July 23-27 (Week 6)
All courses are dependent on minimum enrollment. For more information, please see our Courses page.
Counselors-In-Training (CITs) and Interns do need to register through our CampInTouch system.
When enrollment is three students from full capacity, we'll indicate the number of remaining spots next to the title of the course or that the class is waitlisted. CampInTouch always has real-time numbers as you move through the enrollment process. The numbers here are current as of 8:25 pm on Saturday, June 23.
Happy exploring!
- Ready, Set, Build! (4-5) | 1 space
- Hands-On Fun: American Sign Language (5-10)
- Mad Science Alert (6-8) | Waitlist
- Cooking through Hispanic Culture (6-9) | 1 space
- Forest Adventure Trek (6-9)
- Mystery Brew and Magic (6-9)
- The Science of Fun (7-10)
- Backyard Broadway (8-11) | 2 spaces
- Gadgets, Gizmos, and Other Fun Physics (8-11)
- Farm-to-Table (9-12) | 2 spaces
- Outdoor Adventure Skills (9-14)
- Comic Design (9-15)
- Minecraft Community (9-15)
- Let’s Rock: Rock, Pop, and Jazz (9-16)
- Fun with Fashion (10-14) | Waitlist
- Sports Action (10-15)
Ready, Set, Build! (4-5) | 1 space
Tuition: 290
Course: Get your hard hats and tools ready for a week of designing and building together! We will build all kinds of structures inside and even some well-designed fairy houses outside. We’ll look at some different buildings and see how they’re made and we’ll practice measuring and using tools. By the end of the week you’ll have a house just right for a favorite stuffy, action figure or doll.
Instructor: Nylah Jimerson graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017 with a B.A. in Psychology. As a Durham native, she has always been familiar with Carolina Friends School but was so excited to become a part of the community in 2013 as a UNC work-study student at CHES. In her free time, Nylah loves hiking with her brothers, crocheting, and spending time with her adorable cat and dog, Sebastian and Kovu. She is so thrilled to spend another year making art, exploring outside, and learning with the students.
Hands-On Fun: American Sign Language (5-10)
Tuition: 280
Course: Visual communication!!! Come explore Deaf Culture while learning American Sign Language. We’ll make cognitive and emotional connections as we play games, make crafts, sign and sing songs, and participate in outdoor activities while becoming informed about our local Deaf community. Building a basis of language to communicate in Sign Language will include the manual alphabet, numbers, colors, descriptions, feelings/emotions, common greetings and much more! We will communicate in silence by the end of our time together.
Instructor: Jennifer Ferraro joined the CFS Upper School in 2017 to teach American Sign Language. She continues building the School’s ASL program as both a modern language option for students with language-based learning needs and as an elective program for any CFS student who wishes to learn ASL. Jennifer is an active ASL interpreter.
Mad Science Alert (6-8) | Waitlist
Week: 2 (June 25-29)
Week: 6 (July 23-27)Tuition: 280
Course: You don’t really have to be “mad” to have a blast at this camp! We’ll cook snacks using solar energy, make beautiful crystals (evaporation/water cycle), and work in teams to build effective dams (erosion). We’ll explore the science of sound using our favorite songs, mix up some creative concoctions, and come up with new ideas of how to use them. Come explore chemical reactions, build top-secret spy equipment, launch your own rockets, and much more! Be alert--mad scientists are at work!
Instructor: Tom Latimer has been running camps at CFS for 11 years. He has been teaching for 21 years and has a Masters degree in elementary education. He currently teaches 2nd grade at Immaculata Catholic School in Durham and plays guitar in Chapel Hill band Zoltar’s Fortune. Tom lives in Chapel Hill with his wife Alison and their two cats Nora and Dudley. Tom enjoys seeing and playing music, eating at our local restaurants, watching sports (mainly the Tar Heels and the New York Jets), collecting vinyl records, and working with kids.
Cooking through Hispanic Culture (6-9) | 1 space
Tuition: 290
Course: Spend a week in a Hispanic cooking adventure! We’ll create our own grocery store with recycled materials and enjoy the flavors of Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, México, Perú, and more. Along the way, students will have the opportunity to learn Spanish vocabulary or improve their Spanish skills and explore Hispanic culture with a native of Perú.
Instructor: Kelly Yupanqui is from Perú and moved to the United States in 2005. She earned her B.S. in Elementary Education and her M.Ed. in Educational Administration at Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Perú. She got her certification as a Montessori Teacher from the American Montessori Society. She has taught different levels of students for 22 years in public and private settings in her native country and in the USA (including now at Carolina Friends School). She loves to dance, sing, play the guitar, and be outside--and to share all her talents and her native language, Spanish, during Summer Programs.
