Wonder-Space

This is a summer program designed, according to their website, to teach young people «engineering and technology principles in a fun and invigorating way.» Sounds cool in theory, right? Sure it does! I can say that in execution this program doesn’t seem to really do much except charge exorbitant tuition — $ 719 for a week not including lunch — and let the young people play MarioKart and Minecraft. Really, that’s all it seems to do. The small 6:1 ration just means that the adults — or rather people who are less young — «supervise» while the campers play MarioKart and Minecraft and shriek like drunkards on Bourbon St. Perhaps playing MarioKart and Minecraft is teaching the campers «Fundamentals of Game Design» or «Adventures in Technology?»