KIDS: Summer Camps

Lottery sign-ups for Summer 2020 FOR ALL FAMILIES (including school-year families) will be happening in Feb 2020. Lottery results will be announced via email. Entries received after the weighted lottery announcements will not be included in the first round of lottery (but a lot of things shift so there is still a good chance you can get a spot if you register after the deadline).

The weighted lottery system applies to registration for summer programs. It also applies to our bi-annual Family Camps and some adult programs, depending on popularity of the event.

We recommend using Chrome or Firefox

1. Log in (or create an account) at register.wyp.org
2. If you are adding new participants, add participants that you would like to register from the “Contact and Household” tab at the top of the page. Make sure to enter the correct amount of kids and their current grade level (current participants will not need to follow this step)
3. Continue to the “Register Programs” page
4. From the drop-down on the top of the page, select “summer”
5. Select programs to waitlist then scroll down to the bottom of the page and continue to the “Review and Pay” page
6. List varying levels of preference for each kid in each camp that they are waitlisted for
   • The more camps that you waitlist for, the better chance we have of finding one with space
7. In “Payment Notes” leave a note about your payment preferences (we will not charge you until you are awarded a summer camp)
8. In “Other Preferences” leave any notes about who you would like to participate with and the amount of weeks you are hoping to join for thissummer (we will do our best to accommodate for friends and siblings)
9. Under payment options, select “join waitlist.” You MUST select “join waitlist” and check out to be placed on a summer waitlist.

Families who participate in our school year programs receive PRIORITY REGISTRATION (see below).Our weighted lottery system is not completely random. Certain factors will affect your chances of enrollment, weighted in the following order:

• No outstanding balances from past sessions
• Ability to be flexible in schedule (i.e. “My child is available for most sessions in summer, other than our first choice”)
• Balancing for demographic diversity
• Participation in past summer camps

Any family (including school-year families) who registers after the March 8th lottery period will be considered for Lottery Round 2.

1.  Join the waitlist for all sessions you are available for.
2. WYP will contact you via registrar@wyp.org if a spot becomes available for your child.

1. Families who were included in the first round of lottery, but did not get a spot.
2. Families who submitted registration between March 8th and April 15th.

Starting May 1st: Open spots will be filled via an email that goes out to everyone on the waitlist for a given age group, regardless of when they submitted registration.