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Learn to run emotionally engaging STEM and culturally relevant adventures for summer camps, school & after school programs, and attractions
Emotionally Engaging & Educational Adventures
Guardian Adventures creates online and in person programs for camps and recreation departments. Our own programs, Wizards & Warriors and Zombie STEM Summer Camps, are the summer camps many adults wanted to attend as a kid – where instead of watching movies or playing video games about heroes, mythological creatures, treasure and adventure, we get to live it! Kids play a character of their own design, fighting monsters (with foam swords or NERF Blasters), and solving mysteries.
Buried within our adventures is the real treasure: Education. Potion Making class teaches an introduction to chemistry. Our Sword Master instructs our heroes in the physics of sword fighting (momentum, power, leverage, etc). Healers learn biology and basic first aid. Woodland Rangers share knowledge of environmental conservation. And much more.
These programs are based on our more than 20 years of creating story-based STEM Summer Camps, weekly classes, themed birthday parties, and interactive events.
If you would like a an example of our programs, try a free training program for our Elixir of Life adventure (below) which you can run with your campers or attendees to test it out. We also have an online Zombie Escape Room adventure for when your campers or attendees are only on zoom. Just log into our training center and the learning platform will teach your staff how to run the adventure, step by step, along with all of the graphics, story elements, and training videos.
How Does It Work?
In addition to in person camp programs, we have also developed interactive online camp programs for virtual environments to provide any hero with an adventure no matter where they are. Over the past two decades, we have created and refined a powerful game system for creating story-based adventures with roleplaying. These adventures are based on exciting stories where the participants play the role of a hero who battles villains or monsters and solves mysteries using STEM and teamwork.
The system has been refined to such a degree that it can now be applied to any story you wish to explore, online or in person. It provides all of the rules of engagement with the heroes, the antagonist and allies, 6 different themed story backdrops (think of these as the “universe” in which you run your adventure), and marketing materials for promoting your adventures.
We call this program the Universal Game System (UGS) and it can be run at any location in-person or on Zoom and/or Google Classroom platforms which allows you to hold weekly classes and even full-day Adventures in an online environment or at in person camps or facilities.
The UGS isn’t just a system that you purchase… it’s an actual online course that teaches your staff how to create adventures and run them as well as providing digital slides, printable instructions, and marketing materials for promoting your adventures.
What Does The Universal Game System Include?
The UGS includes everything you need to create and run an online or in person story-based program.
WE provide the game system, background theme, and training and YOU provide the story.
The Universal Game System package includes:
- All the instructions needed for creating and performing an online or in-person, interactive and educational program run by your staff
- Interactive online training in our Universal Game System and story backgrounds
- Training videos for even deeper comprehension
- Quizzes for your staff to confirm their understanding of the material
- Certificate of Completion for each staff person
- One hour of zoom consulting to address questions your staff may have
- Online community for trading ideas and requesting support (Coming Soon)
- Optional live training for your staff hosted by one of our instructors
- Materials for marketing and promotion
- A one year license for using the game system to create and use your own programming (license can optionally renew each year) for $495/year per location plus $19/each additional instructor. You can also run programs in the off-season to help keep your campers engaged and interested.
In Person Programs
Note: Even though our in person camps and events involve the use of foam swords and NERF blasters, we recognize that not every event host wants that type of engagement, so our curriculum provides other components that don’t involve physical sparring.
Our most popular live programs and camps look a little something like this…
Learn more about our Wizards & Warriors STEM Summer Camp
What Families Are Saying
“Simply put, Guard Up changed my life. From the first moment I stepped into the ‘tavern,’ to my last glimpse of the camp before I left, I was totally engulfed in the story, characters, and experience.” – Saul Rosenthal
“I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to the entire Guard Up staff for making online adventures possible. My son looks forward to both of his classes so much and for those couple of hours he is truly someone and somewhere else…SOMEPLACE MAGICAL where he’s an alchemist and every problem can be solved if you figure out the riddle.” – Elizabeth, mother of a #HomeboundHero
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Guardian Adventures is a company specializing in STEM education and culturally relevant story-based programs as well as program design and consulting for summer camps, schools, educational organizations, and entertainment companies.
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