The Keep Your Gear policy is the part of the model that lets a child keep playing after the camp ends.
A loaner programme gets a child through a week. A gear set they own gets them through a season. Every Open Ice camper leaves with a full set of equipment that is theirs permanently, at a cost of $500 per camper.
That is over half the total cost of putting a child through camp, and it is the line item sponsors are asked to cover first.
Two organisations, one in the classroom and one at the rink, exploring a pathway that carries a student from a school assembly to a pair of skates.
Four days of ice and dryland, free lunch, and a full set of equipment for every camper.
Where the programme stands after its first three cycles, and what the numbers mean.
