Technology

This week's national news highlighted something interesting: small and mid-sized organizations are adopting AI tools faster than anyone expected. Companies with fewer than 100 employees reported the biggest growth in AI projects, especially for documentation, summarization, and information management. Sound familiar? That's exactly where camps live. You run hundreds of meetings during the off-season. You create training materials, safety protocols, parent communication script

Welcome to your weekly AI roundup designed specifically for camp professionals. This week delivered some of the biggest AI announcements we've seen all year, and several of these developments will directly impact how you run your camp next summer. Let's dive into what happened and what it means for your day-to-day operations. The Week's Headline News Google dominated this week's AI news with the release of Gemini 3.0, which immediately shot to the top of major AI benchmarks

Technology moves fast, but camp moves faster. Between staff training deadlines, parent communications, and program prep, you need tools that work immediately without requiring a computer science degree. This week brought major updates to two AI tools that can transform how you build training materials, strengthen communication, and support program design. Both Claude Artifacts and Runway received significant improvements that push them into the category of tools you can actua

This week's AI stories all pointed in one direction: the world is moving faster. Tools are getting smarter. Risks are growing. Leaders everywhere are trying to make sense of what this pace means for their work and communities. Camps feel these shifts even when they seem far away. When the outside world speeds up, camp leaders need to respond with steady hands. You work with children, families, and young staff who live in the center of this technological change. You guide them

Picture this: It's 9 PM on a Tuesday in March, and you're still at your desk, scrolling through endless Google results trying to find reliable information about new state regulations for summer camps. Sound familiar? Or maybe you're that director who's been searching for the perfect background music for your welcome video for three hours, and nothing feels quite right. Today's AI in Action feature tackles exactly these scenarios with two tools that can transform how you handl

Covering developments from November 2 → November 8 As your camp gears up for another season of planning, staffing, and creating those magical moments that help kids grow into confident problem-solvers, the AI landscape keeps shifting in ways that actually matter for your daily operations. This week brought some significant changes that could impact how you communicate with parents, train your staff, and manage the countless details that make camp run smoothly. Let's break dow

The best camp leaders know something their peers are still figuring out: the hours you spend clicking, forwarding, and typing are hours you're not coaching, mentoring, or connecting with your team and campers. Think about your typical Tuesday. How much time did you spend manually forwarding registration emails, copying information between spreadsheets, or frantically taking notes during that important staff meeting? If you're like most camp professionals, it's probably more t

Covering developments from October 26 → November 1 As we head deeper into fall and camp planning ramps up, the AI landscape has again shifted in ways that matter for the world of summer camps. This week brought announcements and signals that affect how camps will manage communications, operations, staffing, and safety: not just next year, but right now. What caught my attention this week? Four major developments that camps can't afford to ignore. Let's dive into what happened

Welcome back to our weekly upskilling series for camp professionals! Each Saturday, we dive deep into two practical, low-cost tools and show you exactly how to use them in real camp workflows. No fluff, no theory – just actionable guides you can implement Monday morning. This week's power duo? Notion with its game-changing Agents feature, and Superhuman Go – the newly launched cross-app AI assistant that follows you wherever you work. Both tools can transform how you handle e

The October air carries that familiar pre-winter energy: camp directors are deep in planning mode, staff applications are trickling in, and somewhere in a conference room, someone's sketching out next summer's theme weeks on a whiteboard. But this year feels different. While you've been focused on cabin assignments and activity rotations, the AI world has been moving at breakneck speed. This past week alone brought three announcements that will fundamentally change how camps

Welcome to the first week of our camp professional upskilling series. Every week, we're diving deep into two practical, affordable AI tools that can transform how you work, no coding required, no complicated setup, just real solutions for real camp challenges. This week's power duo? ChatGPT Atlas and Gamma. Think of Atlas as your research assistant that lives in your browser, and Gamma as your presentation wizard that turns rough ideas into polished decks in minutes. If you'r