Camp Counselors' Perspectives: Internships At Camp

Internship Credit Through Camp?

Not everyone knows that we can work with you to customize your employment at summer camp, in order to satisfy your degree’s internship requirements! Hear Matthew’s perspective on his summer internship at Falling Creek Camp for his Computer Science degree.

Watch the video below, next in the series from the perspectives of our summer staff!

Matthew

Computer Science Major & IT Intern

“I was actually referred to Falling Creek by one of my old high school Deans. He’d worked here before and he told me it was a great opportunity and he thought I’d fit the role of a camp counselor pretty well. I’m a full-time camp counselor, but at the same time I’m also the IT intern. Computer Science fits into my role because, being a programmer, I complete a lot of puzzles and I work well with puzzles, so that’s a lot of what I do here at Falling Creek.

I work with holes in different systems or different places where there’s free choice coverage. We need certain counselors to be certain places, or kids to be in other places, and we need to figure out where the kids are at any certain moment. I’m working on plugging that hole or piecing together that puzzle each day.

I think this part of Western North Carolina is honestly super beautiful. It is a little bit removed from society, or the rest of society, and kind of that busy city life that I was more used to growing up in Denver and going to school in DC, but I think that’s been a good thing for me. I didn’t even know they had mountains like this out here, and I think that’s super cool. This place has a lot to offer that I didn’t know it had before I came here.

Being Computer Science major, a lot of people think that the careers they want to go into are just working a desk job, typing away at a computer all the time. But personally what I found out through working at Falling Creek, is that human interaction is really important for me, and so that has opened my eyes for future career paths and future roles that I’d want to take on. This is a great place to kind of figure out what you want to do with your life. And again, it’s a place for everyone. There’s always room at camp, so you can find something that you love and pursue that here at camp, while also working towards a future goal or aspiration that you have. Something I’d tell future staff or someone considering working at Falling Creek is, honestly, just do it.”

You can apply here, or if you’re interested in tailoring your summer employment experience as an internship!