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The Camp Summit program is designed to offer stimulating and challenging experiences in a beautiful environment, allowing gifted, talented, and creative kids and teens to enjoy each other while having fun. The program includes self-exploration workshops, creative and expressive arts, outdoor ecology studies, strategy games, simulations, and hands-on design projects along with more typical camp activities such as hiking, storytelling, sing-along by the campfire, talent shows, and capture the flag and other outdoor games.

There will also be plenty of time for one-on-one conversations and intriguing group discussions among fellow campers, counselors, group leaders, and the camp directors — all part of a community that understands what it's like to grow up as a gifted young person. The camp directors will lead breakout sessions on a variety of topics designed to stimulate self-awareness and personal growth in the campers.

After watching a sunset over the Pacific Ocean, it's time to head back to the dormitories with your friends. You might be staying at the Pelican...or at the Heron. One is for girls, and one is for boys.

Some of the recreational activities that form the backdrop for Camp Summit include:

• Art — mixed media, drawing, and painting
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Creative drama and role-playing
• Engineering structures: Nature as a strategy for design
• HiPer Math
• Leadership
• Marine mammals and tidepool creatures
• Mask-making and puppetry
• Myths, mystery, and lore
• Oceanography
• Rube Goldberg conundrums:
  Building complex machines to solve simple tasks
• Solar baking and cooking
• Criminal Procedure - Case Review and Debate
• Create and fly a Kite
• Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences
• Tie Dye T-Shirts

Thanks to Scrapbook Territory of Berkeley for donating arts and crafts supplies!

There are plenty of opportunities for geology explorations on the "rainbow sands" of Rodeo Beach. How did these pebbles get here and what do they tell you about the age of the beach sand?

Hiking trails such as this one between Rodeo Lagoon and the Pacific Ocean lead through open areas where campers may see a Cooper's hawk soaring overhead, through a wooded area where they may examine an animal skeleton that bears coyote toothmarks, and on to the Point Bonita Lighthouse, with harbor seals down below.		The Headlands have many outcroppings of serpentinite, the state rock of California. Tectonic plate shifts uprooted it from the sea floor.

Gazing down on the cove from the hillside trail above, you can see many harbor seals "hauled out" onto the rocks below.		Harbor seals are very shy around people but sometimes seem to show off a bit — from a safe distance!

Bring your binoculars! From the trail, you can see the Farallon Islands, 27 miles off the coast. Technically part of the City of San Francisco, they are also federally protected, as the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge.		Looking in the other direction, you'll see a very different site — the Golden Gate Bridge, and San Francisco just beyond.

Harbor seals aren't the only ones who like to use the rocks for resting spots. On the ocean side, just below the Point Bonita Lighthouse, these cormorants really like this heart-shaped rock.

Touch tank! Back at the Camp Summit facilities, we'll explore the tidepool touch tank, with an opportunity to get up close and personal with animals like the sea urchin, sea star, and giant green anemone above.

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