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The new summer camp staple

In era of quarantine, virtual competition thrives

By Sam Sciarrotta

There’s a new kid in town. eSports—organized, competitive gaming—is everywhere. Philadelphia 76ers star Ben Simmons invested in eSports organization FaZe Clan last year. Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil started his own team. Michael Jordan, Steph Curry, Drake—they’re all dipping their toes into gaming ventures.

As eSports has become woven into the national consciousness over the last decade, it’s filtered down to the local level, too. High schools are starting their own teams, complete with practices and coaches. And camps—like the Summers at Pennington eSports programs—are following suit.

Competitive gaming is not new— video game competitions have existed since the 70s and only grew more popular as new platforms hit the market. You could find Super Smash Bros. or Mario Kart tournaments at a local hobby shop, or you could catch a League of Legends championship airing on ESPN. With livestreaming services like Twitch, as well as more avenues for virtual collaboration, eSports is truly taking over.

“It’s really underrated how kids now can connect through these devices,”

said Elliot Coates, director of summer and auxiliary programs at the Pennington School. “When I was a kid, we would go out and physically see friends, play in the yard. Now, they have a whole social network that they are able to connect with by playing games. It’s a way for parents to create that network of parent-approved friends, and it’s a neat way for kids to build authentic connections with one another.”

Summers at Pennington will offer two eSports programs this year: Pennington eSports and eSports Apprentice: Streamers and Gamers. They’re run through Black Rocket Camps, a company that specializes in running technologybased STEM programs, Coates said. Summers at Pennington first partnered with them last year.

Pennington eSports will run for two sessions: July 6-9 and July 12-16 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Kids will play popular games while learning about teamwork, strategy, safe gaming and how to develop non-gaming life skills from eSports. The camp is intended for kids ages 10 to 15 from beginner to advanced. Week one is $295, and Week

“It’s so much more than playing games.”

–eSports coach Elliot Coates

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the kids’ level, it’s a fun, great way to provide communication and networking in a way that that hasn’t been available before.”

Coates describes the camps as a physical space where students can chat and meet new friends who have similar interests, whether that’s gaming, game design, programming, or entertainment.

“It’s a broad spectrum,” he said.

“There’s such a diversity of types and genres, styles of games. Two kids who play totally different games might become best friends because they share the same interests.”

Pennington offered the eSports Apprentice program for the first time last summer—it was fully virtual, so participants were able to connect without breaking pandemic safety guidelines.

It ended up being the perfect camp for that point in time, Coates said.

“Video games and the gaming community in general was always on a path forward, but it has been enhanced,” he said. “Because of the pandemic, connecting virtually is not more acceptable.

It’s more of a norm. I think that’s really neat.”

Coates has been able to watch that grow throughout the school year, too— he coaches the Pennington School’s own eSports team.

Students practice and compete against other schools in games like FIFA, Madden, Super Smash Bros. and Rocket

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2 is $375. eSports Apprentice runs June 21-25 from 9 a.m. to noon and is also geared towards kids 10-15 of all skill levels. It teaches the basics of gaming, streaming and casting. Students will work in pairs or on teams to develop game-play skills through Black Rocket games and apps, learn how to produce commentary for live tournaments, use professional streaming software and practice online safety. The cost is $250.

Summers at Pennington also offers a number of other gaming related camps, in addition to the traditional sports, outdoors and artistic fare—kids can learn programming, video game design, coding, board game design, phone photography, robotics, virtual reality, video production and more.

“The whole concept is not just getting kids interested in gaming, but also learning about what the gaming industr y is,” Coates said. “It’s so much more than playing games.

There are multiple channels and avenues for people who aren’t gamers to go into. It’s a complex, diverse business—when it’s geared down towards

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League. They meet one socially distant meeting per week; some students participate from home, while others meet up in person. They’re able to communicate and strategize over Discord, and they play against kids from local schools, as well as competitors from across the country.

“For a lot of kids, the eSports team has come at such a needed time,” he said. “Connecting with your friends, that’s bigger than just playing video games. You’re building a rapport and friendship with your peers in a meaningful and deeper way. You share common goals and interests with people you might not be able to find outside of this environment. We’ve gotten a lot of good feedback from different parts of the community about what eSports has been able to offer kids, especially during times of isolation.”

