Be a Volunteer Counselor for Outdoor School

Shaver's Creek Environmental Center recruits college students and some high school seniors to be counselors each week for the fifth-graders at Outdoor School.

Being an Outdoor School counselor is a weeklong commitment. Counselors attend two evening training sessions at Shaver's Creek. On Monday of their assigned week, counselors return to Camp Blue Diamond at 2 p.m. for a final training session.

Counselors present a cultural history lesson through first person interpretation as an 1850s pioneer family member. Counselors attend two evening training sessions at the Civil Engineering Lodge in the Stone Valley Recreation Area. On Monday of the assigned week, counselors come back to the lodge at 1:00 p.m. for a final training session. The students arrive on Tuesday. Counselors have Wednesday afternoon off. The week ends on Friday afternoon.

How To Apply

• Click here to download the program information and consent form. You must print, sign, and mail the consent form to Shaver's Creek.
  

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• Click here to fill out the Outdoor School counselor application, and press the [Submit] button when you are done. If you have problems with the form, send an e-mail to: eeb11@outreach.psu.edu.

You must complete the counselor application AND submit a signed consent form for your application to be considered. Print, sign and mail the signed consent form to:
Outdoor School Director
Shaver's Creek Environmental Center
3400 Discovery Road
Petersburg PA 16669