Gunn, in conjunction with the Silicon Valley Conference for Community and Justice (SVCCJ), annually offers 120 lucky students the opportunity to visit Camp Everytown. The participants spend four days and three nights in the Santa Cruz Mountains, engaging in various diversity and leadership training activities. Yet not everyone who wants to can go to the camp–Gunn has rules regarding who can and cannot go. In order to be eligible to participate in Camp Everytown, a student must first be recommended by at least one teacher. Those lucky few who are recommended must then be selected from a lottery to secure a spot. Though it is only logical to have Everytown once a year due to time constraints and school activities, the selection process should be improved so that all students have an equal opportunity to attend the retreat.

Camp Everytown truly unites the students who attend and transforms their views of society in a positive way. If more students were aware of this program and could sign up for it themselves, the entire campus would be better off because students would be more open-minded and have better leadership skills. Students are not even aware if they are nominated or not, and only hear word of the program if they make it past the lottery. Furthermore, if a student gets nominated two different times but in different years, it makes little difference in the selection process. Out of the 200 to 300 nominees for each Everytown session, only 120 are invited to participate in the retreat. Though many teachers are willing to grant nomination requests, some students do not feel comfortable asking a teacher for this recommendation, and therefore miss the opportunity to go to the camp.

One problem that the administration faces when recruiting people to attend Everytown is the necessity of a diverse group of students to attend. Since campers share personal experiences and express feelings about cultures and backgrounds, it is important to have a varied group of people at the camp. The administration may fear that if students can sign up freely as opposed to being recommended, the camp might lose the diversity that makes the experience so valuable to students. However, if people who weren't recommended signed up for the camp, they would still contribute to the camp because they would truly want to be there and want to participate fully in all of the activities.

There are no Camp Everytown posters on campus. But if Gunn advertised the camp better, interested students could make sure that they ask at least one of their teachers to recommend them (the more, the better), or directly sign up for it themselves. Teachers could also post sign-up sheets in their classrooms, and submit these students to the Camp Everytown lottery in addition to the ones they recommend. Half of the students recommended by their teachers and half of the students who sign up for the camp themselves should make up the attendance at Camp Everytown. This solution would please both parties: the students who are eager to go that never make it past the lottery, and the Everytown leaders, who strive for a diverse mix of students at the camp.