Spectrum Sailing Camp
*The event has already taken place on this date: Fri, 02/23/2024
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REGISTER NOW to secure your child's chance to attend a FREE professional sailing camp, curated specifically to engage children on the autism spectrum.
Spectrum Sailing is a 501c3 and the ONLY NATIONAL AUTISM SAILING PROGRAM. We are coming to Newport Beach, California in February to host our first ever West Coast Camp. We have been running successful camps across the US since 2022, and we have partnered with the OCC School of Sailing & Seamanship and SPARK for Autism UCLA to finally bring this opportunity to California.
Twenty local ASD kids will be selected to attend this free 3-day camp. Parents can request either the morning (9am-12pm) or afternoon (1pm-4pm) session for their child to attend. Each session will consist of a short classroom STEM, safety and sailboat fundamentals lesson, followed by hands-on, on-the-water sailing on stable keelboats for the remainder of the session. Sailors will be divided in to small groups of 3-4 sailors per boat, with 2 trained adults on each boat to provide instruction, supervision and support.
If you'd like to get a more sense of what camp is like, watch this short 12 minute video: https://tinyurl.com/SpectrumSailingHarken
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