June 24-28 (Week 2)
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 below are current as of 11 am Thursday 20 June.
Here's a pdf tool you may find helpful in comparing options across weeks. This Course Master lists each week's options alphabetically (pp. 1-3) and by age (pp. 3-5) and also color-coded by type of course (e.g. Culinary Creations, Sports Fun).
This Course Listing matrix will allow you easily to discover when and what your favorite instructors are teaching throughout the summer.
Happy exploring!
- Design and Engineering for Kids (4-5) | Waitlist
- Fur, Fins, and Feathers: Animals and More Animals (5-7) | 3 spaces (because of a cancellation)
- Fort-Building, Hideouts, and Such (6-9) | 2 spaces
- Sports Shorts (6-9)
- Mad Science Alert (6-10) | Waitlist
- Creative Edible Designs (8-11) | Waitlist
- Paint Explosions (8-11)
- Delicious Dessert Decorating (9-15) | Waitlist
- Minecraft Community (9-15) | Waitlist
- Comic Design (9-16) | Waitlist
- Improv 101 (10-14)
- Sports Action (10-15)
- North Carolina Backpacking Adventure (11-15) | 3 spaces
- Dungeons and Dragons: Delving into Design (12-18) | 1 space (because of a cancellation)
Design and Engineering for Kids (4-5) | Waitlist
Tuition: 310
Course: We put the excitement in S.T.E.M. education. Children dive into age-appropriate, inquiry-based, hands-on-learning through FUN designing and constructing activities using Legos, blocks, Thinker Linkers, and more!
Instructor: Williette Zigbuo graduated in 1997 from Berea College in Berea, Kentucky with a bachelor’s degree in Child and Family Studies with an emphasis in Early Childhood Education. She received her Master’s degree in Special Education from Bay Path College in Burlington, Massachusetts and has over 15 years of teaching experience with children in Liberia, West Africa and in the United States, including now at the CFS Campus Early School. She especially enjoys working with pre-k to second grade.
In addition to her passion for teaching, she finds personal fulfillment by helping educational programs in Liberia; Williette has been instrumental in mobilizing others to help obtain donations and school supplies for orphanages and schools in Liberia. Whenever she returns from Africa, she finds that sharing her pictures and discussing her trip is rewarding for herself and also for her students, to help them understand and see the world outside their community, neighborhoods, and the United States.
Fur, Fins, and Feathers: Animals and More Animals (5-7) | 3 spaces (because of a cancellation)
Tuition: 290
Course: Cheer the chicken! Hail to the hippo! From watching chicks hatch to hands-on visits from goats and other critters, we celebrate the world’s creatures in this class all about animals. Along the way, there’ll be bird and beast songs, games, art, movement, and stories. Expect to roar, crow, hop, sneak, and squeak!
Instructor: Bo Newsome’s childhood was filled with animals—ducks, bantams, pheasants, turtles, dogs, rabbits, doves, finches, snakes, cats, toads, lizards, and fish of all sorts. In the summer, he could be found in the woods learning birdsongs and searching for bird’s nests, looking under rocks for salamanders and insects, collecting tadpoles, and getting poison ivy.
As an adult, he’s a full-time musician, an oboist, composer, and educator, teaching at ECU and Duke. Over the years, he’s worked with Mallarmé Chamber Players and the Raleigh Symphony to create and present programs and workshops 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. He’s excited to join music and his love of stories, dance, and art, with his enchantment with animals this summer.
Fort-Building, Hideouts, and Such (6-9) | 2 spaces
Tuition: 290
Creating hideouts and discovering wildlife hideouts go hand in hand. We’ll be exploring the nearby woods and the Eno River state park on Cole Mill Road to see what hideouts we can find and where we can build our own shelters and secret places. Be prepared to wear some not-so-favorite shoes and bring an extra tee shirt in case you get muddy (or just wear your mud with pride!). We’ll be busy all day so bring an extra snack and don’t forget that water bottle. Wading, gathering, exploring, and trekking are all on the agenda!
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, the University of North 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 Feeder watch program. Quilting and gardening tap into her love of color and design. You can find Kathleen, a former CFS parent, around school working as a substitute teacher, tutor, and Summer Programs instructor. She loves being around the energy and creativity of kids and is looking forward to joining them in their summer workshop fun!
Sports Shorts (6-9)
Week: 1 (June 17-21), Leslie Atherholt
Week: 2 (Jun 24-28), Jarrid Logan
Week: 4 (July 8-12), Markeith Gary
Week: 7 (July 29-Aug 2), Markeith Gary
Week: 8 (Aug 5-9), Sefton Dennis
Week: 9 (Aug 12-16), Markeith Gary
Tuition: 290
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 (Week 1): Leslie Atherholt works in the Durham Public Schools. She came from Washington, DC where she taught physical education and other subjects to elementary school students. She has also worked in schools in Central and South America. Leslie attended East Carolina University for her undergraduate program and holds a Master’s degree in Education. She has been teaching for 20 years. Leslie has spent many summers in camps and loves camp! When not working Leslie is learning and exploring North Carolina with her family.Instructor (Week 2): Jarrid Logan was born in North Dakota but raised in Indiana. He played a lot of sports growing up, including football, soccer, and karate, but focused on wrestling. He’s spent almost 20 years as a competitor or a coach, including 152 high school wins and a few championships. Jarrid coached wrestling for six years in Indiana with athletes ranging from three to 18 years old.
