Our Story
Storycation began with two people and a whiteboard.
It did not start as a company. It started as a conversation that kept going.
Mr. D.
Kevin Wallace’s family came to Prince Avenue Christian School. Danny Delgado was the librarian there, the one everyone knew as Mr. D.
Danny carried a tool belt. He had been a lower-school teacher as well as a librarian, and he kept starting things: clubs, camps, new ways for children to learn. He was full of ideas about what learning could become.
Kevin was a parent and an entrepreneur who had spent years building companies and products. At home, LEGO, experiments and making things were an ordinary part of his children’s childhood.
Kevin saw something in Danny. Danny saw something in Kevin.
Often there was a whiteboard between them.
They started meeting. They talked, drew, asked questions, and came back to do it again.
Their gifts overlapped without being the same. Danny makes something for children to enter and finds out what happens. Kevin looks at what happened and sees the pattern underneath it. Neither one has needed to become the other.
LEGO was common ground. Kevin had built with it at home with his own children. Danny was building camps around it.
Then children walked in.
Danny’s WOW! Camps began in 2021. That summer children built water filters from cut bottles, sand and gravel, and waited to see what came out the bottom.
The next year a group drilled and assembled wooden arms that moved with water. Then came weeks of LEGO on a library floor, a wooden boat carried to a lake, and a room full of cardboard Plinko boards that turned into an arcade.
Families signed up, and the camps kept running. Danny learned from every one.
None of it was called Storycation yet.
Something stayed the same.
The material kept changing: water, wood, LEGO, cardboard. What children were given did not. A reason to begin. Real materials. A problem that could push back. Other people who mattered. A moment to show what they had made.
Danny had been creating that by instinct. Kevin kept noticing it. Together they began to see that a camp was only the week it happened in. The thing worth keeping was underneath, and it could be entered again somewhere else.
They started calling that an Experience.
A name for it.
In time Danny stepped away from the school to follow a calling that had become clearer each year. Kevin helped build the bridge, and the two became equal partners.
Then the work was given a name, Storycation, and its first Expression kept the name families already knew: WOW!
This October a WOW! Camp took place at Prince again, this time with Danny arriving from outside the school.
Where it grows from.
A conviction
Disciple Thinking
Storycation grows from a larger conviction, expressed through Disciple Thinking: formation is always happening. What we attend to, practise, love, repeat and do together shapes who we become.
Underneath that is a Christian understanding of people as created, gifted, relational and becoming. Storycation applies it to the design of learning experiences for children.
A place
Radiant Orchard
Radiant Orchard came later in the story. It is a Kingdom-centered environment for forming people who form ideas, companies and communities.
Storycation is its own company, being formed there. Radiant Orchard is not Storycation, and Storycation is not Radiant Orchard. The first WOW! Labs began there in October 2026, which gives the work a place to keep learning alongside a community.
Still becoming.
What exists today, and what we don’t know yet.
- Three Experiences. LEGO Inventors, Plinko Arcade and Hydraulic Power, each drawn from work that really happened.
- Two Programs. WOW! Camp, which has years behind it, and WOW! Labs, which is new.
- Open questions. Can a Guide other than Danny carry one of these well? Which Experiences should travel? What will a Lab that meets every week teach us that a camp could not?
Two differently gifted people are still learning, making and becoming together, and building places where children can do the same.
