POLAND – In the OMNI Camp martial arts class, Ian and Quinn Dilley practice the best ways to throw each other to the ground. The boys grin with every thump to the mat.

Across the camp, their brother, Julian, talks with friends as he waits for archery class to start. Their other brother, Adrian, plays tether ball.

In the camp’s arts center, their sister, Claire, makes a tiny brown teddy bear out of clay.

Their other sister, Brenna, meets her rock-climbing team.

“Camp is fun,” Brenna said. “‘Cause of all the activities.”

To the rest of the world, Brenna, Claire, Adrian, Julian, Quinn and Ian are the Dilley kids, America’s first surviving sextuplets. From the day they were born, the six have been photographed and filmed. A book was published about their toddler years. Their first day of kindergarten was captured by ABC News. Campbell’s Soup built an ad campaign around them.

But at OMNI Camp, the slim 11-year-olds are just part of the gang.

Fame

The four boys and two girls from Indiana became instant celebrities when they were born in May 1993.

Four years later, the country’s first septuplets, three girls and four boys, were born to the McCaughey family in Iowa. But with an ongoing ABC documentary and a commercial deal with Campbell’s Soup, the Dilleys stayed in the public eye.

Gar Roper, co-owner of OMNI Camp, heard about them when he started working as a marketing consultant for Campbell’s Soup. He knew a family with six kids would likely never be able to afford the luxury of summer camp.

He made Campbell’s a deal: OMNI would waive its tuition – $1,850 per child for a two-week program – and Campbell’s would fly the kids to Maine and pay any other expenses.

The kids arrived at the traditional overnight camp last week. For the first couple of days, no one knew they were brothers and sisters. The kids, who don’t look exactly alike, slept in different cabins and chose different activities. The boys sat together at lunch sometimes, but all six were more likely to hang out with their friends than with each other.

“They’re here to be individuals, to escape the world of the Dilley Six-pack,” said camp co-owner Betsy Roper.

But even at OMNI, they couldn’t escape notice for long.

“She’s famous,” said 15-year-old Noemie Poitras matter-of-factly, nodding toward Brenna during rock-climbing class.

Blending in

A few days after they arrived, camp officials invited local media to talk with the Dilleys. ABC has plans to film them during their second week in Maine.

The attention was annoying for the fifth-graders, who just wanted to have lunch with their friends. It set them apart.

But soon, the other kids weren’t phased by the cameras. Brenna, Claire, Adrian, Julian, Quinn and Ian were just fellow campers, not the Sextuplets.

“They all have amazing personalities,” said camp counselor Matthew O’Dell. “They can blend in easily.”

One afternoon last week, the six kids talked about camp and their first visit to Maine.

“There’s a lot more shade,” said Brenna, looking up at the trees.

Like other campers, they’d spent their days horseback riding and participating in archery, playing tennis and learning martial arts. They’d spent their nights talking with friends in their bunks.

Homesickness was never a problem.

Said Adrian, “Camp’s cool.”