ATTENDING CAMPERS
Campout is broken into two categories: attending campers and non-attending campers. In either case, campers must be an active graduate or professional Duke student to participate.
Attending campers are individuals who will be able to attend for the vast majority of the entire weekend. Random attendance checks will be called over the course of the weekend, and each individual student will be responsible for making their own checks. The more checks you make, the better your chances are of winning the lottery. Further, the weekend will be filled with fun, food, and music, as well as attending-camper-only games and competitions where winners will receive exclusive prizes! (Not tickets)
TENTS & CAPTAINS
Students may have a tenting group of up to 12 students. Ideally, a group of 7-10 students will occupy one campsite space. If your group is smaller than 7 students, you will likely share a campsite space with another small group. Please bring appropriately sized tents if possible. As a reminder, tenting groups are for campsite organization, communication, and safety. Each individual will be responsible for making their own checks. There will be no group checks allowed (Ex: one person from group 15 can’t check in for the entire tenting group).Each group will assign one person as their “Tent Captain”. If you do not have a group, you must be your own Tent Captain. Tent Captains will be responsible for relaying important information to the group and will also be the group’s primary point of contact leading up to and during campout. . There are no group checks allowed.
Each tenting group will assign one person as their tent captain. If you do not have a group, you must serve as your own tent captain. Captains will be responsible for relaying important information to the group and will also be the group’s primary point of contact leading up to and during campout.
Social Host Training
Every Tenting Group must have at least their Tent Captain successfully complete Grad Student and Campout Social Host/Safety Training Session.
If for some reason the Tent Captain is unable to attend, please contact the Co-Chairs with the name and contact of the alternate person from that Tenting Group who plans to attend. Ideally, the Tent Captain should be chosen based on availability to attend this training.
There will be 3 of these training sessions available to attend. You only need to attend 1 session to complete the training. There will be one session on September 11th from 7:30-9:30pm and one on September 25th from 7-9pm held in the Duke Student Wellness Center, Room 148. A third training will be held on September 23rd in the Divinity School, Westbrook 0016 from 7-9pm. Duke Groups Website. These sessions are customized for the Campout experience, but if your captain has already been trained as a social host within the past year, please contact the Head Ushers email.
Failure to comply will result in your Tenting Group’s disqualification from campout.
ATTENDING CAMPER-ONLY EVENTS
All attending campers Food and Fun: We heard you all loud and clear last year about the things you all liked, and the things we could do better.First, ALL ATTENDING CAMPERS will be fed for a late-night snack Friday, breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday, and breakfast on Sunday. More importantly, sponsored by GPSG Saturday night’s dinner will be a Food Truck Event where each attending camper is given one free meal ticket to use at the food truck of their choosing. Details on meal ticket distribution and a list of trucks will be coming out soon.
Other exciting events over the weekend will be announced soon! Stay tuned for links to sign up for each of these events. Lastly, attending campers will receive a special edition Campout Fall 2024 T-shirt!
To keep things fair to all students, an email will be sent out after registration closes to all attending campers with links to sign up for each of these events.
