Girl Scout Twilight Camp

Twilight Camp 2025 Core Staff Reflection

(These are the comments we captured the week after camp over email and in Nick's online form)

REGISTRATION

Metadata Fields – Medical details, accommodations, and parent comments are in multiple long-form text fields, especially for fields with an “Other” option. Most campers have no health accommodation. For Food Allergies, Environmental Allergies, Meds in Camp, etc change form to tell parents to add details to the “Activity Restrictions and Health Concerns” field, then manually update in one place (Nick)
Meds in Camp – Need to tweak verbiage to be clear we’re asking “what do we need to administer between 2-8pm” (Nick)
Older Girl Campfire – Add to initial registration (Nick)
Attendance Field – Hard to find late/missing campers. Maybe a shared doc or structured field in RegFox or Power BI to centralize this. (Nick)
Parent Email – Make it clear we want the parent’s email. Some families list a scout’s or troop leader’s email. Add a friendly note that we use email and expect it to be read. (Nick)
Yahoo Recipients – Mail from the Twilight Camp has trouble getting through to Yahoo service accounts (Nick)
Power BI Report – It’d be easier to work from the Power BI Report instead of the Excel Registration Report to check status of things (Nick)
Goes By Name - Add preferred/goes by/nick name” to registration. (Nick)
Older Girl Registration – Need to emphasize that we can’t place Caddies together. Last minute troop leaders came in asking for changed (Nick)
Alumna – Some reached out week before camp to me, which is great, but then were one-off on everything, Need to push to Registration (Nick)
Registration/Caddies - Ask for Camp Name on Registration form so that their camp name tags can be made without their real or nickname on them (half the fun is quessing everyone's real names)

PRINTING, REPORTS, BINDERS, NAME TAGS

Name tags – don’t use a border, hard to get it to line up exactly (Nick)
Name tags - Printing is fast, laminating/sorting takes a lot of time. Would be a good role to put on SignUp Genius assuming we can get them printed/ready a couple weeks before camp. (Nick)
Site Binders - We should review what's actually being used, if we can eliminate any of the reports that will save prep time. Do we need a) Full adult roster b) Full youth roster (as opposed to units/names) sorted both alphabetically and by unit (Nick) Many of my tabs were empty and I didn’t miss most of them. Would need to see all the options again to let you know what I used/didn’t use, or what I wish I had available. (Jen V)
Site Binders - Allergies – Related, the food allergy details can get lost in the other reports. Amber had a really good system of sticky notes callout out exceptions (Nick)
Site Binders – What’s missing (Nick)
Schedules – Does everyone find the laminated schedules and activity-only schedules helpful? (Nick) I like the laminated list of units with color-coding to match their shirts. Did not like having my phone number posted. (Jen V)
Snack list – Might be nice to have a laminated list to hand to the snack volunteer that has unit number, number of campers & caddies in that unit, and the food allergies in that unit - for privacy, does not necessarily need to name the specific camper. Then volunteers would know how many to prep in advance (Jen V)

CARVER COUNTY PARKS

Proactive Updates – Everything should be in order. If something’s broken, vandalized, or unusable – we get it, stuff happens – but we need to be told ASAP, not discovering it on our own once the event is underway (Nick)
Site 5/Lakeview Parking - Signage needs improvement. The “Reservation Only” sign is too small and easily missed. Our big sign did a good job directly Twilight Camp families, but general public may have thought it didn’t apply to them. Creative Playground Parking sign needs moved closer to the turn-off (Nick)
Group Waivers – We need a better process here – we’re offering their programming under the umbrella of our event; we don’t’ want them collecting separate emergency contact info, etc. It’s a pain to gather. Let’s ask for a better solution. (Nick)
Lakeview Trash - Wasn’t collected in the kitchen all week? Nick didn’t know until Thursday night. We need a daily shared status list of some kind, quick and lightweight, for little things like that (Nick)

