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Aleph Session
For campers entering 3rd 4th or 5th grades!
For campers entering 3rd 4th or 5th grades! This session is perfect for new and returning campers alike. All of our counselors are skilled at creating a warm, welcoming home away from home, and are trained to understand the needs of a first-time camper. In Aleph, we pack an entire summer of fun into 10 days, Campers experience sports, arts, and informal Jewish learning the fun is throughout the day. There are creative and engaging evening activities every night. Aleph session will lay the foundation for many years of enriching camp experiences!
* 5th grade campers who have previously attended Aleph session are strongly encouraged to attend the Bet session.
Echad Session
For campers entering 2nd or 3rd grades!
This 5-day camp session is a wonderful introduction for the first-time camper. This session runs simultaneously with the last half of Aleph session. Echad session offers the opportunity to sample the wide variety of chugim (daily activities) and the special experience of spending a Shabbat at camp. All of our counselors are skilled at creating a warm, welcoming home away from home, and are trained to understand the needs of a first-time camper, but the Echad staff is some of our most skilled counselors.
Bet Session
For campers entering 5th, 6th or 7th grades!
Bet campers experience everything Schechter has to offer in this exciting 3-week session. In addition to the variety of chugim (activities), Bet campers also enjoy a hiking and overnight camping adventure at our camp site by the river. They also have a dance. Bet campers enjoy three Shabbat experiences at camp, which allows for a submersion of a Jewish existance. Bar and Bat Mitzvah tutoring is available during this session.
Gimmel Session
For campers entering 8th 9th and 10th grades!
The Gimmel session brings the Schechter experience to a climatic level! Gimmel has an advanced, interactive, and creative Judaic program. Gimmel campers are always asking questions and exploring their own Jewish identity. While building their commitment to Jewish values and learning to comfortably express the spirit of being part of the Jewish people, the Gimmel camper can solidify their passion for being Jewish. All Gimmel campers enjoy an overnight campout, and 10th graders look forward to an extended out-of-camp camping and hiking adventure. Gimmel session becomes the most anticipated sessionm of the CSS experience.
Oded Program
For campers entering the 11th grade
This program involves an application process; and not all applicants are accepted.
Oded (encourage and invigorate) is Camp Solomon Schechter’s highly-acclaimed Counselor-in-Training and Leadership program. The Odedim (plural for Oded) live in the Huppin Oded Village. The Oded program is truly a hands-on training program, as the participants plan programs, lead services, create an Oded Project, teach activities, and share responsibility for a cabin of campers. The group spends five days on an extended outdoor back country camping and hiking adventure. Odedim learn to look at leadership and life through a Jewish lens. Upon completion, participants may request a certificate of community service hours. Many Odedim return to camp to work as staff in subsequent summers.
Additional Payment Information
Synagogue Affiliation The 2009 affiliated rate is provided for members in good standing of the following Conservative synagogues:
Seattle - Beth Shalom, Herzl Ner Tamid
Spokane/Richland - Beth Shalom
Richland - Beth Shalom
Portland - Neveh Shalom
Vancouver/Richmond - Beth Tikvah, Har El
Olympia - B’nai Torah
These synagogues currently provide an annual assessment fee to camp in order to allow their members to receive a reduced camp rate.
Sibling Scholarship
Families with more than one child attending camp receive 10% off each registration after the first, off the lower tuition fee.
Financial Aid
Camp Solomon Schechter has limited funds available to families in need of financial aid. For Washington State residents, please apply directly to the Jewish Federation, which acts as a financial aid clearinghouse for our scholarship applicants from Washington. Any first time campers going into 5th, 6th or 7th grade attending the bet session can apply for the JWest Scholarship. For non-Washington State campers, please download the CSS scholarship application.
Eligibility for Enrollment
Space will be reserved when a completed registration form and deposit have been received by online registration, mail or fax. Space cannot be reserved over the phone. Please send in your child’s registration early as waiting lists can form quickly. Do not delay in sending in your registration form if you want to assure your child has a space. A non refundable, non transferable deposit of $250 in US funds must accompany each child’s registration. Incomplete registration forms and registrations without deposits will be returned without reserving a space at camp.
