10th Annual Leadership Summer Camp for Teen Girls
Join us for our 10th Annual Wings To Fly Summer Camp, a transformative week long experience designed to help today’s girls, become tomorrow’s leaders. With only 30 spots available, this exclusive camp sells out every year. We specialize in teaching high school girls leadership skills, goal setting skills, confidence skills and financial literacy skills so they can thrive in their life, school and career. Our camp provides the essential tools, education, and mentorship to help your daughter unlock her full potential and achieve her dreams. Plus she will have all the camp fun and opportunities!
Wings To Fly Is For Girls With Big Dreams:
We know you have big dreams and goals and we welcome you to our annual Leadership Wings To Fly Summer Camp for Teen Girls! This week-long Summer camp is designed for 30 girls per week who dream big. You’ll enjoy:
🏕️ Outdoor Adventures – Hikes, archery, beautiful creek, challenges, and team-building activities.
🌲 Ropes Course Challenge – Building trust, teamwork, and bravery up in the trees!
🔥 Launching a Real Business – Girls create their own pop-up restaurant in just 7 days!
🌸 Personal wins – Learning more about her own strengths and dreams!
💃 Theme Nights – Fun, laughter, and unforgettable memories!
💡 Money skills – Building confidence and learning real money skills.
🐴 Horseback Riding – Connecting with nature and horseback riding.
👩🍳 Cooking Lesson – Hands-on experience with a fun cooking class.
🎤 Leadership Challenges – Confidence-building, leadership, and financial literacy skills.
💖 Friendships – Building lifelong connections with like-minded girls.
APPLICATION OPEN APRIL 1-MAY 30TH OR UNTIL SOLD OUT.
10 Reasons teens wants to attend:
- Exciting Activities: Who said becoming a leader can’t be fun? We have a BLAST with activities like: the ropes course, horses, archery, journaling, hikes, swimming, & campfire. Plus the girls have a hands-on entrepreneur experience to build their own pop-up restaurant, where they go from concept to execution in just seven days – culminating in a fully operational experience serving 100 guests. Seeing these young leaders thrive at their restaurant challenge is one of the best things of the week.
- Empowering Curriculum: Our 12 core leadership principles develop your girl’s leadership skills. From communication and collaboration to resiliency and teamwork. Each principle is crucial to navigate high school, workplaces, relationships, career, college and dreams successfully.
- Fun Team Building: Through immersive team-building activities and group challenges, your girl will learn to work effectively with others, build trust, and inspire her peers to achieve common goals.
- Expert Guidance: The girls will learn from the best! Our experience plus our passionate coaches are dedicated to providing a great experience. With daily activities that range from the large group of 30 girls to small groups of 6 girls, your girl will never be ‘stuck’ with one group. We keep things moving!
- Confidence Boosting: Confidence is key to effective leadership, and we’re here to help the girls unlock their confidence! We help them grow their confidence skills so she can explore her passions, discover her strengths, and build her dreams confidently. College/adulting/workplace is coming soon for these girls, and we teach girls the tools to thrive.
- Great Life Skills: Beyond leadership, our camp equips girls with essential life skills they’ll carry with them into college/workplace. From time management and decision-making to problem-solving and working in a team, your girl will leave camp feeling empowered and prepared to tackle any challenge life throws her way.
- Safe and Supportive Environment: We understand that sending your girl to camp is a big decision, which is why safety is our top priority. Our camp prioritizes the well-being of every camper with our coaching team, plus the staff of the camp, looking out for their safety.
- Lasting Friendships: Camp is about more than just learning—it’s about forging lifelong friendships and memories.
- They build their own pop-up restaurant: At Wings to Fly, girls don’t just learn to be leaders —they become leaders! In just seven days, they launch and run a pop-up restaurant, developing real-world entrepreneurial skills, teamwork, and leadership. The experience culminates in a spectacular one-night-only event (July 18), where the public and parents are invited to dine and celebrate the incredible talent and hard work of these future leaders.
