Studies show that 41% of the students coming out of college today are unemployed or underemployed...
65% of the kids entering primary school today, will be taking on jobs and occupations that don't even exist yet...
The United States currently has 1.75 TRILLION dollars in student loan debt...
When we asked over 200 College Junior/Seniors: "What are your plans after graduation?", "What do you plan to DO?" ... A vast majority of them responded with: "I'm trying to figure that out..."
Something seems out of balance...
While we have heavy engagement in post-primary education (college) to the tune of 1.3 trillion dollars in debt, there still seems to be an overwhelming amount of young people lacking vision and direction as it pertains to their future. While we could point this deficiency in 100 directions, At Creators Camp we feel it boils down to three things:
1. Exposure
Young people who are not exposed, early on, to how their natural talents, skills, abilities and more importantly "passions" connect with the work/marketplace, find it difficult (if not impossible) to navigate career/work paths.
2. Context
Young people have very little context as it pertains to the workplace, yet as adults, we often ask young people what their plans are for the future. This often leads to the "reverse engineering" of money (security), and the abandonment of the work that the young person may be designed to do.
3. Readiness
We asked over 250 C-Suite Executives and HR Professionals: "If you could have any set of skills developed within the young talent you bring into your organization(s), what would those skills be?" Out of the 250 responses we received, we uncovered a set of skills that are viewed as "deficiencies" in today's youth...
Creative-Thinking, Critical-Thinking, Communication, Collaboration & Buildership
Creators Camp is a year-round exploratory, skill acquisition and development platform designed to prepare America’s young emerging creators and innovators for the future. We do this by encouraging elementary, middle and high-school creators and innovators to: fail, embrace their creativity, exercise their capacity to innovate and grow through their natural talent, ability, skills acquisition and experiential hands-on learning with future facing technologies in STEAM.
In 2019 Creators Camp invested over 500 hours into the lives of young emerging creators and innovators by designing experiences and exposing them to the fields of photography, drone technology, 3D printing, neuroscience, computer programming, engineering and dozens of other future facing fields.
We transformed world class institutions into places to explore and learn cutting-edge technology...
We transformed marketplace professionals into teachers, mentors and guides.
We worked with underserved, first generation college students, exposing them to mobile application design and development best practices.
We bridged generational, ethnic and gender gaps creating learning experiences that were hands-on and deeply engaging.
"I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it…"
~ Sir Ken Robinson
2019 was a glorious and impactful year for Creators Camp's brave Nomads and Pathfinders. Now in our 7th year of service, Creators Camp is a fully functioning, layered, year-round program designed to address one of the biggest challenges we face as a people today...
Developing the future "skills-force" during a time of uncertainty, and radical change.
We are just getting started, and we need your help.
We leveraged investor relationships, we developed revenue streams within the fibers of our company and we sacrificed heavily to ensure that what we delivered was of world class value and innovative in nature. We supported each Nomad and Pathfinder with limited resources and pushed our mission forward with purpose and passion... WE, with the help every single volunteer, Nomad/Pathfinder Parent, Luminary and Community Leader made things happen.
One of the most radical things that we've have done so far, beyond creating a layered experience that completely redefines the whole "STEAM" education paradigm and makes it approachable, is transition from a "for-profit" organization in 2016 into a United States based charitable 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization!!
We wanted to reach more kids, and make the magic of Creators Camp available for the hard to reach, underserved youth that are unable to afford what we do...
~ Sandie Chavez, Co-Founder, President & Chairwoman
To help us us navigate the nonprofit landscape we reached out to, and became a member of the Institute for Nonprofit Innovation and Excellence. With this strategic partnership and a combined total of over 4 decades of business experience in the for-profit business arena, now positioned to do the work of a nonprofit, Creators Camp is uniquely equipped to develop a national-focus, and 2017 is the year that we started that process.
You bring resources to the operations of Creators Camp. You help us extend scholarships to young emerging creators and innovators that may not be able to afford the services that Creators Camp offers. You help us by giving us your time, mentoring and sparking the imaginations of young people. You help us shape the future, by empowering and launching creatively confident, deeply self aware, purposed people into the world to do meaningful work.
Together, we can prepare a generation of young emerging creators and innovators for the future.
To make a charitable, tax-deductible donation to Creators Camp, visit our donation page on our website. While we have pre-defined amounts specified, you can give as much or as little as you like, every dollar that you donate will be used to facilitate the work of preparing young emerging creators and innovators for the future.