All registrations are subject to space availability. Each session is based on three separate grade enrollments. A wait list for each session will begin after capacity is reached for each grade. Families on the wait lists will be notified if and when space becomes available. Deposits are returned if no space becomes available. Please be patient. We will do our best to accommodate your child. Returning campers, and campers from affiliated Conservative Synagogues, have priority enrollment until December 15.
Payment
Fees may be paid by check, money order, VISA or Master card.
There are no deductions in tuition for campers arriving late or leaving early.
After receiving confirmation of your child’s enrollment at Camp Solomon Schechter, please anticipate a Parent Packet with valuable information and forms. All required forms should be returned to the Seattle camp office by April 1. This includes a medical form which must be completed by you and signed by your child’s physician each year whether of not its time for your camper’s biannual physical. This is Washington State Law.
Tuition
| Session | Entering Grades Sept.'09 |
Session Dates |
Affiliated Fees (USD) |
Non-affiliated Fees (USD) |
| Echad | 2nd-3rd | 07/01 - 07/05 | $515 | $515 |
| Aleph | 3rd-5th | 06/26 - 07/05 | $935 | $1025 |
| Bet | 5th-7th | 07/07 - 07/26 | $1,970 | $2,085 |
| Gimmel | 8th-10th | 07/29 - 08/17 | $1,970 | $2,085 |
| Oded | 11th | 06/23 - 07/26 | $2,025 | $2,125 |
| Family Camp | Everyone! | 05/22 - 05/24 | $315 | $315 |
*Oded applicants must complete a supplementary application. This application form does not guarantee acceptance into the Oded program. Oded applications are available online.
Transportation Fees
| City | Round Trip Fee |
| Seattle | $40 |
| Tacoma | $35 |
| Portland | $75 |
| Spokane/Richland | $100 |
| Vancouver/Richmond (BC) | $100 |
| Airport | $25 Each Way |
Early Sign up Discounts
- Full payment by December 15th is 3% discount.
- Half payment by December 15th is 1.5% discount.
- 10% sibling discount. The discount(s) will be applied after sibling campers have registered. It will apply to the least expensive camper and will be applied after any scholarships that we administer.
- A non-refundable and non transferable deposit of $250 is required to reserve your place at camp.
- All payments must be made in $US. Payments made in $Canadian will incur any additional bank exchange charges.
- If paying by check please send the two post dated checks in addition to the deposit check.
- Payment plans are available by approval from the director.
- Payments must be in no more than three installments: the $250 deposit, and then the 15th of the next two months. Standard payment dates are: December 15, January 15, February 13th, and March 13th, not to exceed Mar. 13. Deviation from the payment plan may result in 15% surcharge.
- Late sign-up. After January 15th families must pay half of the tuition; after March 15th, they must pay in full. Families may still set up their own payment plans per approval of the director.
- No camper is permitted to attend camp unless full payment has been received before the bus departs.
- All campers are required to pay the transportation fee based on where they live. We do not allow.
private transportation to camp except for Olympia and Centralia campers.
- Payment is due January 15th for 1/2 of the tuition or there is no guarantee of a spot at camp.
- Please note that there is a $30 charge for returned checks.
- All cancellations and changes must be made in writing.
- Cancellations made after March 13th will result in a loss of 50% of the total camp fee.
- No refund is made for cancellations made within 21 days of the applicable camp session.
- Exceptions to the above can be made in the event of verifiable medical or family emergencies.
- Camp Solomon Schechter reserves the right to dismiss a camper without a refund because of his/her refusal to adhere to the rules and policies outlined in the Parent Handbook.
- The CSS scholarship deadline is January 15th.
- Everyone applying for financial aid must put down the $250 deposit.
- Allocations will be made by Schechter staring in February; there are limited funds available.
- All financial aid applicants must make regular monthly payments on the 15th of the month.
- All scholarship applicants must pay 50% of full tuition by March 15th in order to avoid the 15% surcharge for late payment.
- All scholarship applicants must submit evidence of scholarship application no later than Feb 13th in order to qualify for any adjustments to the standard payment schedule.
