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A summer your child actually remembers.

A 12-week Youth Business Intensive Camp in Seattle, ages 8+. Two leads. One book. One Sasquatch. Twelve Units. Come any days you can.

June 14 – September 5, 2026 · Co-led by Cody Lestelle and Hannah Frelot. Your child enrolls as a representative of your family business — full week, single day, or any pattern in between. They leave with a carved stave, a 54-card deck, a written business plan, and a Brisbane-2032-bound game design.

SeasonJun 14 – Sep 5, 2026
Daily10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Ages8+ · 24 slots for 8–12
AttendanceAny day(s) Mon–Fri
Enroll your family rep → See tuition + payment ↓
Not sure yet? Get the parent guide ↓
Safety ratio 1 instructor : 12 youth Parents of under-8 attend with their child
Lead experience 8 years · Seattle Cody Lestelle, after-school + summer programs
All-in Lunch + snacks + materials Included at every tier · no hidden fees
Sliding scale $0 – $650 / week No family turned away · 50% reserved at $0
Flexible attendance Any days Mon–Fri Choose 1 day, 2, or the full week — what works

What your child leaves with.

Twelve weeks of working alongside other young business reps produces tangible, kept artifacts — not a backpack of crafts that get tossed.

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A carved stave

A hickory or maple walking-stick, carved and marked across all 12 Units. Their physical record of the summer.

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A 54-card SAGA deck

A personal deck of cards they helped design. Used in games and as a memory tool. Goes home with them.

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A family business plan

A name, a crest, an origin scroll, a trade ledger, a succession plan, a public-speaking video. A real business folio.

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A Brisbane 2032 entry

An original game design submitted to the Fellowship Pathway. A multi-year pipeline aimed at the 2032 Olympic cultural program.

What it is.

A summer camp built around a family-business throughline. Children attend as representatives of their family's craft — a bakery, a farm, a service trade, an art practice. The cohort moves through one book together; the season produces real artifacts; the experience builds toward a long horizon.

Track 1

One book together.

The cohort reads David M. Buerge's Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name (Sasquatch Books, 2017), one chapter per Unit. Each Unit's quote becomes its anchor. Field days visit the book's seven map regions.

Track 2

Follow Sasquatch.

The Search — for the elder who carries the Culture-and-Earth-sustaining secrets — runs across all 12 Units. A narrative through-line that holds twelve weeks of work together.

Track 3

HalfBall + open commons.

Scheduled HalfBall League games (the Olympic-pathway sport played with a broomstick and half tennis ball) PLUS an each-one-teach-one commons where children share sports across cultures and study the business behind them.

Meet Hannah and Cody.

Two named, accountable adults running every day of the Seattle face-to-face cohort. The same two people from the first morning circle to the last.

Hannah Frelot and Cody Lestelle in Wičhóni Wašté shirts and green ribbon lanyards
Hannah & Cody · every day · every Unit

Cody + Hannah · your two seminar leads

All 12 Units · every day · same two people
Cody Lestelle

Educator and game designer. Eight years of running after-school and summer programs in Seattle. Author of the TEK8 framework. Lead architect of the DWNS Summer 2026 curriculum.

Hannah Frelot

Artist, herbalist, cook, and apothecary at kuaikuaiapothecary.io. Brings plant medicine, kitchen pedagogy, and the daily rhythms of cohort life to the program. Anchors the field-study days and the closing-circle practice.

Field log · spring 2026.

A few real moments from the months leading up to summer. The pedagogy lives outside, with elders and with land — every photograph here is a future Unit waiting to be lived again.

Gallery 1 · NW Folklife Festival Makah-style whaling canoe + youth circle Seattle Center · May 23–25, 2026

Canoe attribution: Makah-style whaling canoe by Sherwood Martin and Henry Maros, carved as a Northwest History Project with the students of Renton High School, May 1986 – September 1987, in honor of Henry Moses of the Duwamish Tribe.

Makah-style whaling canoe on a trailer, downtown Seattle, departing NW Folklife 2026
The Makah-style whaling canoe departing the festival at the close of NW Folklife · downtown Seattle
Youth gathered around the Makah-style whaling canoe at the Duwamish Tribe tent
Cohort youth gathered around the canoe at the Duwamish Tribe tent
Children working on the Makah-style whaling canoe at the Duwamish Tribe tent, NW Folklife
Close work on the canoe — hands-on protocol around the Henry Moses dedication
Cody facilitating a youth circle on a grassy hillside at NW Folklife
Cody facilitating an open-grass youth circle · sample of a Unit field-study day
Gallery 2 · XiMuRa Tribal Ministries Sol Rising Farm · intergenerational garden day Tacoma, WA · April 20, 2026
Cody, a young person in a Pikachu cap, and an elder in a patterned vest at Sol Rising Farm
Three generations at the Sol Rising Farm signpost · field-study with XiMuRa Tribal Ministries
Gallery 3 · HalfBall + staves Spring training · the cohort's daily sport practice Seattle park · April 6, 2026
Two children with the HalfBall League banner at a Seattle park
Young cohort reps with the WHBL banner · "half a ball, twice the fun"
A child working with a stave on the open grass
Stave practice on the open grass · the carved walking-stick is each child's 12-Unit record
Cody and a young rep with staves on the grass
Lead-and-follow stave drill · Cody and a young rep
Stave work and HalfBall pickup on the grass
Closing drill of the session — one mark added to each stave

Build the game with us.

