Minecraft: Create and Chemistry Lab and SURVIVAL (for older campers) Summer Camps
Prepare to be amazed as you watch your differently-wired kiddo make real friends, explore this unique content, grow under the guidance of this expert mentor, and be seen in all their glory!
Our Promise To You
100% Satisfaction Guarantee:
Due to the unique nature of our fast paced Summer camps, if you’re not 100% IN LOVE with this camp within the first 24 hours, you can either transfer to another camp or get a 100% refund to your family’s YSA account as credit toward a future class.
That’s it! No hassle!
Why Take This Camp?
If your child is anything like most of our students, odds are they LOVE Minecraft!
Your child will love this Minecraft club because they are doing what they love with people who get them.
You will love this class because they’re working on all of the life skills, you hope they’ll develop, in a way that feels good!
Lessons are differentiated, inclusive of various learning styles and Minecraft skill levels.
If you like Minecraft, you might also like Minecraft Redstone Rollercoaster Camp.
There are 2 versions of this exciting course:
1- Minecraft Create Club
2- Minecraft Chemistry Lab Course
3- Minecraft Survival Bedrock Achievements (for our older students age 13-18)
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Are you ready to take your Minecraft skills to the next level?
Join us in our Minecraft Create Club and explore the world of creation like never before!
In this club, you'll get to create your own EPIC creative projects and show them off to the class!
Join our Minecraft Create Club and let's create some amazing projects together!
Examples of projects we may explore: Simple Flying Machine, Redstone Submarine, Bubble Column Elevators, Redstone Armor Stands, various hidden secret base techniques, upgrading your base, using commands, creating portals and teleporter.
Ages: 7-16
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Join our Minecraft Chemistry Lab Course ***Education & Bedrock Edition Only*** Course and embark on an adventure-filled STEAM journey with like-minded friends!
Each week, we will create two Minecraft chemistry science projects creating completely new items in our own worlds using Minecraft Bedrock or Education Edition (not Java).
We will then conduct experiments, test hypotheses, make observations, and share creative builds via screen share or holding up devices to the Zoom camera.
Through this class, your child will exercise their critical thinking and interpersonal skills, while developing their self-confidence as they achieve their goals.
We even incorporate time for reflection and sharing ideas to bolster cohesion and practice positive emotional management techniques.
Join our Minecraft Chemistry Lab Course today and start your adventure!
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YSA is offering multiplayer gaming in Minecraft Bedrock Edition while we are in camp communicating over Zoom. Minecraft Bedrock Edition currently has over 100 achievements with a total of almost 3000 possible gamer score points that can be achieved and reflected in your own Minecraft account! To earn achievements, all cheats must be off. We start at spawn with an empty inventory and work for what we need to craft, create, build, trade, battle, and survive. We will play in both Peaceful and Easy Mode during our camp.
Most important: They can only access during camp times. Not 24/7. No griefing. Bedrock Edition only description
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Through this class, your child will exercise their critical thinking and interpersonal skills, while developing their self-confidence as they achieve their goals.
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Minecraft:
-For Chem- ONLY Minecraft Bedrock and Education editions will work
-For Create- All Minecraft editions are welcome!
Having two devices (or being able to open two side by side windows on your device), one for our classroom Zoom, and the other on your own Minecraft world is needed.
Please note: students play in their own games and not on a shared server
Ages: 7-12 & 13-18
Class size: Maximum- 6 Students
Level: All Levels
Camp Price: $35 per session
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What Our Parents Say…
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“After my son’s first class he said that he wishes it was every day. That is a high honor coming from him!“
-Mike
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“My kiddos love this fantastic class. It's incredible how much Ms. Jolene is able to teach them--not about Minecraft, though of course she's an incredible wealth of knowledge there--but about kindness, empathy, working together, honoring one another, holding boundaries, and just doing things together. We so appreciate the time, energy, and thought she puts into these classes (and my kids just think they're awesome!)”
-Rebecca
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“My son loves all of Ms. Jolene's classes he has taken, and this one is no exception! There is never a dull moment in this exciting class... It's such a warm engaging space to let my Minecraft lover enjoy exploring his hobby with other kids who love it just as much!”
-Neil
Meet Your Mentor
Ms. Jolene
I am a highly experienced and actively certified educator with a Master of Science: Curriculum and Instruction VI degree and multiple active teaching certifications including School Library Media Technology Specialist (PreK-12th grade), English Language Arts (multiple certifications across multiple grade ranges), and more.
I am also Minecraft Education Edition certified. I homeschool my own assumed 2e child, am neurodivergent myself, and am an avid Minecraft player. I am quirky, enthusiastic, empowering, and incorporate SEL, STEAM, growth mindset, differentiation, and strength-based practices.
I believe that self-determination is key and Info dumping about Minecraft is a love language.
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Questions Asked By Fellow Parents
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4 KEY things:
1- A focus on the positive! We don’t focus on what students aren’t doing, we support what they are and we know the rest will come. We develop strengths, interests, and relationships. We build students up so they can build a better world! And do it with the new friends they make in our program!
2- Like-minded neurodivergent peers. Our asynchronous students need one another and YSA is a safe haven for these kiddos to connect around their asynchronies, quirks, and interests. We’re a place where they can be their authentic selves and make friends while doing so!
3- Passionate, masterful neurodivergent mentors who have walked the walk and can authentically validate and support your child with personal experience and care AND expertise as we all have advanced masters + degrees
4-Content your students care about taught in a way they love! We offer the courses they need to be taking, not the ones they’re required to take.
Come by and see for yourself!
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Please don’t confuse reactive “distance learning” and virtual enrichment programming. After all, a student who is completely fried from a boring zoom class is often quick to pick up a tablet or phone, right?
Our courses are not at all the same animal =)
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We offer a satisfaction guarantee!
If you’re not 100% IN LOVE with your camp, you can:
1- Transfer to another equal-value class at no charge (space permitting)
2- Get a 100% refund to a YSA credit
Refund requests must be received up to 24 hours after the first day of camp. After 24 hours after the first class begins there will be no refund of tuition.
Note- this is a satisfaction guarantee, therefore your child must attend class to qualify.
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We do! We have 3 kinds:
1- Word of mouth: GET UNLIMITED $35 COURSE/CAMP CREDITS!
We know that the best way to reach new families is word of mouth.
❇️ At checkout you will get a CUSTOM LINK that you can share with families
❇️ YOU GET A $35 CREDIT TOWARD MORE/FUTURE YSA CAMPS/COURSES every time a NEW family enrolls with your link!
❇️ Families who use your custom link WILL GET 10% off their 1st course at YSA!
❇️ THERE IS NO LIMIT on how many times you can use this with new families!
2- Homeroom Social Club 100% off- When the same student enrolls in 2 courses AND Homeroom Social Club you will automatically discount 100% of the tuition for Homeroom Social Club.
3- Multi-Camp: When you enroll in 3 or more summer camps in the same week, you will receive 10% off of all summer camps!
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Of course!
As we like to say, if you’re on our site, you’re in the right place.
Our programming is for students who are not being supported or challenged enough in school.
If you have an asynchronous kiddo who you know has strengths and struggles, our courses are for your child.
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2e students experience such asynchronous development that it proves difficult to have hard age limits.
We often evaluate students on a case by case basis =)
Please email us and we’ll discuss: sam@youngscholarsacademy.org
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All of our programs are 100% virtual. This allows us to bring together the twice-exceptional/neurodivergent students of the world, connect them, and nurture them!
Your child may very well enter a 6-person class with 5 other students from 5 different states/countries!
Cool, right?