Hosted on the Colorado State University campus, the “LDZ” program is designed to give youth leaders the edge on successfully navigating, managing, and creating organizations.

What are the origins of human society, language, and knowledge? Through classical works of history, philosophy, religion, mathematics, and poetry, we will explore the idea of the beginning. We encounter a range of classic “beginnings” in an effort to understand the diverse ways that they shape our experience of the world — from beginnings in time, such as political and religious foundings, to timeless beginnings, such as mathematical and philosophical first principles, to the creative and imaginative powers of poetry. Beginnings in a work of mathematics and in a work of religious narrative, for example, may connect in ways that we do not anticipate. Each text studied will stake out a different, often startling, approach to this fundamentally human concern with the origin of things.

Should there be limits to the pursuit of technology? In the Greek myth, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to human beings. In Aeschylus’ classic, it is a blessing and a curse for us, and Prometheus is punished for his transgression.

Near-earth asteroids, also known as “minor planets,” orbit the sun at roughly the same distance as Earth. Collisions with them are catastrophic – just ask the dinosaurs – so being able to predict their future position is an important application of vector calculus.

Shakespeare’s As You Like It contemplates an escape from the artificiality, hierarchy, and conventions of society and politics, by disguise and flight into nature and the countryside.

In what sense does nature have laws? In what sense can human laws be by nature? We will read Sophocles’ Antigone and Plato’s Republic to think about the relationship of nature and justice to the laws of the city.

Kanakuk’s KampOut! is a 5-Day traveling day camp experience for Kampers ages 5-12 featuring the excitement of the Kanakuk experience in locations across America.

Kanakuk’s KampOut! is a 5-Day traveling day camp experience for Kampers ages 5-12 featuring the excitement of the Kanakuk experience in locations across America.

Kanakuk’s KampOut! is a 5-Day traveling day camp experience for Kampers ages 5-12 featuring the excitement of the Kanakuk experience in locations across America.

Kanakuk’s KampOut! is a 5-Day traveling day camp experience for Kampers ages 5-12 featuring the excitement of the Kanakuk experience in locations across America.

Kanakuk’s KampOut! is a 5-Day traveling day camp experience for Kampers ages 5-12 featuring the excitement of the Kanakuk experience in locations across America.

Kanakuk’s KampOut! is a 5-Day traveling day camp experience for Kampers ages 5-12 featuring the excitement of the Kanakuk experience in locations across America.

Kanakuk’s KampOut! is a 5-Day traveling day camp experience for Kampers ages 5-12 featuring the excitement of the Kanakuk experience in locations across America.

Kanakuk’s KampOut! is a 5-Day traveling day camp experience for Kampers ages 5-12 featuring the excitement of the Kanakuk experience in locations across America.

Kanakuk’s KampOut! is a 5-Day traveling day camp experience for Kampers ages 5-12 featuring the excitement of the Kanakuk experience in locations across America.