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Son had a great time here! Met great people and loved the various classes / activities

My son has officially aged out of explo. It was a wonderful experience for him. Entering as an awkward middle schooler with other awkward middle schoolers and coming home an independent changed young man was AMAZING to see. His father and I were sold the day he came home. So much confidence and growth in one 3 week session. This last year was bitter sweet. He met friends from his very first session and he knew it would be his last. He kept saying "mom, I'm famous" 😂 he made friends and he's still talking to them via phone to this day. Explo allowed him to explore activities that i wouldn't have normally guessed he'd be interested in. Who knew my kid loved comedy enough to take it as a course!! We randomly took improv last year and he kept it going at camp and loved it! I tell everyone about explo. The amount of growth for not only him as a child but it's as parents was great. And there wasn't a safer space he could be in. Forget grateful to my professor friend who let me know about this random camp at her university 2000 miles away from our home. It changed us for the better.

My daughter enjoyed her experience and the friendships she made

it was okay we were able to do a lot of fun things but the curfew was really early and we also had to get up early. A lot of fun activites like carnival night was canceled and i was really upset about it. Also there were way too many check ins and it was too long. Also for town time they cancelled one of krackens and wolfs town time which was really unfair. Then they said everyone would get a chance to go to town and then when everyone was lining up after like 35 people they said no more spots and my generous friend gave me her spot because she lives in Boston.

Food, Team and Organization should be improving a little

The summer camp run down and design is good. The Explo contact window and team members were very responsive. It is a pity that the medical focus program was fully booked this time.

All the advisers were really nice and incredibly helpful and supportive

Our son came back with lots of new knowledge and enthusiasm about the subjects. He said everything other than pickup was fun (more on that below). Organization as a whole was sub par. For as long as this program has been running they should understand how pickup and dismissal will run. Talk with Linx and Tenacre about how they run pickup. Super organized. Early dismissals and rainy/hot days were not handled well. According to my son everything ended at 4 (pickup is at 5:30, he couldn’t walk home until 5:15) and the counselors had just the day kids waiting for an hour in a room waiting for pickup. Not a great use of time. If you can’t schedule something for them to do while they wait then make pickup ealier. Also, the residential kids got to hang out wherever.