Internship Opportunities At Camp Augusta
Summer Camps offer a tremendous opportunity to design a catered/curated internship for your major in whatever you and your school are looking for, among hundreds of other life skills that you wouldn’t get in a ‘traditional’ workplace.
Why Schools and Interns Love Summer Camp Internships:
- Exposure to a wide age range of different styles, skills, and approaches
- Real responsibility and agency in your day
- Daily problem solving
- Confidence in so many aspects of people relations, from public speaking to facilitation to one on one mentorship to community building/navigating
- Perspective on childhood
- Community buy-in and integration unlike a ‘traditional’ internship
- Outdoors and travel!
Is Camp Augusta The Right Choice For Your Internship?
We Co-create an Individualized Internship Experience That Might Include…
- Learning, leading, developing, and running any of our 150+ unique activities… or bringing your own!
- Designing (with scaffolding support!) and leading recreational, socio-emotional, and creative experiences with campers age 8-16
- Theatrical roles in our immersive Evening Programs, Playstations, and Story Experiences, including game design, set and costume design, skits and more.
- Personal time for reflection on your role and what you are learning throughout the summer
- Consistent, scheduled hours of reflections with your mentor on strengths, challenges, and opportunities for your own personal and professional growth
Camp Augusta Commonly Caters To Internships In…
Internship Fields
- Education
- Child Development
- Health & Physical Education
- Art Education
- Parks & Recreation
Roles At Camp
- Counselor
- Wilderness Trip lead
- Master Of Fun & Games
- Village Leader
- Challenge Course Lead
Why It’s A Fit
- Learning, leading, developing, and running your choice of our 150+ unique activities… or bringing your own!
- Designing (with scaffolding support!) and leading recreational, socio-emotional, and creative experiences with campers age 8-16
- Consistent, scheduled hours of reflections with your mentor on strengths, challenges, and opportunities for your own personal and professional growth
Internship Fields
- Psychology / Therapy
- Social Work / Counseling
- Student Services
- Sociology
Roles At Camp
- Counselor
- Village Leader
- Wellness Counselor
Why It’s A Fit
- Our academically founded, humanistic approach towards behavior guidance.
- Personal time for reflection on your role and what you are learning throughout the summer
Internship Fields
- Communication
- Counseling & Social Work
- Sociology & Cultural Studies
Roles At Camp
- Counselor
- Office Administration
- Master of Fun & Games (Theatrical Focus)
- Village Leader (Human Development Focus)
Why It’s A Fit
- Our academically founded, humanistic approach towards , that emphasizes language.
- We have a sincere communal emphasis on the importance of language in fostering socio-emotional intelligence, and many opportunities to put that emphasis into practice.
- Communication and our ‘messaging’ is a significant daily task – in speaking, planning, writing, and creating. This includes media projects, theatrics, parent letters, facilitation styles, and more.
Internship Fields
- Theater Arts
- Drama
- Art
- Art Education
Roles At Camp
- Counselor
- Art Director
- Master of Fun & Games
- Village Leader – Hands
Why It’s A Fit
- Theatrical roles in our immersive Evening Programs, Playstations, and Story Experiences, including game design and management, set and costume design, skits and more.
- Learning, managing and teaching our 40+ arts and intensive arts clinics (like blacksmithing, jewelry smithing, ceramics, and more!)
- A culture of creativity and expression!
Internship Fields
- Educational Administration
- Operations Management and Supervision
- Organizational Management
Roles At Camp
- Counselor
- Office Assistant
- Office Manager
- Village Leader
- Program Director
- Program Awesomeness Director
Why It’s A Fit
Widely considered one of the top camps in the nation, it is our camp-renowned organizational management and development systems that brought Augusta from a 2004 closed program to a filled camp year after year with 150+ clinics and forethought to survive the pandemic!
Internship Fields
- Environmental Science
- Ecology Studies
Roles At Camp
- Counselor
- Wilderness Trip Lead
Why It’s A Fit
- 80+ acre site with 40+ acres of undeveloped nature
- Clinics like Beekeeping, Plant and Animal Farm, Outdoor Kitchen, WILD, and more
- Wilderness Trip opportunities
Internship Fields
- Restaurant
- Food Services Management
- Culinary Arts
Roles At Camp
- Kitchen Assistant
- Alternative Diet Chef
- Kitchen Manager
- Kitchen Director
Why It’s A Fit
- Our unique Food Philosophy founded on organic, local, freshly prepared food.
- Personal flair in the menu, and a state of the art industrial kitchen
Internship Fields
- Equine Studies
- Equine Science
- Equine-Assisted Therapy
Roles At Camp
- Equestrian Director
Why It’s A Fit
- Integrate Horses into it all!
Roles At Camp
Ask us! We can cater to a wide variety of intentions.
Our Internships All Include Numerous Perks and Benefits, Including…
- Full pay – the same as a summer staff
- Housing (in the forest!)
- Freshly prepared mostly-organic food
- Numerous certification opportunities (CPR, First Aid, Lifeguarding…)
- True community of ~65 whole-hearted Augustans
- Opportunities to learn and partake in the many clinics of Augusta
What makes us credible, unique, and outstanding among camps?
Our Director has a PhD in social, developmental and organizational psychology from Claremont Graduate University. This education serves as the theory behind his practice.
- Our Onboarding includes ~60 hours of preparation that includes college level psychology and communication materials, compiled and curated over many years. You have a one on one scaffolder throughout this process that works with you on each component; it is applicable to your life, your studies and camp. Our onboarding is so refined/thorough that we ran it as a college accredited course at Prescott College in 2018-2020.
- On that note… looking for credits? This may count towards credits at your school too!
Our Staff Training is a full 3.5 weeks (longest in the country) of workshops, skill building, and doing camp together – aimed to put those onboarding skills into practice within our small community of learners and leaders. This time serves to build the foundation of our ethos of personal growth, intentional mentorship, and emotional intelligence
Our philosophies are integrated into the practices, structure, culture, and community of camp. No matter if you are an intern or not, all Augustans are here to learn alongside each other, and practice community centric life skills like clean and non-violent communication, consensus conversations, and conflict resolution.
Our Programmatics are wider, broader, and deeper than any camp we know of. From a state of the art ropes course to intensive arts like blacksmithing, jewelry smithing, ceramics, and lampworking, to our outdoor kitchen and beekeeping, to our fire spinning circus skills. In addition, there’s special components of camp – like our Evening Programs, Playstations, Special Wakeups and Cabin Activities – that you won’t find anywhere else (not even close).
Put it all together, and that’s a full summer – 600+ hours of youth mentorship, teaching, writing, creating, playing, bonding, and personalized growth scaffolding that will change your life forever.
Where do I go from here?
Fill in our short interest form expressing your interest in an internship. We’ll get in touch to talk more about what you are looking for and what we can offer. Generally, the internship design process goes like this:
