Summer Camp Registration is Now Live!

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Let your child rule the world this summer, really! Young Americans Center for Financial Education’s incredibly popular week-long summer day camps fill up quickly, but you can register now. Priced at $230* per child, per week, camps run Monday-Thursday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Camps include the popular Young AmeriTowne and International Towne programs. …

Summing Up Summer Camps 2015

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Summer Camp 2015 has come to an end; but what an exciting summer it has been!!  For starters, 994 campers attended a camp this year, the highest attendance Young Americans Center has ever seen!  Young Americans Center ran 13 summer camps in all at our Denver and Belmar locations, ranging from Junior Money Matters for 7-8 year olds interested in …

Tales from Towne – Belmar Summer Camp

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Our Belmar location doesn’t get too see to many kids during the summer, and this week we kicked off the first of two summer camps held in Belmar. This camp is a Young AmeriTowne camp, in which we aim to prepare these youngsters for running towne on Friday. Within the week they are here, they will learn about Free Enterprise, …

Be Your Own Boss Summer Camp

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Campers in last week’s Be Your Own Boss (BYOB) summer camp had a great time learning all about business!  This camp is meant to be an introduction to business for students who’ve completed 5th or 6th grade.  Throughout their week in camp, young people learned about such topics as marketing, business structure, and simple economics, and they developed their own …

Tales from Towne- Junior Money Matters Summer Camp

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At Young Americans Center for Financial Education, we believe it’s never too early to start conversations with our youth about money and economics.  Our Junior Money Matters camp is designed to introduce all kinds of money related topics to children who have finished 2nd or 3rd grade.  Kids will spend a week in Young AmeriTowne learning about banking, savings, the …

Summer Camp in International Towne

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Even before there was a physical International Towne at Young Americans Center, there was an International Towne summer camp.  However, the program has come a long way from its beginnings to become one of campers’ favorites.  Here are some highlights from the two International Towne Summer Camps held this summer! On Tuesday, campers participated in a Towne-wide scavenger hunt called …

Girls Can Summer Camp

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One of the camps running last week at Young Americans Center was Girls Can—a camp just for GIRLS!  In addition to running Young AmeriTowne at the end of the week, the 5th and 6th graders in this camp learn about leadership and economics, and they explore different career possibilities by listening to female guest speakers who are prominent leaders in …

How to Run Your Own Business – RYOB Summer Camp

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We kicked off summer camps with Young Ameritowne 2 and Running Your Own Business last week and we sure had a lot of fun! While Young Ameritowne alums were across the hall diving deeper into themes of free enterprise in Ameritowne, the Running Your Own Business campers were hard at work exploring entrepreneurship and business operations in International Towne. Running …

Summer Camp Kick-off – Young AmeriTowne2!

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Summer Camps 2015 started with a bang at Young Americans Center for Financial Education!  For our first week of summer camp, we are running two different camps: Running Your Own Business and Young AmeriTowne2.  Both provide hands-on lessons in money and economics, and both camps are a fun way to spend a week of summer! Affectionately called RYOB, our first …

Summertime FUNancial Literacy

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With summer just around the corner, Young Americans Center is gearing up for its five different summer camps!  If you’re interested in attending but aren’t sure which camp is right for you, here’s a guide.  But before you find out all about each of our camps, here are some fun facts!  Did you know: Young Americans Center offered its first …