Five free weekly programs, taught all season by paid local makers in local parks — building toward Field Day, our annual kids' festival.
Across the Hudson Valley, the best kids' classes — art studios, music lessons, club sports, coding camps — sit behind a paywall most families can't clear. A single enrichment class can run hundreds of dollars a season. So the kids who'd be lifted most by a paintbrush, a basketball, a microphone, or a first taste of running their own business are the ones least likely to get the chance.
BeRemarkable Hudson Valley closes that gap. We recruit and pay local teachers, coaches, and makers to run free, high-quality experiences in public parks and community spaces — and we let the whole region's kids walk in for free.
First season launches Spring 2027 in New Windsor, Hudson Valley. Impact numbers — kids served, classes run, towns reached — will live here once the season runs.
Each program runs as a series across the season, led by paid local makers — so kids build a real skill, not just a one-off afternoon. Families can drop into a single class or follow a program all the way to Field Day.
Skill clinics and structured games taught by a local coach across 6-week cycles — basketball, soccer, multi-sport movement — kids build through real relationship and visible progress, cycle by cycle.
Saturday mornings · 90 min · 6-week cycles
Kids ages 8–14 · 20–30 per session
A paid local coach or former player
Festival capstone: The Championship. Kids who trained through the season's cycles compete in a real bracket tournament on the Sports Pitch at Field Day. Trophies. Music. The festival crowd watching the kids they've watched grow.
Kids build real businesses using AI as their co-founder. Over 12 weeks, every kid launches their own micro-business — they find a need, build the product with AI tools (Claude, Canva, Suno, Midjourney), brand it, market it, and sell it.
Wednesday after school · 90 min · 12-week cycles
Kids ages 10–16 · 12–15 per session
A paid local young entrepreneur or college student fluent in AI tools
Festival capstone: The Founders Market. Kids set up real booths at Field Day and sell real products to real people for real money. Their pitch, their pricing, their packaging. Behind every booth: the AI workflow that built it.
6-week themed deep dives led by rotating local artists, musicians, and makers. Visual Art. Music. Fashion & Textiles. Sculpture & Maker. Songwriting. Every kid takes home something every week and builds a portfolio piece for the gallery.
Tuesday after school · 90 min · 6-week cycles
Kids ages 8–14 · 15–20 per session
Paid local artists, musicians, and makers (one specialist per cycle)
Festival capstones: The Maker Gallery — every kid's best art, sculpture, or fashion piece displayed with their name on it. Plus The Talent Show — music and performance acts on the Music Stage from kids who wrote, played, or sang.
Guided hikes on Hudson Valley trails with real teaching — plants, birds, animal tracks, weather, ecosystems. Each kid keeps a Field Journal. One Saturday a month is a project day: kids build something physical in a local park (pollinator garden, bird boxes, trail signs).
Saturday afternoons · 90 min (with monthly project Saturdays)
Kids ages 6–12 · 15–25 per session
A paid local naturalist, environmental educator, or park ranger
Festival capstones — three at once: The kids who hiked all year become the official Field Guides at Field Day — they lead guided walks for festival visitors. The Field Journal Exhibit displays their year of observations. The Build Reveal unveils the pollinator garden / bird boxes / trail improvements they built.
MIstory = “My Story.” The work is built around teens owning the story they want to tell.
An intensive 8-week storytelling workshop for teens — trust-building, journaling, craft, drafting, rehearsal — culminating in MIstory Live at Field Day. Built around depth, not frequency: a smaller, deeper cohort instead of a year-round drop-in.
8-week summer workshop (Aug–Sept) + the annual event
Teens ages 14–18 · 8–12 per cohort
A paid local writing-and-storytelling teacher + a licensed counselor on standby
Festival capstone: MIstory Live. An intimate evening at Field Day — soft lighting, rugs on the ground, a live musician. 6–8 teens share 5–7 minute stories in front of 50–75 people. Recorded as the foundation's most emotionally powerful annual content asset.
Every teacher is vetted and paid. Every program is free. Families follow one program or sample them all — and a season of work comes together at Field Day.
Paid local makers run all five programs in parks across New Windsor. Kids collect a stamp in their Field Day passport at every class they attend.
