Story Camp
June 23-27, 8:30-12:00
$100. Grades 3rd-6th
Team taught by STEM teacher Brenton Burnett, photographer Beth Sanders and storyteller Matthew Taylor, participants will learn some physics about light, art & technique of photos & portraits, personal storytelling and improv acting.
Participants will experiment with mirrors and lenses and talk about special relativity and time travel. They will learn and practice photography with an assigned camera, culminating in a self portrait. They will reflect on their own personal story, and practice imagining others’ circumstances (even as fish in a harness on a rope in front of a green screen ocean to be!).
For those inspired and able, join us for a bonus evening cookout and celebration of week’s activities…and some stargazing!
Story Team!
Over the next eight years, we will engage a team of folks—pros, kids and any and all willing others! The task is to promote a few fundamental ideas on thinking, relationship and physical skill that are universally useful for ALL humans, planetwide, for every context.
Why story matters:
We use stories to make meaning of events.
The most compelling stories engage us emotionally.
Sometimes the most useful stories give an objective, or purposeful picture of people and events.
Through promoting conscious thinking, steamHouse endeavors to help young people understand the stories around them…and to promote discovery and strategy as they create their own life story.
How we want to use storytelling:
In this age of information overload, and even malignant manipulation, all people (young and old) need to be skillfully conscious and discerning!
steamHouse endeavors to develop a decision-based approach, uniquely principled, in creating such people! We are promoting a universal mentoring model for family supported, team and project based activities...applicable to any context or culture. The focus is on good thinking, relationships, teams and physical skill building.
steamHouse endeavors to develop a decision-based approach, uniquely principled, in creating such people! We are promoting a universal mentoring model for family supported, team and project based activities...applicable to any context or culture. The focus is on good thinking, relationships, teams and physical skill building.
A lofty aspiration to be sure! Especially, when the idea is growing up on a neighborhood hobby farm, and is championed by a few dreaming teachers, storyteller pros, and parents.
Over a decade's time, we are producing a low budget movie and online curriculum space promoting conscious and purposeful thinking. We do so while also imagining a "supertribe" of humans who champion being effective, reasonable and fun!
We want to have kids help create, and then see, a story of a universe where first principles like personal agency, mutual respect, objective reason and reflective thinking (learning) connect people across the planet. And potentially we can connect regardless of how our contexts might otherwise divide us!
We invite and need your participation and support!
Join us in creating a community of families gathering for activities of all kinds– summer camps, potlucks, yard games, campfire cookouts, game nights, and animal interactions! We will be organizing some competitive LEGO robotics teams, and teaching some science, photography and story-making, too!