2026 Summer Camp for Girls in Grades 3rd - 8th
Engaging experiences designed to challenge girls to practice self-expression and productive risk-taking.
Using brain-based research-driven short micro-sessions, girls learn the neurobiology and drivers of decision-making, risk-taking, and blindspots. This camp welcomes returning girls and those new to GLC in grades 3 through 8.
GLC's Immersive Summer Experience Includes Our Signature Elements:
High and Low Ropes Course
Facilitated using a challenge-by-choice lets girls identify for themselves their own limits and examine their response to stress or fear in a safe and supportive environment. While FUN and connectedness are achieved, we use this experience as a teaching tool and reference point throughout the week.
Gallup's Strengths-Explorer
Since 2014, we have used the Strengths-Explorer and Finder tools to safely explore naming, leveraging, and reflecting on their strengths. The assessment reveals their ‘natural-neutral’ or skills and mindsets they bring most easily to any situation. We help them hone and grow these to lead themselves and others.
Fun Group Challenges
Leveraging our strengths in the context of group challenges we examine theories & phenomena behind human interaction, collaboration, and developing effective teams. Games, challenges, creative arts, & movement are perfect contexts to examine these and receive immediate feedback in the real-time - optimizing the learning loop.
With a focus on FUN, we will build critical skills, confidence, and connectedness.
Our Signature GLC Summer Camp experience provides girls with the opportunity to select from a variety of themes that interest them related to leadership such as: public speaking, design-thinking challenges, our signature game-changer speaker series, yoga and mindfulness work, environmental or social activism, designing service learning opportunities, and outcome-oriented conflict resolution techniques.
About GLC's Developmentally Designed Summer Camp
Small Groups
10 to 12 girls will spend time in leadership lab groups divided by grades: 3rd-5th and 6th-8th.
Big Sister Model
We use a big-sister/little sister pairing for modeling. Every participant will have a buddy we call "mirror" in her lab group for debriefing or specific activities.
Yoga & Mindfulness
Girls will enjoy social time, creative arts, interacting with guest practitioners in yoga and mindfulness exercises to help quiet the mind.