About the Heroes Academy®
Our curriculum for elementary and middle school students focuses on community and social skills, building confidence, and supporting a group identity. Students learn how to create collaborative stories, develop their own LARPs, and create DIY projects.
Our teen curriculum, The Marshals Academy®, focuses on learning leadership skills. Teens learn how to run an event, create a supportive learning environment, and provide mentorship to the younger students.
Our Classes
Heroes Academy Programs Include
Character Creation
Make original heroes to play in LARP and interact with other players in the game.
Martial Arts
For Self Confidence and Self Control
How to play the game with respect for oneself and for others.
DIY Projects
Build your own LARP gear, learn to think creatively and make solutions.
How to Play LARP
Learn the game rules and how to use your character abilities. Understand gameplay and mechanics.
Event Prep and Playing Your Character
Time to celebrate all your hard work and apply the skills you have learned!
Dungeons & Dragons Sessions
Students will be able to explore our original world of Etheraz and learn how to run their own tabletop campaigns.
According to educational theory, adolescents have four main developmental tasks:
- “To stand out: to develop an identity and pursue autonomy;
- To fit in: to find comfortable affiliations and gain acceptance from peers;
- To measure up: to develop competence and find ways to achieve, and
- To take hold: to make commitments to particular goals, activities, and beliefs.”
From: Yeager, David. Social and Emotional Learning Programs for Adolescents Social 2017.
We strive to create a classroom where our students can achieve all four developmental tasks. Guided by experienced instructors, students drive the classroom curriculum by focusing on individual creative projects that they present to the community. In the past, students have created their own LARP events and run them for their classmates; designed their own boffer swords and tested them against professional schematics; and even created their own variations on classic LARP games. Through this creative independence, students learn how to develop their own projects while still working to service a larger community.
Core Values:
- Modesty
- Courtesy
- Integrity
- Self Control
- Perseverance
- Indomitable Spirit
We embody these values in our classroom and our everyday life, encouraging students to treat each other and themselves with kindness and respect. Because of these community values, we trust our students with creative independence, with box cutters and other tools, with physical activities, and students hold themselves to a higher community standard to continue doing the things they love.
Through our program, we seek to help youth develop and to give them a place where they can practice self-exploration and transformation, discovering their inner power and truths. We encourage each other to do amazing things!