Forest Adventure Trek (6-9)
Week: 1 (June 18-22)
Week: 6 (July 23-27)
Tuition: 280
The forest is our classroom. The creek and the crayfish are our teachers. We will let our discovery of the earth around us guide us in our journey through the forest. Being outdoors provides exercise, stimulates the imagination, and promotes problem-solving skills. Come join us as we experience all these things and more. We’ll explore in the forest, play in and around the creek, identify trees and wild flowers, and search for animal tracks. Some of our activities will include creating crafts and art projects out of the things we find in nature, learning about plants native to the area and some of the uses of those plants, create our own sun prints, try out a scavenger hunt or two, identify animal tracks, and decorate our own walking sticks. Our goal is to learn more about the outdoors and the amazing things that await us just beyond the backyard.
Instructor: Brian Ferrell is a Durham native who grew up learning the art of bread baking from his parents who founded The Ninth Street Bakery. He became an outdoor instructor while studying at UNC-Asheville, taking students out on backpacking, white water kayaking, and rock climbing trips. He then ventured out to the West Coast where he spent four years studying at The San Francisco Zen Center, learning zen meditation and organic gardening. He moved back home to Durham in 2010 and got serious with bread as the Production Manager at The Ninth Street Bakery, creating the artisan bread program. For the past four years he’s followed his love of plants and getting his hands in the dirt through working on three different farms in the area, all dedicated to using organic, sustainable practices. He is now the proud father of baby Emery, born at the beginning of the year, putting all that meditation practice to good use.
Mystery Brew and Magic (6-9)
Week: 5 (July 16-20)
Week: 6 (July 23-27)Tuition: 280
Course: Come join the fabulous Mystery Brewers as we create healing herbal potions, flower essences, magic wands, and lots of zany concoctions that foam, explode, bubble, stink, and sparkle. Each day of camp we join the ranks of mad scientists, witches, and warlocks, and all good magic-makers as we explore and experiment with different ingredients guaranteed to bring new and fun ideas to life. Be prepared to get messy as we tromp through the woods, swim and walk in magical pools and streams, and do experiments in our class lab. And, of course, you’ll be invited to test out all of our creations at week’s end.
Instructor: Rinah Rachel has been doing creative summer and year-long programs and workshops at CFS and throughout the Triangle since 2006 that nurture children’s love and need for magic, mystery, mindfulness, curiosity, creativity, and deep connection to the natural world. She is a special education teacher with Maureen Joy Charter School in East Durham and the founder of Our Sacred Circles, housing the Women’s Wisdom Project, spirit support programs for women, rituals and celebrations for life and love throughout North Carolina, and Fairy Tales for Freedom, a new initiative to re-imagine and transform fairy tales and legends that perpetuate intolerance, violence, and discrimination. Rinah also hosts a small multi-faith spiritual gathering space in downtown Durham, including yearly retreats for women engaged in transformational work.
The Science of Fun (7-10)
Week: 6 (July 23-27)
Week: 9 (Aug 13-17)
Tuition: 280
Course: Sharpen your sense of wow! in this hands-on, inquiry based workshop. You are an artiste and scientist all in one as you bring together familiar ingredients and transform them into the unexpected. The fun comes when you perform cool experiments that pop, bubble, propel, and fizz! Tickle your senses and start to wonder about...What happens now? How does it work? What if I try this? We’ll explore the science behind your creations as we play and make new friends!
Instructor: Kathleen Rogers loves to understand the hows and whys of our world and enjoys fostering excitement in others about science and nature. Science is a key to so much cool stuff! She studied chemistry and molecular biology at Lynchburg College, Carolina, and Duke, earning a Ph.D. in cell biology. She is quite happy when hiking, creating gardens, and bird watching, and is a citizen scientist with the Cornell Ornithology Labs Feederwatch program. Quilting and gardening tap into her love of color and design. You can find Kathleen around CFS working as a substitute teacher, tutor, and Summer Programs camp counselor. She loves being around the energy and creativity of kids and is looking forward to joining them in their summer workshop fun!
Backyard Broadway (8-11) | 2 spaces
Tuition: 550 (two-week total)
Course: The spotlight is on you! Calling all actors, technical designers, and directors to help us put on a play! To help develop your acting skills, we play theater games, do warm ups, and practice vocal and movement exercises. The first week we will cast and stage our play, develop our characters, and design props, sets, costumes, make-up and more! The second week we finish staging the play, bring our technical designs to life, and perfect our roles. Then we invite family, friends, and other campers to attend a special performance on Friday!
