Advanced Teen Programs

CIT I                    Cost: $735                    Minimum age: 15                    Date: July 13 - August 1
The Counselor-In-Training program is offered with a focus on developing the knowledge and skills required of a camp counselor. You will follow a detailed curriculum to review camp craft skills, camp operations, Girl Scout program objectives, camper characteristics, job responsibilities, teaching techniques and more. You will earn a CIT pin upon successful completion of the program.

Junior Maine Guide Program

The Junior Maine Guide Program is unique to the State of Maine. The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife created the program to teach Maine youth important outdoor skills. There are three levels to the program: Junior Maine Woodsman, Maine Woodsman and Junior Maine Guide. Each level focuses on specific skills with a test at the end of the session. Junior Maine Woodsman and Maine Woodsman take place entirely on our camp property. The Junior Maine Guide (JMG) learning sessions will take place at Camp Pondicherry and Camp Natarswi. The test camp for the JMG program will take place at a site selected by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and will happen the last week of the session.

Junior Maine Guide                     Cost: $900                 Minimum age: 14                Date: June 29 - July 25
If you are thinking about a career in forestry or another environmental career, this is the program for you. It is an intense program that focuses on building knowledge and skills in all aspects of outdoor life – backpacking, orienteering, canoeing, fire building, use of camp tools, outdoor cooking, swimming, setting up tents, building shelters and more. The fourth week is spent off site at a test camp run by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Girls who pass the tests are awarded the Junior Maine Guide patch. Girls from both camps will spend week one at Pondicherry, weeks two and three at Natarswi and week four at test camp.

Junior Maine Woodsman           Cost: $575                 Minimum age: 12                Date: July 13-25
This program is the beginning of the Junior Maine Guide progression. In the Junior Maine Woodsman program you will learn backpacking, canoeing, fishing, outdoor cooking, orienteering, using an axe and knife and how to live lightly on the land. At the end of the week, you can choose to be tested to see if you have earned the Junior Maine Woodsman patch.

Maine Woodsman                        Cost: $735                 Minimum age: 13                Date: July 27 - August 15
The Maine Woodsman program includes backpacking, canoeing, fishing, outdoor cooking, orienteering, using camp tools and learning to live lightly on the land. At the end of the session, you’ll do a three-day test camp to use all the skills you have learned and if you pass, you’ll receive the Maine Woodsman patch.