Hasta La Ideas

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pWe’re sure a few of our readers wish there was a summer camp like this when they grew up. Now in it’s sixth year, a href=”http://www.beamcamp.com”Beam Camp/a takes place in New Hampshire bringing kids together for four weeks of hands-on problem solving, teamwork and good old fashioned building stuff./p

pMake Magazine caught up with camp co-director a href=”http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/beam_camp_a_haven_for_makers.html”Brian Cohen/a who explains the life skills to be gained by participating in large scale collaborative projects./p

blockquote…One of our primary motivations for designing Beam around our Beam Project is to give kids the experience of making something physically and conceptually spectacular. They do plenty of “group projects” in school and they certainly get to “work in groups,” but infrequently do they spend a concentrated period of time working side-by-side with tools to accomplish a complex plan. The Beam Project is not only our way of introducing kids to the people (makers, artists, architects, etc.) who make a life out of their big ideas, but our way of having the kids walk around inside those people’s minds while they work together to bring their big idea to life./blockquote

pRead the full a href=”http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/beam_camp_a_haven_for_makers.html”interview/a./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/education/craft_camp_for_aspiring_macgyvers_15970.asp”(more…)/a
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