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Hot Tips #3: Healthcare at Camp

Hot Tips #3: Healthcare at Camp

Our Health Centers are clinics managed by licensed health care professionals and overseen by our board certified Medical Director, Dr. Jeremy DeWall. ...

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Hot Tips #2: Sleep Health at Camp

Hot Tips #2: Sleep Health at Camp

There is nothing like sleeping in your own bed in your own bedroom in your own house. Bedtime at camp, or at home, can sometimes be challenging. Helpi...

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Hot Tips #1: Missing Home

Hot Tips #1: Missing Home

It is easy to pathologize the emotional feeling of missing home as “feeling homesick.” Sickness can be scary, prone to uncertainty (in duration or int...

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HIGH TRAILS STAFF 2024

HIGH TRAILS STAFF 2024

We are thrilled to introduce the High Trail’s staff of summer 2024! Our team has just finished a 10-day staff training and we are so excited to meet t...

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BIG SPRING STAFF 2024

BIG SPRING STAFF 2024

We are thrilled to introduce the Big Spring staff of summer 2024! Our team has just finished a 10-day staff training and we are so excited to meet the...

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Our Camp Parents Are Not Panicked

Our Camp Parents Are Not Panicked

Jay Caspian Kang, a staff writer with The New Yorker, just published an interesting perspective on why parents send their kids to summer camp: they ar...

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Why Smart Kids Need Dumb Phones

Why Smart Kids Need Dumb Phones

Coming to Sanborn from the Yale School of Nursing, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner MOLLY RADIS BLACKBURN (HT Staff 14-15)–married to former long-time Big...

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Camp is THE Antidote

Camp is THE Antidote

High Trails Outdoor Education Center welcomed our first students today and we are all getting REALLY excited about the upcoming summer. And we are gra...

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Mid-October Update

Mid-October Update

With everything that is going on in the world right now, it feels both incredibly remarkable–and incredibly privileged and incongruous–that we are abl...

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Weekly Update: August 6, 2023

Weekly Update: August 6, 2023

This is the part of the summer that begins to feel surreal. This morning, we woke up to cold temperatures and a crisp edge of fall in the air. When we...

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