ABOUT
Young'uns Summer Cooperative was conceived in 2016 by Young Kim after unsuccessfully finding quality and affordable summer camp options for his then two-year-old toddler Savannah. He learned that there were virtually no options for toddlers between two and three years of age in the District of Columbia even though children in this age group could benefit from camp experience. Because Young didn't want Savannah to waste her summer staying at home and also because there weren't any options available nearby, he decided to start up a summer program of his own.
Young organized the first summer program at the Macomb Recreation Center with partial sponsorship from DC's Department of Parks and Recreation. He reached out to families he knew nearby in the neighborhood where he lived to recruit interested parents. By the second day of announcing the summer cooperative, he filled his class. Evidently, there were other families looking for similar summer camp opportunities for their own children. After closing enrollment, however, calls and emails continued to stream in from families who wanted to be a part of the summer co-op. It was then when Young understood the extent to which a summer program like the one he started was badly needed for young children who don't meet the minimum age requirement of many existing summer camps.
Throughout the first summer of the program, Young kept in mind the need to do something to meet this unmet demand. When the new year arrived in 2017, Young took the plunge to expand the summer program to other locations in the district.
Young has over fifteen years of experience in higher education policy, research, and start-up. He co-founded 401kid, Inc., a company that rated college savings plans, with two colleagues right after college. He then worked as an analyst in public policy think tanks and advocacy groups. He was among the lead analysts at the American Council on Education, the umbrella group for colleges and universities. He left ACE to start up a new venture aimed at helping prospective college students figure out college majors that pay off in the 'real world'.
Young is married with two young children, Savannah and Owen, and lives in Glover Park. He obtained his bachelor's from St. Lawrence and his master's from Pembroke College, Oxford.
Young organized the first summer program at the Macomb Recreation Center with partial sponsorship from DC's Department of Parks and Recreation. He reached out to families he knew nearby in the neighborhood where he lived to recruit interested parents. By the second day of announcing the summer cooperative, he filled his class. Evidently, there were other families looking for similar summer camp opportunities for their own children. After closing enrollment, however, calls and emails continued to stream in from families who wanted to be a part of the summer co-op. It was then when Young understood the extent to which a summer program like the one he started was badly needed for young children who don't meet the minimum age requirement of many existing summer camps.
Throughout the first summer of the program, Young kept in mind the need to do something to meet this unmet demand. When the new year arrived in 2017, Young took the plunge to expand the summer program to other locations in the district.
Young has over fifteen years of experience in higher education policy, research, and start-up. He co-founded 401kid, Inc., a company that rated college savings plans, with two colleagues right after college. He then worked as an analyst in public policy think tanks and advocacy groups. He was among the lead analysts at the American Council on Education, the umbrella group for colleges and universities. He left ACE to start up a new venture aimed at helping prospective college students figure out college majors that pay off in the 'real world'.
Young is married with two young children, Savannah and Owen, and lives in Glover Park. He obtained his bachelor's from St. Lawrence and his master's from Pembroke College, Oxford.
Georgetown Current Newspaper coverage of summer co-op beginnings (June 1, 2016)