Welcome to the Women & Kids Learning Together Homepage!

Please take a look at our website, which offers a glimpse at our recent 2008 camp, memories of our 2006 and 2007 camps, and a photo documentary by Jeanie Adams-Smith from the 2006 camp.

If you would like to get involved, as a participant or counselor or workshop leader, please contact us ("Staff" above). If you would like to give to the camp or scholarship fund, thank-you! Just click on "Giving" above.

 

Announcements

July 3, 2008--Camp Stories from the 2008 WKLT Summer Camp have been posted! Please visit the "Stories" link above.

June 11, 2008--Many thanks to our fantasic counselors, participants and children from the 2008 camp! Check back soon for updates, stories, and photos from this year's WKLT Summer Camp!

March 24, 2008--All fliers, applications, and brochures for the 2008 Women & Kids Learning Together Summer Camp are now available through our website as .pdf documents. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print these files. (For past applications or brochures, please email Michelle through our "Staff" link above. Materials for the 2009 camp will be available in February, 2009. Thanks!)

March 1, 2008--Now seeking Camp Counselors for the 2008 WKLT Camp! Anyone interested in applying should contact Jane Olmsted via the link on our staff page.

January 2008 --Dollar General has generously raised their sponsorship level for 2008 to $5,000. (Thanks DG!)

November 2007--Broadway United Methodist Church's Lil Angel's Attic has given their support to the upcoming 2007 Women & Kids Learning Together Summer Camp. Their note said, "Thank you so much for helping to heal and strenthen the women and children of our community." We all extend a big thank you to the people of Lil Angel's Attic of BUMC!

October 2007--

American Democracy Project
Student Engagment Award Winners
Crystal Kaya and Sara Herndon

Women's studies minors Crystal Kaya (L) and Sara Herndon attended the American Democracy Project (ADP) South conference, held October 25-27 at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. Sara and Crystal gave a presentation on the Women and Kid's Learning Together Camp that is sponsored by women's studies every summer.  Their presentation was entered into the awards competition in the category of co-curricular student engagement.  The WKLT Summer Camp won first place in that category and received a cash award of $300.

Herndon and Kaya also placed Runner-Up in a "Think Tank" competition, in which students representing different universities were assigned to groups and given the challenge to create a diversity education project that could be completed across the different campuses represented.  The students from WKU, along with Western Carolina University and North Georgia College and State University, placed 1st runner up in the competition. The grand prize for the competition is an expense-paid trip, sponsored by the New York Times, to the National ADP Conference in Snow Bird Utah in June 2008 and the opportunity to present their project as a panel at that conference.  Though our students did not place 1st, they intend to complete the project next spring with the intention of presenting at the conference. This spring be on the look-out for their "found art" project.

Crystal Kaya was nominated to be the graduate student representative on the ADP South board of directors from fall 2008 through fall 2009.  Molly Kerby, who served as their ADP faculty mentor, was elected to the Board of Directors as well and will serve as the secretary from Fall 2007-Fall 2009.