2009 Bend Summer Break Schedule

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Week 0 June 15-19, 2009, 8:30am-3:30pm Get aftercare until 5:30pm

Ages 6-8 & 8-10 My Side Mount Bachelor
Throughout literature many great stories of wilderness survival and adventure have inspired children to connect and care for nature. The greatest wish of many a kid is to wander to through the woods and know how to live and care for all their own needs and the land around them. This week, train the ultimate skills of bushcraft and wilderness survival including: lighting fires with no matches, proper carving skills, making traps, primitive cooking, learning to safely harvest wild edible plants, animal tracking, building the best shelters for different situations and much more.
Location Pick and Drop Off at Harmon Park
Tuition normally $318, early registration bonus of $318 until April 30, 2009

Week 1 June 22-26, 2009, 8:30am-3:30pm Get aftercare until 5:30pm

Ages 6-8 & 8-10 The School of Magic
Your invitations to the School of Magic should be arriving any day. It tells you where to go, what to bring and when you leave. And when there, your professors are a strange upon strange lot. Your studies shall include Weather Divination, Ancient Runes of Central Oregon, Studies of Non Wizards, Potions and Compounds, Herbalogy and much more.
Location Pick and Drop Off at Harmon Park
Tuition normally $318, early registration bonus of $318 until April 30, 2009

Week 2 June 29-July 3, '09, 8:30am-3:30pm Get aftercare until 5:30pm

Ages 6-8 & 8-10 Wild Animal Hospital
When and animal needs to be rescued, who do you call? Wildlife Animal Rescue. This is the week that we protect wildlife and the animals that we love. This is the week for those kids who want dream of growing to be wildife vets and researchers!
Tuition normally $318, early registration bonus of $318 until April 30, 2009

Week 3 July 6-10, 2009, 8:30am-3:30pm Get aftercare until 5:30pm

Ages 6-8 & 8-10 Wilderness Ninja
Everyone wants to be able to turn invisible, we teach you how! Like the ancient ninjas of yore, the Apache Scouts of yesteryear and even the wildlife you really want to see, stealth skills are the most excellent skills to have! Through a series of awareness games, exploration and training, we learn self defense, discipline, camouflage, the art of stillness, and other nature awareness skills. We also practice ancient ninja arts such as martial arts and make and wear our invisible ninja outfits!
Location Pick and Drop Off at Harmon Park
Tuition normally $318, early registration bonus of $318 until April 30, 2009

Ages 11-13 Overnight The Tribe: Middle School Village
Come together for 6 days to form a tribe in the wilds. From gathering edible plants to crafting your own bow, from building a primitive shelter to making your own shoes, experience a world once thought lost. You learn how harvest and prepare many of your meals from scratch. This program is about how a real tribe and family lives close to the land, collaborating and showing care for one another. TrackersNW expert instructors guide students to work together in a highly functional team. Campers experience the value of collaborative leadership and making healthy decisions while steering the course for the learning environment.
Dates June 28-July 3, 2009, Overnight
Location Miller Cabin, Sandy, OR
Tuition $525 All meals and camping included

Week 4 July 13-17, 2009, 8:30am-3:30pm Get aftercare until 5:30pm

Ages 6-8 & 8-10 Welcome to Middle Earth
The quest is great, the task are arduous and the orcs (well, they are instructors in costume). This is where every kid wears an elvin cloak, foam swords are safe and okay, faeries find reality and summer legends are born. Plus, elves, ents and puzzles and riddles to solve.
Location Pick and Drop Off at Harmon Park
Tuition normally $318, early registration bonus of $318 until April 30, 2009

Week 5 July 20-24, 2009, 8:30am-3:30pm Get aftercare until 5:30pm

Ages 6-8 & 8-10 Geo Caching: Pirate Treasure
There be treasure in them thar hills. We embark on a geo caching treasure hunt. Using GPS and cryptic clues as are our guide, we look for an ancient treasure of an ol' shipwreck in the high desert. Many mysteries beg to be solved, but the biggest one is, "What exactly was a ship doing sailing in the high desert?"
Location Pick and Drop Off at Harmon Park
Tuition normally $318, early registration bonus of $318 until April 30, 2009

Week 6 July 27-31, 2009, 8:30am-3:30pm Get aftercare until 5:30pm

Ages 6-8 & 8-10 Geo Caching: Pirate Battle
The Pirates have come back to reclaim their treasure. Now we must find "The Key" to send them back to their watery grave. The Geo Cache is our only answer. Armed with our GPS we set out to find mysterious object somewhere in Central Oregon, but only after an epic journey where we encounter and battle both ninjas and pirates.
Location Pick and Drop Off at Harmon Park
Tuition normally $318, early registration bonus of $318 until April 30, 2009