Parents do sometimes have concerns about screen time, Coates said, and that’s natural. But if it’s going to happen, he added, why not try to make it productive? eSports has a lot of the same components as traditional sports—practice, training, drills, theory. But it also calls for more verbal communication since, for the most part, competitors are in different rooms or playing on different systems. There’s a lot of self-directed coaching and practicing outside of official team sessions, he said.

“Screen time is going to happen no matter what,” Coates said. “That’s why the quality of screen time is more important. These programs are teaching them

how to be smart and safe with their screen time. We’re not telling kids to go out and practice for six hours straight while binge watching streams. It’s more about planning a schedule and saying ‘This is how I can be smart about it’ instead of scrolling through TikTok and Instagram. They’re coordinating just like a normal athletic team would—talking about where they need to go, where the next play is. It might be in a different environment, but they’re still building those skills.”

Coates acknowledged that there are inequalities and access limitations in the sport stemming from the digital divide—high-speed internet, computers, consoles, games and other accessories are luxuries that many families are unable to afford. It’s something that Pennington is hoping to address through camp scholarships and other means, namely in partnership with HomeFront.

And it’s something that Coates encourages anyone looking to start an eSports program to explore.

“It’s a socioeconomic issue that ever y school starting a team needs to address,” he said. “There needs to be access and equality for ever yone to be able to play. It’s ver y much a privileged sport because you have to invest in it, but it’s important for all teams to look at how we can branch out and create these opportunities for ever ybody.”

For more information about the Summers at Pennington eSports camps and other offerings, visit penningtonsummers. org.

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For both the Disney’s Lion King and Dance Camp, there is before and aftercare available for an extra cost. Dance Camp will consist of classes in ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, hip hop, and more! Summer Intensive will have a variety of instructors from world-renowned companies and programs teaching ballet, pointe, contemporary, and more!

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us to expand and improve our programs and still be local to our core community of Bordentown, Chesterfield, Hamilton, Hamilton Square, Trenton, Princeton, Burlington Township and City, Yardville, Mount Laurel, Mount Holly, and Columbus. We are in the heart of town and now have a 4,500-square-foot room that can be opened into a state-ofthe-art performance space. The studio is convenient to both the NJ Turnpike, I-295, Highway 206, Highway 130, and the Pennsylvania state line via the Turnpike Bridge.

“There will be something offered for everyone! Our new facility is dedicated to my late mother, who was my inspiration, naming it the Christine Cardenas Center for Performing Arts Education.

She encouraged so many artists, dancers, and dreamers,” says Cardenas. “We are particularly proud to have one of the area’s only professional-quality sprung dance floors. For the summer intensive we bring in professional dancers from major companies that are based out of New York City and Philadelphia!”

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Liberty Lake Day Camp Summer Camp: Our Kids’ Antidote to Pandemic Living

by Andy Pritikin More than 1,000 lucky children and 250 staff attended Liberty Lake Day Camp in summer 2020.

With strict safety guidelines and a modified program, the fundamental essence of camp remained intact: kids, playing together, mentored by caring staff, outdoors. For the campers, parents, and staff involved, 2020 was their most meaningful camp experience ever and an impactful life event. This June, after two compromised school years and everything that’s gone along with it, our children’s need for the benefits of summer camp is more important than ever.

1. Real Human Connection.

Zoom and remote learning saved us in so many ways. But there’s NO substitute for real human connection. Making and strengthening relationships while being guided by loving people is what camp is all about.

The essence of camp is in the relationships we forge, something we are all lacking and craving.

2. Reacquainting Ourselves with Nature. While society has been trapped indoors for the past year, most of the world is in the beautiful outdoors, which fills our soul with joy. From picture perfect days to “liquid sunshine” washouts — it’s real living­— the way we’ve lived for thousands of years, until the advent of central air, video screens, and the internet.

3. Resiliency. It’s easier to stay at home and stare at screens, but learning to be brave and confronting challenges and fears are important facets of resiliency.

We want our kids to grow up with the kind of courage and “cando” attitude that our health care, essential workers, and superhero school-teachers have cultivated.

4. Mental Health. Kids are resilient and bounce back quickly.

But a year and a half of stress and anxiety is bound to leave a mark.

Extroverted kids are suffering, missing the energy of their peers.

Introverted kids may enjoy sitting in their homes, away from life’s normal pressures, but need social interaction just as much.

Why can summer camps be successful during a pandemic?

Good camps breed creative adaptability, and get things done — always have. How do you get a group of third grade boys to listen?