COMMUNICATION

Yahoo Email Accounts – Pretty sure Yahoo blocked Info@twilightcamp.org at the service ingress. We can get the domain whitelisted over the winter. Maybe we mail a simple postcard on July 1 as a backup notice? “Be sure the check www.twilightcamp.org the Friday before camp”? (Nick)
Website – We tried to duplicate everything sent in email with a top-level section on the website; it wasn’t clear within core staff that was being done. Did get good compliments on the “Ignore the emails, just read this” header on the site. (Nick)
Text-Em-All – People were replying to the text broadcasts. Unexpected, but it made it easier to manage like an inbox. It costs $.05/text but that might be cheaper than a $40 pre-paid phone for a month. (Nick)

EQUIPMENT

Camp Kitchen – We need to go through the kitchen bin, eliminate what isn’t being used. (Nick)
Caddie Campfire – Supplies got carted to closet (lighter, matches, etc.) Maybe create a “Caddie Campfire” bin with those? (Nick)
Second Speaker – Need a 2nd powered speaker w larger area of Ceremony Circle (Nick)
Ceremony Circle – Could we get a string, stake out circle, mark w/spray paint dots? (Nick)
Misters - Quick-release attachments leaking – check washers over winter (Nick)
Water jugs – Some of the spouts are leaking. All these are over 20 years old. Probably time to replace them. (Nick)

FINANCES

Consumables – It’s nice not having to deal with one-off consumables (e.g. one site orders 300 sporks and has 100 leftovers, another 300 forks and has 100 leftovers). Don’t like storing these, because one never knows how many we have left, so still tend to buy more anyway. Historically we haven’t saved time/money. But maybe we should standardize on a few things – sporks, boats, 9 inch plates, 12 oz cups, napkins – in bulk, like, 5000, people can grab as needed for individual events? (Nick)
Forecasting – Nick wound up doing, let’s break it up next year, figure out a tool that’s accessible (Nick)
Consumables - For consumables (especially forks which get dropped) we should just plan to have 10% extra (Amber)
Budget - Separate line item for Site Decorations (Jen P)

Amazon Prime – Lisa Larson suggested getting a tax-exempt Prime account for the service unit and camp to use. I know that on Prime Day I saved about $90. Might be worth the investment if everyone can save that much. Could be sent to individual’s houses, but paid for with camp card. (Jen V)

CADDIES AND UNITS

Caddie Corner – We need to run this with a bit more structure, staffing it 1:30 – 2:30- and 7:00 – 8:00, don’t eat at it, great caddies, answer questions, run interference etc. Be the “face” of the Caddie initial experience. (Nick)
Sunday Dinner – Jimmy Johns was great but simplify – just ham, turkey, veggie. 1 or 2 unwiches. Order party boxes by sandwich type and put up a sign . . . took a while for girls to get through the line (Nick)
Ceremony Circle MCs – Worked great signing them up during Senior Caddie training, great idea. (Nick)
OG Team Daily Tasks – The Older Girl team sort of doubles as “Ceremony Circle Operations” and all the beginning/end transitions. They need a visible daily checklist, just like the Caddies, including ceremony setup. (Nick)
Songs, Traditions – Jen P underutilized, good relationship with many of the girls via Ava’s troop, events (Nick) Could be because of the extra flag activity /site 5 lost their longer “songs” time. Should be better next year (Jen V)
Caddie Placement – Could invite all of core staff (Nick)
Sunday Name Tags – Sunday training derailed a little by name tag/sign-in printing errors. Double-check next year, maybe do same time as name tags (Nick)
Pizza Party - Write down Carrie’s pizza formula. It worked, and Tom was great delivering it. (Nick)
S’Mores – Disposable skewers seem to work well. Seemed like we had just the right amount of stuff? (Nick)
Campfire – Was a little harder to gather at – REALLY heavy fire ring. Let’s make sure Parks drops it off near the parking lot. (Nick)
Campfire RSVPs/Payment – Too much energy/time confirming on Thursday. Process .Move the whole things to main registration, and just confirm the outliers. (Nick)
OG Staff Assignments – Finalize a bit earlier. Get people slotted before camp week. (Nick)
Caddie Handbook - Was a hit, approachable. Took time to assemble manually, but totally worth it. Maybe print to OfficeMax. (Nick) Yes, but make it easier to just reprint – generic schedule vs specific to year (Jen V)

