Camp $tart-Up Gives Teen Girls Skills To

Turn Their Dreams Into Money Makers

WILTON — While girls around the country prepare to go to traditional summer camp, a number of teen women will be pulling together their Rolodexes and best business ideas for an alternative camp experience. At Camp $tart-Up, an entrepreneurial summer camp for teen women, campers replace the three-legged races with business start-up exercises and pass up cafeteria food fights for business power lunches – and they have tons of fun in the process. Lessons in networking and business plan building are just a few elements of Camp $tart-Up, which offers teen girls fun, new friends, leadership skills, and a chance to learn how to earn an income of their own.

Camp $tart-Up will be held at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., from July 27 through August 3. Developed by Independent Means, Inc., and presented by the Girl Scouts Council of Southwestern Connecticut, Camp $tart-Up helps teen women achieve economic self-reliance by introducing them to the fundamentals and vocabulary of business, and combines teaching the essentials of business and entrepreneurship with fun activities designed to send girls home feeling fit, confident, and filled with entrepreneurial ideas for their own futures. The skills taught at Camp $tart-Up help empower girls to take charge of their lives, both in school and in business.

For further information, contact Cynthia Nims-Johnson at 203-762-5557, extension 26.