success in their lives
and gives them the tools for accelerated learning. We show teens and their families how to design a new future