• 100 percent of students who attended Panther Camp get involved in at least one club or activity at FIU!
  
• Past Panther Camp participants are involved all across campus, including:
  
  • Peer Advisors
    
  • Student Government Association
    
  • Sororities and Fraternities
    
  • The Honors College
    
  • Resident Assistants
    
  • Student Alumni Association
    
  • Panther Rage/Panther Power
    
  • Greek Orientation Team (GO Team)
    
  • Residence Hall Association
    
  • Student Programming Council
    
  • Homecoming Council
    
  • Week of Welcome Committee
    
  • Relay for Life
    
  • Campus Leaders Orientation Team (CLOT)
    
  • Alternative Breaks
    
  • Honor Societies
    
  • Dance Marathon
    
  • Academy of Leaders
    
  • First Year Experience Peer Mentors
    
  • And many more…
• The 2009 Homecoming King is a past Panther Camp participant
  
• Panther Camp has won the Outstanding Student Life Award for Outstanding Spirit Organization for the past two years

Not convinced yet? Hear what FIU students have to say…

Panther camp changed me! It made me realize that you should enjoy college to the fullest! Now I'm involved in many clubs and organizations, and I have made so many friends. So far, college has been everything I have always wanted!
- Stefany Marcelino

"Panther Camp was very inspirational. It helped me by networking me before classes began and connected me with so many beautiful and wonderful individuals! I recommend Panther Camp to everyone!!"
- Edward Montes

Going to Panther Camp was beneficial in many different ways. It instilled in me the motivation to get involved on campus, providing real-life examples of the benefits of getting involved. It increases self-development by eliminating notions that inhibit self-confidence, and promotes behaviors that are essential to success. Panther Camp makes you see that everyone has the ability and the desire to contribute to meaningful causes. It causes one to evaluate him/herself with the intention of becoming the best they can be. 

“Panther Camp does what you never thought it could and more, life changing in the smallest way.”
- Michael Guzmán

Panther Camp was an amazing experience that not only allowed me to open up about who I am, but it also eased the transition into college. I met friends I will have for a lifetime thanks to this wonderful experience and I recommend it to anyone who is able to go. It was a life changing event that will never be forgotten. 
-Kenny Somma

Don’t misinterpret panther camp as just an experience.  It helped students find themselves.  For most of them it was a chance to be who they are, and who they wanted to be for the first time in their life”

Every Camper left with a confidence that could not be taught.  A sense of pride that was instilled by being put in atmosphere in which all you had was each other.  There was no outside influences on how you should act or an expectation on how you should behave like high school.  It was something so real.”

I laugh when people ask me what’s panther camp?  Or how was it.  But when I see every Camper at almost every campus event proud and smiling just from the kindness and acceptance of their heart I want to say.. ask them.”
-Andrew Sanchez

Panther Camp is not a simple event, its family! I feel blessed knowing that we can understand each other so well, and are always there for each other. It does take a lifetime to maintain a friendship, but it takes a wonderful weekend to make a family!
- Lien Hernandez

It was by far the best decision I have made college wise. It really helps you connect with so many different people.
-Veronica Rodriguez

"Panther Camp is the most amazing life changing expreience anyone could ask for. Not only do you learn all about F.I.U. but you also learn about yourself and about others who are joining you in this crazy period of our lives we call college."
- Andrew Calienes