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Podcast: Closer Look
Episode: In a perfect world, every kid would go to summer camp
Description: For Erin Sharpe, summer camp turned out to be a defining moment in her life. The weeks she spent as a teenager at YMCA's Camp Wanakita taught her real-life lessons about teamwork, resilience and independence that still resonate today."I learned a lot about myself that I didn't realize before, in terms of what I could do," she says. "And the bonding that came with the other people in the group, it definitely has stuck."Now a professor of recreation and leisure studies at Brock University, Sharpe is well aware that many...