GIRL SCOUT TRADITIONS

Announcements Song – No one knew, let’s bring these back—helps tie the day together. (Nick)
Unit Names – Stopped around 2022, too much to do, can bring back as long as Director doesn’t do it (Nick)
Camp Names – Have been gone for 15+ years. Would’ve been fun to leave a blank on name tags for girls to Sharpie one in. (Nick)
Quiet Sign – Does everyone know this? Maybe we practice on Monday. Would be nice to have more tools than “Hey Hey Ho Ho” (Nick)
Central Song Leader – Nice to have but it never wrecks the schedule trying to have everyone get to it each day (Nick) Without the extra flags station, can do at site 5 as everyone gathers for closing (Jen V)
Make the World a Better Place - Remind girls to Leave Camp better than they found it...Girl Scout way...no litter, pick up trash, etc. (Jen P)

PROGRAMMING

Site/Activity Names - Inconsistent naming makes everything harder during prep. Lots of manual updates across schedules, rosters, and reports. We need a single reference list that’s locked down. (Nick) Could we just label them “snack, craft, activity, and STEM”? Maybe put an astrik at the bottom of the schedule with more details like “pie iron cookies, tie-dye, log-rolling, water rockets” - and only use the astrik on the schedule page so fewer places to change it. (Jen V)
Girl Scout Badges – Could we incorporate Girl Scout badges into next year’s day camp. Most badge steps can be completed in any order. Mapping badge steps earlier would allow small activity adjustments to align to badge requirements. Cross-site or cross-activity could help more campers earn full badges. Gotchas: 1) Campers who miss a session may not earn the badge; 2) Badges vary by program level—activities may need multiple age-based versions. 3) Harder to hit C/S/A requirements 4) Would need to be coordinated by programming director (Nick)
Snack Scheduling - snack scheduled immediately following supper was not great- I also didn't notice it on the schedule until units started to complain a little, but something to keep in mind (Amber)
Unit Quantity -Having only 16 units was beautiful for allowing my volunteers to have breaks (Amber)
Programming - Schedule campers to come down to Ceremony Circle @ 7:00 for songs/ GS knowledge or badge commonalities/Flag mini lesson for 7:15pm start to closing so Color Guard can bond and we stay on time for 7:45pm departure. (Jen P)

PLANNING

Twilight Camp Project Plan, OneDrive – Need to revisit plan and content on OneDrive. Spent a lot of time in 2019 organizing, but not clear, also fits the way I think but not necessarily everyone else. Made extra work for Beth. Need to simplify project plan; maybe move to Trello, Monday, etc so everyone can see pending tasks. (Nick)
Digital Stuff – We’re optimized around Twilight Camp 2015 when Treva Bjerke stepped down, she was optimized around 2007 or so when she took it over. Legacy paper-based processes inform everything. Just something to consider. Do we need printouts everywhere if we have a computer at HQ? (Nick)
Nick List – Get stuff out where others can see it vs hidden in a list in Excel or my head (Nick)

VOLUNTEER RECRUITING AND SIGN UP

Fewer Slots on Monday – We should deliberately have too few - slots on Monday when we open SignUpGenius, then add them once we’re underway. Helps nudge volunteers to sign up for later in the week initially. (Nick)
Less Volunteers Wed/Thur - Once girls know the routine, we likely don’t need as many floaters or Unit Guides on Wed/Thu. May less program specialists too especially if we have a lot of Caddies (Nick)
Pre-camp volunteer – Add a slot for volunteers who can’t work at camp but want to help ahead of time. Name tags are a good start, but could also cut stars out of cardboard or other easy to do at home tasks. (Jen V)

