Summer camp is supposed to be a fun respite from the stresses of the school year, but let's be honest: navigating the social structure of the mess hall is not all that different from figuring out where to sit in the cafeteria. That's why a tipster once devised this guide to "How to be Cool in Camp" before taking off for…

This particular summer camp isn't a place to debate the iPhone versus the Droid — it's a hands-on camp to get girls interested in engineering and manufacturing, a field in which only a quarter of the workers are women. Profiled in The Times today, the sixteen-girl camp, made up mostly of girls from low-income…

Many Christian groups — and Christian universities — aren't accepting of gay students. But one summer camp teaches LGBT youth that their sexual orientation can be compatible with their religion.

Whenever I think about summer, I think about camp — and as it turns out, camp was what made me a feminist.

I've never met anyone who has overwhelmingly fond memories of middle school. That's not to say that the entire experience was horrible—it's just that for many people, middle school was a bit of a challenge in various ways.

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