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Step 10Overview: Running Camp!
We've now walked through all of the legal and administrative steps involved in getting your camp set-up. Now comes the fun stuff: running the actual camp!
Our camp runs in a very simple, straight-forward style: every day, we hold a morning meeting, and tell our campers what kinds of cool activities we'll be doing throughout the day. Activities have included projects like: learning how to solder and making flashlights, programming video games, making rockets, making puppets, learning how to make cheese, kite-making, liquid nitrogen ice cream, and so-on. You, being on this website, get the idea. It's a freaking DIY extravaganza and it is amazing.
The real trick is that kids don't have to do our activities. Kids can move freely throughout our space, check out different activities, make use of all the different tools and materials we have out (like electronics, LEGOs and other construction toys, tools for taking things apart, art supplies, games, and so on) or just go play. We provide kids with inspiration and a place to get started making stuff -- and then when they fall in love with something, they've got all day to take off with it.
In the next few steps, I'm going to go over the following things that come up when running camp like...
Projects!
Rules!
Trouble!
When does camp work?
and Getting kids to teach themselves.
Our camp runs in a very simple, straight-forward style: every day, we hold a morning meeting, and tell our campers what kinds of cool activities we'll be doing throughout the day. Activities have included projects like: learning how to solder and making flashlights, programming video games, making rockets, making puppets, learning how to make cheese, kite-making, liquid nitrogen ice cream, and so-on. You, being on this website, get the idea. It's a freaking DIY extravaganza and it is amazing.
The real trick is that kids don't have to do our activities. Kids can move freely throughout our space, check out different activities, make use of all the different tools and materials we have out (like electronics, LEGOs and other construction toys, tools for taking things apart, art supplies, games, and so on) or just go play. We provide kids with inspiration and a place to get started making stuff -- and then when they fall in love with something, they've got all day to take off with it.
In the next few steps, I'm going to go over the following things that come up when running camp like...
Projects!
Rules!
Trouble!
When does camp work?
and Getting kids to teach themselves.
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