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What time do the campers usually wake up? I know that breakfast is at a certain time, but is it acceptable to wake up earlier to have time to get dressed and get ready?

Anon, you can wake up whenever you damn well please, as long as you aren't late to morning meet-up and breakfast and you coordinate with your roomies.

What is the evaluation on the first morning? What do you have to do, and how are you evaluated?

I have no idea. I left PCA before it turned into CampJam, and the evaluation is strictly a CJ thing. Sorry!

Hi :) I'll be leaving for Power Chord Academy/Camp Jam at the end this month, and I have a question. How do the instructors decide on which band to put the campers? I know they look at things like age/style/ability/interests/etc., but how do they go about doing this?

Okay! Lemme explain you a thing from my well of PCA knowledge. The way the producers and directors sort you into bands is easy: you know that you fill out interests, style, etc. on the forms before you get there. Then when you arrive they see what instrument you play, and then they just sit down after they've checked you all in and arrange you into bands. They say "well we have X number of guitarists, and Y number of drummers" and so on and so forth. There are never the proper amount of numbers-one of my bands shared a drummer with another band once, and sometimes the weird numbers make for weird bands: there was a band one year who had a guitar and a uke and three singers.

tl;dr: It's just random, essentially, and you just have to go with it.

Have fun Anon!