Friday is its own operation. The 2026 schedule ran: breakfast and a brief, then units wrapped and loaded out in the morning while non-builder villages broke down their areas; a career fair from late morning (cancelled for rain); a box lunch and closeout; whole-camp clean-up from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.; student pickup from 4 p.m.; everyone off campus by 5 p.m.
What the hosts and leaders flagged for next time:
Have the right machinery on site to lift finished units onto trailers, and confirm who operates it.
Sweep build areas for nails and debris before leaving.
Confirm the dumpster pickup time in writing.
Require a teacher sign-off that each student has cleared their bunk and has everything they came with, including medications. The passport’s last mission does this.
Decide in advance where each unit is going, who receives it and who documents its condition on delivery. The 2026 task list assigned shelter delivery to Human Services after camp.