At Morry's Camp in Glen Spey, New York, everyone learns to play an instrument. And a game that looks like hopscotch teaches math facts, while science learning is hands-on.

Camp activities promote self-confidence and academic achievement -- and they're fun.

Eddie Pognon, camper from the Bronx: "School at home, you have to do, that's what determines your grade ... over here you're just doing it to become a better person."

At Morry's camp, everyone is on full scholarship. It involves two four-week sessions, 150 campers per session, from New York City and the surrounding area.

The younger campers are selected from students in six after-school programs. They come to camp four summers in a row and during the school year, the camp counselors come to them for monthly meetings. It's about setting goals and making choices.

Dawn Ewing is the executive director.

"This is a place that says how are you gonna help yourself, not how can we fix what's goin' on. There's an energy here. Some will say it's Morry."

Morry Stein ran a traditional camp for decades in upstate New York. He dreamed that disadvantaged children should also have a chance to go to camp. In 1994, he died in a plane crash.

Family, friends and colleagues made his dream a reality, a place that offers hope.

Older campers must apply to the program, in which they learn teamwork, social skills and get SAT prep. Some become counselors.

These Queens residents have spent eleven summers in a row here.

Saul Arvelo, counselor: "It's just a great place, a safe place to take risks and to learn about yourself and others around you."

Dominique Etienne, counselor: "When you think you can't do anything, it's like we're going to challenge you and we succeed."

Where these campers live, most students don't finish high school. Yet all of Morry's oldest campers have graduated and 85 percent of them are in college.