Beyond Thunder Camp: DIY & Maker Culture Bay Area, CA
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| Mad Maude & her instructor crew |
Post-Bayeria for Kids
Reuse, Recyle and Repurpose is the name of the game as bands of campers wander an adventurous post-industrial Berkeley and Oakland. Gone are the lattes and condos. Backyard chickens and goats have taken over the streets, home gardens feed the city and people have remembered what its like to be a village and a tribe again.
But all is not perfect, hordes of fixie-bicycle gangs roam the city, packs of mutant jackalopes are on the loose and the Soapbox and Roller Derby Overlords plan on capturing Trackers instructors and making them battle in a giant Thunderdome.
There's only one hope for the former city of the Bay. She's been a loner. She's survived on her own in this crazy world because she was even more crazy. But now Trackers Camp needs her. All the Trackers Kids tell the "tell" where one day, soon, Mad Maude will return to save us all.
Preparing for Battle
DIY takes on a whole new level as campers learn to remake scrap into functional tools, armor and even transportation. While the complexity of projects are dependent on age, this is the ultimate mad science and junkyard genius experience. We put together awesome soapbox go-carts, refit the buses to survive the post-apocalyptic landscape, sow our own patchwork clothing, make safe foam arrows and much more.
The Carnival: Two Instructors Enter, One Instructor Leaves
Finally the week ends with a giant the Post-Apocalyptic Family Carnival for kids on Friday. Each Trackers instructor finds their way to the Thunderdome where they battle each other with foam weapons as their campers cheer them on.
Register for Beyond Thunder Camp
Details
7:30am - 8:30am Pre-registered Morning Pre-Camp Get extended camp to 6pm
8:30am - 3:30pm Camp Session
3:30pm - 6:00pm Pre-registered After Camp Get extended camp to 6pm
New Location 3049 Adeline St, Berkeley, CA
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Ages 7-8 August 12-16, 2013 Tuition $385 |
Ages 9-10 August 12-16, 2013 Tuition $385 |
Ages 7-8 Beyond Thunder Camp
• mobile camp around Bay Area Greenspaces and Beyond
• primitive skills but with DIY scrap materials
• making your own post-apocalyptic armor and tribal banner
• help refit the bus for travel in a post-apocalyptic world
• wild edible and medicinal plants for a post-industrial world
• caretaking and wilding the landscape
• chickens and goats
• tag stealth games with safe foam arrows
• patchwork and repurposed DIY clothing
• the Thunderdome Carnival
Ages 9-10 Beyond Thunder Camp
• mobile camp around Bay Area Greenspaces and Beyond
• primitive skills but with DIY scrap materials
• making your own post-apocalyptic armor and tribal banner
• help refit the bus for travel in a post-apocalyptic world
• wild edible and medicinal plants for a post-industrial world
• caretaking and wilding the landscape
• chickens and goats
• tag stealth games with safe foam arrows
• patchwork and repurposed DIY clothing
• the Thunderdome Carnival
