TACO
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The Conference Organizer

TACO  (The Awesome Camp Organizer) is a Microsoft Access database developed specifically for organizing summer camps. TACO has been used for the past five summers and is currently used by 17 camps across the U.S.

Inputting the data, of course, is the easy part although time consuming. The hard part is distributing current data to all those who need it. TACO allows easy updating of camp data and generating reports.

TACO allows camp registrars and directors to keep track of the mountain of data for campers, counselors and cabins. Then assign campers and counselors to cabins.

TACO is developed for the computer novice not the nerd. I have spent a great deal of time making TACO features easy to use and easy to find.

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Some of TACO’s greatest features (in no particular order) ... (For an expanded list, click here)

• Manage two independent camps

• Define your own camp jobs.

• Camper Shirt Sizes.

• Fee-receipt record

• Identify MIT Campers

• Track Camper fee payments and generate reports showing who owes, from what churches.

• Generate Late Fee letters.

• Accommodate Scholarship amounts for Campers

• Medical Reports

• Error Prevention and Error Checking

• Current Camper Listing screen (accessed from the Main Menu – Current Campers) provides a field on the right that checks for compatibility between camp (6^th Grade, JV, Varsity) and gender. If you have a varsity camper in a 6^th grade cabin, TACO notifies you. If you put a girl in a boys cabin, TACO notifies you. It is your decision as to what to do about it.
• When assigning cabins in the various screens (i.e. JV Boys) all you will see on the list are JV boys and JV boy cabins. You cannot miss-assign a camper. You cannot make a mistake here!
• Cabin Check – a new screen available from the Main Menu. Cabin Check lets you look at your camp cabin by cabin. You see all the counselors and all the campers. You can see their gender, age, grade, church and color team. TACO counts the occupants and compares it to the total number of beds available in the cabin. If there are too many assigned, TACO lets you know.
• Check Counts screen (available in the new Cabin Check screen, provides a list of your cabins with current counts. This screen high lights over occupancy.
• The Assign w/Info screen now displays a red boarder around the Cabin Name field of current Campers. Non-current Clubbers have a red boarder around the Current field. When a cabin is assigned to a current camper the red boarder disappears.
• In the Assign w/Info screen, if you inadvertently assign a cabin to a non-current Clubber, a red boarder appears around the Cabin Name field as well as around the Current field.
• Color Team Checking to identify family members on the same team.
• The Counselors and Cabins screen allows you to quickly and easily ensure that you have the appropriate gender and camp counselor assigned to a cabin. TACO provides a field in the center of the screen for each Counselor and Cabin combination that highlights mismatches in gender or camp level. Non-current counselors are highlighted to ensure that they are not assigned to a cabin.
• Reports have counts, gender, and camp parameters that allow you to see quickly whether cabins are over booked or campers are incorrectly assigned.

• New Camper Check Sheet 

• Camper Correspondence Screen 

• TACO Database is integrated with the TACO User’s Guide

• Custom defined lists/reports

• Update Counselor camp-years automatically

• Sponsor Pin report

• Modify the Camp Job list to suit your camp

• Track Quizzing and Verse card progress

• Easy data entry for camper applications.

• Easily accommodate cabin-mate requests when assigning cabins.

• Error Checking for Cabin Assignments.

• A multitude of reports

• Maintain a database of all clubbers from year to year.

• Assign campers to cabins fast and easy.

• Make sure every camper has been fully processed.

• Optimize your camp for efficient use of cabins and bed space.

• Reset TACO for the next year with the click of a button.

• Identify and count each missionary campers.

• TACO is closely integrated with MS Word

• Camper Correspondence shows you which letters have been printed for whom.

• Cabin counting now includes counselors.

Want to learn more about TACO?

Click here to download the TACO user's guide. You will receive version 7.0 guide. This is not be the most current Guide with all the current capabilities but it will provide you with an idea of what TACO can do and how it does it.

Within TACO help screens are available at the click of a button. Also, with the click of a button, the TACO user can jump to a pertinent section of the manual just be clicking an icon on the screen.

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