Create Your Own Unschool Adventures

Ever since Unschool Adventures started in 2008, we’ve had a problem: demand has outstripped supply. Teens and their parents have consistently requested more trips that we’ve offered. For most businesses, this isn’t a problem; it’s an opportunity. But we—which means me, Blake Boles (hello! 👋🏼)—never intended to turn Unschool Adventures into a large operation. For […]

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80 Ways to Have Low-Cost Good Times in Berlin as a Teenager

These are some of the activities that the teens on the UA Berlin 2023 trip discovered/invented during our month in Berlin (photos). We purposefully do not include most standard, touristy Berlin activities on this list. We did enjoy a handful of pricier outings—like the Berlin Zoo and Charlottenburg Palace—but in the end, we only spent an […]

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Are Unschool Adventures programs expensive?

Travel tours are always expensive—but are Unschool Adventures programs more expensive than other options? A recent Sunday New York Times has a special section advertising teen group adventures: roughly $6000-$7000 for 2-3 weeks of travel, not including airfare: That’s $2000-$3500 per week. We’re proud to continue offering programs at an extremely competitive rate: $5000 for a 6- […]

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Government – W10D4 by Mac C.

Today (*sniff) we had our final official challenges of the Adventure Semester. In the build-up to this Thursday we did not know what our last two days would have in store, until we started to receive emails. Each participant was told that they would have one partner, and were given varying degrees of information. Rather […]

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HONY in Boulder – W10D4 by Katie B.

For our last challenge of the Adventure Semester, Midge and I were challenged to… Wait. No. We didn’t know what our challenge was. Let’s start over. This morning, Blake told us to get into his car and then he blindfolded us. We drove for roughly 40 minutes, and finally got out, took off our blindfolds […]

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Comedy on the Street – W10D4 by Spencer

Hi, I’m Spencer, and this is Jack O’News and today our challenge was to do a comedy routine and perform it in front of 4 groups of 20 people and have 1 person in the audience film it. This proved to be much more difficult then originally thought, and made me feel so uncreative, it […]

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Complaint Booth – W10D4 by Jill

Today Oscar’s and my challenge was to set up a complaint table outside, then to have people write down their complaint. Later on, we were to make a creative writing piece about it and send it to them. However, it was clear from the beginning that each of us had complaints of our own. I felt […]

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Staff Makeover – W10D4 by Katie M.

“With a budget of $200, makeover Dev’s look in a “business classy” fashion…aka cash money is king and make that man look fiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnneeee!” Lily and I made over Dev today from his normal farm life style into a classy business man. We spent over 3 hours in H&M working on finding clothes to fit him […]

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Gaming – W10D4 by Ben

Pop and I are the story nerds in this group of 21 kids. We spent our past individual self designed challenges working on some sort of writing. So it was no surprise that when we were given challenges according to our interests, we were tasked with meeting with someone who develops games for a living […]

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Busking – W10D4 by Joey

Yesterday, I got an email from Blake. All it said was that Dave and I were going to be in a group together, and that we should meet him the following morning with a small list of items, namely, our instruments. Once we met up the next morning, Blake led us to his car without […]

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