I built two platforms in two separate campsites for Friendship Ventures at their Eden Wood Camp. Friendship ventures benefited immensely from this project. Every year more than 3,000 young children, teenagers, and adults participate in the different activities that the camp offers. Camp Eden Wood was established in 1925 as a camp for children with tuberculosis. Later in 1995 Friendship ventures began operating the camp as Camp Eden Wood. Camp Eden Wood provides many facilities, and activities all year round. These include: sledding and broomball during the winter and canoeing, fishing, volleyball, basketball, nature walks, campfires and golf at nearby courses during the spring, summer and fall.
Friendship Ventures is a non-profit organization that serves people with several different types of disabilities. Some of these include: Hearing or vision impairments, physical challenges, autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, brain injury, diabetes, down syndrome, Tourettes syndrome, Prader Willi syndrome or any combination of these disabilities. Camp Eden Wood is made up of 20 acres of woods and wetlands on Birch Island Lake. The two camping sites I improved are along the lake.
Camp Eden Wood has campers at their camp all year round. From mid-June to mid-August there are campers there continuously. Campers can sleep inside cabins or outside in tents. Currently there is one platform in each of the campsites totaling two platforms. That means that there can only be four campers per night sleeping on the comfortable platforms. Campers like these platforms because the gravel can mold around their body and make sleeping more comfortable when tenting outside. The two platforms that I lead volunteers to build will be 99.5 inches X 111.5 inches.
The two platforms has a base of small pea pebbles. Often there is camp staff that sleeps outside the tents and they would sleep between the platforms.
Currently, Dave is studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Dakota
