Calgary Student Visit 2005


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Calgary Student Visit 2005
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Participating Schools

• Zebulon Georgia
• Corning Iowa
• Monsey New York
• Tonto Basin Arizona

• Dauphin Manitoba
• Vanderhoof B.C.
• Calgary Alberta

• Zapopan Jalisco

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Calgary Student Visit

• Details
• 8 students and 2 teachers from each school
• To be held Friday May 26 Saturday June 3
• Selection of students must be complete and
  confirmed participation required by March 15th
  2006

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Accommodations

• During the Calgary Student Visit you will stay
  at Camp Chestermere. The camp is located about 10
  minutes east of the Calgary city limits.

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Accommodations

• Camp Chestermere has a girls cabin a boys
  cabin and a teachers cabin.
• The cabins each have 3 rooms that sleep 1011
  people per room. We provide clean pillows and
  sleeping bags for all.
• There is teacher supervision every night in the
  boys and girls cabins.

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Camp Chestermere

• You will eat most of your meals in the main lodge.

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Camp Chestermere

• This is the main gym where you can play floor
  hockey basketball etc. Its also where we hold
  a lot of our games and activities.

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Camp Chestermere

• On a couple of nights during camp well gather
  aroundthe campfire to sing play games and have
  fun with the
• camp counselors.

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Camp Chestermere

• The camp is located on Chestermere Lake. During
  your time at camp we wont do anything in the
  water but the sunsets on the lake are gorgeous

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Camp Chestermere

• Other pictures of camp

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Spending Money

• You dont have to bring money
• If you choose to it must be in Canadian dollars
• Your money is your responsibility
• Dont bring more than CDN50.00 approx US40.00
• Exchange Rate will vary
• US1.00 CDN1.23
• US25.00 CDN30.77

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Calling Home

• You are not permitted to bring a cell phone to
  camp
• Once your plane has arrived in Calgary a call
  will be made to notify your parents of your safe
  arrival
• There is one phone at camp for emergencies only
• Should you need to call home it is a good idea
  to have a phone card with you for U.S. and
  Mexican students make sure that the card will
  work from Canada to your city or that you can
  call collect
• Parents will be given the program managers phone
  number in case there is an emergency at home

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Packing List What to Bring

• Comfortable running shoes or hiking boots
• Jacket waterproof and windproof is ideal
• Shirts long and short sleeved
• Sweater
• Pants and jeans
• Shorts 12 pairs
• Underwear

• Socks
• Gloves hat and scarf
• Toiletries toothbrush toothpaste soap
  shampoo eye glasses contact solution etc
• At least two towels and face cloths
• Pillowcase
• Umbrella
• Camera optional
• Bug Repellent optional

Laundry services are not available at camp so
bring enough clothing for the whole week.
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Packing List What NOT to Bring

• Cell phones
• Video games or Gameboys
• CD players or Walkmans
• Anything you dont want to lose
• Helpful Hint
• Label everything that you bring to camp. There is
  no way of returning items to you if your name is
  not on them.

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Agenda

• While in Calgary youll get to go on many
  adventures
• Banff National Park
• The Royal Tyrrell Museum dinosaurs
• The Calgary Zoo
• The Calgary Police canine unit
• Calgaryarea school visit
• Youll also participate in numerous activities at
  camp.

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Contact

• Candace Beaton
• Program Manager Connections
• SMARTer Kids Foundation
• 300 1207 11th Avenue SW
• Calgary AB Canada T3C 0M5
• Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
• [e-mail]