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Albany JCC Center Camps's Website
Affiliated with Sidney Albert Albany JCC
Day Camp
Session Lengths: 1 Week
The Albany JCC offers 3 day camps for children ages 3-15. The onsite preschool camp is called Taf for 3-5 year olds. Activities include Daily Swim Lessons, Art, Nature, Sports, Israeli Dance, theme weeks, weekly Oneg Shabbat, and Kindergarten field trip to Camp Olam in Grafton. Camp Olam is for children entering 1st-6th grades. This offsite camp located near Grafton, NY has 120 acres of land including a lake for boating and swimming. There is also an extensive high and low ropes adventure course. Other activities include Sports, Art, Nature, Israeli Dance, weekly Oneg Shabbat, theme weeks, field trips, and overnights.
Teen Camp is located at Warner’s Lake in East Berne, NY. This day camp offers water skiing, tubing, knee boarding, sailing, kayaking, swimming, sports, art, Maccabi Color Games, field trips, overnights, and week-long excursions. There are also a wide variety of Specialty Camps at the JCC and at Camp Olam for various ages. These include Soccer, Circus, Adventure, British Sports, Lego Robotics, Mad Science, Baseball and Dance Camps.
Camp Director since March 2006, Andrew has been apart of the JCC since age 5 with its summer camps and afterschool programs. Andrew was a Teen Camp CIT and Counselor from 1995-1997. He graduated from UAlbany in 2001 with a Bachelor’s in Anthropology.
Miriam has been working for the Albany JCC since Sept 1994 as a Kindergarten Assistant Teacher, Afterschool counsleor and Assistant Director, Co-Director for onsite day camp, and Assistant Site Director for Camp Olam. She is currently an Albany School teacher during the school year with a Masters in Education.
