Counselor
As a counselor, your week starts at 6 p.m. on Sunday. Your week ends on Friday once our meeting is over. On Sunday, we have dinner as a community, introduce new staff and prepare for campers to arrive. On Monday, we run registration and you’ll help get campers settled and into their groups for the week.
You will be assigned to a group, and you will stay with that group for the week. If time and staff numbers allow, all summer staff will have a break during the camp day.
During the day, you will be to supervise a variety of activities, including:
- Meals
- Cleaning
- Morning Songs
- Swim Times
- Hikes
- Field Games
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Arts and Crafts
- Spirit Time
- All Camp Activities
- Bedtime
At camp, our counselors are not simply supervisors. We play with our kids and participate in all activities. Along with the basics of keeping your campers safe and happy, you are responsible for things such as:
- Water breaks! Lots and lots of water breaks!
- Sunscreen and bug spray
- Timekeeping — think about transition time!
- Being creative and making camp extra fun for your group!
- Communicating with co-counselors and leads
On Friday, a lot of your time is spent is helping the campers to clean and pack. We try to make sure campers leave with everything they arrived with. Once campers are dismissed, we will finish cleaning camp for the next week and then have a meeting to close out our week and begin our weekend.
Lifeguard
If you are selected to be a lifeguard and are coming to camp for the entire summer, we offer lifeguard training directly before counselor orientation. As a lifeguard, you are responsible for keeping up with the procedures you learned during training. During the week, you will work with the lead lifeguard and run through some drills and scenarios.
During all water activities, you are the counselor in charge. If there are multiple lifeguards in your group, you may not be required to guard during every water activity. Other counselors will lead games and activities, but if you are guarding, you call the shots.
You are responsible for:
- Assigning numbers to campers (first swim time only)
- Perform the swim test for all campers
- Keeping track of swim test results (first swim time only)
- Check in/check out campers
- Going over rules
- Overseeing the safety of all campers
- Leave swimming area as clean as it was when you arrived
Kitchen Staff
Your week starts at 6 p.m. on Sunday. Your week ends on Friday once our meeting is over. On Sunday, we have dinner as a community, introduce new staff, and prepare for campers to arrive. After the meeting, we would like your help to clean up the cafeteria from dinner while the counselors do their chores. Then you are free to spend your evening relaxing and preparing for the camp week ahead.
On Monday morning, please report to the camp kitchen. At this time, you will be introduced to the head cook, who will be working with for the week. She will give you more information about what your days will be like and what times you’re needed.
Your daily duties include:
- Preparing breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Cleaning up after breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Preparing snacks
The head cook will let you know what she needs you to do specifically. Every day, you should be able to have a break in the afternoon after lunch. You spend a lot of time on your feet so, this will give you an hour or two to sit down and relax.
Floater
Your week starts at 6 p.m. on Sunday. Your week ends on Friday once our meeting is over. On Sunday, we have dinner as a community, introduce new staff, and prepare for campers to arrive. After the meeting, you should check with the coordinator to talk about your tasks for the upcoming week. Once that is complete, you are free to spend your evening relaxing and preparing for the camp week ahead.
As a floater, you have many different roles throughout the camp week. You will be asked to fill in as needed, but some things that you may be asked to do are:
- Help in the kitchen
- Laundry
- Photography
- Fill in if extra counselors are needed at activities
- Arts and crafts
- Assist in the office
Arts & Crafts
Your week starts at 6 p.m. on Sunday. Your week ends on Friday once our meeting is over. On Sunday, we have dinner as a community, introduce new staff, and prepare for campers to arrive. After the meeting, you should head out to arts and crafts to get things ready for the week. Once that is complete, you are free to spend your evening relaxing and preparing for the camp week ahead.
Arts and crafts happen for an hour once a day for each group, three days a week. Your responsibilities include:
- Setup for craft
- Teach campers how to complete craft
- Supervise and assist campers
- Facilitate campers cleaning up
- Finish any remaining clean up
Although you only have groups in arts and crafts a few hours of each day, you will still be busy when there are no groups there. Use time between groups to finish cleaning up and prepare for the next group that’s coming in. If that is all complete, and you have extra time, you may take a break, see if the kitchen needs help, or join a group in their activity. Make sure you let somebody know where you are in case you are needed.
Finally, you’re responsible for keeping groups’ crafts organized for the week and keeping each camper’s crafts together so that they can easily find them on Friday before going home.
Office Worker
Your week starts at 6 p.m. on Sunday. Your week ends on Friday once our meeting is over. On Sunday, we have dinner as a community, introduce new staff, and prepare for campers to arrive. After the meeting, you should check in with the Lead to see what office work needs to be completed. Once that is complete, you are free to spend your evening relaxing and preparing for the camp week ahead.
During a typical camp day, your responsibilities include:
- Answering phones and taking messages
- Checking and sending out mail
- Filling out and sending confirmation letters
- Reviewing applications
- Calling parents regarding applications
- Ordering groceries
- Scheduling people to cook Sunday dinner
- Copying awards
- Taking/editing photographs
- Assist with food service paperwork
Photographer/Social Media
Your week starts at 6 p.m. on Sunday. Your week ends on Friday once our meeting is over. On Sunday, we have dinner as a community, introduce new staff, and prepare for campers to arrive. After the meeting, you should check in with the Lead to get a list of campers and make notes if any of them are not to be photographed. After this, you will check to ensure our photography equipment is charged and in good working order, and familiarize yourself with our camera and our photo editing software. Once that is complete, you are free to spend your evening relaxing and preparing for the camp week ahead.
During a typical camp day, your responsibilities include:
- Taking camper headshots and uploading them to their online profile during registration
- Taking at least three pictures of each approved camper in a variety of activities
- Ensuring that no pictures of unapproved campers are taken or uploaded
- Curating photos, making sure they are of the highest quality and conservatively tasteful
- Using our software (Lightroom) to crop, edit, and watermark camper photos
- Under the guidance of the camp coordinator, uploading photos to photo sharing sites such as SmugMug, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
- Creating an end-of-the-week slideshow for each week and possibly an end-of-the-year video slideshow
- Assisting around camp with other needs as they arise
