{"id":67078,"date":"2020-07-14T13:35:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=67078"},"modified":"2020-07-14T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T18:22:08","slug":"brock-connects-with-kids-missing-camp-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/07\/brock-connects-with-kids-missing-camp-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock connects with kids missing camp this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July usually brings along the familiar smells of bug spray, sunscreen and campfires as kids tie up their laces and head off to camp.<\/p>\n<p>Brock University\u2019s summer kids camps are incredibly popular with hundreds of children coming to campus to attend a wide variety of camps led by Brock student instructors.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and following public health guidelines, Brock had to make the difficult decision to cancel its summer camps.<\/p>\n<p>Searching for a way to virtually connect with campers, the Brock Recreation and Brock Sports teams used this opportunity to create an online catalogue, allowing kids to get a small dose of camp from home.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-launched <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/recreation\/camps-at-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Camps at Home<\/a> is an online resource for parents and guardians to access lesson plans and website links for fun camp-related activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCamps at Home is a free, online resource for campers and their families to find engaging and educational content to keep them busy and active while staying safe at home this summer,\u201d said Michelle Leone, Program Manager, Youth University. \u201cWe will share videos, lesson plans and our favourite online resources throughout the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unlike usual summer camps, Camps at Home does not require any registration or fees, there is no maximum capacity and it is fully accessible 24\/7. The activities for campers cover everything from technology, the arts and science to aquatics, sports and adventure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we can\u2019t be together in person this summer, we are pleased to share a small bit of camp on our new website,\u201d said Leone. \u201cThroughout the summer, we will post new activities that have been carefully curated by our team. Our goal is to include as many streams of camp as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New content will be uploaded by the camp staff all summer. To access Camps at Home, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/recreation\/camps-at-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock\u2019s Recreation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Brock made the difficult decision of cancelling their summer camps. Searching for a way to virtually connect with campers, the Brock Recreation and Brock Sports teams used this opportunity to create an online catalogue, allowing kids to get a small dose of camp from home.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":67081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3319,1,4,58],"tags":[7284,4437,9261,6869,4230,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67089,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67078\/revisions\/67089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}