Week-long classes offer new and unique challenges each week that develop leadership and other 21st century skills. Since 1995, Renaissance Adventures has led summer Quests where the kids playact as the heroes of a dynamic and exciting adventure. Participants choose mythic archetypes and powers, band together as a team, solve riddles and dilemmas, and swashbuckle with foes.
In small groups of about six children, everyone gets a chance to shine and be the hero of a mythic quest! In Adventure Quest, the children and teens become the heroes of an incredibly fun and dynamic quest, working together in a mythical and magical world to overcome interesting challenges, solve mystifying riddles, brainstorm unique solutions to puzzling dilemmas, and swashbuckle with foes.
In small groups of about six children, everyone gets a chance to shine and be the hero of a mythic quest! In Adventure Quest, the children and teens become the heroes of an incredibly fun and dynamic quest, working together in a mythical and magical world to overcome interesting challenges, solve mystifying riddles, brainstorm unique solutions to puzzling dilemmas, and swashbuckle with foes.
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Mark Hoge started Renaissance Adventures in 1995 after many years in the summer camp industry, as well as engaging in the boy scouts and live-action roleplaying games. What started as a small after-school enrichment program in Boulder, Colorado quickly grew into a well-loved community of kids and adults that create adventures together in locations across Colorado and beyond.
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Our award-winning Summer Camps and Year-Round programs will give your child an experience to remember! Our Online Dungeon Delvers (D&D tabletop RPG) and Adventure Quest programs bring a magical adventure into your home! Through our interactive Adventure Quest game, we provide experiential education via storytelling, theater, improvisation, & physical exercise.
Denver
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Look no further. We have been running fun kids' activities in Denver, CO and the surrounding metro area for over 10 years. For the Summer of 2021, we will be offering camps at Denver Waldorf School. Campers will quest outdoors on the school grounds as well as in nearby Harvard Gulch Park. This year our Denver programs are all located at the Denver Waldorf School (and Harvard Gulch Park).
Teaching Philosophy
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In Adventure Quest, the puzzles and mysteries, moral dilemmas, and other challenges of the quest are regarded with creative imagination as playful opportunities for experiential learning. See also our Experiential Education Outcomes and an essay about how we support experiential learning through live action roleplaying games.
Benefits of Roleplaying Games
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The process of entering imagined worlds of fiction builds empathy and improves your ability to take another person's point of view. Fiction facilitates the development of social skills because it provides experience thinking about other people. In her book, Role Play Made Easy, training expert Susan El-Shamy observes that the benefits of role playing [include] showing the strengths, weaknesses, and consequences of certain behaviors and attitudes.
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