Long-time readers may remember way back at the dawn of 2016, when the year still had so much hope and potential, that I mentioned working with Threshold School on a world-building day camp for kids in grades 5-7. The camp (as I may have neglected to mention) was a blast, and we may do it again someday.
Well, I’ve got good news for parents of bright kids looking for a challenge in the Boulder / Denver area. Threshold School is now accepting applications not for a day camp, but for the 2017-18 school year. The school focuses on hands-on learning, in which students learn by doing–producing films, for example, or restoring wildlife habitats, or engineering steam-powered robots. The students will use real tools and real materials in authentic conditions. In the words of the school, “The children will have the freedom to fail, the time to persevere, and space to imagine. Through their work, they will gain the audacity to think big and the tenacity to carry through.”
(And yes, the school will offer classes in game design and world-building. That’s where I come in.)
Intrigued? Great! Check out the school’s website and schedule of upcoming informational meetings for more details.
