The Red Arrow Experience
Day In the Life
Activities, Class Instruction & Emblem Program
Activities
Archery | Baseball | Basketball
Bicycle | Boardsailing | Canoeing
Choir | Drama | Football | Golf
Nature/Ecology | Lacrosse | Rifle
Riding (English) | Sailing
Scuba (PADI Certification) | Soccer | Softball
Swimming | Tennis | Track & Field
Trapshooting | Weights & Fitness
Waterskiing | Wakeboarding | Woodworking
Wrestling
Class Instruction
Red Arrow Camp has something for everyone. Over the course of the summer, campers have the opportunity to participate in eight activities during each two-week block. Campers can practice their favorite sports, cross-train in our weights and fitness programs, or learn something new — like riflery, archery, sailing, woodworking, or water skiing!
Many young athletes look for summer camps that will build their skills and prepare them for the upcoming athletic season. At Red Arrow, we’re able to offer instruction that exceeds the quality found at short-term specialty camps. How? Over the course of seven weeks, our instructors truly get to know our campers’ abilities, building on their strengths and improving their weaknesses. Instead of bouncing around from one program and coach to the next, our campers work with consistent, highly qualified instructors over the course of the summer.
Every day, our campers are challenged to grow and improve. By the end of the summer, they’ve made significant strides in skill, strength, and ability.
The RAC Scarf & Emblem System
Our emblem system plays a key role in the Red Arrow Camp experience. Emblems represent a camper’s achievement in a particular area and are displayed on his RAC scarf, which he places on his bunk during the summer.
Activity Emblems: A Red Arrow camper may choose to participate in an activity just for fun, or he can work toward earning an activity emblem. Our campers take enormous pride in their emblems, which symbolize tremendous hard work and success in setting and reaching a goal.
Stars: After campers earn emblems, they can then earn yellow stars to indicate advancement to a higher level in a particular activity. Campers earn a blue star for their swim emblem when they complete the “Island Swim” and a red star when they swim to the island and back. They also receive a red star for each year they return to Red Arrow.
Honor Emblems: In addition to activity emblems, campers can also earn honor emblems: Inspection, Sunshine, and Best Tripper.
Click here for more information on our emblems, including proper emblem/star placement on RAC scarves.
Activity Emblems
Our campers can choose to work toward earning an emblem in any activity that interests them. These activity emblems represent hard work, determination, and achievement. Campers show off their emblems on their RAC scarves, which they place on their bunks during the summer. Click each emblem below to learn more.
Character Development & Special Honors
In addition to activity emblems, campers have the opportunity to earn four non-activity emblems central to our mission of nurturing “great boys”: the Best Tripper emblem, Inspection emblem, and Sunshine emblem. Campers are considered for the fourth emblem — the Honor Camper emblem — when they’ve earned the three aforementioned non-activity emblems.
