Club FAQs
Camp Enterprise is a 3-day camp for high school juniors and seniors held at True Friends Camp Courage in Maple Lake, Minnesota. Camp E is designed to introduce students to the free enterprise system and encourage entrepreneurship and ethical business practices. Students also experience the core values of Rotary, including “Service Above Self” and the Four-Way Test.
Each year about 120 juniors and seniors attended Camp Enterprise from high schools across Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. Any student seeking an opportunity to develop their leadership skills is a great candidate to participate. Students with an interest in business, entrepreneurship, leadership, and innovation are encouraged to attend. The experience is often life changing.
The cost to attend Camp Enterprise is $500 per student, including meals and lodging. This cost is funded entirely through sponsorship from local Rotary Clubs throughout Districts 5950 and 5960. There is NO OUT OF POCKET COST to the student.
If you are interested in sponsoring one or more students, please fill out the sponsorship form.
Please note, due to the significant financial commitments necessary to operate Camp Enterprise, sponsorships are non-refundable. If you are unable to find a student in your local community, or your students are unable to attend for any reason, we will apply your sponsorship to another student from another community who doesn’t have a sponsor.
We encourage Rotary Clubs to make every effort to identify a deserving student from their local community. In selecting a student to attend Camp Enterprise, please keep in mind that we don’t limit attendance to the students with the best grades or most extra-curricular activities. We want students with an interest in leadership and a positive attitude.
We recommend setting your priorities for students as follows:
- Students that your members are already acquainted with or working with or are a family member.
- Students from high schools in your area.
Camp Enterprise marketing team will also be directly recruiting students from all high schools throughout Rotary Districts 5950 & 5960. Outreach to counselors, administrators, and other school leaders to promote Camp E to all students will take place. If we identify students from your area, we will share and coordinate with you to match sponsorships to them.
If you are unable to identify students for any reason, we maintain a waiting list of interested students and, whenever possible, will match those students with Rotary Clubs who are unable to sponsor students from their local community.
In return for your generous sponsorship, students are required to send a letter of thanks and, wherever possible, attend (in person/virtually) one of your regular club meetings to share more about their experience at Camp Enterprise.
Camp Enterprise is a 3-day camp, held on a Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The dates of this year’s Camp Enterprise is Thurs., Nov 5 to Sat., Nov 7, 2025.
For security reasons, and due to limited parking availability, all students are required to ride charter buses from St. Peter’s Lutheran Church parking lot in Edina. Students are required to arrange their own transportation to the church lot and can park at the in the lot, if necessary. NOTE: The pick-up location address is 5421 France Avenue South, Edina MN 55410.
It takes nearly 100 Rotarian volunteers to make Camp Enterprise successful. We are looking for volunteers in the following roles:
- Mentor: As a Mentor, you will be assigned to serve as an advisor and chaperone for one of the 15 case study teams. To serve in this role, you are required to be at camp the entire time. While serving in this role requires the largest commitment of time, it also is the most rewarding. No specific business skills are required.
- Essay Reader: While at camp, the students have the opportunity to submit a short, written essay. Submission of an essay is required to be eligible to receive a scholarship. Essay Readers commit roughly 2 hours of time on Saturday morning to read and score the student essays, with each essay being read and scored by at least 3 different volunteers.
- Venture Capitalist: At the core of Camp Enterprise is an in-depth case study exercise culminating with each team making a pitch to a panel of “venture capitalists” regarding a potential investment in their company. Venture Capitalists commit roughly 4 hours of time on Saturday morning to watch 3 case study presentations for the same hypothetical product.
- Other: If you are interested in volunteering, but don’t feel like you fit one of the roles outlined above, let us know. We are always looking for additional volunteers to work “behind the scenes.”