Our program design is to offer a wealth of diverse activities and programs. Our boys take 15 instructional periods every week. Through these instructional periods, we continue to introduce them to the variety of team, individual, aquatic, ropes and wilderness activities. Our hope is that we will uncover new interest areas by stimulating them in these one hour instructional periods. When their “lamp is lit”, in a specific activity, we then allow them to elect that activity on the very same day, in the afternoon. The boys elect 15 periods every week, 3 each day in the afternoons. Knowing boys as well as we do, and having Caribou in our family for the past 42 summers, we find that boys learn the best when they are “self motivated”. The staff encourages them to try their specialty area, they mentor them, they excite them and then the process of competency begins. When boys become competent at something, they love the activity even more and it builds their confidence. The fact that they will also be getting recognition from their peers motivates them as well. We find that at Caribou we can make everyone a star in their own mind. Many times parents ask, “What typifies the Caribou kid?” My answer is always, we attract the ‘what’s next?’ kids, kids that love to learn, love to be active, are willing to try new things and respond very well to positive reinforcement. Caribou boys are a rough and tumble, fun-loving, let’s get dirty, group of boys. We have a cross-section of athletic abilities at our summer camp, very similar to a school classroom. We have gifted athletes, we have boys who love to play the game and are developing daily, and we have boys who are just learning and beginning to develop their new skills. The only pre-requisite is that they’re interested in learning and love to play.

Camp Caribou boys are also known for their excellent sportsmanship, we win with class and we lose with class. In all competitions, no matter what the outcome, our Caribou boys wear the “white hats”.