Success Leadership Program
For middle school and high school students
Program Overview
The Success Leadership Program helps middle and high school students learn how to become leaders in their school and community. The program kicks off with a 3-day conference at Hulbert where students engage in teambuilding sessions, leadership workshops, and community project lessons. Participants return to their school ready to educate their peers about what they have learned and to lead a Community Day to benefit local nonprofits and their community.
Dates & Rates
Teambuilding Activities
During teambuilding sessions students identify their personal leadership strengths, recognize ways to be a leader, consider how they each contribute to the team, how they can tackle challenges, and how they can support and encourage each other. Instructors use props, ropes course elements, and imagination to structure experiences that illustrate the importance of trust, communication, diversity, safety, responsibility, planning, decision-making skills, problem-solving skills, and fun in everyday life. Instructor-led discussions help students to recognize the many roles a leader may take on and different leadership styles.
Leadership Workshops
The three leadership workshops introduce students to a leadership philosophy that focuses on understanding what motivates people and how to approach leadership from a place of personal strength, positivity, and understanding. Our leadership model challenges students to identify and utilize their own unique talents and those of their team members and emphasizes the power of each student to choose to strive to be their best selves in each situation and to bring their talents and knowledge to the service of their communities.
Community Project Sessions
Students participate in project sessions to understand what makes a community strong, healthy, and happy, and the special role of nonprofits in contributing to community success. Students identify three local nonprofits to present to their school and brainstorm ideas for community projects. Students practice giving presentations and prepare to plan a larger presentation at school.
Post-Conference Work
Back at school, student leaders plan and deliver a presentation to teach their peers about what they have learned. They then invite all students to engage in "Community Day" projects that benefit their community and to vote for one nonprofit to receive their community fund donation. Following completion of projects, student leaders reflect on their experience and how they can continue to be leaders in their community. Students' and teachers submit written reflections to Hulbert.
Meals
Our chefs take special care to ensure our meals are nutritious, tasty, and include lots of options to satisfy a range of food preferences. Menus include cereals, eggs, breads, pasta, pizza, chicken, turkey, roast beef, sandwiches, soups, tacos, and plenty of salads, vegetables and fruits. Our kitchen provides vegetarian alternatives, and we take pride in the supplier relationships we have established with local growers and farm stands nearby in Vermont and New Hampshire. We do our best to accommodate dietary needs by not serving nuts, and by making vegetarian, gluten-free and dairy-free options. Meals are served in our large dining hall.
Accommodations
Hulbert is located on Lake Morey in Fairlee, VT, surrounded by large playing fields and hundreds of acres of woodland. Hulbert’s accommodations are in our warm, winterized cabins. Each cabin has four bedrooms containing four beds and two full communal bathrooms. The cabins are within a short walking distance of the Main House.
Staff
Led by Program Director Ross Cannon, Hulbert staff can be described in one word: outstanding! They are energetic, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable – and seamlessly adapt their approach to best suit the age and background of the program participants. Each staff member brings their own educational and professional expertise to their role at Hulbert, contributing to a varied and dynamic program.
Health & Safety
Since spring 2020, we have been working closely with local, state, and national experts to establish guidelines and best practices for opening programs safely and limiting the spread of communicable disease. All of our practices have been developed to meet or exceed guidelines put forth by the American Camp Association (ACA), the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and Vermont’s Department of Health.
We partner with Ivy Oaks Analytics, a public health company that works with over 100 camps and specializes in the control of ticks, mosquitoes, and poison ivy. Although these have never been a major issue at the Aloha Camps, we feel strongly that we have an obligation to our camp community to do everything in our power to reduce these risks. This process includes ongoing tick population measurements, landscape modification, natural control methods, and more. Hulbert is proud to be one of the few camps nationally with an advanced public health standards certification by implementing this program. Learn more
Let’s Connect
We offer camps and programs for people of all ages. Let’s talk about you, your child, your family – and discover together which experience you would value most. There are many options and possibilities!