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'Xplore' a Camp That Gives Your Kids the Extra Edge
06.29.2016
The school year is over, your children are home, and you wonder:will the summer camp you’ve chosen give your children the fun they desire and the fulfilling content you were hoping for? We spoke to Julian Krinsky Camps and Programs to get the low-down on their Xploration Camp that will keep your kids sharp during the summer month. ...more
Find Fitness, Fun And Friends For Your Child In JK 10 & Tennis!
06.27.2016
School’s out. It’s time for the children to enjoy a well-deserved break from school. As a child, my Mom liked to keep me busy over the long school break. Each summer she found different programs and activities for me. One summer, when I was 8 or 9 years old, she signed me up for tennis lessons. ...more
What Your Teen Can Gain From Summer Camp
06.06.2016
Summer is a time for freedom. For children and teenagers, it’s a time for relaxation, but also a time to learn, grow, and above all, enjoy themselves. They could spend their summer sitting on the couch in the air conditioning, listening to music and browsing the internet, but what fun would that be? ...more
Gaining An Edge With Summer Internships
03.10.2016
Getting into the college of their dreams can be tough for most high school students, and discovering a career they can be passionate about is even tougher. ...more
10 Tips for Choosing a Junior Tennis Camp
01.01.2016
Summer and holiday junior camps—as opposed to tennis-training academies—all seem to promise much the same thing: an opportunity for your 9 to 18 year old to focus on tennis, get away on his or her own, and have fun. But how can you decide which one to choose? ...more
2015 Best Sports Camp Award Winner
09.29.2015
Julian Krinsky Camps & Programs won 2015 Philadelphia Family LOVE award for the Best Sports Camp category. ...more
Top 10 Summer Camps
08.21.2015
Leadership In The Business World-“Leadership in the Business World” makes good on its title—courses focus on leadership and management, and the group business plan competition, judged by a panel of venture capitalists, has fostered viable ideas like low-cost prefabricated housing and Medsafe prescription safety cards. ...more
A Profile In Success Julian Krinsky Camps & Programs
08.01.2015
Most people know Julian Krinsky due to his amazing tennis skills. Most people know about him through his amazing tennis school, but most people don't know the story behind it all and the story moving forward. ...more
Students Explore Careers At Upenn's Camps
07.16.2015
High school students have a chance to explore several different careers at the University of Pennsylvania's summer camps this summer. ...more
The Area's Coolest Camps for Healthy Kids
05.29.2014
Looking for a personalized tennis camp experience for your child? This camp allows participants from ages 4 to 18, to choose skills that they would like to improve to win or just simply play for fun. Each camper receives personalized coaching, and instruction focuses on the physical and mental part of the game. ...more
Summer Camp May Improve College Admissions Odds
04.27.2014
How you spend your summer vacation isn't just fodder for first-day-back-in-school essays. It could provide a boost on college or job applications—especially if you went to camp. ...more
12 Best Pre-College Summer Programs
02.20.2014
As a high school student, it’s hard to know what colleges are looking for in their applicants. Officer positions in clubs and good grades in advanced-level classes are always a nice place to start, but it’s the students who go the extra mile (literally!) who tend to catch the eyes of admission officers. ...more
Tennis For Kids:Making The Game Easier To Learn
12.10.2013
Most children who aspire to learn—or master—a sport have the advantage of learning gradually, playing at a level that makes it easier to attain early success. Beginner-level swimmers start out in the shallow end, not the deep end of an Olympic-sized pool. ...more
I Tried It: Penn Medicine's Med School Boot Camp
07.31.2013
Last week, when I learned I would be checking out a summer camp at Penn Medicine, I have to admit I was slightly disturbed at the thought of 55 high schoolers actually choosing to spend their summer vacation at a camp modeled after med school. ...more
Students From Around The World Attend Medical School Camp At Penn
07.24.2013
Penn Medicine is hosting its first medical school camp for high school students from around the world. This is the third of a four week program where 55 high school students with a curiosity in biology and medicine participated in the camp at Penn’s Simulation Center at the Rittenhouse location. ...more
Krinsky Golf Camp
06.08.2013
Kids and teens share their experiences with the Krinsky Golf Camp, which teaches young golfers about the game. ...more
