Camp Quest is a national organization whose local affiliates provide week-long summer camp programs to children in secular families. With over a dozen locations throughout the United States, including two in California, they are the only national organization that is focused on the children of the secular movement.
David Diskin, president of Camp Quest West (California), will present an overview of Camp Quest West and their weeklong program that combines traditional outdoor All-American fun with interactive science activities that help kids become familiar with skepticism, the scientific method, and Humanist philosophies. David will show off photos and video from prior years, and help our guests understand why programs like Camp Quest, the Secular Student Alliance, and others are so important to the future of secularism
Bring your checkbook! There will be prizes for donors.
Learn more at www.CampQuestWest.org.
About the Speaker: David Diskin is the president of Camp Quest West, having also served as Program Manager and Cabin Counselor for three years. David is also on the Executive Committee of the Secular Coalition for California, the volunteer coordinator of the San Francisco Atheist Film Festival, and is the lead organizer of Sacramento Freethought Day. When not advancing the secular movement, David helps his clients become more familiar with Microsoft Office through onsite training that he delivers at local universities, government agencies, and businesses of all different sizes. He lives in Lodi, CA.
For those first-timers, our schedule for the evening normally goes like this:
6:30-7:15 - Mingle and eat dinner
7:15-7:30 - ACSJ announcements
7:30-8:00 - Main Presentation
8:00-8:30 - Q&A
8:30-9:30 - More meet and mingle
Thank you all SO MUCH for coming! Thanks to your donations (almost $300), you raised enough for an entire half-scholarship!! It will definitely be put to good use through our financial aid program.
Please visit our website to learn more about us, donate, or volunteer. www.CampQuestWest.org
Or feel free to email me: [masked]
Thanks, San Jose Atheists!!
3 · March 19
Unfortunately I can't make it tonight. See everyone in 2 weeks for Richard Carrier.
March 19
An update for location: We will be in the front room again like last time, since a high school group has booked the banquet room. I know it is not ideal, but we can't book that room unless we can sustain the $400.00 a month in donations - which we don't have. I believe we had $120 in donations last time which is great, but didn't hit the $200 mark we need to book the room. Not complaining here, but this is the reality of finding a place for us to meet and also have dinner.
I look forward to seeing everyone there tonight!
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So, you may recall that I made the statement at the meetup that Herb Silverman was the father of David Silverman ... well, I was wrong. I don't recall where I got that information (which is the first red flag), and Diskin correctly offered disapproval upon hearing me state so (another red flag). A quick search confirmed that Herb Silverman, the Foundation and President Emeritus of the Secular Coalition of America, is *not* related to David Silverman, the President of American Atheists. Thus, I stand corrected. :-)