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Parks & Rec offers new opportunities for local kids BY EMILY BRUNETT TEHACHAPI NEWS
Summer in Tehachapi will never be the same thanks to the Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Parks District. Injected with new energy from fresh faces, TVRPD — casually referred to as “Parks & Rec” — has launched new programs and events in an effort to reshape what it means to be “leisurely” in Tehachapi. For the first time, Parks and Rec is offering an educationally-centered children’s camp, which also “happen” to include Legos. Two camps will span July 15 through 19, with a younger age group in the morning and an older group in the afternoon. LeAnn Williams, TVRPD recreation supervisor, brought Los Angelesbased Play-Well TEKnologies on board to run the camp. Like its name implies, Play-Well is anything but a “sit-and-listen” type of organization. The company’s website states, “We believe that one of the best ways to learn is through play. When kids are at play, they are actually exploring the world. When kids are creating, they are expressing themselves. And when kids are building, they are solving problems.” Although Play-Well
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Legos offer creative fun — and they are used by the company Play-Well TEKnologies to teach engineering and architectural principles. Tehachapi Parks & Rec is sponsoring two camps this summer that will kids learn and play at the same time.
offers a wide range of camps, most of them center around engineering and architectual principles learned while building with Legos. In Tehachapi, Williams chose two of the more basic camps: PreEngineering with Lego for ages 5 through 7 and Engineering FUNdamentals
with Lego for ages 8 through 12. “With this camp, the kids will be engaged and challenged and have fun,” she said. “The cirriculum is developed by engineers. What they learn can be translated into the real world. It develops the engineering side of their brain.”
Michael Luong is PlayWell’s Los Angeles-area manager. He said the camps are popular with both kids and parents. “It’s popular with parents because it’s very much a classroom setting,” Luong said. “We’re not babysitting with Legos. See LEARNING/Page 12
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