Camp Discovery: Changing lives for 25 years

The first session of Camp Discovery was held in Minnesota in 1993. Then and each year since, children age 8 to 16 years with "significant skin diseases" have attended the American Academy of Dermatology's (AAD's) Camp Discovery program free of charge (Figs 1 and 2). Each camper has been nominated by an AAD member dermatologist. Counselors with skin disease serve as role models and sympathetic supporters. Details of the Camp Discovery program, its founding, and its early evolution were reviewed in 2 previous publications in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.