The Staff Assistants: Team B
By: Zach Blaifeder
   
This photo journal is part three in a four part series, which will document all the hard work that the staff assistants do. The staff assistants at camp are divided into three teams. Team B works in the office, health center, or arts building.
The Team B staff assistants that work in the office make sure the day to day operations of the camp run smoothly. In these photos, Mitch is typing up camper choice grids for the next day.
Team B staff assistants in the office have a variety of other tasks to complete. One daily task is to go to go to the post office to get the mail and packages.
On this day, Karli was driven by office manager Cherie to get the mail. Usually, a wheel barrow is taken to retrieve it.
After the mail gets back, it's sorted and then it makes its way to campers.
At lunch, Team B staff assistants wait for all groups to finish choosing activities. They collect grids, and then count how many campers are doing each activity the next day.
After all of the schedules are collected, and the counts are completed, copies of the schedule are made for the next day.
Of course, if there is a paper jam, a Team B staff assistant will be there to fix the problem!
Once in a while, a Team B office staff assistant may go on a shopping trip. On the particular day, A&P was visited.
Various items like watermelons and birthday cakes were bought.
All of these office tasks are not the only things Team B does.  
  Two Team B staff assistants are assigned to the health office to help out.
  One task is to make Gatorade for  dehydrated campers.
While another task involves taking campers back to their activities.  
Laundry is done and beds are made just in case campers need to stay in the health center for a little while.
  Of course, all of this hard work may warrant a little nap time!
  Lastly, two staff assistants are assigned to work in the arts center.
Two activities that need a lot of help setting and cleaning up are tie dye and ceramics. Team B staff assistants ensure these activities run smoothly by doing this.
  Every once in a while, the gymnastics floor needs to be vacuumed, a task that a Team B staff assistant assigned to art needs to accomplish.
At the end of the day, a general clean up of the arts center is performed.
WOW! Team B does a lot!  However, these tasks are always done with smiles on their faces and with great enthusiasm. Great job!
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