All residential camps include team-building activities using our new challenge course; special evening activities; campfires; creative art projects; showering in our outdoor rainwater showers; and sleeping in our new bunkhouse.

College students from Molloy College serve as summer camp mentors (see volunteers). Mentors act as positive role models, make sure the youth stay on task, and maintain a safe environment. Besides all the building, campers have time to relax, explore, hike, and play sports.

For a second summer we hosted a summer camp for teen girls, "The Ecology of Care: Nurturing our Mind, Body, Spirit, and Earth". Campers and their Molloy College mentors spend the week learning about themselves, swimming at a local pool, creating art, and hiking.

During the three summers of the teen boys' camp, the campers and mentors focused on setting goals and completing them by building a variety of things. Campers learned woodworking and electronics from Dave Gedeon, professor of technology at Bowling Green State University, OH. Working with Dave, they built a penny hockey set, a bird feeder, and a small electric car. Sister Jane Omlor taught the campers pottery so that by the end of the week, each camper had worked one-on-one with Sister Jane to create his own pot or mug on the pottery wheel. Campers also built a tree house with Lonnie Bowen, who originated the concept of our Outdoor Classroom program. Working on the tree house was a major undertaking and has resulted in an awesome place to hang out and sleep.