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Learn to Dance – W8D2D by Katie B.

Partner dancing is a lot harder than it may seem, and, as we soon discovered, even more so when you’re working together as a group to create one seamless routine. Here are a few comments from my fellow group members: Max said: “At first I was really excited, but once we started dancing, I didn’t […]

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Intensive Feedback – W7D4A by Midge and Sage

In the immortal words of Midge Field, “I had heard the word lit before, but I never truly understood the meaning of it.” Today we learned. We began our challenge the night before when we sat down with Ari in The Spare Oom to discuss the trials and tribulations that we would face the next […]

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Perseverance – W7D2A by Max A. and Max C.

Today six unschoolers completed six different challenges, with one unifying goal: to learn to persevere. Each of these challenges was narrow in scope enough to stress repetition, yet much variety existed. Some challenge involved a repetition of simple task. Oscar focused on learning how to juggle, a skill he found quite difficult to master. Max […]

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Emails – W7D1A by Catherine (ft. Oscar)

Hello Reader, My name is Catherine Canann. I am a participant in the U.A. Adventure Semester. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. As you know, every day we have a unique challenge. Today, that challenge was to write emails to strangers in Denver who we would like to connect with, […]

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Entrepreneurism – W6D5C by Ben

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. […]

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College! – W6D4C by Katie M.

“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 […]

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Listening – W6D2C by Katie M. and Ben

“Can you tell me more about that?” “Why do you think that you feel that way?” These are some of the questions we learned to ask today as we embarked on the communications and listening challenge. We served as listeners to the community today by validating and understanding where everyone was coming from with their […]

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Build a Fire – W6D1C by Ben

Communicating while cold and hungry is a challenge in and of itself, and our group got plenty of experience with it today. We were tasked with starting fires without flint & steel, matches, lighters, etc. We had to use materials that we found scavenging around town, and with the fires, we would prepare our lunch. […]

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Teaching Styles – W4D5B by Spencer

Imagine, you are walking down a street in the south Bronx in NYC on a warm summer night. You hear yelling, turn around, and promptly a gun is shot. A bullet flies by your head. Then another. You are now deaf. Cochlear implants might give you an artificial, eerie representation of the sense you once […]

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Making a Website – W4D4B by Max A.

Today I had a challenge to portray myself on the internet. I have created a few websites for others but this time I was making one for me. This was a challenge that brought self counciousness to another level. It was hard thinking about your whole life and then condensing it in to a few […]

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