Penn Charter Summer Camps

Digital Music Design's "The Quest for the Creativity Crystal" will take your kids to outer space! This virtual summer camp takes place July 6-10, for ages 9-14. Registration ends soon! Register today at: https://www.penncharter.com/summercamp/digital-music-design

Week of July 6: Exercise your brain, exercise your body with Digital Music Design, Junior Robotics, Tumble-tastic, Yoga, Dance and Ukulele virtual camps. Register today at penncharter.com/summercamp

About ready to send your kids to outer space? Sign up for Digital Music Design's "Quest for the Creativity Crystal" a virtual music education experience! Journey with Captain Sarah to explore new worlds, perform for aliens, and collect 3 musical gems to save the world. Along the way, learn music fundamentals. One-week sessions begin June 22 & July 6. www.penncharter.com/summercamp/digital-music-design

Check out some of our virtual camps for next week June 22 @ https://www.penncharter.com/summercamp We are offering DesignCraft Academy, SurvivalCraft Academy, Tumble-tastic, and Digital Music Design.

Summer Camps Go Virtual Although we are disappointed not to gather in person for summer camp this year, we are excited to offer six (so far!) virtual, online camps. Drone Camp Robotics Camp Junior Robotics Camp for young campers... Digital Music Design Camp SurvivalCraft Academy DesignCraft Academy Most camps have multiple sessions for maximum flexibility. Registration is open at penncharter.com/summercamps. See more

Stay safe out there everyone! We will see you soon as better days arrive in the weeks ahead!

Happy February! Can't wait for that warm weather around the corner and then summer!

Happy Friday!!! Our Summer Camp season is over! We had a wonderful summer and this week we finished with Soccer and Basketball Camp! Looking forward to seeing you next summer. We have already begun thinking about next year. Information about the 2020 camp season will be available in mid January, 2020. Enjoy the rest of your summer!!!

Bunk song contest song

Too many moments to relive! They were all amazing. We look forward to seeing everyone back next summer!

Yellow team song

Red Team Song, Day Camp final day! We loved both songs from our two teams! #PCDC #summerfun #songsfromthesummer

Bunks E/F & G survived the overnight! We were tired the next morning but had a great time at Fonthill Castle! #summercampfun

Dylan B #OPC17 #archery comes back to visit his old bunk and fellow former classmates!

The talents of young actors, singers and dancers were on display during Performing Arts Camp's production of Disney's Aladdin Jr. Enjoy, download and save the photos!

Always cool under pressure! We survived the heat this week! #PCDC #archery

Over the past two weeks, Pottery Camp ceramicists learned to wedge clay, center it, throw a basic cylinder, pull and attach handles, and cover various surface treatments: slips, textures, carving and ultimately glazing. Instructor Liz Kinder sees pottery as a perfect antidote to our kids’ screen-saturated worlds: "The potter’s wheel is messy, fun and takes grit and tenacity."

Today was the annual camp #cookout. It was a feast of #hotdogs, #watermelon, #chips, and #cupcakes. We had a wonderful #tattooartists, #facepainter, and #balloonart. @ Penn Charter Summer Camps

Another great day of service by our super counselors in training and members of the Senior Bunk!

Last week was a busy one with Campers competing in the Color Olympics and our older campers spending time at Arnold's to play games and race in go-karts! This week we have the talent show and the eraser hunt!

Campers were excited last Friday to compete in the Crazy Color Olympics! Go Red! Go Yellow!

Today we had special guests from the #believeandachievefoundation at #PCDC. #lovemusic #archery #tennis #facepainting #balloonart #glittertattoos @ Penn Charter Summer Camps

This morning at #PCDC we had a lot of #princesses #knights and #wizard dressed up for the #renissance and #medieval theme. @ Penn Charter Summer Camps

Yesterday the junior bunks participated in a #treasurehunt finding #pez #dragon and #unicorn puppets along with many other #treasures

Duck, duck, goose is the perfect way to have fun at camp in July! @ William Penn Charter School

Day Camp was busy as always last week! Our older campers continued to do a great job doing service work at Share! We also had fun during Sports Camp and Dance Camp last week! We have six different camps going on this week! Come see what's going on!

Dance Camp was full of energy last Friday!

Morning activity with all of day camp!! They beat the camp record!

Welcome back to camp! Check out our early morning archers!

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Week two comes to a close at PCDC! We ended the day with our Coat-of-Arms Contest! They were all amazing!

Our counselors in training spent the day with the Senior Bunk rock climbing! #summerfun #PCDC19

Who won the red and yellow dress up and cheer competition? #goyellow #gored #summerfun #PCDC19

Are you red or yellow?? Don’t forget to wear your red or yellow on Thursday.

