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The week at a glance

Day-by-day overview of the 2026 Ready2Respond schedule, Monday arrival to Friday load-out.

Day

Main events

Monday

Arrival and registration; welcome and scenario brief; MRE lunch; ICS overview; villages write their sections of the Incident Action Plan; Tent City and village set-up; first responder therapy dog; evening radio communications drop-in

Tuesday

Build and village operations; WiseMind; CPR and AED; Be 2 Weeks Ready units 1–2; employability skills; Knife River’s “Communicating Clearly Under Pressure”; career conversations; evening live fire science demonstration

Wednesday

Build and operations; Be 2 Weeks Ready units 3, 4 and 8 with CERT; fire and life safety class; fire booth with turnouts and extinguishers; evening “Planning Your Pathway” with college and industry guests

Thursday

Build and operations; Be 2 Weeks Ready units 5–7; ORVID volunteer sign-up (planned, cut in a late schedule change); Paxton/Patterson labs; Knife River heavy-equipment showcase; partner and media showcase; Knife River dinner; build to finish

Friday

Units wrapped and loaded out; village and camp clean-up; career fair (cancelled for rain); closeout and departure by 5 p.m.

Two things changed during the week. Classroom sessions became optional midweek so students could keep building. Organizers cancelled Friday’s career fair late Thursday for rain, and without a single list of exhibitors, not all of them got word in time.

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