CITs

Once a camper reaches an age when they can no longer return as a camper; they may be offered a position as a CIT. This entails a two-year period of service in which the camp community observes their quality of work and decides if they are fit to become true counselors and be put in charge of large groups of children.

CITs (Counselors-In-Training) are the lowest rank of counselors at FCDC, beneath Head Counselors and Assistant Counselors. Their positions are akin to internships, in which they are unpaid and are expected to spend the majority of their time "learning by doing." A young teenager's responsibilities as a CIT often comprise their first experiences in the workforce.

CITs rotate jobs on a weekly basis. As FCDC is a six-week camp, a CIT will work at six different activities throughout a single summer.

In counselor competitions, CITs battle against Heads and Assistants to win points for The CIT Team.

Role at FCDC
CITs are rarely, if ever, given the responsibility of directing a camp activity. Rather, they play a support role to the Head and Assistant, and are typically given tasks which do not require a lifetime of experience to master. These activities might include spraying campers with bug spray before they enter the woods, carrying lunch bags, and escorting young campers between activities.

Wary CITs know that their performance and behavior is carefully scrutinized by elder counselors. Once the two-year CIT period is over, achieving counselor status requires quality reviews from Head Counselors that the CIT has worked with. This notion of being constantly "under the gun" is a running gag referenced comedically by older counselors, simultaneously recalling their own CIT experience while making light of the CITs' plight.

Attributes

 * CITs range in age from 12-14. The beginning of elegibility for CIT-ship is the summer following a camper's "graduation" from camperhood at FCDC.

Trivia

 * "One-and-Done" is a term for a CIT whose performance and/or behavior are so poor that they do not return for their second year of CIT-ship.