IMPORTANT COVID-19 PROCEDURES AND PROTOCOLS:
To ensure that this weekend away is as approachable and accessible as possible, we will NOT be requiring COVID-19 tests prior to camp, however, we will be installing careful practices and procedures to make sure our students have the safest, most fun weekend possible. Below is a list of what we'll be doing to ensure the safest weekend possible:
1. Temperature Screenings upon check-in on Friday & each morning at camp.
2. Masks required throughout the weekend when: In transport, inside the dining hall and not seated, as well as inside the meeting room.
3. Camp "Squads" - Typically at retreats like this, students ride up in a group in one van, are assigned to a cabin with a different group, eat meals with different groups each meal, have different groups for small groups, and sit next to various groups of people during sessions. In order to minimize close, extended contact (that qualifies as potential exposure as defined by the CDC) with many different students over the course of the weekend, we have decided to organize every student into a maximum 7 person "Squad" (6 students, 1 leader). Squads will be in the same cabin, will eat every meal together, and sit together in their own section during sessions. In small groups and during transport, Squads will join together with one other brother/sister squad. We hope this creative approach will minimize the potential for any significant spread at camp, should we have a student in attendance who is an asymptomatic carrier.
4. Cabins: We are reserving more cabins than normal at camp so that each cabin will remain well under capacity, providing sleeping arrangements that are properly socially distanced.
5. Mealtime: In addition to assigning each Squad to a table over the course of the weekend, groups will be sat at every-other table. Camp Vesper Point has also adjusted their meal-service from family-style to buffet style, where masked and gloved camp employees will serve each student, to prevent repeated cross-contact of serve-ware at the table.