Did you know PCDC has a gymnastics elective with Ms. Katie from @nationalkidsgym

It is a kickball kind of day at Penn Charter Sports Camp! #kickball #summerfun

Is this a counselor? Can you guess who? #counselorhunt #fridayfun #PCDC19

In DJing 101 Camp, students study cymaticsthe science of visualizing soundby putting a speaker in a bowl covered with plastic wrap. The sound makes the salt jump and move into shapes determined by the frequency of the sound. See for yourself!

#poolfun on a hot and steamy day at #PCDC19

#firstdayofPCDC #summerfun

Can you believe tomorrow is the first day of the 51st year of PCDC!! The Renaissance theme this summer has many surprises in store for our campers. Below is a sneak peak of our very own original, counselor designed t-shirt!!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend from PCDC! Camp is just a few weeks away. Have you signed up yet?

There are 10 lonely potter’s wheels at Penn Charter that don’t get used. We are going to change that! This summer PC is offering a POTTERY CAMP July 8-July 19. The kids will learn to make functional pottery. Sign-up now!

Looking for summer camps June 10-August 9 for your child. Check out https://www.penncharter.com/summercamp

Looking for something for your child the week of June 10-14. Enrichment Camp is the perfect solution. Campers will spend the week engaged in fun, challenging and artistic activities that will stimulate their creativity. This is hands-on learning at its best! Taught by dedicated staff who love their field, campers will gain knowledge, improve skills and have a greater appreciation for their subject areas. Campers will have some choice in designing their schedule and will immer...se themselves in four activities for the week. Activities may include: fencing, art, karate, chess, cooking, sewing, gymnastics, dance, yoga, music, sports & games, engineering (exploring with K’NEX), and science (robotics and electrical circuits). Go to our website to check it out along with many other Penn Charter Camps offered throughout the summer. https://www.penncharter.com/summercamp

Soccer Camp by Scholar-Athlete Advantage helps student-athletes improve and maximize their performance through athletic testing, tactical and technical instruction, team building and thinking the game. Boys and girls ages 6-14. Aug. 5-9; full day and half day available. We offer transportation to and from northeast Philly. See Soccer Camp in action at www.penncharter.com/summercamp

Cold weather blues? Think summer! Kids can customize their camp experience by mixing and matching a few weeks of Day Camp or Sports Camp with weeklong specialty camps in pottery, chess, drones, rocketry, fashion sewing, Minecraft, girls empowerment, dance, soccer, DJing and more! Check out the choices at penncharter.com/summercamp.

How do we keep summer camp fresh? One of the ways is that we add new camps every summer. Pottery Camp is open to kids ages 12-15 who have no experience on the wheel as well as to more advanced potters. Kids will learn to wedge clay, center it and throw a basic cylinder. From there, the possibilities are endless. This summer let them create. penncharter.com/summercamp

Okay, who did this better? Campers and Counselors or Marron 5 tonight at the Super Bowl? Day Camp will be here soon!

Summer Camp registration is open! New this year: Pottery Camp, DJing 101 Camp, Dance Performance Camp, and new Minecraft camps. Check out all the offerings and register at www.penncharter.com/summercamp.

Here is our final tribute to Charlie and his 50 years of PCDC!

Dedication to Charlie K!

...And, did we mention we had the "real" song and poster contest, the fair, Pool Day, the CIT play & basketball game during the last few days?

Red and Yellow have battled each other for 50 years. Today, they joined forces to sing an amazing song dedicated to our amazing leader, Charlie K.

So much to share from the last couple of days from camp! Congratulations to our top archers!

So many great memories to recall! Have a great rest of the summer from PCDC!

It was kind of a busy day at PCDC as we began our song contest and celebrated our fearless leader, Charlie K's 50th year at the camp! Take a peek at our Jr. B!

JR B. Shows that they are family!

Our top archers competed today for the camp championships! Congrats to Julia and Aidan on your big wins!

On Friday PCDC had a wonderful 50th Celebration with the famous The Give & Take Jugglers.

Hopefully, our campers from bunks E, F, and G are enjoying a well earned good night of sleep after yesterday's overnight!

"Anything can happen if you let it," as Mary Poppins is fond of saying. And so Performing Arts Camp spent just four short weeks building sets, creating costumes, and learning lines, dance and song for "Mary Poppins Jr." And it was practically perfect in every way!

Spit spot! Hurry to see the Performing Arts Camp production of "Mary Poppins Jr." Performances on Wednesday, July 25, 1 p.m., and Thursday, July 26, at 10:30 a.m. It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! We'll post more photos here after the show.

The smiles prove it. Junior Bunk B loves the pool.