Please note: Leadership is completely full for the 2010 summer.  If your child is in 6th, 7th, 8th, or 9th grade, please feel free to complete the application, and we will place your child on the wait list.  If a space becomes available for your child we will let you know.

Sherwood Forest Camp’s Leadership Training program, founded in 1942, teaches adolescents to recognize, use, and improve their innate leadership abilities.

Leadership campers work towards three critical milestones in order to achieve long-term success as adults: to be productive, to connect to others, and to navigate healthy choices.  Each summer up to 75 campers who have completed 6th, 7th, 8th, or 9th grade are selected to participate.
 
We challenge youth to build skills and relationships transferable to all aspects of their lives: responsibility, self-discipline, effective communication, problem solving, team building and management. 

Through four years in the program, campers plan and complete progressively more challenging, adventure based wilderness trips and travel programs, both locally and nationally.

• Challenge: 4-day backpacking trip and a 4-day river trip
• Trek: 8-day, 60 mile, backpacking and river trip
• Adventure: Plan and complete one-week trip which includes college campus visits and community service 
• Journey: Plan and complete 16-day trip which includes college campus visits and community service

At every level of Leadership Training there is a component of community service. Campers volunteer at camps and other non-profit organizations locally and nationally.

Graduates of Leadership Training are people who believe in themselves, have high standards, set and meet goals, value diversity, work well with others, and believe (and act on that belief) that they have a significant contribution to make to their communities.

For details on each year of the program, please select below:
 

*We can not accept new campers who are in the 8th or 9th Grade