Julian Krinsky Camps
07.27.2012
Julian Krinsky Camps & Programs (JKCP) offers kids and teens the best in fitness this summer at Haverford College and Villanova University. JKCP sports and fitness programs are available for kids from ages 10 to 13 (Xploration) and 14-17 (Enrichment) including a residential program and a day program. ...more
JKCP Brings Exciting Learning Opportunities for Philadelphia's Youth
06.18.2012
Summer camps for kids and teens are a tradition that has been carried through the years for decades, but today's affluent teens probably want a summer experience surpassing that of spooky tales around a campfire and nature hikes. ...more
Cool Summer Camps Cater to A Wide Range of Interests
06.16.2012
Kids don't have to run away and join the circus anymore. They can just go to circus camp. The "circus arts" are just one kind of specialty camp now offered, as very specific programs in interests like fashion, filmmaking and robotics take on or are added to the traditional, everything-in-one camp. ...more
5 Business Ideas That Inspire
05.30.2012
There may be no better time to run a camp than in the summer. Just ask Julian Krinsky, who has been redefining the way traditional camps are seen for 35 years. Krinsky has done this by catering these camps to specialized athletic and academic programs for children between ages 7 and 18. ...more
Mapping The Summer Camp Business
05.01.2012
Husband-and-wife team Julian and Tina Krinsky, co-founders of 35-year-old Julian Krinsky Camps and Programs, used the savings in overhead to expand to 20 programs, ranging from cooking to entrepreneurship, that serve 5,000 children at college campuses around Pennsylvania. ...more
Unique Summer Camps
04.27.2012
Julian Krinsky, a former professional tennis player, started his camp 35 years ago as a place for kids to improve their tennis. But it has since grown beyond the sport to offer more than 20 programs. ...more
Julian Krinsky Camp and Programs
03.12.2012
We are coming up on the season when parents are beginning to think about summer camps. Ukee sat down with Tina Krinsky, Chief Visionary Officer of Julian Krinsky Camps and Programs to discuss the wide range of programs they offer. ...more
Wharton and NFL Launch Program for Teen Athletes
02.25.2012
In the last few years, business schools have designed executive education programs with the goal of helping former professional athletes transition to the business world. Undoubtedly, these programs helping them gain valuable personal branding and business skills, but are they coming too late in these elite athletes’ careers? ...more
Haverford College Busy In Summer
06.30.2011
The Spring semester ended in May, and most students and faculty are gone for the summer—but the dorm rooms at Haverford College remain far from empty. They're not being used for storage, either. They are, in fact, full of students. ...more
Today's Summer Camps Are For Profit As Well As Fun
05.09.2011
At Julian Krinsky Camps & Programs of King of Prussia, which has been keeping up to 5,000 students a year busy for 34 summers, dozens of day and residential programs are offered. They fall under four primary categories besides sports: the arts, math, science, and business and leadership. ...more
The Area's Coolest Camps for Active Kids
06.21.2010
School ended for Philadelphia kids last Friday, which means if you’re a Philadelphian under the age of 18: those super-sweet 80 days of unstructured bliss has begun. And if you’re a parent of one of these happy kids, it means three months of trying to keep them happy, occupied—and as far away from the couch as possible. ...more
Kids Getting a "Quick Start" on Tennis
09.08.2009
The USTA's Quick Start program is trying to use smaller rackets to bring the game to smaller children. Not ever kid at Har Zion on Tuesday was going to be the next tennis star but at worst they would learn a new game and have some fun. ...more
Philadelphia's 15 Top Day Camps for Healthy Kids
06.02.2009
The camp uses state-of-the-art video analysis to improve strokes. Kids get to compare their game to their favorite golfers, check their balls trajectory info, custom-fit their putter and track their progress all throughout camp. ...more
8 Exclusive Summer Camps
05.03.2007
This summer, skip the bug spray and musty cabins. Instead, how about a Costa Rican surfing safari or an exclusive horse backriding excursion in Russia? Private golf lessons, citrus facials and Shiatsu massages. Absolutely no expense is spared at the Julian Krinsky/Canyon Ranch summer program. ...more
Money-No-Object Summer Camps
04.27.2007
Here campers aged 13-17 learn everything from Pilates and “the zen of eating” to aromatherapy and reflexology. Campers dine on organic, unprocessed food on linen tablecloths and sleep in air-conditioned dorms. ...more
