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Course: Get inside the villainous mind of a classic Disney villain with this workshop! Learn the songs and the characters with the class. Finally understand why those villains do what they do. Students will also create and bring to life their own original Disney Villain! From stealing a mermaid’s voice to brushing the magic hair, the student will do it all with this Disney Villain Workshop!
(This camp pairs nicely with Week 3's Disney Hero Workshop!)
Instructor: Jesse Farmer is a recent Musical Theatre graduate from William Peace University. He has performed in many theatrical productions around the Raleigh area and he has a great passion for singing, dancing, acting, and music! Jesse is very excited to share his passion with young artists at Carolina Friends! He loves to collaborate, have fun, and make discoveries through theatre and storytelling.
This course is offered in multiple weeks: Week Seven / August 2-6 Week Nine / August 16-20
Tuition: 320
Course: A few steps into the woods and we’ll enter a world of bird nests and calls, trails of mice and voles, evidence of beavers and flying squirrels. How do you find your way in the woods? How does the weather affect animals and plants? Where, how, and why do animals hide? And how do we avoid animal pests? We’ll find answers to these questions and more as we explore the woods, fields, and streams around CFS.
Whatever the weather, we’ll be out and about, getting wet, dirty, and sweaty exploring, collecting, wading, and creating—and navigating—scavenger hunts and other games, and designing nature-inspired prints and drawings. Not only can nature teach us a lot about ourselves, but when we look close together, we’ll find lessons in teamwork and the importance of taking care of our planet. Young adventurers will need appropriate clothing and plenty of energy!
Instructor: Bo Newsome is a musician, an oboist, composer, and educator, teaching students at his home (or on Zoom) and at Duke. He frequently creates and presents programs and residencies for young people, and attended workshops presented by Kennedy Center’s program for teaching artists. He developed a general music program and created original operas with children in a remote public school on an island in Maine.
To satisfy his sweet tooth in a house with few sweets, Bo started baking pies, cakes, and cookies when he was little. His favorite pies are anything citrus, chocolate, pecan, peach, peanut butter, or coconut. I guess he’s really never met a pie he didn’t like. In addition to cooking, Bo’s been a lover of animals, architecture and art, and a collector of treasures as long as he can remember.
This course is offered in multiple weeks: Week One / June 21-25, Tony Arias Sorto Week Two / June 28 - July 2, Tony Arias Sorto Week Four / July 12-16, Leslie Atherholt Week Six / July 26-30, Achiri Acha Week Seven / August 2-6, Leslie Atherholt Week Eight / Aug 9-13, Achiri Acha Week Nine / Aug 16-20, Tony Arias Sorto
Tuition: 320
Course: An active, fun-filled week of sports adventure just for you! We learn how to play a variety of sports, focusing on skills and learning the rules. We work on team building and create some crafts that go along with our new indoor and outdoor games! We concentrate on learning how to play, building confidence, keeping in shape, and receiving guidance and encouragement from our coach. An excellent class for the active or wannabe active camper!
Instructor: Tony Arias Sorto is from Honduras and moved to Massachusetts in 2014. He moved to North Carolina in 2018 and is now the Before and After Care Program Coordinator at Leesville Elementary in Raleigh. Tony earned his A.A. in Education and B.A. in English and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Leadership for Sustainability. Tony believes in creating spaces for children to fill with laughter and he’s very excited to join the CFS team for the first time this summer.
He was raised playing soccer but enjoys anything from volleyball and basketball to slacklining and trail running. Tony lives in Pittsboro where he loves running with his two dogs and exploring the woods.
This course is offered in multiple weeks: Week Five / July 19-23 (ages 7-12) Week Seven / August 2-6 (ages 9-15) Week Eight / August 9-13 (ages 9-15) Week Nine / August 16-20 (ages 9-15)
Tuition: 320
Course: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a... Frisbee! Ultimate Frisbee is one of the fastest growing youth sports in the US, and we want to teach you how to play! Ultimate combines the continuous play of soccer, the end-zones of football, and the pivoting of basketball all with a frisbee to create a fast-paced, exciting game! This camp will teach the fundamentals of the sport, going over different types of throws and the basic strategies of offense and defense. Participants will learn about Spirit of the Game, a fundamental part of Ultimate that focuses on sportsmanship and respect for all players. Each camper will receive an Ultimate Frisbee disc with registration!
About Triangle Ultimate: Triangle Ultimate is a local nonprofit whose mission is to collaboratively build a community emphasizing accessibility, relationships, and engagement through learning, playing, and teaching the sport of Ultimate in the Triangle region of North Carolina. Triangle Ultimate is excited to strengthen our relationship with the Carolina Friends School community through great summer camp experiences. The camp will be led by some of the top leaders in the Triangle's Ultimate Frisbee community!
