The Mission has opened registration for our 2025 EdGE summer camp. Camp opportunities are offered at three locations across Downeast Maine in Addison, Machias, and Milbridge for children in kindergarten through eighth grade. EdGE Summer Camp provides children fun, safe, and social peer experiences, while also helping parents and guardians maintain routine work schedules.
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EdGE Primary Program Director Isaac Marnik shares, “EdGE Summer Camp offers students a chance to try new activities and have fun together. Every day at camp, it is common to see students exploring the outdoors, creating games, and learning new skills.”
Camp experiences also help children develop a sense of community and social relationships with kids older and younger than themselves. The three camp locations are:
- D.W. Merritt Elementary School (Addison) — Camp runs from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (with drop-off starting at 8:45 a.m.) Monday, June 23 through Friday, July 25. This camp is for students from Addison, Beals, Columbia, Columbia Falls, Harrington, Jonesport, and Jonesboro.
- Milbridge Elementary School—Camp runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (with drop-off starting at 8:45 a.m.) Monday, June 23 through Friday, July 25. This camp is for students from Beddington, Cherryfield, Deblois, Harrington, and Milbridge.
- Rose M. Gaffney Elementary School (Machias)—Camp runs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. (with drop-off starting at 7:45 a.m.) Monday, June 16 through Friday, July 11. This camp is for students from Machias and surrounding towns.
Parents can sign up their child week by week and register for as many weeks as they wish. At camp, kids rotate through a variety of activities during the day including STEM, arts and crafts, and physical activities. Over the summer, campers go on field trips and have multiple opportunities to visit the Mission’s challenge course on the Downeast Campus in Cherryfield. EdGE summer camps are managed by the Mission’s EdGE Youth Development Coordinators, part-time Afterschool staff, and community members.
Camp is $30.00 per student per week, and scholarships are available. EdGE Summer Camp is open to any student who was in kindergarten through eighth grade during the 2024-2025 school year who live in these towns. Students do not need to be enrolled in EdGE programming during the school year to attend. Free breakfast and lunch are available to all students through the USDA summer meals program.
For help with registration, please call (207) 546-4466.