Why Camps Choose CampBrain and Stay – Pok-O-MacCready
With campers from 20 states and eight countries, Camp Pok-O-MacCready has been serving Willsboro and beyond for 119 years. The camp, ACA accredited since 1957, remains focused on helping campers create lifelong friendships while enjoying opportunities for growth and independence in the analog beauty of the Adirondacks. CampBrain's partnership with Pok-O-MacCready started two and a half years ago, allowing Director Brian DeGroat to check in with parents after the switch to get their opinion on the new registration system. He filled us in on their feedback below! What is your favorite part of using CampBrain? [...]
CampBrain is Our Family – Camp Waukeela
Waukeela Camp for Girls has been dedicated to creating an environment of “love, joy, self and mutual respect” since 1922, with a powerful legacy of investing in the young women who call the camp their own. Waukeela’s trademark atmosphere of fun, safety, and is one of the many reasons CampBrain is honored to support them. We met with Camp Director Gillian Moore, who gave us some insight into how CampBrain is “the heartbeat” of their camp. How would you describe CampBrain in one word? Gillian: One way to describe CampBrain would be the heartbeat of our camp. It's [...]
Stomping Together at Stomping Ground
Located just outside the Adirondack Mountains in New York, Stomping Ground is an overnight camp dedicated to inspiring radical empathy. Through a combination of humble curiosity, personal responsibility, restorative practices, and unbounded creativity, their mission is to inspire the next generation of decision makers to create and mold the kind of world we all want to live in. With a mission so close to that of CampBrain and in a business based on relationships, it’s no wonder we’re partners! We caught up with the founder, Camp Director, and Chief Heart Officer, Laura Kriegel, to better understand how CampBrain helps [...]
Bringing Unique Camp Experiences to Country Clubs
KE Camps helps bring the camp experience to more than 12,000 campers each year with one unique difference: their full-time team never sets foot on the campsite. Instead, they enable country clubs to deliver a camp experience tailored to their unique needs and desires of their club. That’s why Boardroom Magazine has awarded KE Camps the Excellence in Achievement Award for Club Program of the Year every year since 2014. CampBrain is proud to be a long-time partner with KE Camps. We caught up with Cassandra Parker, Director of Campers and Families at KE Camps, to better understand how [...]
Why TIC Summer Camp Loves CampBrain’s Camp Management Software
TIC Summer Camp has a rich history of providing unforgettable summer experiences to children across their three different locations, serving over 900 campers each year. For the past 20 years, TIC Summer Camp has relied on CampBrain to manage its camp operations. We met with Emily Riedel, owner of TIC, to discuss some of the ways CampBrain’s management software has helped TIC Summer Camp. https://vimeo.com/943398090?share=copy Streamlined Processes and Efficiency One of the standout benefits of CampBrain is how it helps us streamline our processes. Managing a day camp with multiple locations and hundreds of campers is no small feat, but [...]
CampBrain’s Service Bus
As a software company with a growing client base, we have two challenges that never go away. First, the load on the system increases every year. We have more users, more features, and more registrants for camp. Second, as soon as we release something, it starts to become obsolete. CampBrain has a group of software engineers called the “Platform Team” whose full-time job is to address these two challenges. They improve the infrastructure behind the software to handle the growing load, and they respond to changes in the computing environment and replace the aging components. Service Bus Just prior to [...]
