About Camp Quest Kansas City

Our Vision

Camp Quest envisions a world in which children grow up exploring, thinking for themselves, connecting with their communities, and acting to make the most of life for themselves and others.

Values we teach

• Integrity

• Empathy

• Creativity

• Critical thinking

• Community

Our Goals

Through our programs, we seek to:

• Develop supportive communities for freethinking families

• Foster curiosity, scientific inquiry, and critical thinking in young people to enable them to draw their own conclusions

• Cultivate reason and empathy as foundations of an ethical, productive and fulfilling life

• Provide a safe and fun environment for personal and social growth

• Encourage exploration of the natural world

• Promote open dialogue that is marked by challenging each other's ideas while treating each other with respect

• Raise awareness of positive contributions made by atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers, and other non-theistic people to our society

• Demonstrate atheism and humanism as positive, family-friendly worldviews

Principles that guide our actions

These principles guide our actions at all levels of Camp Quest operations and in the relationships we build:

• Grassroots innovation – empowering local leaders, exploring new approaches, sharing what works

• Practicality – taking action, creating solutions, providing hands-on support

• Courage – speaking out, challenging ourselves and others, audaciously advancing our mission

• Integrity – standing up, engaging honestly, living our principles

• Cooperation – sharing ideas, working together, cultivating community

• Empiricism – testing ideas, building from evidence, rejecting what doesn’t work

• Fun!