Interpersonal Skills is known for their community and building a positive environment for all. Camp Wood, their annual day camp in September, is designed to do just that.

Once a year, Interpersonal Skills, or IPS, journeys to the small town of Elmdale Kansas with their sponsors, Jamie Schnee and Haleigh Jung, to engage in fun and fascinating activities. The club splits off into different groups, and go off to do things like horseback-riding in the outdoors. The students engaged in team building activities such as rock climbing, and they did things they didn’t even know they could do. The students, staff, and paras got to know each other better, and see the students in their element.

“The most fun thing ever,” senior and student leader Cooper Sturm said, “They teach me new things. All one big community. Really cool to get to know them.” Sturm commented that they did many team building activities, bonding activities, “but not just sitting around.”

Other individuals had similar sentiments.

“There’s nothing else like it,” said student leader Jaria Faustman, “seeing everyone getting together and engaging.”

Interpersonal skills is a club and class open to seniors only.

“I’d recommend IPS for all those Juniors next year,” encouraged Sturm. “It’s a you-get-what-you-give kind of thing.”