What do we do about the incoming storm? The bus is running late, animals got into the supplies, no electricity in the kitchen, kid pooped in the pool… Camp people don’t complain — we figure it out and make it happen. Last summer we were able to facilitate 99 percent of what we normally do at camp. A little different from usual, but accomplished with smiles and appreciation.

Camp offers kids the unique opportunity to step back into a simpler time, with no internet connection needed — out of our homes, playing with other kids, and we’ve proven that it can be done safely, even under the most challenging circumstances.

Andy Pritikin is the director of Liberty Lake Day Camp, in Mansfield Township, NJ, past president of the American Camp Association NY/NJ, and host of the Day Camp Podcast.

Now is the ideal time to make your children’s summer camp plans. The Ewing Recreation Department offers a summer day camp program for students entering kindergarten through 7th grade, plus counselor in training programs for 8th and 9th graders.

Camps run from June 28 through September 3. Registration is open at communitypass.net.

Register by April 12 and save 5 percent. Programs are open to residents and non-residents of Ewing.

Daily capacity is limited to 12 campers per grade group due to Covid 19. Daily Covid protocols and cleaning procedures will be followed. There will be no field trips and no Teen Travel program due to social distancing concerns.

All camp activities will take place at the Ewing Senior & Community Center (the former JCC) at 999 Lower Ferry Road. Camp programs happen every week public schools are not in session, including that last week before school starts. With indoor and outdoor facilities on site weather is not a problem!

The camp has a full-time nurse and Red Cross-certified life guards.

Counselors are trained and certified in first aid.

Camp days include swimming twice a day (lessons in the mornings and free swim in the afternoons), arts and crafts, nature, cooking, special events, entertainers, theme days, athletics, dance, and drama. Campers have the option of bringing lunch or purchasing lunch from the snack bar.

The Counselor in Training program is open to Ewing residents entering 8th and 9th grades. These

junior counselors work with the younger campers and rotate age groups. CITs also have group meetings led by senior staff to discuss their experiences and grow as individuals and as a group.

Camp hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Early hours (from 7:30 a.m.) and late hours (to 6 p.m.) are available for an additional fee. To ensure a camper’s spot in camp, registration and fees are due by June 5 for weeks one through four, July 1 for weeks five through eight, and August 1 for weeks nine and ten. Registration fees include all activities.

Weekly rates are $270 for Ewing Residents, and $370 for nonresidents. Counselors in Training (CIT) is $50 and is only open to Ewing residents. Additional fees for early and late hours. Multi-child discounts are available. Financial assistance is available.

Recreation Department hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday – Friday and the phone number is 609-883-1776.

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Hamilton YMCA Summer Fun In ‘21 This year more than ever, Summer Camp is vital for our community and its children.

Many families depend on camp for childcare during the summer, and it is now needed to provide a safe, healthy, screen-less return to normal childhood experiences.

Benefits of camp: 1. Social interaction. Camp is a social center away from home and school where kids learn to work with each other and adult mentors, build relationships and manage conflict.

2. Outdoor play. A nationwide poll conducted by The Nature Conservancy revealed that about 10 percent of kids spend time outdoors daily. Kids say they aren’t interested, they lack access and are uncomfortable outside (bugs, heat, etc.). Indoors, they’re growing more and more attached to a digital existence and further detached from the natural world.

Camp provides kids the perfect opportunity to see what they’ve been missing in the great outdoors.

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achievement, they learn to value themselves.

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respect and consideration for others.

6. Creative outlets. Creativity can’t be stifled at camp because campers don’t have to worry about getting a failing grade. By limiting this kind of restriction, kids can let their creativity flow.

7. Opportunities for growth.

While camp is a summer rite of passage for kids to play outdoors and learn to swim, they are unknowingly rewarded with personal development skills by participating in their favorite activities and by trying activities they have never tried before. In general, they will leave camp with a stronger sense of identity and a better idea of what they love, which may help them in the classroom, in their relationships and to choose a career path in the future.

8. Positive role models in Camp staff. Another benefit of summer camp is that it provides your child with the opportunity to interact with positive role models.

Camp counselors are typically young adults who are choosing to volunteer or working part-time over the summer. Kids see these energetic counselors as “cool” and more relatable than their parents.

This helps kids to see what their own lives could look like in just a few short years and, if the “cool counselor” has integrity and good character, your child is likely to emulate them, too.

