Adventuring Into Knowledge Nature School exists to give children real time in the natural world. Outside. In the weather. Doing things that are actually hard.
Sprouting Knowledge worked. Families in Kamloops trusted it. Kids thrived in it. It ran quietly out of Peterson Creek for years, doing exactly what it set out to do.
In 2024, the founder was ready to move on, and she came looking for someone to take it over. Families didn't want to lose it, so Stacey stepped in to keep it going under Adventuring Into Life. She kept the families and spent a year learning everything that made it special before she changed anything.
In 2026, AIL formally acquired Sprouting Knowledge and rebranded it Adventuring Into Knowledge Nature School. The programs moved to MacArthur Island Park. New name, new home. Same thing that made it work in the first place.
AIK is still outdoor, child-led, all-weather programming for kids who deserve more time outside than most of them are getting. That part isn't changing.
These are not mission statement words. They are the things we actually come back to when we make decisions.
Stacey runs AIK day to day. Adam and Brooke teach Sprouts. Andrea keeps things moving behind the scenes.
Stacey is Kamloops through and through. She grew up exploring the bush with her dad, more comfortable in the trees than in a classroom. She found Adventuring Into Life as a participant and never really left.
She's a mom, a certified Early Childhood Educator, and a certified outdoor educator. Since AIL took over the programs in 2024, Stacey has been building on what was already working and taking on more each year. She's now leading our first ever Kindergarten program.
Adam is a certified Early Childhood Educator and a dad. His own daughter came up through Sprouts and just moved into our Kindergarten program.
Brooke is also a certified Early Childhood Educator, currently continuing her education. She teaches Sprouts alongside Adam.
Andrea founded Adventuring Into Life in 2018 and has spent the years since building outdoor programs for youth and women across BC. She's a certified mountain bike coach, a former competitive athlete, and someone who has never stopped asking what happens to people when you take them outside and let them do something hard.
AIK exists because it's the nature school Andrea wants her own daughter to go to. She keeps things moving behind the scenes rather than running programs day to day. If you're at AIK, you're far more likely to run into Stacey, Adam, or Brooke than Andrea.
Adventuring Into Life is Andrea and Stacey's outdoor adventure company for youth and women, based in Kamloops and running programs across BC. MTB camps, bushcraft, women's retreats, school programs, and international adventures.
AIK sits under the AIL umbrella. Same philosophy, different age range. Together they cover kids taking their first steps into the forest right through to women riding mountain bikes in Costa Rica.
Three programs. All ages. All weather. MacArthur Island Park, Kamloops.
