On July 26th, more than 40 Bowdoin students, chaperones and educators will board a bus and head up to Brunswick, Maine for a wonderful week of camp and educational activities. The younger group (6th through 9th grade) will enjoy  5 fun-filled days at the Bowdoin Day Camp while the high school students  will make college visits to schools throughout New England.

The older students will also work on their applications & college lists, engage in mock interviews, and attend a college essay prep class.

Both of the groups  spend several hours in the classroom discussing books and getting a feel for academic life at college. As in the past, the week at Bowdoin will be a great mixture of fun and education.  WBAL radio in Baltimore profiled Bowdoin Bound before we departed for Maine in 2011:

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean.

A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.

Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.

The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of her own road, the Line Lane. Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek, then