9. New experiences. Over the summer, kids might become sluggish without the intellectual stimulation of school, but camp provides mental stimulation in fun ways children can enjoy. Kids get the chance to participate in activities that interest them and activities that they have never tried before.

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families depend on camp for childcare during the summer.

Working parents look to find a place where their kids can go to squeeze every last drop of fun out of summer, but equally important is that working parents have peace of mind that their children are safe and well cared for. This has become especially important in the COVID-19 world we’re living in. Although kids will enjoy the freedom to play and choose activities that interest them, camp also provides a safe, comforting, and structured environment.

Children look at camp as a fun way to spend the summer in the sun and splashing in the pool, but parents understand that camp allows kids to reap many life benefits that will follow them through their lives long after the sun has set on their summer camp days.

We have worked hard to plan an exciting summer full of arts and crafts, music, sing-alongs, science lab, and dance, to soccer, basketball, gaga, volleyball, swimming, funs special events, and so much more! Our coordinators are college graduates who are working professionals in the fields of education and child development with more than 35 years of camp experience and 17 years of teaching experience. And, our counselors are second to none, having had extensive training to welcome your children for the summer.

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Author analyzes Pinelands culture in new book

By Dan Aubrey

William J. Lewis’s recently released book published by The History Press, a division of Arcadia Press, is an examination of cultural changes within one of New Jersey’s most culturally important regions, the Pinelands.

The New Egypt resident — who studied business at Rider University and served in the United States Marines — refers to himself as a lifelong Piney, a term that generates either pride or ridicule in state populations.

His chapter “Is ‘Piney’ Still a Bad Word?” recounts how the people of the Pines were labeled and marginalized by the larger population. That still affects general perspective and beliefs about the residents of the region — and interestingly serves as a microcosm of how groups of people can be marginalized: An anonymous South Jersey farmer spoke about how the generations before the 20th century Pineys were more independent and lived a truer life off the land in the Pines. Up until, say, the early 1900s, the Piney way of life depended on hunting, fishing, trapping, and harvesting items to supplement the family budget, creating an independence from a modern New Jersey 40-hour workweek their descendants do not enjoy.

On June 28, 1913, Governor James Fielder called Pineys “NJ degenerates.”

The governor came out publicly against the people of the region and, ultimately, the Piney way of life all based on lies published in a report by Dr. Henry Goddard and Elizabeth Kite, which had serious ramifications on the Pineys back then and still has effects that continue to be felt to this day. While Governor Fielder used his words and position of power to tear down an entire culture as a plank in his reelection platform, it was John McPhee who ultimately helped save the Pineys with his words, which produced the power to influence a positive change.

The Kite report described the Pineys as inbred heathens. As a result, many state government policies and local government actions were taken against the Piney people, and the Piney world was turned upside down during this time.

The New Lisbon Development Center was established in 1914 in the heart of the Pines. Two years later, the Burlington County Colony for Feeble-Minded Boys, which was formerly a branch of the Training School at Vineland also located at New Lisbon, was turned over to the state. Author Robert McGarvey described the times nicely: “The psycho business in the area boomed.”

New state-funded mental wards were established in Burlington County, and both new and old facilities saw an increase in such wards. An excerpt from the Batsto Citizens Gazette read, “The towns and cities had just as many degenerates and feebleminded. There

William J. Lewis, a self-described “Piney” writes about Pineland culture in his book, published by the History Press. were over 12,300 wards of the State in 1913. The sparsely populated Pinelands probably provided but a fraction of the inmates, but because of their isolation it had been easier to single them out for research.”

Burlington County, the largest county in the state by area, also had the highest proportion of state wards to population. Having been painted as a culture of people who could not avoid their condition because it was hereditary and all-encompassing, the residents of the South Jersey Pine Barrens became even more withdrawn from the public eye, and the Pineys became even more reclusive in nature and suspicious of outsiders. While the science had been refuted by numerous colleagues of Dr. Goddard and Kite and by other experts in the scientific community several times over — Goddard’s study was found to be riddled with false documentation and based on false assumptions that have since been proven wrong — the public condemnation that initially followed the report’s publication is, arguably, the greatest catalyst to the end of the subsistence-living lifestyle of the people of the Pine Barrens and the ultimate extinction of that mold of Piney.

