“Children love to learn, but they get tired of being taught by adults. Children want to learn from older children, and, at a camp that means older campers, C.I.T.’s (counselors in training) and camp counselors. They want to live with them, emulate them, absorb them. In our age-segregated society, camp […]
Sifiso Tawane returns for summer #2 at North Star. Coming from Johannesburg, South Africa, he makes the farthest journey to camp this summer. Sifiso has quite a bit of camp expereicen both in the US and in South Africa. He works with Camp Sizanani of Global Camps Africa. Global Camps […]
Fraser Ashworth comes to North Star for his first summer. The Dundee, Scotland native goes to the University of Glasgow where he is studying psychology. Like many of his countrymen, he played quite a bit of soccer and rugby growing up, but eventually settled on basketball as his main sport. […]
Ben Meyer joins the NSC staff for his first year, after four years as a camper. He’ll leave the west coast for the summer. Ben lives in LA where he is finishing up his sophomore year at Windward School. At camp you’ll find Ben mostly tennis, sailing, and riflery. More […]
Noah Simon joins the NSC Staff. The former camper is a native of Chicago, IL. There he goes to school at Walter Payton College Prep. He just finished my JV baseball season. In his free time he likes to play some pick up basketball with friends at a park right […]
I’m Jonah Goldfine and I am from Scottsdale, AZ. I have just finished my Sophomore year at Desert Mountain High School . This will be my first year on staff, but my eighth year at camp. I enjoy most sciences, especially Chemistry, and math. I am currently a brown belt […]
My name is Spencer Malkin and I am from Buffalo Grove, IL. I am going to be starting my senior year at Stevenson High School. I am very involved with Stevenson’s Student Council and Best Buddies programs and I am the Vice President of the Chicago region in BBYO. I […]
Arie Litherland makes the voyage all the way from Auckland, New Zealand to spend his summer at North Star. Arie works at the Auckland International Airport as an airport operations officer. He’s also a volunteer fire fighter and first responded. he’s been involved with scouting since he was 11 and […]
Louis Nutley comes to camp from West Sussex in the UK for his first summer. He’s been volunteering for the past two years with Worthing Boys Club. He helps plan special activities and trips for the group. As a kid in the youth group himself he learned riflery, which he […]
Ty Bleeker joins the NSC staff for his first summer. A native of Zeeland, MI, Ty went to Calvin College before going to the University of Idaho for his masters degree in Environmental Education. He really developed a passion for the outdoors during his freshman year of college. After finishing […]
Lauren Ambrosius joins the North Star staff for her first summer. She was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin and attended UW-Eau Claire for 3.5 years. Lauren had the opportunity to participate in an exchange program and spent her remaining time at the University of Idaho. After just graduating a few […]
