Ready to bust some clays!

May is the month where we work on our shooting form and discipline.  Every Monday and Thursday you’ll find our students working to develop the skills to move up to the next level.  Our dedicated volunteers give their time so that when that “fall moment” arrives our students are ready.  Special thanks to Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays and North End Rod and Gun Club for their support. One of our level one students remarked “this beats video games!”  Enough said.

ONEFACE.ME

It finally happened the debut of the cyberbullying project that featured our kids!  It was shown to over 600 children today at Trexler Middle School to great reviews.  Who says hunters don’t do good things?  Watch it  by clicking  HERE.

WAY 2 GO!

After 40 hours of committed work (and yes we mean 40) the students pictured above EARNED their Pennsylvania state hunter safety certificate.  All students are still a year away from physically going hunting BUT will be training to do just that for the next year.  Congratulations to these inner-city students that beat the odds!

SWAGGER!

We started our Easter break with an all girl turkey hunt.  The weather was good and our turkey guns were ready to go.  The girls decided to pull out all of the stops and hunted harder than anyone expected.  “It was the time of my life!” one girl stated.  Pipelineridge.com was our host for the event and special thanks to trulockchokes.com, and eastcoastvisions.com for help with our turkey guns.

Home for the holidays!

Team Mayhem stepped in again this time to offer two graduate students from Camp Compass a special reward.  Vicky is headed to intern with Disney in January and Allie is home from college in California. 

The OneFace.me  video grant sponsored by Verizon and the Lehigh County Bar Association will be featuring our students.  The 5 minute  video will be released in 2010  We will try to get more information on line as soon as its available.

Family Fun Day

This weekend Camp Compass had the chance to show its programs to over 500 families and other nonprofits .  It was a great opportunity to share our mission with others in the Lehigh Valley.  The event was held at Allen High School. 

They do come back!

It’s the most asked question we get.  Do any kids come back to help.  Well the answer is an emphatic YES, THEY DO!  We have the camera footage to prove it.  Deer Season started and Pipeline Ridge hosted a Camp Compass hunt with two of our graduates mentoring two current students.  mossy oak joined in the mix by taping the event for a future televison show.

North Carolina Syndicate

Camp Compass has gone above to a whole new level with its latest reward trip. The North Carolina Bear Syndicate invited a student on a bear hunt with their world class hounds this past weekend. Over 65 academic and social objectives were met during the event. Special thanks to the Pole Position Sport Fishing Team for the lodging on their beautiful boat and to the ‘Virginia Houndsmen” who taught lessons on wind, satellites, tracking, swamp ecology to name a few.

SSG TREIBER NATIONAL GUARD

Monday’s academy lesson involved a visit from Seargent Andy Trieber. Andy was a former basketball player that was coached by Mr. Annoni. He spent some time with us evaluating how the National Guard could help us improve our physical space. The academy is hoping to remove a t-wall that includes 8 large concrete barriers as well as having a computer simulator wired for student use. We’ll keep you posted on our progress.