In 1913, researcher Elizabeth Kite published her explosive report, titled “The Pineys,” that included tales of “heavy drinking, livestock quartered in children’s bedrooms, incest, and widespread inbreeding.” The report caused quite a scandal in New Jersey. Governor James T. Fielder made a personal visit to the Pine Barrens, where he found the residents to be “a serious menace” to the public. He stated, “They have inbred, and led lawless and scandalous lives, till they have become a race of imbeciles, criminals, and defectives.” Following

William J. Lewis, a New Egypt resident, attended Rider University and served in the United States Marines. this visit, he asked the legislature to isolate the area from the rest of the state.

The most infamous Piney who ever lived is Deborah Kallikak. While she

herself has been all but forgotten, the Goddard and Kite caricature of her and her Piney roots lives on in the minds of outsiders to the region today. Sadly, the label is still brandished like a red-hot iron cow prod and negatively applied to most residents of South Jersey. The myth that the people of the Pines are inbred, heathens, and to be avoided or watched with a close eye but at a far distance when encountered derived from the Kite report and continues to be spread by outsiders.

It wasn’t until the 1985 seminal work “Minds Made Feeble: the Myth and Legacy of the Kallikaks,” by David John Smith, that once and for all Deborah and the public image of a Piney were restored to good form, even though we still see the Goddard myth today in 2020.

In his book he stated, I have attempted to describe the making of a social myth and to illustrate how lives were restricted, damaged, and even destroyed as a result of that myth. In the process of researching and writing it, I have been reminded of, and made more sensitive to, how careful we must be in the sciences and in human service professions about the myths that we accept, foster, or even create. Myths have a way of becoming reality. Myths have a way of gathering force as they are passed along. They have a way of surviving the intent and lifetime of the creators.”

New Jersey’s Lost Piney Culture, William J. Lewis, 144 pages, $21.99, The History Press.

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The tent worked out well. “We had the ‘seating full’ sign up more often than not through the fall,” Juncosa says. “If we were going to have people drinking in a gas station parking lot we didn’t want it to feel like they were at a tailgate.

We wanted them to feel like they were inside a beer garden. We put some astroturf down and spent a lot of time making sure our brewery was a safe and comfortable place.”

After Thanksgiving, Odd Bird went back to to-go only sales, but the plan is to reopen the tent in early April and then see what comes next in terms of opening the taproom back up to customers.

The couple used their own resources to start up the business, and count themselves as the company’s only employees.

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“I just love classic styles,” says Juncosa, a native of Poughkeepsie who now lives with Malzone in Stockton, within walking distance of their brewer y. “I love the stories behind them. I love the fact that in Germany, you go to a town like Cologne, that’s known for Kölsch, and ever y brewer y makes Kölsch.”

Over the years, Juncosa has spent a lot of time looking for primary-source recipes for his beers and tweaking the recipes to get the flavor he is looking for. When friends traveled overseas, he would ask them to try to bring him back fresh Kölsch or pilsners that he could try to help make his own interpretations of the style hit the mark.

As of mid-March, Odd Bird had an intriguing mix of 10 beers on tap, including Extra Stockton Bitter, Mumbletypeg British-style tavern stout, Fields saison, The Wick smoked helles, Prallsville Pils pilsner, two kettle-soured ales, and two IPAs, including the ever-present Catbird IPA, Malzone’s favorite.

Juncosa is a big fan of cask conditioned ales, and has a hand pump at the brewery that is used to serve the traditional English-style ales. Cask-conditioned beer does not travel well, so Odd Bird only offers it when sit-down service is possible.

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building up a stack of casks that he’s looking forward to serving. Mumbletypeg and Extra Stockton Bitter are set to be among the first cask ales on tap when onsite consumption resumes.

In a time when many breweries are increasing the alcohol content by volume, Odd Bird has bucked the trend by offering many beers in the 4 to 6% ABV range. Juncosa says that while Catbird IPA is the brewer y’s best-selling brew overall, the lower-ABV beers more than hold their own in terms of popularity.

That does not mean that Juncosa doesn’t appreciate a big bold beer. He recently brewed up a 10.5% ABV Belgian-style ale to mark the anniversary of the brewery’s opening. He and Malzone named it One Odd Year, in recognition of the unusual circumstances of their first year in business.

He and Malzone look forward to welcoming customers back to the brewery they have worked so long and hard to build.

“I’m kind of expecting that people are going to be getting vaccinated and looking forward to coming out of hibernation,” Juncosa says. “I think people are going to appreciate what they’re able to do more than maybe they used to.”

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