Week-long classes offer new and unique challenges each week that develop leadership and other 21st century skills. Since 1995, Renaissance Adventures has led summer Quests where the kids playact as the heroes of a dynamic and exciting adventure. Participants choose mythic archetypes and powers, band together as a team, solve riddles and dilemmas, and swashbuckle with foes.
In small groups of about six children, everyone gets a chance to shine and be the hero of a mythic quest! In Adventure Quest, the children and teens become the heroes of an incredibly fun and dynamic quest, working together in a mythical and magical world to overcome interesting challenges, solve mystifying riddles, brainstorm unique solutions to puzzling dilemmas, and swashbuckle with foes.
In small groups of about six children, everyone gets a chance to shine and be the hero of a mythic quest! In Adventure Quest, the children and teens become the heroes of an incredibly fun and dynamic quest, working together in a mythical and magical world to overcome interesting challenges, solve mystifying riddles, brainstorm unique solutions to puzzling dilemmas, and swashbuckle with foes.
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Mark Hoge started Renaissance Adventures in 1995 after many years in the summer camp industry, as well as engaging in the boy scouts and live-action roleplaying games. What started as a small after-school enrichment program in Boulder, Colorado quickly grew into a well-loved community of kids and adults that create adventures together in locations across Colorado and beyond.
Our award-winning Summer Camps and Year-Round programs will give your child an experience to remember! Our Online Dungeon Delvers (D&D tabletop RPG) and Adventure Quest programs bring a magical adventure into your home! Through our interactive Adventure Quest game, we provide experiential education via storytelling, theater, improvisation, & physical exercise.
Look no further. We have been running fun kids' activities in Denver, CO and the surrounding metro area for over 10 years. For the Summer of 2021, we will be offering camps at Denver Waldorf School. Campers will quest outdoors on the school grounds as well as in nearby Harvard Gulch Park. This year our Denver programs are all located at the Denver Waldorf School (and Harvard Gulch Park).
In Adventure Quest, the puzzles and mysteries, moral dilemmas, and other challenges of the quest are regarded with creative imagination as playful opportunities for experiential learning. See also our Experiential Education Outcomes and an essay about how we support experiential learning through live action roleplaying games.
The process of entering imagined worlds of fiction builds empathy and improves your ability to take another person's point of view. Fiction facilitates the development of social skills because it provides experience thinking about other people. In her book, Role Play Made Easy, training expert Susan El-Shamy observes that the benefits of role playing [include] showing the strengths, weaknesses, and consequences of certain behaviors and attitudes.
Reviews (10)
Fred Jones
Jun 07, 2021
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Treats employees like trash
The main 2 owners do not listen to any one and are ver stressful to work for. Many other employees call this place toxic. They do not take care of their people. Not how you run abusiness that is supposed to teach kids to learn good social-emotinal skills
I had to post this anonmously because they make me feel so uncomfortable and I have seen them strike back at employees before.
The main 2 owners do not listen to any one and are ver stressful to work for. Many other employees call this place toxic. They do not take care of their people. Not how you run abusiness that is supposed to teach kids to learn good social-emotinal skills
I had to post this anonmously because they make me feel so uncomfortable and I have seen them strike back at employees before.
HMel Nm
Jun 24, 2020
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I have worked with Renaissance Adventures (Boulder Summer Camps) for over 10 years, helping with photography and design projects when needed. I love seeing the energy and enthusiasm the campers have! They love the quests and all the fun, imaginative play. It is great to see children and teens out enjoying the outdoors and using their minds to create new and different play each time. What fun to photograph and to get to see what happens at the camps! Send your kiddo to these people-- they'll have a blast!
SmilingMom To
Dec 29, 2019
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Renaissance Adventures has affected our family in an unexpected way! My daughter can easily sleep until noon on her days off from school. She has only played twice before, but absolutely loved it. Since we drive around an hour to get to the event, we have to get up super early. I warned my daughter that 6:15 was much earlier than she was used to. All my son had to do when the alarm went off at 6:15 was yell "It's time to LARP!" My daughter literally flew out of bed to get ready to go. Thanks for offering something my kids look so forward to participating in! I was offered a discount if I was willing
Matthew Dunnnery
Dec 06, 2019
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They did not show-up to the birthday day party, as scheduled. No call, no show. The mother of the birthday boy could not get in touch of the coordinator, as well. My daughter had to witness a heart broken boy anticipating a magical event that never happened. The only memorable moment from this tragic event was the support and unity the children exhibited with the birthday boy, in his time of sorrow.
I strongly encourage avoiding this company.
I strongly encourage avoiding this company.
Melissa Roach
Aug 22, 2019
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Bad then great. I booked an adventure quest for my son's 9th birthday party but no one showed up. He was absolutely devastated. I had a difficult time communicating with the birthday coordinator. It took lots of calls to the office to get a response. She was always in training or not available and it took weeks to respond to my initial booking request. The week before the party I both emailed and called to confirm. She eventually left me a voice mail telling me we were good to go. When no one showed up, she was unresponsive to calls and texts. I finally managed to get in touch with someone at the
Amber Walter
Oct 21, 2018
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My two boys (ages 9 and 11) participated in Renaissance Adventures summer camps and absolutely loved them! They beg me to do them every summer. It's great imaginative play with team building and problem solving. This year, it's the only camp my boys want to do. I highly recommend. I'm having them come out with a birthday adventure for my oldest son and after telling them how great I thought they were, they said if I said so online, I'd get a discount. It's a win-win.
Linda Ciampoli
Oct 09, 2018
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We were very happy with the birthday party run by R.A. for our 8 year old son. We had a pretty large group and the two quest leaders managed everything very well. We also were able to rally parents to play parts of the dragon and got really good feedback from parents and kids that a great time was had by all.
Ania Albino
Aug 02, 2018
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My son’s first adventure quest was at 6 years old at an afterschool program and he loved it ever since. We’ve also done a day long adventure at the Boulder location and week long camps in Denver. My son could not stop taking about the stories, the special abilities he possessed (as a Treekin character) and the sword play moves he will practice. The imagination he gets to play out and benefits of the social interaction are amazing. And all the outside time!
As a parent, I appreciate the small group sizes, attentive quest leaders and the structure the camp provides. I loved the fact that they
As a parent, I appreciate the small group sizes, attentive quest leaders and the structure the camp provides. I loved the fact that they
Jennifer Analovitch
Jul 06, 2018
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Lisa Conner
Sep 01, 2017
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My son did these quests last summer as camp and LOVED them. He said they were his favorite camps, and I had him signed up for all sorts of camps. He begged me to send him for a full month next summer, he loved it so much. Imaginative play, in this day and age, is sorely needed in a child's life, and Renaissance Adventures serves this up perfectly> Well-guided, well-executed and in a safe atmosphere. We can't wait to sign him up for his next adventure. I'm actually about to right now!