This past year he moved to North Carolina to teach (including Lower School PE courses at Carolina Friends) and work at a movie theater. His hobbies include watching movies, top 10 lists, and helping others with their interests. Jarrid is happy to be a part of Summer Programs for the first year.
Instructor (Weeks 4, 7, 9): Markeith Gary joined CFS in 2016 and serves as varsity basketball coach for the Upper School. He helped co-found a non-profit travel basketball program called the NC Wildcats serving the Chapel Hill-Durham area. A graduate of Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, Markeith has served as mentor to many in his community and volunteers at the local community center teaching life skills. He enjoys spending time with his wife Marsha and their three children (Nina, Myles, and Laila).
Instructor (Week 8): Sefton Dennis is a Friends School alum, Class of ’08. He has been coaching Boys and Girls varsity soccer at CFS for four years and has been a private skills development coach for almost seven years. He also works part time for a family business that is a consultancy for public and environmental health research. Before that, he worked with a non-profit in Durham that addresses problems with food security and also worked as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. Since then, he has continued a studio practice as a visual artist and wants eventually to work as a educator in visual arts and art history.
Mad Science Alert (6-10) | Waitlist
Tuition: 290
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 has been running camps at CFS for 12 years. He has been teaching for 22 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.
Creative Edible Designs (8-11) | Waitlist
Tuition: 300
Course: Do you like to create new and usual things? Sign up for a week of new creations using food. You may need to take a picture of your creation because you’ll want to eat it before you go home. These edible designs will have your family asking you to cook and bake all the time! I’ll be waiting to create with you--see you soon!
Instructor: Jessica Bigelow is an elementary school teacher with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School System. She has 13 years of teaching experience, spanning all grade levels, and has coordinated after school programs and provided summer school instruction.
Jessica has a B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her teaching certification from Greensboro College. She enjoys spending time with her family, doing simple DIY projects, shopping, baking/cooking, traveling, and listening and dancing to music. Jessica will be returning to CFS summer camps for her fourth year!
Paint Explosions (8-11)
Course: Our perennially popular art camp! A spectrum of fun and active painting activities will fill our week as each day we learn a new technique like sponge painting or water coloring. We’ll work together with various paint media and have free time as well to embark on own own creative explorations in paint. We’ll also make sure we have lots of time for outside play. Be ready to get messy!
Instructor: Melody Smith teaches Spanish in the CFS Upper School and Middle School. After receiving a B.F.A. from UNC Greensboro, she spent three years in Central America as a language teacher and academic coordinator for a non-profit that connected education and sustainable farming. Melody then moved to Wisconsin where she taught Spanish at a Waldorf high school and also worked as the programming director for Driftless Folk School. She has also spent significant time in India and teaching Spanish in a Montessori school.
Her extensive international background deepened her beliefs in environmental integrity, local and global interconnectedness, and the incredible importance of education. In her free time, Melody enjoys exploring nature and collecting new hobbies.
Delicious Dessert Decorating (9-15) | Waitlist
Week: 2 (June 24-28)
Week: 4 (July 8-12)
Week: 7 (July 29-Aug 2)
Tuition: 300
Course: Ever wanted to learn how to write your name in frosting, dust cakes with chocolate powder patterns, create strawberry flowers, use fondant, and create fancy cupcakes and chocolate-dipped strawberries that look like tuxedos, or mold your own chocolate? It is an art form! We'll do all of that and more, starting with easy designs on cardboard before making our own frosting, cakes, cupcakes, and chocolates to decorate. Design your own theme or go wild with abandon and have fun creating edible works of art. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to accommodate dietary restrictions in this class.
You might also enjoy Karen's "Kitchen Chemistry: The Science of Cooking" Week 1 (June 17-21).
Instructor: Karen Clark is a science teacher at Immaculata Catholic School in Durham. She teaches middle school, so enjoys working with other age groups during the summer. She has three wonderful kids and an overprotective mini schnauzer named Heidi that keep her active. In her spare time (yeah right) she enjoys playing the flute, reading mysteries, and doing puzzles.
Minecraft Community (9-15) | Waitlist
Week: 1 (June 17-21), Achiri Acha
Week: 2 (Jun 24-28), Achiri Acha
Week: 3 (July 1-5), Marshall Wilfong (Ages 5-8)
Week: 4 (July 8-12), Achiri Acha
Week: 5 (July 15-19), Marshall Wilfong
Week: 6 (July 22-26), Achiri Acha
Week: 7 (July 29-Aug 2), Achiri Acha
Week: 8 (Aug 5-9), Achiri Acha
Tuition: 315
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: 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 seven summers. Achiri has worked in Extended Day at Lerner School and 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.
Comic Design (9-16) | Waitlist
Week: 1 (June 17-21)
Week: 2 (June 24-28)
Week: 4 (July 8-12)
Week: 5 (July 15-19)
Week: 6 (July 22-26)
Tuition: 290
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. (Two Advanced Comic Design sessions are 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.