A jump shot. A real business. A piece of art. A pollinator garden. A story worth telling. The season isn't a series of afternoons — it's a year of becoming a little more remarkable.
The festival is the finale: kids compete, exhibit, sell, perform, and tell their stories — in front of their whole community. Parents move mountains to be there.
Once a year, the whole program comes together in one Hudson Valley park for Field Day — a free, all-day kids' festival with the energy of a real music festival, scaled for kids and the families who love them. Eight pavilions. A timeline that climbs from morning energy to sunset awards. The kids are not the audience — they're the show.
Home of the BR Court Days Championship — bracket tournament with exhibition matches from pro/college athletes.
Real booths with real products. Kids from BR AI Founders sell what they built across the 12-week cycle.
A year of art, sculpture, and fashion on display, with the Talent Show running on the Music Stage all afternoon.
Kid-led nature walks, the Field Journal Exhibit, and the Build Reveal unveiling what the kids built in the park.
The festival's quiet emotional center. 6–8 teens share their stories in an intimate evening session.
Read-aloud sessions of Andi books throughout the day. Every kid leaves with a free copy.
Kid-run food booths (from Founders Market kids) plus a lineup of local sponsored food trucks.
Sunset ceremony. Championship trophies, Founder of the Year, Maker of the Year, Field Guide of the Year.
Creators are the connective tissue. 5–10 creators float through every zone all day — sports creators at the Championship, AI creators at the Founders Market, music creators at the Talent Show, outdoor creators on the Field Guides Trail. They sign autographs, post from the festival, and turn a local day into a story thousands of families see.
Every kid who fills a season passport cashes it in at Field Day for a wristband and a moment on the stage. Free to attend, underwritten by sponsors and grants — so the day belongs to every family in the Valley.
We're launching where we live — New Windsor, Orange County — close to home and close to the river. Weekly programs run in the town's parks and partner spaces, and the whole year comes together at Field Day in the park where New Windsor already gathers.
Town of New Windsor parks & pavilions host Court Days, Maker Workshop, and Field Guides — free in the open air.
Kowawese / Plum Point — 100+ riverfront acres on the Hudson — is home to Field Guides hikes: river ecology, foraging, and exploring.
Local library partners give us free, warm rooms for BR AI Founders, BR MIstory, and rainy-day backup.
Hudson Highlands Nature Center in nearby Cornwall — 178 acres of hands-on environmental programs built for kids.
Kristi Babcock Memorial Park — New Windsor's festival grounds, with the fields, parking, and space for every Field Day pavilion.
New Windsor first, done well — future expansion driven by funder appetite and community demand.
A note for the town: we partner with municipal Parks & Recreation departments — bringing vetted, insured teachers and free programming to public spaces the whole community already loves.
Hudson Valley is built to be sponsored. Every program, every pavilion, every moment has a corporate vertical and a creator audience that fits a brand's CSR thesis. The full sponsorship brief — with deliverables, content packages, and impact projections — is available on request.
Umbrella naming rights on the entire Field Day festival. “Field Day, presented by [Brand].” Top-line brand visibility across every pavilion, every kid's wristband, and every piece of content from the day.
Underwrite a full year of one of the five weekly programs. Your brand on every session, every kid's gear, and every monthly highlight reel. At Field Day, your pavilion anchors the festival.
Underwrite a single festival moment: MIstory Live · Andi's Tent · the Food Zone · the Awards Ceremony. Lower commitment, focused brand placement, content-rich.
Underwrite the day's practical infrastructure — water & cooling stations, the parent area, first aid. Natural fit for family-friendly health, wellness, or beverage brands.
Smaller-scale sponsorships for individual activity stations across the festival grounds — perfect for local businesses or regional brands.
The program maps directly to public arts funding for the region — including NYSCA's Statewide Community Regrants administered by Arts Mid-Hudson, Arts & Culture Project Grants, and youth-development foundations across the Hudson Valley.
BeRemarkable is a 501(c)(3) public charity, so your support is tax-deductible — and it reaches Hudson Valley families directly, with your brand alongside it.
Whether you're a Hudson Valley parent who wants the class schedule, a teacher who wants to lead a program, or a sponsor who wants the season brief — leave your email and we'll be in touch.