Auction Ends: Mar 14, 2010 11:59 PM EDT

Kids Camp

Beam Camp, NH - Three-Week Sleepaway Session!

Item Number: 278

Estimated Value: 3750 USD
Sold: 3500 USD to amimoore

Number of Bids: 1 - Bid History

Item Description

Beam Camp is honored to offer a 3-week session, Sunday, July 25 - Sunday, August 15, 2010, for a camper aged 7 - 17.

Beam Camp is an overnight summer program for boys and girls aged 7-17 in Strafford, New Hampshire. At Beam, kids learn to make their ideas happen through fine and manual arts, technology and collaboration. Every summer campers collaborate on the spectacular Beam Project and engage with our full-time and visiting staff of professional architects, videographers, builders, engineers, designers, and makers of all kinds. They learn the tools, techniques and temperaments of creation to apply to their own plots, plans and schemes. They transform ideas into artifacts and personal achievement into community success.

The centerpiece of the camp program is The Beam Project, a large-scale collaborative endeavor that campers plan, produce and play with. Beam selects a different distinguished artist, architect or general big thinker as Project Master to conceive each summer’s Project. At summer’s end we invite all Beam Parents and Family to join us at camp for a celebration the Project’s completion.

Every week, each camper chooses to explore a new Domain, in-depth, hands-on, discovery activities in the arts, sciences, cultural, athletic or cultural fields. They work closely with a Beam Guide or visiting expert to explore disciplines, techniques or projects in smaller groups. Domains cover as wide a territory as you can imagine.

We've made short movies, built a catapult, launched hot air balloons, built wilderness shelters, developed circuitry, made Oreos and Dorritos from scratch, studied kung fu and built traditional Balinese gamelan instruments, fashioned costumes to go along with famous fairy tales, built rowboats from branches and tarps, performed in improv noise bands, built solar cookers and cooked dinner in them, knitted bags, produced plays we wrote... you name it, we do it, and we show kids how to too.