MacGyver Camp is a Cascade Mountain School day program that introduces younger students to the fun and excitement of learning how to build things out of scraps, found objects, broken tools, etc. Students spend the day outside in the Trout Lake valley working on projects such as fort building, fire making, rocket launching, and other cool, hands-on projects. Cascade Mountain Program partners with Jack Perrin of Gorge MakerSpace for this awesome program. Parents are also welcome to join in on these fun activities.
Day camps for ages 9-12 will be held Monday through Thursday from 1pm to 4pm each day. There will be optional transportation from Hood River, OR or White Salmon, WA for an additional fee.
Dates: July 6-9 (1pm-4pm)
Ages: 9-12
Activities: Inventing, fort building, fire-making
Partner: Gorge MakerSpace
Cost: $120 plus fee for optional transportation
Registration: Please register online here.
Instructor Bio: Jack Perrin is a licensed high school physics teacher with over 20 years’ teaching experience in alternative education who serves as director of Gorge MakerSpace. A builder and tinkerer all his life, Jack founded a school for sustainable living in Colorado where he taught natural building. He and his family moved back on the grid, and back to his native Northwest to help make STEM education in the Gorge a blast. Cascade Mountain School is excited to have him teach the MacGyver Day Camp for youth 6-12 where they will invent and build all kinds of cool things.
