BEAMCAMP 2012 PROJECT PROPOSAL
Deadline December 31, 2011
Calling all Engineers, Architects, Designers, Sculptors, Builders, Chefs, Agriculturists, Videographers, Technologists, Artists and Makers of all kinds
BEAM SEEKS PROPOSALS FOR 2012 PROJECTS
You supply the plan and vision. We’ll supply 100+ energetic campers and staff and 700+ acres of forest, mountain and lakes as studio, canvas and workshop. Submit your proposal today
(http://www.beamcamp.com/project-proposal/) to be one of Beam’s 2012 Project Masters.
THE PROJECT
Every year Beam commissions unique large-scale collaborative Projects that serve as centerpieces of each Beam session. Our Project Management Team work with the Project Masters to “translate” the Project blueprint into the camp context. Beam Campers and Staff work together to make the Project happen. Projects can range from the conceptual to the structural.
THE CAMP
Beam Camp is a 8-week summer program comprised of two sessions for kids aged 7-17 in Strafford, New Hampshire. Beam Campers cultivate hands-on skills while exploring innovative thinking, design and the creative process. They transform ideas into artifacts and personal achievement into community success. Teams of campers work on different aspects of the Project each morning.
PROJECT IDEA SCOPE
- Take a look at our previous eight Beam Projects (http://bit.ly/bWlAtw). Think about how your Project will introduce Beam to new materials, media, techniques, tools, methods and concepts.
- Each camp session is 24 days long, with six, three hour work days per week. Projects should therefore be of a scale large enough to busy 108 campers supervised by 20+ adults for approximately fifty hours.
- Project Ideas should be big and result in a finished, spectacular product.
- You and/or your team should be able to tell us exactly how a group of adults would execute the kind of idea you propose.
- Our expertise is “translating” Project Ideas into the Beam context, but you must be the expert in the field(s) involved in executing your proposal.
- Your idea should take advantage of Beam’s outdoor space and rural location, but it need not be about camp or children or nature.
HOW DO I SUBMIT A PROPOSAL?
Go to http://www.beamcamp.com/project-proposal/
WHAT’S THE DEADLINE?
Proposal submissions are due December 31, 2011.
WHAT’S THE PROJECT BUDGET?
$10,000 for Project-specific materials including prototyping costs.
For further inquiries and to submit supplementary materials please email [email protected]
