Daniels Summer Academy: Summer STEAM camps for children from ages 9-14.

> Daniels Bits & Bytes (ages 9-11)
https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/outreach/daniels-bits-bytes

> Daniels DigiFab (ages 12-14)
https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/outreach/daniels-digifab

Summer 2019
The theme for this summer’s youth program is Drones in the City. We will explore the potential of this disruptive technology and how the city design might respond.

The Our Kids review of Summer Youth Programming at the Daniels Faculty

The building, newly built at the Spadina Crescent, is itself worth the cost of entry—it’s the latest home for the University of Toronto’s school of architecture, landscape, and design, one of the leading schools of urban design in Canada. It’s a hub of art, design, and community-building, hosting a range of programs and learners, from professional think tanks, to graduate studies, to undergraduate programs that use architectural studies as a means of augmenting a liberal arts-based education. The mandate is to provide research, teaching, and service. The camps are part of the overall project as well, bringing young people into this setting to explore the people, the environments, and the work done here. At the camp sessions, students engage in collaboration with peers to explore, well, just amazing stuff, such as the theme for the 2019 camps: how drones can disrupt aspects of city life. Programs for high school students offer opportunities to explore careers in design, while being exposed to a wealth of new ideas and cross-disciplinary thinking. The potential for these experiences to be transformative is very high. Barring that, they are simply a great way to spend some time with others. All is seamlessly administered and managed, staffed by instructors and mentors who are passionately involved in their fields of interest, and keen to express their enthusiasm for the work.