We're very pleased that most of last year's staff will be returning this year! Mike, Natasha, Terry, Dinae, Will, and Halley will all be back for another fantastic summer.

Mike Nagle has been teaching hands-on math and science for the past three years to elementary-aged kids in a variety of settings (afterschool programs, homeschooling groups, and of course, at Camp Kaleidoscope.) He founded Camp Kaleidoscope in 2006, and graduated from MIT with a math degree in 2005. His other teaching adventures have included volunteer teaching SAT prep to inner-city youth in Boston, teaching intro chemistry and calculus at MIT, and teaching a free Advanced Placement calculus course for high schoolers. His latest project is starting a hands-on, non-coercive elementary school, slated to open in September 2008.

Mike was featured in the Boston Globe Magazine in November as one of Boston's most "sought-after tutors": article here.

Natasha Hawke has worked in Waldorf schools and has home schooled her own children. She has taught bike mechanics at Bikes Not Bombs in their youth "earn-a-bike" program as well as teaching in the instructor training program. Natasha has taught children a wide variety of things in various settings. From raptor education at Habitat (Audubon Sanctuary in Belmont) to a multi age engineering series. She has run her own indipendant summer camps with a focus on mechanics, and began working for Camp Kaleidoscope in 2007. She is currently at Harvard Univeristy and Harvard University Extension working towards a degree in Education, and is a co-founder of Kaleidoscope Education.

Will Macfarlane currently lives in Portland, OR, where he scoops ice cream, writes things, and occasionally writing software for mos - a small Cambridge/New Haven based architecture firm. He has worked with children in a variety of alternative learning environments, including a homeschooling group and a Sudbury Valley School, teaching science, creative writing, and many things in between.

Terry Murray, "the Inventor-Mentor" , has been providing enrichment and mentoring programs in schools for 8 years. Recent school mentoring projects include hovercrafts, electric snow scooters, automated snowball and water ballon launchers, and remote controlled robotics. As an accomplished MIT trained inventor and mechanical engineer with 25 years of experience, Terry brings the experience of the real world into the exciteing realm of kid invention.

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