Last week Bogrim (entering 9th grade) campers had the chance to participate in a variety of specialty workshops led by a number of guest educators. Known as Shavua Bogrim (Bogrim Week), it’s a special week for our 9th grade campers where they can learn new skills in an intensive workshop setting.
Read more to learn about all their awesome workshops!
Aaron Silver and his group of campers created a stunning papercutting project based on this summer’s theme of Kol Yisrael Arivim Zeh L’zeh (all of Israel is responsible for each other). Each camper created their own crescent shape which, once assembled will be a stylized magen david (Star of David) to be displayed in camp.
Brandi Argentar’s intensive was an escape room. Her two groups first solved an escape room and then created their own escape room for the other group to solve.
Rabbi Jaymee Alpert led a Mind and Body intensive connecting mind and body through the lens of Jewish texts on midot (values) such as netzach (endurance) and tiferet (beauty and balance).
Mark Kelln led a mountain biking intensive, where participants experienced multiple types of riding, learned about various types of features and skills, and even built a new trail with features in the bike park.
Haley and Anthony Sisler-Neuman led a podcast content creation intensive based on Yiddish Advice Hour from the 1930s, where they took real questions from campers and gave advice infusing Yiddish language. Click here to hear some of the sound bites!
Rabbi Jonathan Bubis’s intensive was a song leader bootcamp where the campers learned how to song-lead and teach songs to a large group.
Dotan Applebaum’s intensive used marquetry technique to build a new candle-lighting table for Kabbalat Shabbat.
