Time | Students |
5:30 a.m. | Culinary starts food prep |
6:00 a.m. | Showers open; day-shift volunteers onboarded |
6:30 a.m. | Command and General Staff meeting (leaders) |
7:00–8:00 a.m. | Breakfast and morning brief |
8:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. | Build and village operations, with 30-minute learning sessions in rotation |
1:00–2:00 p.m. | Lunch and brief; Incident Action Plan posted |
2:00–6:00 p.m. | Build, operations and learning sessions |
6:00–7:00 p.m. | Dinner and hotwash |
7:00–8:30 p.m. | Evening activity, optional learning or more build time |
8:30–9:00 p.m. | Self-care and wind-down |
9:00–9:30 p.m. | Focused close: village groups with counselors, then whole-camp updates and shout-outs |
10:00 p.m. | In tents; night shift begins; lights out at 11:00 |
Shout-outs had a purpose beyond morale. When an educator called out a student for good work, the student’s name went into a box for Friday’s prize drawing, which included tool kits.