Personalized Camps

The structure and pricing are similar to a typical Summer Program at CFS. However, this experience is designed with your group of students in mind and not open to the general public. A family might be served by a Personalized Summer Program if...

• They’d like to minimize their camper's exposure to other children with whom they have no familiarity amidst the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Their camper has a group of friends/family members (6-12 children in total) who would like to participate with them.

A group of families can email the following information to ExtendedLearning@cfsnc.org. We hope to be able to serve everyone, but because our facilities and staffing capabilities may prevent us being able to offer a Personalized Camp to all interested groups, we suggest reaching out as soon as you’re able. When emailing, please include all the parents/guardians on the email so we have contact information for the entire group.

Information to provide:

• Each child’s name and age. Some variety in age range is welcomed if the families feel the children will be comfortable with one another and the older children will enjoy activities that are developmentally appropriate for all participants. If a family doesn’t already have a CampInTouch account with us, we’ll be glad to reach out for additional information and create one for them.

• The week(s) desired. A bubble is welcome to craft a Personalized Camp for as little as one or as many as eight or nine weeks. Summer Programs 2022 will run from June 20 to August 12, with some limited offerings during a ninth week, August 15-19.

• Any preferences in class topics. Both specific and vague ideas are welcomed! Traditionally, we offer programs in the following categories: Visual Arts/Crafting, Performing Arts, Culinary Creations, Leadership/Personal Development, Learning Explorations, Maker Discoveries, Nature/Outdoors, Sports Fun, and Tech Wizardry. The more information you can give us, the better we can structure the right experience.

• Any preferences in teachers. We can’t guarantee any specific instructor, but if your students have some favorite teachers from past years we’d be glad to reach out to them! 

Once we have this information, we’ll begin crafting your very own Personalized Camp.

By the way, we give each group an animal name in alphabetical order by confirmation date, so in 2021 we welcomed Aardvarks, Badgers, Cheetahs, Dingoes, Eagles, Flamingos, Geckos, Hedgehogs, Iguanas, and Jaguars (and some Squirrels too)! 

For the safety of your households and the instructor, everyone on campus will be expected to follow our Health and Safety Guidelines. These guidelines will evolve as recommendations change to reflect the ever-changing COVID-19 local landscape. If you’d like a sense of CFS' approach to COVID-19 prevention, you can find information on the General Information page.

CFS Summer Programs run from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm for five days, Monday through Friday.

We expect to be able to resume offering optional Extended Day care from 8:00 to 9:00 am and from 3:00 to 4:15/5:45 pm each day in Summer 2022.

A Personalized Camp will match the cost of a comparable, traditional program in 2022 for each student, plus the $20 per family per summer registration fee. Our course pricing structure per participant per week in Summer 2021 was:

• General, $320
• Culinary, $335
• Technology, $350

Because we can't fill a vacated spot like in traditional Summer Programs, we are not able to refund the course tuition to a family of a camper who cannot attend a Personalized Camp unless the pod can find and agree on another student to take that space.