Ages 11-13 Overnight The Umiak
Help us build an Umiak, a 30 person traditional whaling boat. Its frame is lashed and pegged, it will be entirely hand built by campers. At our permaculture farm in Port Orford, Oregon, we recreate a working village for one week. Campers tend to herds of goats, gather their own wild mussels and clams, harvest sea vegetables and eat fresh food from the garden. We learn and live with the land: cooking food in a wood fired oven, exploring the two story cob house, building a very big boat, working on the farm, doing permaculture design projects and hanging out on the beach around the campfire.
Dates July 25-31, 2009, Overnight
Location Shuttle from Bend, Oregon the night before the camp begins
Tustin $675 All meals and camping included

Week 7 August 3-7, 2009, 8:30am-3:30pm Get aftercare until 5:30pm

Ages 6-8 & 8-10 Geo Caching: Pirates and Ninjas vs Time Traveling Cowboys
The ninjas have been waging an age old battle with the Pirates for "The Key." With our trusty GPS, kids try to stay one step ahead of both ninjas and pirates while trying to put right what once went wrong. Famous figures from history lead us to clues to finally unlock the mystery of the entire summer. All this plus, time traveling cowboys come and battle the Pirates and Ninjas.
Location Pick and Drop Off at Harmon Park
Tuition normally $318, early registration bonus of $318 until April 30, 2009

Ages 14-19 Overnight The Tribe: High School Reality Village with TrackersTV
Come together for 10 days to form a tribe in the middle of the wilderness. Learn and truly apply ancient survival and bushcraft skills. We cover lighting matchless fires, making your own bows and arrows, creating your own clothing and shelter and much more. Our food is prepared and cooked from scratch and from the wild. This day to day schedule of this camp evolves by teaching and practicing key team leadership skills of peer collaboration. We foster a culture of care where students learn through self-direction and family support. Tribe members also produce a daily web cast that regales their adventures to hundreds and thousands of viewers. In seminar discussions and through real video production, we explore the wisdom of storytelling and the power of modern communication to truly change people's ideas and thought.
Dates July 30-August 8, 2009, Overnight
Location Sandy, Oregon
Tuition $450 All meals and camping included

Week 8 August 10-14, 2009, 8:30am-3:30pm Get aftercare until 5:30pm

Ages 6-8 & 8-10 Desert Creatures
The high desert of central oregon is a place extremes, awe inspiring beauty and amazing adaptations. Come join us for a week of adventure all about the our high desert ecology and wildlife.
Location Pick and Drop Off at Harmon Park
Tuition normally $318, early registration bonus of $318 until April 30, 2009

Ages 11-13 Overnight Build your own Traditional Kayak
Build and take home your own traditional skin on frame kayak. At our permaculture farm in Port Orford, Oregon we recreate a working village for one week. Campers tend to herds of goats, gather their own wild mussels and clams, harvest sea vegetables and eat fresh food from the garden. All this and plenty of time to finish the kayaks before putting them in the water and learning basic safety skills. There are many styles and designs of kayaks. In this class we focus on the Baidarka, a millennia old craft from the natives of the Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea. It is possibly the most sea worthy human powered boat in history. This design evolved from a need to hunt distant game in the middle of one of the most challenging seas in the world. A specialized bow and stern help make this boat able to move beyond its own theoretical hull speed.
Dates July 10-14, 2009, Overnight
Location Shuttle from Bend, Oregon the night before the camp begins
Tuition $1795 All meals and lodging camping. The estimated commercial value of the kayak each camper produces and takes home is $2650, well above the actual cost of the camp.

Week 9 Aug 17-21, 2009, 8:30am-3:30pm Get aftercare until 5:30pm

Ages 6-8 & 8-10 Stealth Adventure & Geo Caching
We look for all kinds of animal tracks and sign: beaver, otter, raccoon, deer, fox, muskrat, bobcat and more! Plus we explore stealth skills of the fox and deer with fun games. Also, the animals leave boxes of treasure behind and we'll find this special Geo Cache with our trusty GPS.
Location Pick and Drop Off at Harmon Park
Tuition normally $318, early registration bonus of $318 until April 30, 2009

Week 10 Aug 24-28, 2009, 8:30am-3:30pm Get aftercare until 5:30pm

Ages 6-8 & 8-10 Forest Fishing Fly and Reel
We learn to cast a rod and reel. We put worms on hooks and hunt down the best places to fish. We sit by the shore enjoying the last of the summer days and we learn the story of the Salmon and how they are preparing to return from the ocean for the fall.
Location Pick and Drop Off at Harmon Park
Tuition normally $318, early registration bonus of $318 until April 30, 2009