SHIRTS AND PATCHES
Distribution – Pre-camp sorting, baggie distribution works fantastic. So much better than Karen K bringing boxes to sort on Sunday (Nick)
Colors – We use colors to differentiate units for safety. They're deliberately picked to be easy to tell apart at a glance. If core staff have a preference, that color needs to be locked in first before assigning the rest. (Nick)
Unit Photos – Is there any way we could get the pictures printed earlier in the week? We always get it done, but I’m not a fan of stuffing envelopes at 4pm on Thursday. (Jen V)

WEATHER, FIRST AID, SAFETY

Main Shelter – The “Table Markers” worked well for weather on Tuesday. (Nick)
Site 4 | Trailside – The trail was a quagmire after the rain, sent everyone through it to minimize lightning risk. Next time could use back bike path though much longer. (Nick)

CEREMONY CIRCLE

Announcements – Not sure everyone knows to get announcements to OG clipboard. Maybe post that on kitchen door until it’s needed? Then Beth et al can update during the day. (Nick)
Lost & Found - Could it be moved to the gravel walkway from the parking lot so parents see it every check in and every night? Maybe on a folding table? (Jen P)
Start on Time – Need to start on time, 2:15 pm on Tuesday; long time for kids in the sun (Nick)
Bronze/Silver/Gold Recognition – Always need to chase down. Is this something the Area could help with? (Nick)
Unit Flags - Good circle or horseshoe of campers and caddies for Flag Ceremony/songs....marking it out (spray painting grass dots) sounds like a FAB idea (Jen P)
Flag Ceremony - Be sure to give campers/caddies proper Flag behavior instructions prior to first opening and first closing flag ceremonies (during song time so must likely by me or whomever in leading songs) (Jen P)

NEW BRIGHTON BUS

Bus Sign-Out – organized but understaffed. Katie A handled it well but needed a helper. Might make sense to assign someone from the New Brighton community, not sure why there wasn’t another adult helping; maybe all were at the site? (Nick)
Parking – Add a blurb somewhere on where bus should park. (Nick)
New Brighton Coordinator – Need someone who isn’t Nick or PAC or be liaison for New Brighton GS community. Manage Bus contract, pick-up/drop-off times, answer general questions, Caddie carpooling, etc. Not sure they have a SUM this past year (Nick)

Camper Survey

1. Was this the first year you attended Twilight Camp?

2. What part of camp did you like best?

· The Japanese bracelets and log rolling/swimming. And cricket.

· The midway

· Crafts and swimming

· The lumberjack

· Creating the wire stars

· Adopt an animal craft at station 5, and swimming

· Swimming and cricket

· Singing songs

· making bracelets

· Swimming and making the bracelet/braiding

· Activities and caddies

· Log rolling

· The snacks

· Everything

· Elena!

· log rolling

· Swimming

3. What part of camp did you like least?

· The tater tot hot dish was good, but our units all burned.

· Walking

· Barely knowing anyone

· Nothing

· not getting to swim one day

· Getting bit by a million bugs

· Log rolling was very challenging

· Not enough swim time

· we didn't have a lot of time to do everything

· Changing after swimming/bathrooms were dirty

· The rain day and not getting to swim

· Mexican snack

· Rain;)

· Missing swimming due to rain

· The bugs

· "when they sang a song without me" (we had to leave early on Thu and I think this is about missing doing unit song?)

· n/a - loved everything

· Walking a lot

· The long Walks to all the stations

· Nothing

· Sunshine

· Nothing

· Singing- too many songs

4. How did you like working with your Unit Caddies.

5. Is there anything else you'd like to share about your Caddies?

· Just really like them.

· They were really funny!

· They were fun and playful!

· They were really nice.

· They made the experience so incredibly positive. My daughter could not stop talking about how great they were.

· “Larry” is the best!

· They helped me with my wheelchair

· Dear Rose, I love you very much and I hope you can babysit us sometimes, and I love you so much.

· I love how hard they (unit 1 caddies) worked.

6. Camp Activities

· Liked the seed art, bracelets. Midway games, popcorn snacks. Bracelets, stars, and cricket were all fun and new experiences. Tater tot hot dish burned, so needed to check that more often. Farm chores were hard (sheep, cows).

