TomTod Ideas

Camps: during the summer, camps offered by Tomtod Ideas provide a variety of enrichment opportunities, including community day camps and summer school partnerships. Throughout all summer programming, Tomtod creates experimental laboratories that engage learning opportunities. Summer camp opportunities engage students in exploring specific challenges through creative problem-solving, critical thinking, idea development, and collaborative pitching, all while creating one of the most memorable experiences of their summer. Experiences include immersive field trips, participatory learning sessions, and integrated, responsive brainstorming sessions. In 2023, tomotd offered 16 multi-day summer camps, collaborating with nearly 100 community partners, while engaging a total of 382 campers.

Classes and clubs: during the school year, Tomtod Ideas facilitates a variety of school-based classes and clubs including what if 101, creator clubs, and what if you could clubs. These creative, weekly partnerships walk students through a design thinking journey ponderexploredefineideatecreatepi... using real world topics. Throughout all programming, students have the opportunity to develop soft skills and social emotional competencies vital to student success, both in school and in preparation for crossover to the quickly tranforming job market. Core competencies covered include: -critical thinking skills and creative problem solving approaches via team-based, collaborative environments, a variety of communication practices including interviewing and presentation skills, as well as self-confidence development and idea creation and project management. All centered around a topic that is aimed at the common good, creating empathy and resulting in civic engagement and leadership development. In 2023, Tomtod facilitated 109 cohorts at 9 middle schools in 6 school districts supportng 2,488 students.