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FEBRUARY 2021 ■ www.ReporterNewspapers.net Special Section | 19 Summer Gamps - Advertise your Camp in March + April. camps@springspublishing.com Calling All Campers! Local organizations plan full slate of summer camps for kids BY COLLIN KELLEY Plans to hold summer camps for kids are, as one organizer put it, moving “full steam ahead” but with COVID-19 safety precautions still in place. While camps were cancelled or curtailed last year due to the pandemic, the vaccine and a better under standing of the safety precautions needed to hold camp sessions mean organizations can plan ahead. Registration is now open for most camp programs. Pace Academy in Buckhead will have a full slate of camps, according to Zach Slaney, the school’s direc tor of auxiliary programs. “We are moving ahead at full steam with our pro grams for this summer,” Slaney said. “Pace will be of fering athletic, academic, STEM, and specialty camp offerings for campers in grades K-8 for eight weeks between June 1 and July 30.” Registration opened in January at Pace and Slaney expects the slots to fill up quickly. Visit paceacademy. org. Similarly, Westminster in Buckhead will hold its summer camps with the “same COVID safety protocols in place that allowed us to safely host several of our day camps last summer,” according to the school’s com munications assistant director Justin Abraham. “Some of those protocols include mask wearing for campers and counselors, temperature screening, scheduled handwashing times, social distancing, and ex tra cleaning and disinfecting of spaces and equipment throughout the day,” Abra ham said. Along with day and sports camps featuring outdoor activities, there are a num ber of specialty camps being offered by Westminster including filmmaking, chess, coding, and even one for Dungeons & Dragons. Visit Westminster.net for a com plete schedule and to register. In the City Camps will host summer sessions at two locations this year - Chabad Intown on the Atlanta BeltLine’s Eastside Trail and at the Weber School in Sandy Springs - for kids in kindergarten through 8th grade. Spokesperson Tali Benjamin said In the City Camps is working with medical ex perts to be sure about COVID-19 precautions for the summer. “We ran a modified version of our camps safely for four weeks last summer, so we do have a lot of ex perience with that this year,” Benjamin said. Benjamin said as much outdoor pro gramming as possible was being sched uled so that kids won’t be cooped up in side a closed space. She said partnering with Chabad Intown would give campers plenty of opportunities to be outside on the BeltLine. Some of the camp offerings include basketball, magic, art, soccer, ar chery, cooking and more. Visit inthecity- camps.org for more details. Budding actors can check out the Alli ance Theatre’s series of in-person and vir tual camps for all grade levels scheduled for spring and summer. Camps will be held not only at the Alliance’s home base of Woodruff Arts Center in Midtown, but in partnership with schools around the city. From performing on stage as part of a musical to working behind the scenes, there’s a camp for all interests and ages. Visit alliancetheatre.org for details.
