For: Girls entering Senior year or high school graduates
- A maximum of 12 girls
- Girls with experience in camp activities
- Girls interested in interacting with campers and counselors
- Girls interested in “practice teaching” in camp activities
Dates: June 20 – August 16, 2012
The objective of the program is to develop leadership in a “hands on” environment:
- Continue developing skills and teaching techniques
- To assist staff in teaching
- To learn responsibilities of cabin counseling by living with campers and assisting the cabin counselor
- To attend Pre-Camp training with counselors
- To learn to evaluate self, others and the camp program
- To gain experience in planning special all-camp events
- To visit other camps
- To accomplish a Community Service Project
- To discuss and experience further
- Leadership qualities
- Behavioral characteristics of campers
- Philosophy of camping
- ACA Standards
- Health and safety practices
- To appreciate the importance of risk management planning
The program consists of assisting in activities, cabins & unit under responsibility of the unit director; meeting with the Leadership Training Director three times a week:
- ACs assist in cabins
- ACs assist on trips
- ACs assist in daily teaching
- ACs assist with unit events and EPs
ACs plan and direct the following:
- All Camp Campfire
- Evening Program
- Traditional Camp Events
- Sunday Grove Service
- Project with CITs
Living Arrangements:
- In Senior camp, ACs live in a platform tent. In Junior and Intermediate Camp, ACs live in camper cabins
- ACs will have the opportunity to rotate to 2 of the 3 units
- ACs eat meals with their assigned unit
Assistant Counselors will be credited with $50 on each day off per week (6 days off per summer) as a thank you for their assistance.