- Financial literacy: We are passionate about empowering and educating girls around money, so they will get ‘Monopoly’ money upon arrival to learn how to spend, save and budget in fun ways throughout the week. We will also have powerful activities for girls to learn how to earn, save, spend, and budget money wisely!
Our purpose is simple:
We help girls become the next generation of leaders.
We help girls build healthy, empowered, successful lives.
We help girls build a path to their dreams and education.
We help girls know that they are brilliant, beautiful & bold as they are.
Celebrating 10+ Years Training the next generation of female leaders!
Details: 2025 Wings To Fly Summer Camp for Teen Girls:
- 2025 Camp Dates: July 13-19 in Sedona, Arizona – we rent the campus of The Valley Verde School
- For girls who are: rising high school freshman to rising Seniors.
- Applications are open April 1st – May 30th 2025
- Location: Sedona, Arizona (yes girls fly in for this camp from other states, we will arrange pick up at the airport)
- Flight details: Arrange to fly into Phoenix International Airport we will coordinate with you.
- Arrival: Day 1 arrival: 11am then Parent Orientation from 1130-1230pm. If you are unable to drop off (or she is flying in) we can zoom you into the parent meeting.
- Pick up: Please arrive by 11:45 then Parent celebration & slide show 12-1pm then leaving by 1:30pm. If you are unable to drop off/pick up or she is flying in we can zoom you into the parent meeting.
- IMPORTANT: Please arrange to drop off and pick up. If you are unable to get a family member to pickup/drop off (or your girl is flying in) please let us know in your application.
- Dorm Rooms: The girls can decorate their bed (pictures, fairy lights, art etc) & if she is coming with a friend they will be in the same room. 2 girls per room in the dorms.
- They build their own pop-up restaurant: At Wings to Fly, girls don’t just learn to be leaders —they become leaders! In just seven days, they launch and run a pop-up restaurant, developing real-world entrepreneurial skills, teamwork, and leadership. The experience culminates in a spectacular one-night-only event (July 18), where the public and parents are invited to dine and celebrate the incredible talent and hard work of these future leaders.
- Groups: Each girl will be in 3 different groups to meet new people: 1. their sleeping room group 2. their coaches team (6 girls per coach) and 3. Their business group.
- Packing list: The packing list will be sent to you in May.
- Questions: dena@girlsrulefoundation.org
- Produced by The Girls Rule Foundation est. in 2013
Camp Tuition:
- Attendee’s Tuition: $950 per girl. Come with a friend and you both get $50 OFF the tuition.
- Payment plans are available. ($225 for 4 months: April, May, June, July)
- Price includes: lodging, programming, materials, activities and 3 fresh meals with daily snacks.
Take Action Here:
Apply to be a 2025 Camper Here.
Apply to be a 2025 Camp Coach here.
Our Camp Coaches:
Our coaches are extraordinary leaders and successful women in corporate or business owners. They are certified in the Girls Rule training and background checked for safety. They volunteer a week at camp because of their passion to make a difference for girls. Camper to Coach ratio is 6:1. We create a intimate, inclusive environment where the girls truly build themselves and build each other. In addition, our lead facilitator is Dena Patton owner and cofounder of Girls Rule Foundation, a facilitator and trainer of 20+ years. Together we be bring years of leadership and facilitation to camp to create an extraordinary experience for the girls. 2025 will be the 10th Annual Wings to Fly Camp!
What do our campers and parents have to say about camp…..
“Camp was exactly what our family and our girl needed! Fantastic group of ladies coaching these girls. Can’t say enough good things about camp and the girls rule foundation.”
– Joseph (Dad of attendee)
“It was the perfect camp for my daughter. The Parent orientation was great, the coaches gave us a lot of information about how the program works and how it will help my daughter.”
–Reina (mom of attendee)
“Camp was a great experience that made me less shy and more open then I was before. It was like a new start for me.”
-Shelby (attendee)
“Life-changing! This was a stepping stone for me and it helped me better understand who I am as a person and also made me realize that I had some pretty amazing qualities about myself.”
-Carly (attendee)
