Interning for Champaign Young Life

Being the intern for Champaign County Young Life comes with many different responsibilities and projects.  Being a youth organization with only three staff members, no one does just one job.  So as the intern I took on a number of projects. My main project being the JR Leader supervisor and trainer.  Over the course of the semester I have trained about 15 high school students in being JR Leaders, which can be described as the high school student representatives for Young Life.  On November 9, under my supervision, the JR Leaders planned their first Young Life event.  The event was a picture scavenger hunt that spanned across all of Champaign.  The event was a huge success! Here is a picture of the group that I helped lead doing one of the challenges.

As the intern I have also done numerous office work.  We took over 30 high school students to Washburn, IL for a fall weekend trip in November, and I was in charge of all logistical duties concerning transportation and managing the students health and sign up forms.  Other events I have been able to impact and work on in my internship have been supervising JR Leaders volunteer for our middle school outreach and setting up the Young Life end of the year Christmas club!