I keep bragging about Patrick Henry College, where I teach and am provost, to the point of advertising. Please bear with me, but I wanted to make you aware of something some of you parents and your offspring might be interested in. Every summer we have what we call “Teen Camps,” in which young people from 14-18 come to campus for a week (or sometimes more) for fun, yet educational activities. It’s a good opportunity to make friends, expand horizons, develop a skill, pursue an interest, and sample Patrick Henry College. Here are the topics for this summer:
Strategic Intelligence, June 8-14, $625 [Also known as “Spy Camp”]
Music Camp, June 15-21, $625
College Prep, June 15-21, $525
Moot Court, June 22-28, $525
Drama Camp, June 22-28, $525
Debate, July 6-19, $1050
Roots of Leadership, July 6-12, $525
Worldviews in Literature, July 13-19, $525
Strategic Intelligence, July 20-26, $626
You can go here for more information.
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This sounds neat-o! Maybe an “aesthetics camp” for the future?
My sister helped lead Spy Camp last summer….everybody agrees it was a blast.
Yes to both of you! On my agenda, Sarah in Maryland, is to do more with aesthetics and the arts. We already have started an aesthetics discussion group, and at some point I’d like to work art classes into our core curriculum.
The photo of the kids at Spy Camp at the linked site has “NSA” written prominently on the whiteboard, but the description of the camp sounds mostly like non-technical stuff. Is there actually a component of the camp that deals with cryptography and cryptanalysis and the other technical, signals intel stuff that NSA does? (Curious because I’m a mathematician in cryptography, and I’ve asked before about whether PHC is thinking of offering more math than just the Euclidean Geometry course.)
Let me check, Robert. The Spy Camp, of course, doesn’t get into the deep stuff, but our Strategic Intelligence program gets into some sophisticated stuff. They have a classified intranet system tied into what the professionals use and actually get security clearances. Our students are well-regarded in the intelligence community here in the DC area. They have serious internships and get job offers right away.
Robert,
I was a counselor for Teen Camps last year and will be again this summer!
I’m actually the guy in glasses in that NSA picture
Each of the wings during camps is named after different agency; my “agency” was NSA, so thus the picture.
Because I was a counselor, I didn’t sit in on all the lectures, but I don’t think they dealt as much with math side of the intel field; from what I know, the focus of the SI camp is closer to what our SI major here at Patrick Henry focuses on: counter-terrorism, intel analysis, etc. Last year we actually had a personal friend of Robert Hansson (the infamous Soviet spy) share about his experience with Hansson.
During the evenings, the campers did some incredible missions; everything from secret arms deals, to kidnapping terrorists, to interrogating prisoners.
Let me just echo you, Dr. Veith. THESE CAMPS ARE AMAZING!!! They are INCREDIBLY academically challenging, yet AMAZINGLY fun. Even more, they challenge you to think about your subject in light of God’s truth (which was particularly interesting during SI camp).
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