Girlblazers
Summer Camp at Paulsdale
At the Girlblazers
Summer Camp girls will learn the skills they need to become leaders in
their school and community and will meet women who have blazed a trail for
them.
The camp includes a community service project, field trips, and
sports and recreational activities. The girls will have hands-on leadership
experiences in group projects and individual activities. The camp will
begin with an introduction to Alice Paul and basic definitions of
leadership. Following this introduction, each camp session will contain an
activity corresponding to both historic and contemporary women leaders.
These sessions may include such role models and activities as:
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 astronaut
Ellen Ochoa and model rocket building/launching
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activist Dolores Huerta and a creating social change
activity
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tennis great Rosie Casals and a tennis clinic
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naturalist Rachel Carson and a hike through a local state
park
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journalist Ida Wells Barnett and an investigative reporting
activity
In teams the girls will create presentations about each of the women’s
impact on the world. The girls will present their projects to family,
school administrators, and API board members and staff at a culminating
dinner. The girls will take away from the camp an understanding of
leadership in action and how that understanding can apply to their own
lives.
 The
Girlblazers Summer Camp is in its second year as part of the Alice Paul
Leadership Program, which helps girls to reach their full potential with
leadership training grounded in an understanding of women’s contributions to
society. Paulsdale is the birthplace of suffragist and women’s rights
activist Alice Paul and is a National Historic Landmark. Once a 200-acre
farm, today Paulsdale is a 6.5 acre property and restored farmhouse open to
the public for leadership and history programs.
For more information about Girlblazers, please contact Dana Dabek-Milstien,
Director of Leadership Programs at 856-231-1885 or
ddmilstein@alicepaul.org.
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