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GREAT BASIN NATURALISTS - SUMMER CAMP 2020 CANCELED
Dear Great Basin Naturalists Families,
For 10 years now, you have entrusted us with the important job of keeping your child safe at summer camp. Our commitment to your child’s safety now requires that, with a very heavy heart, we must cancel our summer camp sessions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After reviewing all options, this decision was made for the health and well-being of our campers, staff, and greater community.
With respect to refunds for the season, there are a variety of options for those parents who have either partially or fully paid for their camper’s session. Those options are as follows:
1. Rollover - Forward any current 2020 summer camp payments made to date to a 2021 camp session of your choosing. Historically, the Great Basin Naturalists have offered spring, summer, and fall break camps; you and your camper will be able to choose from any of these programs. Furthermore, you will be given early access to registration for the 2021 camp season to ensure you are able to apply your funds to the session of your choosing.
2. Donate - Please consider donating any payments to the Great Basin Naturalists at the Galena Creek Visitor Center. Like many organizations, we have suffered from the financial impacts caused by COVID-19. Your donations will be used to assist us in providing community and educational resources to thousands in the Reno-Tahoe community.
3. Refund - Receive a full refund for all payments made to date.
Please email lazzarello@gbinstitute.org by Monday, June 1st to indicate your desired option with your refund. If your child received a full or partial scholarship to attend camp this summer, funding can be transferred to a 2021 camp session of your choosing.
We realize you may be feeling many emotions right now. Your campers are likely upset about the possibility of summer without camp, while parents may be feeling stressed out at this prospect. We understand your role as a parent has been tested beyond anything imagined these past few months. Rest assured, we are currently working on alternative summer camp programming which reduces risk but also provides outdoor education that campers can do from the safety of home. We will be sure to notify you as soon as the details of this program have been finalized.
We want to thank you for your continued love and support over the past weeks. Without you and your smart, silly, adventurous, kind, spirited children, we would not be able to do what we do. We look forward to coming back together in 2021, stronger than ever.
Best,
Laura Azzarello
Visitor Center Outreach and Education Coordinator
For 10 years now, you have entrusted us with the important job of keeping your child safe at summer camp. Our commitment to your child’s safety now requires that, with a very heavy heart, we must cancel our summer camp sessions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After reviewing all options, this decision was made for the health and well-being of our campers, staff, and greater community.
With respect to refunds for the season, there are a variety of options for those parents who have either partially or fully paid for their camper’s session. Those options are as follows:
1. Rollover - Forward any current 2020 summer camp payments made to date to a 2021 camp session of your choosing. Historically, the Great Basin Naturalists have offered spring, summer, and fall break camps; you and your camper will be able to choose from any of these programs. Furthermore, you will be given early access to registration for the 2021 camp season to ensure you are able to apply your funds to the session of your choosing.
2. Donate - Please consider donating any payments to the Great Basin Naturalists at the Galena Creek Visitor Center. Like many organizations, we have suffered from the financial impacts caused by COVID-19. Your donations will be used to assist us in providing community and educational resources to thousands in the Reno-Tahoe community.
3. Refund - Receive a full refund for all payments made to date.
Please email lazzarello@gbinstitute.org by Monday, June 1st to indicate your desired option with your refund. If your child received a full or partial scholarship to attend camp this summer, funding can be transferred to a 2021 camp session of your choosing.
We realize you may be feeling many emotions right now. Your campers are likely upset about the possibility of summer without camp, while parents may be feeling stressed out at this prospect. We understand your role as a parent has been tested beyond anything imagined these past few months. Rest assured, we are currently working on alternative summer camp programming which reduces risk but also provides outdoor education that campers can do from the safety of home. We will be sure to notify you as soon as the details of this program have been finalized.
We want to thank you for your continued love and support over the past weeks. Without you and your smart, silly, adventurous, kind, spirited children, we would not be able to do what we do. We look forward to coming back together in 2021, stronger than ever.
Best,
Laura Azzarello
Visitor Center Outreach and Education Coordinator
FIELD BIOLOGY FOR TEENS CAMP
The Great Basin Naturalists, Field Biology for Teens Camp brings teens ages 13-17 one step closer to becoming scientists. Throughout the week, teens will learn skills and techniques used by real scientists in the field regarding plants, animals, water, and survival! Through fun, hands-on activities led by enthusiastic young professionals, campers will gain leadership skills, make new friends, and learn self reliance. Teen campers participate in daily hikes, outdoor adventures, overnight camping trips, a teen learning-service project and more!
If you are hoping to get a glimpse into what a career as a wildlife biologist, outdoor ecologist, or environmental scientists looks like, or if you just love being outside, this is the camp for you!
The Great Basin Naturalists, Field Biology for Teens Camp brings teens ages 13-17 one step closer to becoming scientists. Throughout the week, teens will learn skills and techniques used by real scientists in the field regarding plants, animals, water, and survival! Through fun, hands-on activities led by enthusiastic young professionals, campers will gain leadership skills, make new friends, and learn self reliance. Teen campers participate in daily hikes, outdoor adventures, overnight camping trips, a teen learning-service project and more!
If you are hoping to get a glimpse into what a career as a wildlife biologist, outdoor ecologist, or environmental scientists looks like, or if you just love being outside, this is the camp for you!
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2020 DATES
ALL 2020 SUMMER CAMP SESSIONS HAVE BEEN CANCELED Week 1 - Day Camp When? Monday, June 15th to Friday, June 19th Where? Galena Creek Visitor Center Cost? $225 (scholarships are available) Week 2 - Day Camp When? Monday, July 6th to Friday, July 20th Where? Galena Creek Visitor Center Cost? $225 (scholarships are available) Week 3 - Residential Camp When? Monday, July 20th to Friday, July 24th Where? Galena Creek Visitor Center Cost? $225 (scholarships are available) |
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INTERNSHIPS FOR TEENS
Counselor-in-Training Internships The Counselor in Training Program (CIT) is a summer option available for 15-17 year-olds on a selected and limited basis. There is space available for 2 CITs each week during summer camp. CITs live at home during Day camp weeks and stay for the full week during Residential camp weeks. There is no camp charge for accepted CITs. CITS responsibilities are mainly to assist camp staff and learn the roles of what working at a summer camp looks like.
Click on the button below to download the application! Once completed, please email it to visitorcenter@thegreatbasininstitute.org.
Click on the button below to download the application! Once completed, please email it to visitorcenter@thegreatbasininstitute.org.
Teen Culinary Internships Great Basin Naturalists at Galena Residential Camps will offer outdoor, science camps for kids ages 8-12 for four weeks in the summer of 2020. One week of teen camp will also be held during this time. These experiences are supported by health meals that are locally-sourced where possible and deliciously crafted with the help of a professional chef. Culinary Interns (ages 13-17) gain valuable experience in all kitchen stations, take a leadership role in presenting meals, assist with maintaining a clean kitchen, prepare a special dessert, and work with our incredible, professional chef. Culinary Interns will gain valuable, real world work experience.
Click on the button below to download the application! Once completed, please email it to visitorcenter@thegreatbasininstitute.org.
Click on the button below to download the application! Once completed, please email it to visitorcenter@thegreatbasininstitute.org.
