Hi there! My name is Benny McLenaghan. This is my fifteenth summer at camp, sixth on staff, and I have the privilege of serving as the Macks Village Leader this summer!
Macks Village (10th grade campers) hold leadership roles in multiple programs throughout the summer, planning a village-wide talent show, curating the reveal of the Benjamin-Macks buddy pairs, and most notably, hosting the camp-wide carnival.
A few days into the session, Macks Village met as a group to decide the carnival theme, ultimately landing on rodeo! The campers spent hours preparing art and planning carnival stations and activities. This was a great exercise in creativity, teamwork, scheduling, and executing the vision.
On the day of the carnival, the heat created the need to pivot into a mostly indoor space instead of the original plan out in the sun. The Macks campers welcomed this challenge with excitement, quickly altering their plans to make the carnival successful, and learned the value of flexibility and adjusting on the spot.
Now that we have entered the second half of the session, and the Macks campers begin to think about their leadership in LIT and CIT years, they are already equipping themselves with the skills they’ll need to succeed. The carnival is just the first of many more amazing memories they’ll create for the rest of our community, and I’m so excited to see it.
Best,
Benny McLenaghan, Macks Village Leader