Oct 23, 2015
When starting a business, knowing your skills and how to market yourself is the biggest key to success. When you have a service that fulfills a need within the market, great things happen. That’s exactly what occurred today. We were required to produce a profitable small business with a loan of $20, and five hours. […]
Oct 23, 2015
As has been noted in previous blog posts and videos, our group this week has been experiencing some communication problems. We’ve all been hearing about Dev’s challenge, and we knew that this one would help us with communication skills. In fact, the challenge today did exactly that. In the morning we met up and took […]
Oct 23, 2015
As you may or may not have noticed, the blog post from Wednesday’s fire challenge was not completed or uploaded to the Unschool Adventures website. So, if you were wondering about that, here is where I explain. Well first off, we did not complete our challenge of creating a fire without a lighter or matches […]
Oct 22, 2015
Ever since some pal a few hundred thousand years ago first rubbed a couple sticks together, perhaps as some kind of sexual or religious act, and discovered that that makes them explode, humankind’s relationship with fire has been… tentative. The same fire which the busker juggles for his living also inevitably burns down his apartment. […]
Oct 22, 2015
Well, this blog is different than the ones I’ve previously written. The difference is the fact that I’m standing in the middle of a restaurant with my guitar, writing this blog on my phone. Our group’s challenge today was to come up with a one-day business, and make as much money as possible. We decided […]
Oct 22, 2015
“HELLO! Welcome to Western Colorado State University! We are a small liberal arts college in Gunnison, and we would love to have you as a student next year!” Today, our group toured and challenged ourselves to integrate into Western State University. We had to complete challenges such as crashing a lecture, touring a dorm, talking […]
Oct 22, 2015
Today my group and I were with the excellent Dev. Our adventure today was to talk with locals in Crested Butte about social issues and genuinely listen to their opinions without inflicting our own biases or trying to “fix” them. We started the day out with going to the bus stop for a short, but […]
Oct 22, 2015
To be honest, for this challenge, we fell on our faces. It started out the night before the challenge day when we started brainstorming about ideas for a small business that would make us money in only a couple hours. Some people were exhausted and ready to just think of some practical ideas, while others […]
Oct 22, 2015
Today our challenge was to go to Western State Colorado University and to tap into the resources that a 4 year university has. We started off trying to talk to 5 or more students. Asking them genuine questions about life in college. As a group and as individuals we had great success starting conversations with […]
Oct 21, 2015
Our challenge today was to start a fire, an amenity we take for granted everyday. Turns out, it’s not as easy to start as it looks! Especially if you have no access to matches, a lighter, or flint and steel. We embarked on our challenge with two alterations of the rules that the previous group followed: we would receive […]