The Value of Doing Real Things in our Digitally-Focused World — Our Field Trip Philosophy
In our educational world of one-to-one devices, educational apps, interactive internet-connected boards, and the firehose of information we are trying to teach our kids to navigate, more and more teachers are looking to balance the digital experience with authentic,...
Treinen Farm voted one of the ten best corn mazes in the U.S.
Big News! Treinen Farm selected as one of the ten best corn mazes in the U.S. in the USA Today’s Reader’s Choice Award. From USA Today: The 10Best Readers’ Choice Award contest launches new categories every other Monday at noon, revealing each...
The 2018 Maze is the Rudyard Kipling Story “The Elephant’s Child”
Every year we need to come up with an amazing maze theme–which is a lot of pressure! We need a design that is interesting, recognizable, complex, and gives us a story to tell or at least easy conversation starters. This year, the maze is the Rudyard Kipling...
Designing the 2017 Trilobite Cabinet of Curiosities Maze
Before we started to plan the 2017 corn maze, we were contacted by the UW-Madison Geology Museum folks, RIch Slaughter and Brooke Norsted. They suggested doing a trilobite corn maze–and they were pretty persuasive. We talked a lot about making a trilobite the main image in the maze, and having a sort of geology-ish theme, and then having a lot of fun education and engagement opportunities. I was basically sold when they showed me their trilobite temporary tattoos. So, we were committed to doing a trilobite very early on in the design process.