This course is offered in multiple weeks: Week Four / July 12-16 Week Nine / August 16-20
Tuition: 320
Course: Discover the magic behind your favorite songs! In this course students will look at the structure of famous songs and learn how to craft songs on their own. We will explore song structure and the techniques of the various instruments used to create the mood, with skill levels ranging from beginner to advanced. Students will experience the joy of creative expression through guitar, ukulele, or other instruments and share their work with a performance on the last day.
All skill levels are welcome: beginning, intermediate, and advanced.
Instructor: Leites Chiong has been playing guitar for almost 30 years and teaching guitar for over a decade, with stints in various bands along the way. He's a father of four, including two children at CFS.
Leites teaches all styles of music for acoustic and electric guitar, as well as bass guitar and Ukulele (including in CFS’ after-school music program for children AND adults). He helps beginner through advanced students learn how to play and how to write songs. Leites enjoys working with children and seeing the love of music grow within them.
Course: During our Flag Football half day camp, we will learn the rules of Flag Football as well as many of the skills required to have a great time. We will spend the first half of each camp day working on drills that will assist every camper in gaining their own personal confidence to enjoy their time on the field. We will then move to scrimmages and games to end each camp day. We will be working to enjoy all the terrific moments that Flag Football can provide for us as well as learn the importance of teamwork. Having as much fun as possible will be our number one priority. Let’s Play Some Flag Football!
Instructor: Coach Will is a CFS alum and the current Middle School Boys and Girls Soccer Coach. He has been coaching at CFS for six seasons. He also actively coaches Flag Football for i9 Sports. His two sons attend CFS (Middle School and Upper School) and both play for the Soccer and Ultimate teams. In addition Will has been an active volunteer coach within the Orange County Community for well over 15 years. He is a certified ICA, AIC and CIC Soccer Coach through the NFHS. Will is also American Red Cross AED/CPR Certified.
This course is offered in multiple weeks: Week One / June 21-25, Achiri Acha (in-person) Week Five / July 19-23, Marshall Wilfong (in-person) Week Seven / August 9-13, Achiri Acha (in-person) Week Nine / August 16-20, Marshall Wilfong (virtual)
Tuition: 105
This virtual camp will gather for two hours each day: 10:00 am-11:00 am and 2:00 pm-3:00 pm.
Course: Anyone ever told you to “get lost?” If so, there’s no better way to take their advice than to delve into the amazingly expansive and immersive world of Minecraft. For a moment, let’s step away from the term “video-game” and substitute “wildly-versatile-open-ended-world-manipulating-art machine.” Minecraft’s critically acclaimed, sandbox-style gameplay is a constant exercise in collaborative exploration, goal-setting, and boundless “Imagineering”—whether hunting and gathering to build agrarian homesteads across various landscapes or configuring an automated railway/refinement system that acquires, transports, and processes raw materials the player can use to create their own scaled recreation of the Taj Mahal.
The objective of Minecraft Community is to “get lost, together,” building community. With a little direction and a lot of improv, students will enter into Minecraft’s Survival Mode, banding together to outlive the Mobs and Elements, within a democratic community. With inventive jobs (e.g. Hunters, Explorers, Architects, Artisans, etc.) and responsibilities and a community lot-casting system, students will forge ahead to establish a lasting society amidst wiles of Mobs and the unforgiving wildernesses.
Instructor: Marshall Wilfong was born and raised in Durham. An Eagle Scout from Troop 400, he’s been volunteering and working as a summer camp counselor since the age of 12. When he was 15 he got his first job as a merit badge counselor at Camp Raven Knob instructing First Aid, Search and Rescue, Safety, Camping, and Wilderness Survival. His time in the Scouts gave him a massive amount of respect for the outdoors as well as for the youth he instructs. Marshall has also been an after-school counselor at the Orange County Sportsplex and Aldersgate UMC.
He now works as the Extended Day Teacher for the Carolina Friends Middle School as well as a substitute for the Middle and Upper Schools.
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Personalized Camps
This year, we are offering customized weekly experiences for groups of 6-10 students.
Our 2021 Summer Programs will offer nine weeks of in-person courses on our Main Campus. We have also created the option for Personalized Camps — custom experiences for groups of 6-10 students. Registration is open!
For information on current campus access, our weekly dashboard, COVID-19 Guide, and more, visit our information hub: Coronavirus and COVID-19 Resources page