Camp Ogle

2025 ONLINE REGISTRATION

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Camp Ogle Registration OPEN for Summer 2025

Each week will feature a different interactive section of world history, as campers will spend a week living in different periods of world history and playing a role in the successful development of their own civilization. Camp Ogle provides children a summer opportunity to not only learn about important events of the past, but also to experience them. Every summer, Camp Ogle will feature several separate simulations that will challenge the students to make problem solving decisions on important historical decisions. While learning about some of the events that made our civilization what it is today, students will live the history, as this real-time historical simulation camp will be an experience and academic event that the students will always remember.
The Camp Overview and breakdown of weekly classes are as follows:

PLEASE NOTE - THIS SUMMER THERE IS NO JUNIOR CAMP OFFERED THIS SUMMER

WEEK ONE Week of June 16th - June 20th, 2025

New World Colonization

Off to the New World! In this week, European Explorers and Colonists will sail their ships to this “New World,” and will begin to colonize this incredible land. Across a continent they’ll spread their colonies, transforming this untamed wilderness and creating a civilization that in time would in time become the standard of success across the globe. You have the ability to help your colony achieve this historical accomplishment as you are now are a member of either the Massachusetts Bay Company, the New England Company, the Hudson River Company, the Philadelphia Company, the Chesapeake Bay Company, the Virginia Company, the Carolina Company, the Charleston Company, the Savannah Company or the St Augustine Company.

The first step to starting a successful company is making a series of important decisions. What materials, supplies, animals and people do we need in our New World colony? Should we try and expand our colony? Should we try and trade for the land we need, or should we take it by force? What daily jobs should we colonists do? How can we make the largest profit for our colony? As you plan your company jobs you should answer these questions carefully. They will dramatically affect your company’s success or failure. Making the right decisions can make your colony rich and powerful. A few poor decisions could destroy your colony. Other elements to deal with could play a role in the success of your colony. Will bad weather destroy your crops? Will the Native Americans you meet be friendly, or will they be hostile? Will floods, fire, disease, other colonists or wandering pirates wipe out your colony? Will you gain unexpected wealth from a surprise inheritance, or from surplus crops? What does all this mean? Both the quality of your decisions, and a little bit of luck will affect your colony’s success or failure.

REGISTRATION FOR THIS SESSION OF CAMP IS CURRENTLY OPEN.

The senior session (entering grades 3-12) of this camp will be instructed by Mr. William Ogle.

This camp session is currently at 95% capacity.

WEEK TWO Week of June 23rd - June 27th, 2025

All Star Week - Harry Potter, Disney, Jurassic World, Star Wars

For the second week of camp this summer, we will stray from our historical themes and delve into everyone's favorite stories. Students will be placed into several different experiences and they will get to live out their adventure this week in several fantastic environments. Students will get one day at Hogwarts, solving mysteries that surround all the most famous and infamous witches and wizards at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Our story will then flow and move to a galaxy far, far away as campers will get the chance to guide a Star Destroyer or the Millennium Falcon as they search for the key to unlock a hidden Jedi temple. We'll continue as we land on Isla Sorna on an island that mirrors when Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth. Our inevitable summer thunderstorms will likely knock the power out on the island and campers will have to try and survive this cataclysmic situation. We'll then explore the Magical Kingdoms of our favorite Disney fairytales and finally, they will finish the week living alongside with Earth's Mightiest Heroes as campers and the Avengers try to survive and attack from Thanos! This week will function in an adventure style similar to all our history editions, but will use the stories from the most famous current American mythology.

REGISTRATION FOR THIS SESSION OF CAMP IS CURRENTLY OPEN.

The senior session (entering grades 3-12) of this camp will be instructed by Mr. William Ogle.

This camp session is currently SOLD OUT

WEEK THREE Week of July 14th-18th, 2025

The French Revolution

The Bastille has fallen! France has erupted in war and this clash of the classes has brought about a conflict that has reached legendary status as the ages have passed. Students will assume a role on either side of this revolution and live through the darkest days of the Reign of Terror. Students will learn about the cultural and political impact that this era in history left on the world. They will learn the truths about these horrific years and experience a simulation that tests their character and devotion as they strive towards the glorious cause of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart, echoes the beating of the drums, there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes!

REGISTRATION FOR THIS SESSION OF CAMP IS CURRENTLY OPEN.

The senior session (entering grades 3-12) of this camp will be instructed by Mr. William Ogle.

This camp session is currently at 80% capacity.