· I really liked the Kumihimo braiding and I didn’t really like the flag code

· Northwoods was best, all were good

· "Life on the Farm was a favorite.

· No last favorite, they were all great."

· Best:
North woods: log rolling and star ornaments
Midway: midway games
International bazaar: bracelet and fruit and drums
Life on a farm: adopt an animal and seed art
Least: hot dish, cricket was fun for 10 minutes but didn’t need 45

· Wish she had more time at midway games and log rolling"

· Life on the farm, I loved learning about farm life!

· "Life on the Farm was my favorite!

· Would have liked more time at those stations."

· Making catapults was my favorite at the Midway. North Star Craft was my favorite at Northwoods. Seed Art was my favorite at Life on the Farm. And my most FAVORITE thing we did was Kumihimo Braiding at International Bazaar!

· Favorite-midway and international bazaar

· Log rolling and farm

· Log rolling

· Fav: log rolling, braiding, farm chores

· "The star craft was hard

· I liked the adopt a pet the best"

· Life on a farm (adopt a farm animal)

7. What are your ideas for future camp activities or a future camp theme?

· Amusement park theme - design own rides, make cotton candy, popsicle stick roller coaster design, bumper cars out of cardboard boxes.

· Maybe like a sports theme You can do make sport jewelry maybe play new sports

· More swimming

· The zoo

· Activities that have to do with animals

· Theme idea is weather and storms and clouds. Activities could make a mini tornado. Rain stick with nails. Wire, magnet and toothbrush with sticky dots to be electricity or energy. Snack could be mash mellow and whipped cream and something to make it grey.

· Playground theme?

· 90’s theme, American government theme, Olympics

· IN THE FOREST would be all about how to survive in the woods and camping and nature!

· At the beach, shell or rock painting, sand castles?

· Animal theme

· Beach, ocean animals, around the world, camping

· Taylor swift theme

8. Any comments or feedback on the above or any other camp activities?

· Be able to swim more, not just stand in a group in the lake. Encourage to make new friends instead of only stick with your troop. Maybe a different buddy each day (not with swimming but with activities)

· Thank you! Camp and all the activities were really fun for this soon to be 4th grader

· Did you like your unit song? - I feel that everyone should agree on a song as a group

· Very well run camp - I was delightfully surprised!

· Thank you

9. Any Other Comments or Suggestions

· Thanks for another fun Twilight Camp!

· Great camp and I really enjoyed it! Thanks for all the work that went into it!

Caddie Survey

1. What was your position at camp?

2. What was your favorite part about being a Caddie?

· "Getting to be role models for the younger girls

· More unit time"

· Having fun with my unit

· Meeting other caddies

· I enjoyed the younger camper and the positive energy they bring to the camp.

· The kids-I really liked my group

· Being able to do activities and still help the kids.

· getting to know the girls

· Probably getting to know the kids and see them have so much fun at the activities and with each other

· Meeting the kids, and participating in camp (4th year) from a different perspective.

· Everything

· The campers

3. What would you change about being a Caddie at Twilight Camp?

· Wider age range for caddies

· A little bit longer at camp so we could have a bit more unit time and other activities

· During Caddie training have age specific activities for us to do with are campers.

· Longer swim time

· Nothing

· getting to pick a few ages that you would want to be a caddie for

· Just more instructions to get to all the sites ( since in training you just went to one site, but then just went to the other and didn’t show how to get to the site from the opening ceremony)

· Would have preferred to do it with her friend, core reason they do it. Understand that dynamic, though.

· Nothing

· Honestly nothing really. I liked my experience and wouldn't change anything about it.

4. How satisfied are you with the following parts of the Older Girl Training?

5. How satisfied were you with the following Unit Processes at camp?

6. How could we improve any of the above next year?

· More songs at closing ceremony

· Maybe do all the unit songs on the last day so parents can watch?

· I don't know...I love Twilight Camp 😀

· By giving the older girls going into 6th grade more time on the first day to do their song.

