Waimanalo, HI Summer Camps

Giving Children a greater sense of self, community, and earth thru hands-on activities, aquatics camp-outs and more.

Winners' Camp is a 7-day residential accelerated learning program for teens ages 13-17. Each program consists of 60 participants and is supported by a staff of 24 specially trained volunteers and a core staff of highly experienced professional facilitators. The staff to participant ratio is 1:3. The program is held at Kamehame Ridge (the ridge between Hawaii Kai and Waimanalo) at the newly renovated, Winners' Camp Foundation Conference Facility. Accelerated learning techniques are utilized extensively. To date, Winners' Camp has graduated over 12,000 participants and over 600 graduate support staff. Participants learn to create a positive sense of self-identity through a safe, supportive environment where they break through self-imposed limitations. By regularly setting, meeting, and achieving goals they have a dramatic experience of the exhilaration of "winning." This is winning where the opponent is one's own fears and self-doubts. By conquering challenging outdoor events, teens learn to recognize their own courage and self-confidence. By repeatedly going beyond what they thought they could do, they learn the joy of reaching their highest potential.

Our DANCEcamp program is designed to introduce students to a broad range of dance styles that include lessons in tecnhique, composition (choreography) improvisation, dance history, production, nutirition and music and visual arts. Each program builds from one year to the next and from level to level. The activites and lessons in our currinculuem are designed with regard to the developmental and skill of the children.