Improv 101 (10-14)
Week: 3 (July 1-5)
Tuition: 290
Course: Love acting? Love comedy? Sign up for Improv 101 to learn the basics of improvisational theatre! Throughout the week, students will learn improv games, character development, and other acting techniques, and will apply those skills in an improv show on Friday. Campers will also learn skills such as team-building and trusting one’s scene partner that can be applied on or off stage. Register for Improv 101 to become a better performer, make friends, and make people laugh! No experience necessary.
You might also enjoy the "Improv 201" course Abby is teaching Week 5 (July 15-19). She also offers "Act It Out" Week 7 (July 29-Aug 2) and "Musical Cabaret" Week 8 (Aug 5-9).
Instructor: Abby Kameny has been involved in Carolina Friends School Summer Programs for 15 years. She started out as a camper, then became a Counselor-In-Training, and later was hired to work in the Extended Day program. She is currently a linguistics major and Spanish minor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and plans to become a teacher. She’s studied theatre for years and has participated in school plays and a regional improvisational theatre team. Abby has also had experience singing throughout high school and college in musicals, choir, and a cappella groups.
Sports Action (10-15)
Week: 1 (June 17-21), Jonathan McGovern
Week: 2 (June 24-28), Jonathan McGovern
Week: 3 (July 1-5), Jack Crowley
Week: 4 (July 8-12), Mary Forringer (Girls, Goals, Glory)
Week: 5 (July 15-19), Jochen Wachter (Soccer)
Week: 6 (July 22-26), Jack Crowley
Week: 7 (July 29-Aug 2), Jack Crowley
Week: 8 (Aug 5-9), Markeith Gary (Basketball)
Week: 9 (Aug 12-16), Achiri Acha
Tuition: 290
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.
North Carolina Backpacking Adventure (11-15) | 3 spaces
Tuition: 635
Day 1: Meet at CFS with required gear, spend the day learning how to pack and carry a backpack, plan a menu, set up a tarp, and get to know each other through team building activities. Return home at the end of the day.
Day 2: Meet at CFS and spend the day exploring the woods and setting up camp for our first night out. Learn how to build a campfire and cook a meal, how to travel as a group, and view the stars before heading to bed.
Day 3: Hike back to the main campus and and then travel in the bus/van to begin a 3-day, 2-night backpacking trip.
Day 4: Hike and camp.
Day 5: Hike back to the bus/van and return to CFS in time to be picked up at the end of the day.
CO-INSTRUCTOR: Natasha Shannon has been teaching at CFS since the fall of 2003. Prior to her work with CFS, she taught in the North Carolina and New Mexico public school systems and for two years at the Monteverde Friends School in Costa Rica.
She graduated from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and later received her teaching certification from the University of New Mexico. She grew up among Quakers living on the campus of Pennsylvania's George School and later moving to Celo Community, a Quaker community in the mountains of North Carolina. Natasha is also a CFS parent!
CO-INSTRUCTOR: Mike Werndly (or Ranger to his friends) introduced our popular Nature Lab environmental education classes in Summer 2017. He is a lifelong birder and practiced field biologist and outdoor educator with a passion for sharing environmental experiences that promote awareness and respect of the natural world. Working and travelling in remote areas around the globe has given Mike a wide knowledge of the Earth’s habitats and ecosystems.
He’s been hooked on wildlife since a chance encounter with an owl when he was eight and hasn't looked back. He studied Ecology and Outdoor Environmental Education at university and has worked for numerous conservation organisations, including the Aigas Field Centre, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and Scottish Natural Heritage. Mike’s wildlife encounters have been numerous, but some memorable ones include being followed home one night by two otters and being covered head to foot in smelly seabird guano!
He moved from Scotland in 2016 and now lives in Hillsborough with his wife and daughter, and their friendly food-crazy labrador, Fogo :0)
Dungeons and Dragons: Delving into Design (12-18) | 1 space (because of a cancellation)
Tuition: 290
Course: Player's Handbook sales are topping the bestseller lists! Self-published game supplements are breaking commercial records on Kickstarter! Celebrities are live-streaming their game sessions! These days, the classic fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons is experiencing a major renaissance. And it's no wonder! Playing D&D may activate a wider range of skills than any other game: puzzle solving, critical thinking, statistical analysis, interpersonal negotiation, theatrical performance, creative storytelling, and imaginative worldbuilding. And let's not forget dice rolling!
Students will build characters, play through adventures, and study the fundamentals of role-playing game design to discover what makes the best D&D sessions so memorable. By the end of the week, we'll use what we've learned to craft an original adventure for other players to experience. Whether you're a newcomer to the game or an avid fan, there's a place at the table for you!
Instructor: Jeremy Powell holds graduate degrees in Communication Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill, and in Modern Culture and Media Studies from Brown University. He has taught courses in art history, cinema studies and cultural theory at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, and at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. After returning to the Triangle in the summer of 2018, he currently works part-time as a Professional Geek at the Atomic Empire game store in Durham, while freelancing as a voice-over artist.
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