JEREMIAH SUMMER CAMP
The Jeremiah Summer Camp program is a summer Computer skills, pottery and performing arts program. This program incorporates elements of the Jeremiah Project and uses the Information Technology Center, Pottery Studio and Media Center on an intensive level in the summer. Making Gurtler Center resources available to students who may not otherwise have this opportunity levels the playing field by keeping them engaged and intellectually and creatively stimulated.
Overall goals of this program are:
- Improve and maintain students' reading, reading comprehension and vocabulary
skills during critical "away from school" time.
- Develop skills students need to be competitive in school.
- Create from the heart with clay in the pottery studio, building self-esteem
and self-confidence and mold themselves in new ways.
- Develop poise and self-confidence through self-expression in the drama component.
The information technology part of the program focuses on developing and improving use of primary personal computer applications, the Internet, and Internet safety. Students are introduced to the various search engines on the Internet to help increase their research skills. In the process, we stimulate intellectual and creative activity and so that students do not lose ground over the summer.
The pottery art portion of the program helps students create from the heart through working with clay in the pottery studio. Students learn to throw pottery on the wheel and construct hand-built projects like tea pots, animal pinch pots and vases. They leave with bowls, mugs, pitchers and pencil holders they have created and glazed. The pottery program focuses on building self-esteem through creative expression and instilling confidence and patience in its participants.
The performing arts component of the program uses improvisational techniques to help encourage quick thinking and a level of comfort in front of peers and adults. This program equips youth to be at ease while presenting them in a poised and articulate manner when faced with new and even outrageous scenarios. Value is given to stories and events as told from the youth's point of view. It also encourages positive reinforcement from peers and adults through laughter and applause. Improvisation teaches working together in community to create something together in the spirit of fun and play.
The Gurtler Center for Families, Youth and Children wishes to the thank the following for support of the the Jeremiah Project and Jeremiah Summer Camp programs:
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John R. and Ruth W. Gurtler Foundation
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Warren and Augusta Hume Family Foundation
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| The Galloway Foundation |
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| The Winter Park Community Redevelopment Agency |
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The members and friends of First Congegational Church of Winter Park
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Individual contributors to the Jeremiah Project and Jeremiah Summer Camp
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| The Board of Directors and members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida and the Boys & Girls CLubs of Winter Park, Eatonville and Pine Hills. |
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