Instructor: Susan Kincaid began teaching at CFS Summer Programs in 1992! Besides being a writer, playwright, and actress, Susan headed the theater program in the Upper School at CFS for many years, directing and producing shows three times a year. She is eager to collaborate with a new generation of young artists again this summer.
Gadgets, Gizmos, and Other Fun Physics (8-11)
Tuition: 280
Course: Calling future engineers, designers, problems-solvers, and creative thinkers! Students will participate in individual, partner, and team challenges. We’ll explore the idea of cause and effect, gather data from our experiments, and make hypotheses about all kinds of activities and events. Discover the fun of physics with challenges that will pit us against some formidable opponents...gravity, friction, pressure, wind. Expect the unexpected. Join us for a fun and exciting exploration of why and how things work!
Instructor: Jeannine Borzello is an artist and educator (and ASL interpreter, just to throw in a twist) who has been teaching in the U.S. and abroad for the past 24 years. Involved in both visual and performing arts, she has taught art, photography, and design as well as acting as set designer, choreographer and assistant director for productions that range from Seussical Jr. and Honk Jr. to Proof. She is very involved with promoting the arts both in and out of the classroom as a board member of the North Carolina Art Education Association (NCAEA) and teacher advisory councils at Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art.
While not in the classroom, she continues to freelance as a graphic designer and photographer. A native of New York, she has called North Carolina home for the past 15 years, recently becoming a new homeowner in Chapel Hill where she lives with her son and new puppy.
Farm-to-Table (9-12) | 2 spaces
Tuition: 290
Course: Goodness grows in North Carolina! The farm to table concept has been around for several years and the trend continues to gain ground as it supports local businesses, farmers, and the idea of sustainable agriculture. We’ll start the week with a discussion about in-season produce and a trip to the farmers market to gather ingredients for several days worth of cooking. Then we’ll create menus based on our purchases and create and eat delicious food whipped up in the kitchen. At the end of the week we’ll visit a local farm to table restaurant. Foodies unite!
Instructor: Elena Casey is new to the CFS Summer Programs in 2018, but has been enjoying life in Chapel Hill/Carrboro as a Spanish Ph.D. student at UNC for the past five years. Elena came to Chapel Hill after completing her Hispanic Studies M.A. in Madrid, Spain with Middlebury College, and grew up in the Finger Lakes of New York. When she’s not teaching Spanish at UNC or looking into the history of mental health for her dissertation, Elena can be found hiking around the Triangle with her pups, gardening, and trying her Northern hands at Southern cooking for friends and family. You may have even caught her subbing at CFS this year.
Outdoor Adventure Skills (9-14)
Week: 2 (June 25-29)
Week: 4 (July 9-13)
Week: 8 (Aug 6-10)Tuition: 280
Course: Here's a chance to build up your wilderness survival skills! Learn how to (safely) build and cook over a campfire, put up a tent or build a shelter, recognize local trees, plants, and animals, and explore the amazing trails and rivers in the state parks in our area. We’ll complete a series of hikes, some easy and some a little more challenging, and spend lots of time playing in the Eno River. For the hardy, the adventurous, the nature lover, and the fun-seeker. Prepare to get wet!
Instructor: Daniel Okeniewski is excited to be spending his fifth summer at Carolina Friends School! A transplant from the Buffalo, NY area, and a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Daniel made an early career transition from working with the Olympic Sports Program at UNC-CH to working with kids of all ages. Since then, he has run a number of health and wellness programs for kids and young teens at the Chapel Hill/Carrboro YMCA, worked as an educator with kindergarteners and fourth and fifth-graders at Carrboro Elementary, and forth and fifth-graders enrolled in the LEAP program at Seawell Elementary. When he isn’t working on a graduate degree in the Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Program at North Carolina State University, or working with kids in some other capacity, you can probably find him cycling on some back roads in the area or hiking the Eno River trails with Mrs. O and his trusty sidekick, Blue.
Comic Design (9-15)
Week: 1 (June 18-22)
Week: 2 (June 25-29)
Week: 4 (July 9-13)
Week: 5 (July 16-20)
Week: 6 (July 23-27)
Tuition: 280
Course: Addicted to comics? Doodle in class? Come create your own comic book characters and stories. Bring creativity, imagination, and motivation along with your pencil. Exchange ideas, receive input, and work on technique with a professional comic artist. There’s also time for Four Square, games, and Capture the Flag. Oftentimes, campers take multiple sessions. Please bring pencils, erasers, and favorite drawing pens. (An Advanced Comic Design session is available for those who want to expand their skills.)
Instructor: Jamie Charles, a working illustrator, graduated from UNC-G in Fine Arts. Besides exhibiting his own work, Jamie works at CFS as an art instructor for Middle School students. He is also a champion Capture the Flag leader, having coached his workshop groups to many victories (not that he is bragging). Jamie offers private lessons in drawing and art.