Beyond the screen-free camp day, a parallel sync/async track for young coders, scribes, and storyworld-makers — co-developing the TEK8-powered coding + scribing game in partnership with TimeKnot Games & Media.

MCTopia · Make. Code. Topia. MCTopia energy sigil
Co-development invitation · TimeKnot Games & Media × 7ABCs

Co-own the IP. Earn your seat at the table.

MCTopia is the new TEK8-powered coding + scribing game from the 7ABCs cooperative business association. Cohort participants are invited to co-develop the game — design, code, write, playtest — and earn the opportunity to co-own the IP as part of the global studies cooperative business network.

★ Camp days stay screen-free All screen-time work on MCTopia happens sync or async, independent of camp hours. The face-to-face Seattle camp day stays 100% screen-free — hands-on, outdoor, TTRPG-based. MCTopia is the year-round cooperative track that meets the same children where their digital craft lives.
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Tuition + payment.

Four tiers, per week. Lunch + snacks + all materials included. Any days Mon–Fri.

Scholarship $0 application required
Reduced $150–200 / week
Standard $450 / week
Sustainer $650 / week
How payment works
  1. Enroll. Pick your days and tier on the enrollment form.
  2. Get your code. The form returns a short enrollment code in the format LASTNAME-N-MMDD.
  3. Pay via Square. Open the Square checkout, choose your tier amount, and paste your code into the "Add a note" field.

Scholarship ($0) seats: select Scholarship on the form. We follow up with each applicant individually — no payment step.

The long horizon — Brisbane 2032.

By the time the Brisbane 2032 cauldron is lit, this cohort's children will be 14 to 20 — old enough to coach, to compete, and to have invented the game everyone is playing.

Fellowship Pathway · 2026 → 2032

Every young rep enters a multi-year fellowship.

The Snake Unit (epilogue) produces a game-design submission. Submissions are reviewed; the strongest become Fleet Fellows; the Top 8 carry their games to LA 2028; the best of those reach Brisbane 2032. The 2026 season opens during the FIFA Premiere window in Seattle (Jun 15 – Jul 6), when the Puyallup Tribe becomes the first Indigenous sovereign nation in 96 years of FIFA history to formally co-sponsor a host city; cohort submissions may premiere at the Puyallup Tribal Fan Zone on match days.

Submitted→ Reviewed→ Fleet Fellow→ Top 8→ LA 2028→ Brisbane 2032

Built with partners who matter.

DWNS Summer 2026 is hosted by the 7ABCs cooperative business association and produced with these allies of long standing.

7ABCs cooperative business association TimeKnot Games & Media — Rainier Arts Center, Seattle SAGA — Sports & Accessible Games Alliance WHBL Inc. — World HalfBall League · Edmonds WA XiMuRa Tribal Ministries — Sol Rising Farm, Tacoma Duwamish Tribe — honors Henry Moses (canoe dedication) Licton Springs K-8 Thunderbirds · first 2026 WHBL game May 11

The Voyage — twelve Units, Horse to Snake.

Each Unit pairs a Lunar Zodiac sign with one Buerge chapter. The cohort's day runs 10:00 am to 4:00 pm and produces one tangible artifact for the family business folio.

UnitLunarAnchorChief Seattle line
00HorsePrelude · land & maps(opening epigraph)
01GoatCh 1 · prehistory–1792"There was a time when our people covered the whole land."
02MonkeyCh 2 · to 1832"Why should I murmur at the fate of my people?"
03RoosterCh 3 · to 1847"Your God seems to us to be partial."
04DogCh 4 · to 1852"I am glad to have you come to our country."
05PigCh 5 · to 1854"How then can we be brothers?"
06RatCh 6 · to 1856"The Great Chief above who made the country made it for all."
07OxCh 7 · to 1858"I want you to understand what I say."
08TigerCh 8 · to 1866"Shake hands with me before I am laid in the ground."
09RabbitCh 9 · to 1887"Dead, did I say?"
10DragonCh 10 · to the present"The dead are not altogether powerless."
11SnakeEpilogue · LA 2028 → Brisbane 2032(cohort-authored closing line)

Parent questions.

