1 Day Board Game Bootcamp
Dare to Build — a kids' board game design experience.
A one-day, screen-free board game design bootcamp for ages 10-12 & 13-15. Your kid designs it. Other kids play it. That's the whole idea.
One day. Real games. No screens.
In one full day, kids team up, invent an original board game from scratch — cardboard, dice, cards, coins, all of it — and then watch their creation come to life as other teams actually play it.
No screens, no phones (they go in a bag at the door and come back at breaks), just cutting, building, negotiating rules, and a lot of trial and error.
What Your Child Will Learn
At Bindo Academy, children don't just hear about entrepreneurship, they experience it.
Throughout the day, every activity is designed to teach real-world skills through building their own board game.
Children start by turning their ideas into sketches before building a working prototype. As they test their games with other participants, they quickly discover what works, what doesn't, and how to improve their product. By the end of the day, they have designed, refined, and shared a game they created themselves.
- ➸Turn ideas into reality
- ➸Solve problems creatively
- ➸Build and improve through feedback
- ➸Work together as a team
- ➸Explain their board game to others
Every team begins with a fixed budget of 50 Bindo Coins and must decide carefully how to spend it. Every purchase is recorded on their own balance sheet, helping them understand that resources are limited and every decision has consequences.
During the bootcamp, we introduce real economic concepts in a fun and memorable way. For example:
- ➸Prices may suddenly double because of inflation, showing how purchasing power changes.
- ➸Some tools can be rented instead of bought, with part of the money returned when they are given back, introducing the idea that assets lose value over time.
- ➸If another team has already bought the materials they need, children must negotiate in a secondary market, learning about supply, demand, and trading.
Rather than memorizing definitions, children experience these concepts firsthand while solving real challenges.
Great ideas only succeed when they can be shared. Throughout the day, children practice explaining their thinking, negotiating with other teams, making joint decisions, and explaining their finished game to parents and fellow participants.
- ➸Communication skills
- ➸Confidence speaking in front of others
- ➸Negotiation and teamwork
- ➸Active listening and constructive feedback
The bootcamp finishes with a showcase where parents, friends, and other participants play the games the children have created.
By the end of the day, every child leaves not only with a game they built themselves, but with a deeper understanding of how ideas become products, how money influences decisions, and how communication and collaboration turn creativity into reality.
What happens during the day
Teams get comfortable working together — fast.
Teams of 2+ brainstorm an original board game.
Cardboard, cards, tokens, dice, craft materials.
Every team explores what the others built.
Teams spend Bindo Coins to try each other's games.
Feedback, iteration, favorite-game vote, parents invited.
What if every child believed they could change the world?
Ready to Join?
Help run the day.
We're always looking for volunteers who love working with kids — students of education, psychology, early entrepreneurs, or just warm humans who want to give back. One day of your time = a huge day for a kid.
Want to know more before deciding?
We got you. Connect with us here and we will send you further information about the program and what we are building.