Registration opened on March 25th at 6:30am for 2019 camps.
2019 Summer Offerings
Summer on the Farm
Summer on the Farm
Empowered Girls
$140/week
Free of charge
Free of Charge
August 5-8
Various weeks from June 11-July 26
July 29-31
Ages 5-13
Students currently in grades 3-10
Girls in grades 4-12 for the 2019-2020 school year
More details below
Summer on the Farm
Cost: $140
Open to ages: 5-13 year olds as of the first day of the session
Dates: August 5-8th - Monday-Thursday
Time: 9-2 each day
Open to: 18 registrants
This session must have 16 children registered by July 23rd in order to run.
During farm programming, children will engage in the real daily work of the farm including animal care, building and maintaining natural habitats, and helping grow food. They'll learn how to grow and raise food using organic & sustainable farming methods and learn why we have chosen those methods.
This session will be taught by Ana Skemp. Ana Skemp (M.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) researched how the environment affects behavior in creatures for her graduate work.
Children will be asked to bring their own healthy snacks and lunch.
Summer on the Farm
FREE registration made possible with collaboration with La Crosse School District and donations from the following:
June OneFive Foundation
Agropur Ingredients
The Brekke Family Fund of the La Crosse Community Foundation
The Jenkins Family
True Blue Farm
Bosshard Parke
We are still looking for a few more funders to make this possible.
Thank you!
Grades: Students currently in grades 3-10
Registration is open Monday, March 25nd at 6:30am and is ran through the La Crosse School District.
More details are on page 31 of the La Crosse Summer School guide.
Empowered Girls
Cost: Free!
Ages: Grades 4-12 for the 2019-2020 school year
Session: July 29-31
Time: 9-1pm
Open to: 18 registrants
Thank you to the Women's Fund for funding this program.
This funding makes this program possible free of charge to participants.
The goal of this camp is to empower girls in a supportive environment to help them realize they are brilliant, creative, and fully capable of being the next generation of PhD students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. Each day at camp, the girls will be exposed to science, in particular biology, and how fun it can be.
Curriculum topics will include the scientific method, data collection, sampling methods, and observation of the natural world. Each girl will be coached to propose and test their own hypothesis while on the farm. In addition, each girl will be asked to choose a particular component of our area’s natural history (such as aquatic organisms, native plants, insects, etc.) and learn to identify these organisms on the farm and a bit about their life cycles. Many scientists believe that if you know and love the world around you, curiosity and questions blossom.
Empower Girls will be co-taught by Ana Skemp and Lila Planavsky. Ana Skemp (M.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) researched how the environment affects behavior in spiders, bees, and praying mantids for her graduate work and has taught farm camps for the last five years. Lila has worked in the school district and with farm camp for years.
Children will be asked to bring their own healthy snacks and lunch.