| **Team**
| **Typical pre-playa work**
| **Typical on-playa work**
| **Typical post-playa work**
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| **Parties**
| Choose themes for parties, prepare decor and accessories, line up DJs and entertainment, produce publicity and submit events to Playa Events, coordinate with drinks team
| Run the parties, make sure there are volunteers to staff parties as greeters, monitors, consent monitors, bike parking, lighting directors, DJs, and bartenders
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| **Guardians**
| Plan for orientation activities, schedule training for new turtles and pre-playa meeting sessions
| Deal with personal, emotional, health issues, and conflict that may come up; coach campers whose behavior puts them at risk of not getting invited back
| Produce programming for re-integration and "decompression" from playa; make sure unresolved issues during the week are addressed
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| **Bikes** | Inventory bikes and order new parts
| Check bikes out and in
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| **Turtle Truck**
| Reserve a rental truck and pick it up; coordinate load-in and drive to playa
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| Coordinate load-in, drive from playa, take camp trash to the dump, wash truck and return it
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| **Turtle Bus** | Coordinate the charter bus and make sure the right people are on it and it goes to the right places; communicate with riders
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| Coordinate the charter bus and make sure the right people are on it and it goes to the right places; communicate with riders |
| **Camp Decor and Design** | Plan camp layout and decor
| Set up decor and lights
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| **Art Projects** | Build art for the playa
Work on an art car
| Set up art, maintain art lighting, maintain art car, etc.
| Take down art
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| **Pillow Fort** | Plan pillow fort layout and decor
| Coordinate on-playa pillow fort activities
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| **Workshops and Events** | Prepare some kind of on-playa workshop or event
| Example events: Tarot Reading, Turkish Coffee Fortunetelling, HIIT training, Yoga, workshops and small classes, etc.
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