The questions parents most often ask before enrolling. If yours isn't here, email [email protected].

Can my child attend only some days of the week?
Yes. The enrollment form lets you choose any combination of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday — or all five. Attend 1 day a week, 2 days, 3, 4, or the full week. Tuition adjusts to your selected pattern. The full-week pattern produces the most complete artifact stack (since the weekly artifact is built across the week), but children attending fewer days still produce meaningful work and stay rooted in the cohort.
Why do you ask for a tuition tier — and what does "we follow up individually" mean?
Choose the tier that fits your family on the enrollment form. For the three paid tiers ($150–200 / $450 / $650), pay via the Square checkout using your enrollment code in the "Add a note" field. The Scholarship ($0) tier requires an application; we follow up with each applicant individually.
Is this a drop-off program?
For ages 8 and up, yes — drop-off at 10:00 am and pick-up at 4:00 pm on attended days. Children under 8 are welcome but attend with a parent or guardian. The whole day is structured, instructor-led, and outdoor-rich when weather allows.
What if we can't afford the higher tiers?
No family is turned away. Half of the seats are reserved at the $0 tier specifically for low-income and Indigenous families. The other tiers ($150–200, $450, $650) are pay-what-you-can — you select what fits your family's budget when you register. Tier 4 sustainers underwrite Tier 1 reserved seats; the whole cohort travels together.
What about screen time?
Camp days are 100% screen-free — hands-on, outdoor, TTRPG-based. For cohort participants who want to help build the cooperative's TEK8-powered coding + scribing game, the MCTopia co-development track runs sync or async outside camp hours. Co-developers earn the opportunity to co-own the IP through the 7ABCs global studies cooperative business network.
What does my child actually do all day?
A typical day: 10:00 am arrival + opening circle, 10:45 chapter reading + discussion of the week's Chief Seattle text, 12:00 lunch outside if dry, 1:00 pm sport time (HalfBall League or open commons), 2:00 pm making time — working on the week's artifact (scroll, crest, ledger, video, etc.), 3:30 pm closing circle with one mark added to each child's stave, 4:00 pm pick-up. One field-study day per Unit goes to a real place in Buerge's Chief Seattle map regions.
My child is neurodiverse / has accommodations. Welcome?
Yes. We design for mixed-age, mixed-ability cohorts — the 8-to-12 developmental focus is on a wide developmental band and our 1:12 ratio supports differentiation. Email [email protected] before enrolling to describe your child's accommodations; we'll talk through what we can and cannot support.
Is lunch included? What should my child bring?
Lunch and snacks are included in tuition at all tiers. Your child should bring: a refillable water bottle, sun hat, weather-appropriate layers, closed-toe shoes for sport time, and an open mind. We provide the staves, the cards, and the books. A complete packing list arrives in your confirmation email after enrollment.
My family business isn't really a business — does this still apply?
If your family does anything — bakes, gardens, fixes, teaches, performs, makes, hosts, heals, builds, codes — that is a business in the cooperative's sense. The framing is inclusive of households, side hustles, art practices, mutual-aid networks, and traditional knowledge systems. The point is that your child arrives as a representative of something larger than themselves, not as an isolated learner. We help your child name, scope, and steward whatever that is.
What's the enrollment process?
One form at summer.7abcs.com/register. Pick your days of the week and tier, then submit. You'll receive an enrollment code in the format LASTNAME-N-MMDD and — for paid tiers — a one-click Square checkout to complete payment using that code as the note. Scholarship applicants skip the payment step; we follow up individually. We send a confirmation email within 24 hours with a packing list, schedule of field-study days, and a calendar invite for the orientation circle the week before camp opens.

Not ready to enroll yet?

Get the Summer at DWNS Parent Guide — the full 12-section booklet your child can read with you. We'll email it within 24 hours and follow up only with program updates (no spam, ever).

Three doors into the cooperative.

The Seattle face-to-face cohort is the primary doorway. Two more doors stay open year-round.

Door 1 · primary

Face-to-face Seattle

Ages 8+ · 10am–4pm · any days Mon–Fri · 24 reserved slots

Twelve Units. Sliding scale $0–$650/wk. Choose your weekly day pattern. Parents of under-8 attend with their child.

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Door 2

Hybrid · skool.com

Ages 13+ including adults · online · $1/mo+

Evergreen seminars and live convocations from the wider 7ABCs / SAGA fellowship.

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Door 3

Cooperative · 7abcs.com

Adults · families · partners

Become a member, partner an initiative, or contribute to the cooperative land trust.

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Twelve weeks. One book. Twenty-four family business reps.

Enroll your child for any days that work — lock in your day pattern for Summer 2026.

Enroll your family rep → Email [email protected]
★ Summer 2026 · 24 reserved seats · any days Mon–Fri
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