Marching Band Leadership and Color Guard Camp

Campers must be attending grades 9-12 in the ’24-’25 school year AND have at least one year of high school marching band experience.

Open to beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.

No audition is required.

Florida State is committed to providing a quality education to all qualified students and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability. Please contact our office to discuss any questions or accommodations that may need to be made for your camper at least three weeks prior to the start of camp.

Overnight Campers: $537 which includes

• a non-refundable deposit of $100.00
• tuition
• housing
• three meals per day (meals begin with dinner on check-in day and ending with lunch on check-out day)

All registrants must pay the $100.00 non-refundable deposit when registering.  Families can choose to pay the balance in full when registering OR enroll in a monthly payment plan for the balance. Payment plans require a monthly auto-draft and must be paid in full by May 26. Campers registering after May 26 must pay in full at the time of registration.

Click here for the Cancellation and Refund Policy.

Scholarship and other third-party payments can be accepted.  Please contact our office if you need assistance with having a scholarship or school booster check applied to your account.

Overnight Campers: $365.00 which includes

• a non-refundable deposit of $100.00
• tuition

Meal plans are available as optional add-on purchases.  Meal plans are non-refundable once purchased:

• Day Camper Lunch Package:  $35.00/week.  Learn more
• Day Camper Dinner Package:  $28.00/week. Learn more
• Day Camper Lunch & Dinner Package:  $63.00/week.  Learn more

All registrants must pay the $100.00 non-refundable deposit when registering.  Families can choose to pay the balance in full when registering OR enroll in a monthly payment plan for the balance. Payment plans require a monthly auto-draft and must be paid in full by May 26. Campers registering after May 26 must pay in full at the time of registration.

Click here for the Cancellation and Refund Policy.

Scholarship and other third-party payments can be accepted.  Please contact our office if you need assistance with having a scholarship or school booster check applied to your account.

Check-in takes place on Sunday, June 29.

There will be a final event called the Pass-In-Review at 1:30pm on Friday, July 4.    Yes, July 4.

Check-out takes place on FRIDAY following the Pass-In-Review.

See below for full camp schedules.

Detailed information about check-in, check-out, and everything in between will be available in the Camp Handbook

If you are a band director who wants to hold spots OR is planning on doing the registrations on behalf of your students, please read the info below:

RESERVING SPOTS:

To reserve spots for your leadership team before you know who the individual students will be:
Fill out this google form (coming soon).  After completing the form, you will receive one of two emails:

• an email confirming that we have held your spot(s) with  instructions for what to do when you know their names.
• an email indicating that we have added your group to the wait list.

Reservation requests will be filled in the order that they are received and are limited, so get your reservations in early to be sure to get a spot!

REGISTERING STUDENTS:

Band Directors that have already selected their students to attend camp should instruct the students to go online and register as soon as possible.  Band Directors CAN NOT make an account and have all of their students registered under it.   Band Directors CAN NOT register multiple students using the same email, or a variety of personal emails.   Students MUST be registered by their family.   The family needs to create an account which they will use to register and fill out all of the required camper forms which include personal protected information.   If you need help with registration, or if you want your students to be able to register without having to pay a deposit because the school will be paying all of the fees, please call our office so that we can assist with the registration at 850-644-9934.

REGISTRATION

Registration is done online and opens on January 13, 2025 at 9:00am EST.  You will be able to register for multiple camps/sessions at the same time. A parent/guardian is required to complete the registration.

Only the tuition (day-camper) price will show when you begin to register.  The registration form will ask you if you want to be an overnight camper, and if you answer “yes” it will automatically add the housing and meals to your cart.

All registrants must pay the $100.00 non-refundable deposit when registering.  Families can choose to pay the balance in full when registering OR enroll in a monthly payment plan for the balance. Payment plans require a monthly auto-draft and must be paid in full by May 26. Campers registering after May 26 must pay in full at the time of registration.

Click here for the Payment, Cancellation and Refund Policy.

POST-REGISTRATION CAMPER FORMS

Once you have paid the deposit and receive a registration confirmation, you will be able to fill out your required camper forms. These forms include a medical information form (no physical required), consent forms, and more.  These forms should be completed as soon as possible, but are due no later than one month prior to the start of your camp.

WAIT LISTS

If there is a wait list when you attempt to register, you can opt to be placed on the wait list. No deposit is required to be placed on the wait list. If a space becomes available you will be notified automatically by the Active registration system via an email from Support@Active.com, and you will have 48 hours to accept or pass.   Please add Support@Active.com to your contacts so that the wait list offer does not go to your junk mail.

Optional Add-Ons:

There are several add-on options available during the registration process.  You can add any of these options to your registration during the initial registration process, or anytime up to two-weeks before the start of your camp.

• Overnight Campers:  Extra Nights of Housing in the dorm:  $75.00.  Learn more
• Overnight Campers: Shuttle Service: $30/each way. Learn more
• Day Camper Lunch Package**:  $35.00/week (non-refundable)  Learn more
• Day Camper Dinner Package**:  $28.00/week (non-refundable). Learn more
• Day Camper Lunch & Dinner Package**: $63.00/week (non-refundable). Learn more
• Day Camper Parking Passes**: $TBA/week (non-refundable). Learn more

**Lunch packages, dinner packages, and parking passes are non-refundable once purchased**

Campers must bring their instrument with them to camp – preferably their marching instrument. Drummers should bring sticks only. Instruments will not be used outdoors to march – they will be used in the afternoons, indoors, for score analysis and other small group work.  If you do not own your own instrument, we suggest speaking with your music teacher about borrowing your school instrument for the duration of camp.

Campers may also wish to bring conducting gloves and baton if they have them but it is not required.

Color guard should bring their flag/rifle.

Campers will also need to bring a folding music stand and their instrument accessories.    A full packing list will be provided in the camp handbook.

• Learn more about Camp Life
• Preparing For Camp
• Go to Your Registered Camper Forms (coming soon after registration)