Counselors-in-Training (CITs)

Learning the ropes while enjoying the experience: Counselors-in-Training.

Counselors-in-Training, or CITs, are an important part of the Buck's Rock summer camp community. As older teenage campers with experience in a specific area, CITs act as role models for younger and new campers, and assist their shop counselors with the shop's daily activities.

Campers who are age-eligible (15 by the start of the summer, going into at least 10th grade, and have been a camper for at least one summer) are invited to apply to be a CIT in a specific area where they would like to further develop their skills. CITs work half of each day in their assigned shop as an apprentice, both helping to teach campers and developing their own skills.

As counselors-in-training, CITs are given some additional freedoms and responsibilities. CITs help to sort and deliver mail, serve meals, and give camp arts studios and theater facility tours to visitors and prospective campers and their families. Like staff members, CITs can work, while supervised, in their shops after hours.

CITs also have a meeting and a snack after put-to-bed, supervised by their counselors, on the basketball courts. CITs go on group trips during the course of the summer, such as bowling and to the Falcon Ridge Music Festival. The bond formed among the CITs in any summer is one that lasts a lifetime!

CITs are a unique blend of both camper and staff, and the years spent being a CIT are often remembered as the most fun and exciting years of a Buck's Rock camper’s experience.

First year CITs receive a 3.5% discount on their tuition; second or third year CITs receive a 7% discount.