Camp Quest West

This week, the Board of Directors of Camp Quest West held our elections to kick off our new operational and fiscal year, 2020-2021. We are all excited to welcome new leadership to our board and grateful to those who are willing to continue serving. Long time volunteer and quartermaster Liz Shoemaker has been elected President of the Board of Directors. Camp and Cabin Director Megan Pike has been elected to the position of Vice President. Volunteer and quartermaster Ray Anders...on has been re-elected to another term as CQW's Treasurer. We are pleased to welcome our newest board member, veteran camp staff volunteer Elle Finn to the board and want to thank Brian Parra, Chris Nichols, Daniel Graves, Sitar Harel, and Tucker Phelps for accepting another term as board members, continuing to serve our commumity of campers, families, and volunteers. Stepping down from the board to focus on family is Jenny Conley who has our hearty thanks and praise. Board Members serve two year terms, staggered so only half the board is up for reelection at a time. If you are interested in serving in this capacity, especially if you have operational, financial planning, fundraising, or non-profit experience, please reach out to us! See more

Gotta think outside the dodecahedron.

With everyone returning to school, you can still re-live the glory years (week?) of CQWestered. We'll be making the Worldmap of our Camp Quest West Minecraft server available for download in the comments of this post. Share and enjoy!

Here's another Freethought Hero presentation. Thanks again to Robert W for putting this together!

Question of the Day: How can we do better?

Thanks to Robert for putting this together and sharing with all our campers at CQWestered last week!

Drum roll, please! The results are in for the CQWestered 2020 Minecraft Build Challenge Categories.

A message from the Chair of the Board of Directors of Camp Quest West as we close CQWestered Virtual Summer Camp.

And just like that, skit night is done and CQWestered is over! Thanks to all our volunteers who helped make our virtual camp a big success and thanks to all the campers and families who participated! We REALLY hope to see everyone in person next summer for Camp Quest West 2021! #cqw #campquest #campquestwest #cqw2021

CQWestered just finished our Kahoot! science quiz. Thanks to the 19 campers who participated! If any other campers want to take the quiz, or if campers who tried it want to see if their family and friends know the answers, the quiz has been made public - please go check it out! https://create.kahoot.it//b5b6a348-3025-4d70-b254-112b46a5

Tonight we played "Poetry for Neanderthals," a surprisingly tough game. Can you describe everything using only one syllable words? We changed the rules a bit for our game but the video describes the games. (Narrated by Peter Sagal) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2tpTmyzpkQ

Baking soda is fun! Of course this kitchen chemistry would be better in person but we had fun with 12 campers testing the acid content of lots of foods and drinks! #cqw #campquest #campquestwest #kitchenchemistry #cqwestered

The Digital Microscope activity last night was so much fun! Some kids asked what device we were using: here it is for sale on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Microscope-Fle//B00XNYXQHE

Ally Alley is coming along beautifully! Great job campers