WEEK FOUR Week of July 21st-25th, 2025

Ninjas vs Samurai - A History of Ancient Japan

Set in the mid 16th century, students will be placed in a nearly lawless Japan that more closely resembled the American Wild West than any structured modern society. As lords battled over land an power, peasents took up arms to support their local provinces in the famous Samurai Wars. These Samurai, who in Japan were known as Bushi fought to gain control of an island under turmoil. All the way, ninjas acted as covert agents of these feudal lords and completed acts of espionage and sabotage. By the dawn of the Meiji Period which brought Japan into the modern era, the ninja had become legendary. And throughout the years that followed, their stories and tales became more of folklore than truth. But there was a day when the ninja lived. And for one week, students step back in time into the mysterious history of the Land of the Rising Sun.

REGISTRATION FOR THIS SESSION OF CAMP IS CURRENTLY OPEN.

The senior session (entering grades 3-12) of this camp will be instructed by Mr. William Ogle.

This camp session is currently at 75% capacity.

My goal as a teacher is to not only to give my students an educational adventure that they will always remember, but also to open their minds and hopefully allow them to see our world in a different way then they ever have before. I teach through simulation, motivation and inspiration. My students live the experience, and they retain knowledge because what they are learning about is happening to them and becomes meaningful to them. Their experiences will create memories, understanding and knowledge that will always stay with them.

Camp Ogle Details

Location: Avalon Community Center, 13401 Tanja King Blvd. Orlando, FL 32828

Time: 9am-3pm Monday-Friday

Price: $250 per week for one week of camp

$200 per week for two weeks of camp

$150 per week for three or more weeks of camp

Discounted weeks also apply to siblings. For instance, if a brother and sister attend one week of camp, the cost is $200 per child, $400 total. If brother and sister each attend two camps, that's 4 total camps, at $150 per week for a total of $600.

All Campers Receive: In depth interactive instruction on history, symbols and geography; and a camp t-shirt.

FAQ

Who can Register? The Senior Camp Sessions are targeted for students in 4th-9th Grade. If you would like a student outside of that grade level to participate, they will be accepted with the Camp Director's permission. Camp Ogle Junior is designed for grade 1-3.

Do I have to bring a lunch? Yes. Lunch is not provided by Camp Ogle. Each child may also bring a healthy snack if they so chose to do so.

Do I get a Camp Ogle T-Shirt? Of course you do. Along with a week of learning that will allow students to understand the evolution of civilization in a way they never thought of before, each camper will get a t-shirt! *Please note however, if you do register within a month of a specific camp starting, there is the possibility of receiving a regular Camp Ogle shirt and not a camp specific version, considering the shirts are ordered about a month prior to each camp.

Is there a chance that Camp Ogle will fill up and you may not be able to register? Yes. Spots in the camp will be reserved on a first come first serve basis. Once the camp is full for a given session, a waiting list will begin and if anyone cannot attend the camp, or fails to make a payment one week prior to the camp's start date, then students on the waiting list will be given a chance to join the camp. You can reserve your spot in the camp by filling out the form that is attached below. If less than 10 children sign up for a given session, Camp Ogle holds the right to cancel that specific class up to one week prior to that class’s first day. If the class is cancelled due to low enrollment, all students will receive a refund for that specific week, and that week only.

Is Camp Ogle affiliated with Orange County Public Schools? No. Camp Ogle has no affiliations with OCPS or Avalon Elementary School.

How do I register?

1. Complete this online form or fill out the Registration/Release of Liability form that is attached at the top of the website and e-mail your completed form to willogle31@gmail.com or mail the completed form to 13909 Golden Rain Tree, Orlando, FL, 32828. You will receive a confirmation e-mail and receipt when your application forms and payment are received, guaranteeing your spot for each week you register. If any of the sessions of camp that you selected are already filled, you will receive an e-mail informing you that the requested section of the camp is filled.

2. Make your payment on Venmo to @willogle31, or you could mail a check to the address above, made out to Camp Ogle. Payments are made with registration and class lists will be created in the order the registration form and payments are received.

Camp Ogle Weekly Overview

During each week long in depth study of World History, the students will:

Create their own community, including the creation of governmental rules and bylaws, which try to satisfy the community goals that they have self-established for their civilization
Work on balancing their budget to make sure that their community is economically and fiscally secure
Create and sign treaties to ensure the domestic tranquility oftheir community or kingdom
Reflect based on how their community is progressing throughout their respective historical era
Make speeches that promote their community or kingdom as a better place to live and work
Make several difficult decisions as to where to draw their alliances when territorial disputes arrive
Make critical decisions to guide their community through troubling times in an attempt to make their community a safe and successful place for their people to live
Study the political use of propaganda and how it can effect popular decisions
Reflect on their experience, including how things have gone similarly or different from their original community plan
Learn to relate how important world events and specific important moments in time helped determine the future of our world

Be passionate about what you do,

stand up for what you believe is right,

remember the past,

and dream of the future.

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