Young Leaders SimuNation™ 
Day Camps

YL Day and After-School camps are integrated into to the year-long leadership & civics experiential learning program that is Young Leaders.   Day and Summer Camps offer consolidated, compressed versions of our popular summer program, often highlighting specific aspects of the SimuNation™ or UhN.

Coming Day Camps

Springfield

Springfield Public Library
225 5th St., Springfield, Oregon

• Tuesday, March 11    4:30 - 6PM
• Saturday, March 29    10AM - 2:45PM
• Wednesday, April 23    4:30PM - 6PM
• Wednesday, May 28     4:30PM - 6PM
• Wednesday, June 25     4:30PM - 6PM

Day Camp Registration

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McMinnville

McMinnville Public Library
225 NW Adams St, McMinnville, Oregon

• Friday, February 28    6:30PM
• Friday, March 28    6:30PM
• Friday, April 25     6:30PM
• Friday, May 30     6:30PM

Day Camp Registration

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What to Expect

• ​Learning Model:  deep, thoughtful, engaging, hands-on approach 
• Guest Speakers:  From the current (or former!) Governors, Mayors, Senators, Representatives, Supreme Court Justices, Judges, TV Personalties and others, YL finds the folks!
• Uniforms:  All staff and students wear uniform shirts.
• The SimuNation™ Students are "living" in the simulated realty they create and experience the consequences of their every action played out in a fun, yet educational way
• Focus on Citizenship:  students learn all elements of US Citizenship, including the three branches of government, election law, judicial procedures, and much more.
• Focus on Leadership  Students are immersed in theory, classes and coursework founded on The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,  Getting Things Done (GTD), and much more
• Focus on Adulting  Students must act for themselves, define themselves, and take care of themselves while at the same time learning to work together with other youth, both independently and as a team.
• ​We Learn by Doing™. Kids are building, doing, exploring, talking, drawing, drafting, writing, speaking, lobbying, campaigning, singing, dancing, filming, constructing, walking, eating, and defining their simulated "reality"
• We Build Citizens™ A focus on  StatesCraft, constitutionality, law, government, and order.  Students who graduate YL have an in-depth, accurate, keen sense of how government works and know how to make a difference in it.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is provided?
Students at either program are provided uniforms, backpacks, pins, buttons, and other fun stuff as part of the program.  Students are always fed and cared for.
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What is the cost?
All day camps are free.
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Is this Political or are Real-world Politics involved?
​No!  Our politics are make-believe, simulation topics, like whether or not it should be required to moo like a cow after drinking chocolate milk in the cafeteria or the cost of taxes for walking down the sidewalk, or whether it should be legal for the governor to dissolve the senate and form an empire.
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We do handle some real-world political topics, such as during our Curia​ event, which is a moderated debate in which participants go up on stage and defend (or present) a generic point presented on a slideshow against each other.  Nevertheless, the staff's opinions on the matter is not presented, and Curia is a very limited (1 hour) amount of the overall time at YLCamp.  We do not usually do Curia at YLOrigins due to time constraints/. 

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