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1. Students submit application and letters of recommendation by the deadline
Applications, letter requirements and deadlines can be found here.
2. Upon acceptance, students begin preparing for their trip
Trip checklists and necessary preparations will be provided well ahead of time.
3. Travel time! Flowstone provides all transport and meals to students for the entire program.
We'll prepare and plan all the details for students, they just need to come ready for new experiences.
4. Workshops, projects and a week away from home! WooHoo!
See below for details regarding each program.
5. Students return home more confident, compassionate, and ready to change the world.
Students aren't just sent home with memories, they are provided with tools to improve their lives and their communities.
Camp Glory View
Held in the spectacular San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado, Camp Glory View will be a summer experience like none other. With small groups of kids of varying ages, we hope to create a road trip and nature experience for Denver Metro students that they will never forget.
This program is 7 days, 6 nights; including travel time.
Day 1: Arrive from the city and get settled into camp. Prepare for some star gazing!
Day 2: Day time: Horseback riding and workshops at Chimney Rock National Park. Evening: Soak in the Pagosa Hot Springs; the world’s deepest!
Day 3: Up early to ride the historic Durango Narrow Gauge Train. Spend the night in Durango and get a good night’s sleep for day four.
Day 4: Discover how the ancients lived when we explore Mesa Verde National Park. You can rest when we drive back to camp.
Day 5: Workshops at camp; focused on living in harmony with the land.
Day 6: Day of reflection, and creation of a plan to move forward with their new experiences and wisdom. For the final night, it’s bar-be-que Cowboy Style- complete with poetry!
Day 7: Drive back to the city!
Denver Art Experience
During the fall, rural Students from Southwest Colorado will take the same road trip in the opposite direction! This small group will spend days exploring the vast communities of artists, activists and educators that the city has to offer.
This program is also 7 days, 6 nights; including travel time.
Day 1: Arrive from the Western Slope and get settled in our hotel rooms. Prepare for some city lights!
Day 2: We’ll ease into it by paying a visit to the SEVEN story Denver Public Library. Later we’ll hang out with some of our Colorado lawmakers. That night, dinner at Casa Bonita.
Day 3: Each student will be given a City Pass which will enable them entrance to the three museums of their choice, followed by dinner and a film.
Day 4: Local history day! Students will get to explore Auraria Campus and the schools it houses, the Historic Five Points Neighborhood, and the Colorado History Museum.
Day 5: MEOW WOLF in the day…Creative workshops at night.
Day 6: Day of reflection, and creation of a plan to move forward with their new experiences and wisdom. For the final night, it’s a performance at the Denver Center for Performing Arts.
Day 7: Drive back to the mountains!
Additional details...
We seek to serve youth that come from both rural and urban settings, with both groups from low-income and/or marginalized situations. Ultimately, we hope to give these students experiences they would not otherwise have, but certainly deserve.
With such limited space, we do have a strict criteria for who can participate. We are hoping to work with students who have shown:
- Strong Work Ethic and Leadership Skills - Grades aside, all participants should have at least two letters of recommendation from a teacher, coach, or mentor.
- Creative and Solution-Focused Thinking - Participants have shown a history of being creative, and thoughtful when it comes to all areas of life.
- A love for history, social justice, the earth and art!
The more official criteria focuses on age and socioeconomic status. You can read more about this and our curriculum here.
Each program will have many academic overtones and lessons that may co-align with state standards, but ultimately it is a chance for students to discover things about themselves and the world through the lens of travel, earth-stewardship and the arts. Program participation (online meetings and small assignments) will begin months before the actual trip in an effort for participants and camp supervisors to get to know each other, and for program developers to create the perfect experience for each individual student.
Our goal is for participants to complete their week with Flowstone feeling more experienced, confident, aware of their current environment, well versed in regional history and prepared for the future. Our hope is that participants will end their week with Flowstone with new life long friends and a sense of compassion and championship for the Earth and all of her inhabitants.
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