What is Summer Camp?

Summer Camp at IPC is a week-long program where we help improve the school in exchange for room and board, so you just need to show up and help out. We do different projects from building gazebos, painting, cleaning up the forest, general maintenance, whatever the school might need. This year, our primary projects will be painting rooms in corridors, refinishing the dining rooms tables, repairing broken furniture, finishing the bars, and general forest clean up. You don’t have to know how to do any of these things, we just need willing hands and we can teach you the rest. If you do have skills in any of these areas, all the better!

When is Summer Camp?

It will take place from Monday July 14th to Sunday July 20th. You can arrive any time on Monday, though we will have some afternoon/evening activities to get to know each other, so best to come early if possible.

What does an average day look like?

We start out the day with breakfast and morning fellowship, then get straight to work afterwards to avoid the hot sun. We end work at lunch time, and then the afternoon is either free time or planned activities. We all have dinner together, and then night time is hangout time. Some years we cook for ourselves, other years the school does the cooking for us.

How do I sign up?

Sign up is currently open, and you can sign up using the google form at the bottom of the page or here.

Sign up will end in June or when Summer Camp fills up, whichever comes first. Please note that signing up does not instantly guarantee coming to Summer Camp. Once you sign up, we will confirm with the school who is coming and then notify you by email that you can come. This year, we will send a list to the school every month of the new participants that have signed up, so you should know within a few weeks. The earlier you sign up, the earlier you will know you can come and book your flights!

Who do I contact if I have questions?

You can contact either Paige Skrypnek or Benjamin Mertick. We can be reached by email through pskrypnek@gmail.com or find us on facebook (note that Paige is Paige Simone on Facebook).

Applications for Summer Camp 2024 are now available, and you’re able to do so right here. We don’t have many details about what we could do during summer camp (The IPC caretakers are very busy people!) but we hope to get more details as soon as possible

What’s going to happen at summer camp?

Summer camp is a week where a group of alumni get together to help out the school, usually with some kind of maintenance or to build something cool for the schools benefit. Often the work is outdoor, but if the weather isn’t great there’s always something to do indoors.

Last year, we spent the most of our time clearing the area around the lake of small brush, especially near the water to make the area feel less swampy. Unfortunately the outcome of last year isn’t certain as the lake has been overflowing since January. The back gazebo has now been affectionately named “The Island” by Autumn 2023 due to the flooding.

We will most likely be cooking for ourselves, as the kitchen staff will be on holiday. It doesn’t sound as bad as it seems. The school gives us a budget and we go shopping and a small group will cook meals for everyone.

This year we can host a total of 30 Alumni, which includes the organizers. You must be a member of IPC Alumni to join, so if you are not one, you can sign up here. 

Sign up will begin in about a week or two, and will be open for 3 weeks. Once we have the list of people, we will confirm with you and the school, and we will release more information about how things will work this year. So get excited, get ready, and start making plans!