Minecraft Community (9-15)
Week: 1 (June 18-22)
Week: 2 (Jun 25-29)
Week: 3 (July 2-6)
Week: 4 (July 9-13)
Week: 6 (July 23-27)
Week: 7 (July 30-Aug 3)
Week: 8 (Aug 6-10)
Tuition: 305
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 (Weeks 2, 4, 6, 7, 8): Achiri Acha has been at CFS since he was six years old. He mentored with Jordan Shamp in Sports camp, became a counselor-in-training, and then moved on to become a camp assistant and instructor for the past six summers. Achiri has worked in Extended Day at Lerner School, School’s Out Camps at the Jewish Community Center and currently works at USA Ninja Challenge during the school year. Achiri's goal is to be an elementary school physical education instructor and coach.
Instructor (Weeks 1, 3): Cedric Wright is incredibly passionate about all forms of Digital Media, but especially the ones that pertain to animation for film and gaming! His background is in graphic design, ministerial studies, and, most recently, education. After the close of a successful year at Hillside High School as a CTE teacher, Mr. Wright will return to the Summer Programs at the behest of his previously enjoyable and successful summer camps, and the promise of mangoes, ad infinitum!
Let’s Rock: Rock, Pop, and Jazz (9-16)
Tuition: 280
Course: CFS has been hosting music performance courses for the past eight years! Calling all musicians (boys and girls) to bring your instrument and/or your voice and get ready to make your music! We’ll form bands, collaborate to write original music or learn existing tunes, and present a performance showcase on our last day. Along the road to our Friday performance, students will have the opportunity to participate in skills workshops such as percussion, keyboards, guitar/bass, voice, songwriting, mixed-instruments, active listening, and band promotion – all through a hands-on approach. Along with absorbing all the positive musical energy, students should gain an increased level of confidence in stage performing as well as a true sense of how successfully to collaborate and rehearse with other musicians. All instruments, musical genres, and levels of proficiency are welcome and encouraged! VOICES needed too! Full PA and lights provided by camp.
Instructor: Durham native Hampton Smith has been playing drums since the early 2000s. He has over a decade of experience playing multiple genres with multiple groups, namely Skyblew, Small House, and Nodachi. Hampton has garnered acclaim for his playing and artistic pursuits--at venues along the East Coast and as far as Feltre, Italy, and at many music festivals, including the Art of Cool, Hopscotch, Jazzit, and the Carrboro Music Festival. He currently has percussion students from ages five to 54 (including as part of CFS’ new after-school music program). He also loves to cook!
Fun with Fashion (10-14) | Waitlist
Tuition: 280
Course: Trendy styles and red carpet fashion are not just for celebrities. Fashion design is an extremely creative and personal form of artistic expression that can be explored and developed by anyone with a little imagination! Throughout the week students will study the main components of fashion design by consulting with professional fashion designers and looking closely at the latest style trends hitting the runways. Students will utilize the principle of “upscaling” by transforming basic clothing pieces into their own fashion designs using a simple pair of scissors and a wide variety of accessories. Some sewing may be needed but not required. Students will be provided with an assortment of clothing pieces at the beginning of the week, but they will also take a field trip to local thrift stores to select a few signature pieces to work with for the culminating talent show at the end of the week.
Instructor: Laura Lamberson has been a teacher in Mountain Class since January of 2007. She was a part-time teacher at Durham Early School for four years prior to her move to the Lower School. She began her teaching career in 1997 in the Orange County School system where she developed her skills as a special education and literacy teacher. She has been a lifelong runner and enjoys reading and gardening. Laura is the mother of three children, all of whom attend CFS.
Sports Action (10-15)
Week: 1 (June 18-22)
Week: 5 (July 16-20)
Week: 6 (July 23-27)
Week: 7 (July 30-Aug 3)
Week: 8 (Aug 6-10)
Tuition: 280
Instructor: Jonathan McGovern has been teaching at CFS since 2008. He is a CFS “lifer,” having attended from Early School through Upper School, graduating in 1997. He graduated from UNC-Charlotte with a Sociology major and History minor, all the while active on the varsity tennis team. Jonathan returned to UNC-C for graduate work in History but soon moved into a fast-track Social Studies Education program where he was certified to teach social studies, 9th-12th grades. At CFS Jonathan is currently teaching Global Literature and Global History in the Upper School; he coaches Middle School tennis (Boys and Girls). Jonathan has taught classes on Immigration, Social Movements, Sports and Politics, and Hip Hop and Society. Jonathan and his wife Katy, who teaches in the Chapel Hill School system, share a house in Durham with two children, three cats, and a dog.
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