We are all pleased to be able to announce the dates for this year’s sessions:

Session 1 (ages 7-12) – July 29th to August 4 Submit Application. Session 1 is all booked up.
Session 2 (ages 12-17) – July 22nd to July 28 Submit Application

Based on the results of last years experiments in Session 1, we are going to be returning to the large (as in size) project types that we explored in the 2005. Of course we won’t be building the same things, but we will be emphasizing construction projects that are larger than we are.

As ever, if you are interested in having your child attend, please click on the appropriate Session link above to send us an email. Keep in mind that we have very limited space, that selection is not based on date, and that we try really hard to make everyone happy. Please include the age and sex of your child in your email, as we attempt to ensure the sessions are always evenly balanced between boys and girls.

I’m very excited to be speaking at TED University this year. My presentation is called “Five Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do,” based of course on my ongoing book-in-progress “Fifty Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do.”

In support of my presentation I reproduced the brand/culture hacking labels I wrote for Make magazine earlier this year. I’ve printed them up as labels and will be giving them away at my TEDU presentations (hopefully they will find their way to the aisles of a Toys-R-Us near you – hee hee).

And here’s a couple of different PDF versions in various layouts if you want to print them out yourself: Labels, Labels2, Labels3

Oh, and big thanks to Ted Byfeld for all the label encouragement.