· make sure the girls have the flag class before they unit does flag

· I believe for the camper check-in it would’ve been easier if there was potentially more bus people to sign in or quicker somehow which would make it easier to sign in because at one day it took them about 10 minutes to come to our unit to sign in our kids from the bus

· N/a

· I think the opening song could be better

· Make sure whoever is picking up the camper that they know they have to sign out anf not just take the camper. Double enforce it.

7. Camp Activities - Which were your favorites? Which could we improve?

· Long rolling was my favorite and farm chores maybe a little less messy

· The log rolling was fun my campers liked it and Probobly the star, tator toy hotdogs and farm chores

· I liked most of the activities but I wish some of them like log rolling and cricket were 30 minutes instead of 45 as my unit really struggled the last 15 minutes

· Life on the Farm-my favorite; Northwoods-least favorite. I liked log rolling but I wasn't very interested in the other activities

· I liked life on the farm because the girls had a lot of fun and the snack was good. You could improve the farm chores such as the sheering sheep to not be as messy.

· cricket was my favorite and the fruit cup were my favorite snack

· I think my favorite as a whole was international bazaar and I think something we could improve would be for the Littles maybe something that’s a little easier or something that they can accomplish a little bit easier with them being able to contribute

· Favorite - life on the farm. Improve - midway could be more creative.

· Log rolling

· Caribbean fruit snacks

· I liked the life in the farm. It was all really fun, though.

8. What are your ideas for future camp activities or a future camp theme?

· Space or Barbie

· I’m not sure maybe more braclets?

· "*MN theme-Twin Cities, lakes, up north, farms/rural/southern

· *Countries around the world

· *Disneyland/World theme"

· Twilight in space- learn about different space activities and make some food and other stuff related to what astronauts bring in space.

· mythology for a theme

· Underwater theme, circus theme, maybe some sort of space theme

· Less crafts, more activities.

· Something involving like sports.

· Disney princess

· Maybe we could do splatter painting? We could learn how to make little hats maybe?

9. Other Comments or Suggestions

· It was all pretty good the thunderstorm on wendsday was hard because we had to miss some things maybe if we have that problem In the future extending camp by however much we were delayed?

· I think that the older girl staff sometimes oversteps. There was at least one time last week where an older girl staff made are caddies go try to play cricket with the girls instead of just watching them, which resulted in all of the girls throwing a tantrum about how they were done playing cricket. We learned the day before that they did better with the physical activities (ie log rolling) when the caddies were watching instead of doing it with them and even though we tried to explain that to the staff she made us participate which caused a tantrum from our girls and put a bit of a dent in the rest of the day.

· I really liked the farm station.

· Activities were really cool this year!

· Na

· I really liked the overall experience. Everyone was really nice, and it all worked out well.

Parent/Volunteer Survey

1. What grade(s) will your Girl Scout(s) be entering this Fall?

2. How likely is your family to participate in camp next year?

3. What part of camp did your Girl Scout(s) like the most?

· Doing new activities every day

· She loved everything - the activities, swimming, crafts - she came home each night so excited

· Friends and activities

· Swimming

· Being a Caddie

· Songs! Caddies! ELENA!

· The idea of an outdoor camp at night

· · swimming, log rolling, unit bonding activities

· Being paired with a friend. LOVED the food and activities. She especially liked this year's theme.

· Hanging out with the Caddies and campers

· Snacks and crafts

· Crafts, playground

· Leading

· swimming and friends!

· My daughter enjoyed being an assistant caddie

· Swimming

4. What part of camp did your Girl Scout(s) like the least?

· One of the snacks

· Na

· Having dinner, then snack right after.

· N/A

· Did not hear complaints

· Swimming :( (broken leg lol)

· Her shift for dinner was very early in the day

· She loved it all! Best camp so far this summer, she said!

· n/a, they really had a great time!

· Mostly just the things that are out of our control like the weather and spiders in the bathroom.

· Getting the girls out of the water (because they wanted to stay in)

· Swimming

· Dinner

· ?

· Some of the crafts weren't as interesting this year

· She enjoyed all aspects of camp.

5. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements about Twilight Camp?

6. What should we repeat next year?

· Love the different unit themes and coordinating snacks! Cute camp patch!!

· 2 Crafts each day

· Log rolling, more swimming time.

· Communication from camp was spectacular!

· Caddies seemed very well trained- super fun activities at the different centers

· The variety of the activities and the pizza party for the older girl scouts

· Everything was great!

· Everything! This camp is so awesome and so well run!

· Ellie loved cricket, swimming

· The Sunday training and variety of activities seemed to work well

· The variety of activities, keeping a cultural awareness mindset

· All of it

· I liked closing in the field. It made checkout afterwards much faster

· Great camp, keep the creativity and engagement with the stations. Farm and swim were awesome.

· Having a theme is fun!

· Enjoyed all activities.

· The overall structure of camp was great, the schedule flowed really well and the rotations of everything that the campers got to do was a good variety.

· The 4 stations, playground, swimming

· It was much appreciated that you provided a vegetarian version for the hotdish. Thank you!

· We are from the New Brighton troop and I believe her troop leader had some say in who they were paired with. I think this was a huge highlight of the year. She enjoyed being with a new caddy and making new friends but also having one buddy she was already familiar with.

· Fun crafts.. good amount of beach time..

· Everything, it’s great. Definitely miss the big hill, but not sure what else you do instead…

· Fun theme!

· Activities, snacks, movement, fun!

· Communication is great. I like that the Caddies met at camp to go over the weekly plans

· Camp gets better every year, continue Roth variety and swimming

7. What could we improve for next year?

· Have more short shifts. Consider breaking up full day slots to smaller shifts. It’s really hard to commit a full day and easier to find 1-2 hours. You may find more volunteers this way

· Could not hear well for intro and closing ceremonies. Girls were not engaged as a result. Change mic/speaker system or have girls physically closer together.

· Keep up the good work.

· Sometimes the length of some activities felt too long- and there was more downtime in some than others.

· "Telling (new) families that there will be a life guard for swimming to help eleveate concerns leading up to camp

· The volunteer aspect/expectations/sibling options weren't that clear when initially signing child up for first time families. "

· Perhaps let parents know which day their child will be singing at the closing ceremony. I don't believe that was in an email. My daughter told me, but her information isn't 100% reliable since she's 6 :)

· It's hard for me to say because I wasn't at camp at all this year. And our drop off process was done at the bus in New Brighton which was amazing. Quick and easy and painless. This year seemed to be on time evening arrivals as well. I know that's not always the case but it was very consistent this year which is greatly appreciated.

· I can't think of anything, I think it's very well organized.

8. Did you volunteer at camp

9. Volunteer Role

10. Please rate your OVERALL perceptions of your VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE at Twilight Camp.

11. Volunteer Feedback:

· great organization

· I would emphasize to future volunteers that do not be intimidated! It is not as much work as you would think it would be! The caddies do a lot of work and you are really there just to be an adult supervising. It was really a vacation for me!

· Be able to have siblings at camp one day at a time so adult can volunteer for one day

· Very nice man, Andrew? made the clean up process easy and included my older daughter in it nicely.

· It was easy to find something to volunteer for that matched my comfort level and bandwidth :)

12. Do you have any other comments, suggestions, or feedback?

· Does camp end at 7:30 or 8 PM?

· See you next year!

· "Thank you, thank you thank you! This camp was so awesome, can’t wait to be back next year! -Sara Hallermann :) Emma’s mom! Sarahallermann390@gmail.com "

· Her unit allowed for girls to pick partners each day which ended up being an issue for the kids that are in the same troop as they didn't even try to talk to other kids outside their troop.

· When I helped Andrew set up for camps, the unit leaders were often ready and sitting. I believe repeat Unit guides should helo set up when they are ready. Start the misters, put water in the hand washing stations.... IF they are ready. It would make his life easier, and it would be kind. (I mean the easy stuff.) Andrew loves his role and he is great at it. I learned a ton from him.

· Thank you for all the work in making camp happen!