December 2024 & January 2025
December 23, 26-27, 30 - January 2, 3, & 6
Monday, December 23, 2024
Little Coders
Pre-K & K
Half-day camp; 9am-12pm
Join us for an adventure-packed coding camp tailored for pre-k, where little ones explore the magic of programming through unplugged fun games, obstacle courses, and creative activities.
Color My World
K-2nd grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Experiment with sunlight passing through a prism and observe the colors in visible light. Mix pigments, explore filters, and more!
Construction with Clay
3-5th Grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Clay is a great pretender: it can mimic so many physical items. How can we use it to construct structures that exist in the world and serve the purposes of both form and function? Play with centrifugal force while creating your own beautiful, functional clayware.
Color Theory in Practice!
5-8th Grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Explore the science and art behind color. With hands-on experiments and creative projects, learn about the color wheel, light and pigments, and how colors interact to create moods and visual effects. Develop an understanding of color mixing, shading, and how color is used in everyday life and design.
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Flipbooks
Pre-K & K
Half-day camp; 9am-12pm
Through playful storytelling, young learners will understand how motion works in animation. Create simple flipbooks, using toys and art materials to tell original camper stories!
Bugs All Around
K-2nd grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Head, thorax, abdomen! What does a bug look like? Insects and other arthropods (bugs) are the most common and plentiful life forms on earth. Investigate these numerous and varied animals, and design your own bug out of recycled materials.
Drawing Nature
3-5th Grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
A journal is a powerful tool that unlocks creativity, hones observation skills, and records remarkable discoveries. Create your own nature journal while observing details and patterns in flowers, insects, and plants.
Stamp & Press: The Art of Block Printing
5-8th Grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Design your own patterns, carve blocks, and experiment with different inks and materials to create unique prints. By the end of the camp, you’ll have a collection of original artwork plus a solid understanding of the block printing process, from concept to finished piece.
Friday, December 27, 2024
Floaters and Sinkers
Pre-K & K
Half-day camp; 9am-12pm
Explore the wonders of buoyancy through playful experiments with water! Test different objects to discover what floats or sinks, and modify materials to change their behavior in water.
Mirror, Mirror
K-2nd grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
What a reflection! Experiment with the reflective properties of mirrors and other reflective surfaces to discover symmetrical images, refraction, and so much more. What will you see in the mirror?
Drawing with Math
3-5th Grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Drawing is often used to communicate information–especially in math! Create perspective drawings, geometrical constructions, and architectural drawings to identify how math is used by famous artists.
Peek Through the Past: Build a Pinhole Camera
5-8th Grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Dive into the basics of photography by crafting your own pinhole camera from scratch! Explore how light works to create images, experiment with exposure times, and develop your own photos in a darkroom.
Monday, December 30, 2024
Spark your Imagination
Pre-K & K
Half-day camp; 9am-12pm
Get excited about electricity! We'll combine literature with hands-on activities using balloons, tissue paper, hobby motors, and pool noodles to explore static electricity and basic circuits. Then, apply what you've learned to create your very own scribble bot that wiggles and draws on paper!
Science to GO!
K-2nd grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
What makes things move? Experiment with getting things in motion as you use air to propel cars and boats, harness water to make water wheels turn, and explore how static electricity can make salt jump.
The Science of What We Eat
3-5th Grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Become a curious food investigator as you uncover the hidden chemistry in soda and vegetables! Through hands-on experiments and activities, you'll discover the surprising connections between food, chemistry, and nature, sparking your curiosity about what you eat every day.
You Make the Rules!
5-8th Grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Unleash your creativity by designing your own set of rules or structured system to guide your artistic journey! Using the power of science and math principles, fuel your imagination and take your creations to the next level. Through this exciting process, you'll not only sharpen your creative skills but also discover how structure and innovation produce artwork that’s both meaningful and inspiring!
Thursday, January 2, 2025
Once Upon a Time...
Pre-K & K
Half-day camp; 9am-12pm
Young campers will explore beloved fairy tales through hands-on STEM activities! From building strong houses to creating balanced bridges, little engineers learn problem-solving, teamwork, and creativity!
Mirror, Mirror
K-2nd grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
What a reflection! Experiment with the reflective properties of mirrors and other reflective surfaces to discover symmetrical images, refraction, and so much more. What will you see in the mirror?
Our Five Senses
K-2nd grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Our senses help us experience the world around us. Sometimes our senses can be tricked. In this camp, investigate our five senses: find out how they work and even how we can trick them!
Music Explorers
3-5th Grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
What is music? Where does it come from and how is it made? Explore music, sound, pitch, vibration, and rhythm. Then make your own instrument and compose your own music. Can you turn noise into music?
Cryptology: Creating Cyphers
5-8th Grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Step into the role of cryptographers, learning to create and design your own cyphers. From basic codes to complex puzzles, campers will develop critical thinking and teamwork skills as they craft unique challenges for their peers to solve. At the conclusion, you’ll have built a full escape room experience, ready to test the problem-solving abilities of others!
*Register for Cryptology: Cracking the Code! To enhance your expertise with cryptology.
Friday, January 3, 2025
Little Builders
Pre-K & K
Half-day camp; 9am-12pm
Explore the elements of construction using different materials! Become architects and builders as you experiment with structure, tension and shape.
Bugs All Around
K-2nd grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Head, thorax, abdomen! What does a bug look like? Insects and other arthropods (bugs) are the most common and plentiful life forms on earth. Investigate these numerous and varied animals, and design your own bug out of recycled materials.
Pattern Pizzaz
K-2nd grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Discover patterns in nature, experiment with pattern blocks, and view a variety of repeating designs as we explore the geometrical shapes and tessellations in patterns!
Powders and Crystals
3-5th Grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Discover the wonders of chemistry as you transform powders, discover how fireworks are infused with color, identify mystery mixtures, grow colorful crystals, and much more!
Cryptology: Cracking the Code!
5-8th Grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Take on the challenge of solving the intricate cyphers created by your peers. Armed with logic, teamwork, and creativity, decode messages, unlock hidden clues, and race against the clock to escape and crack the code!
*Register for Cryptology: Creating Cyphers! To enhance your expertise with cryptology.
Monday, January 6, 2025
Spinning, Rolling, Bouncing
Pre-K & K
Half-day camp; 9am-12pm
Physics is fabulous! Experiment with vertical and horizontal motions, bouncing on springs and rolling materials to discover some of the interesting properties of motion.
It's Electric and Magnetic!
K-2nd grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Explore electricity, magnetism and their connection. You’ll build electrical circuits, experiment with static electricity, make and test electromagnets, discover magnetic switches and more!
Science to GO!
K-2nd grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
What makes things move? You'll experiment with getting things in motion as you use air to propel cars and boats, harness water to make water wheels turn, and explore how static electricity can make salt jump.
The Possibilities of Paper
3-5th Grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Make it, fold it, sculpt it, cut it, recycle it, and print on it as you experiment with Papel Picado, origami boxes, pop up books and more!
Creative Technology
5-8th Grades
Full day camp; 9am-4pm
Campers will design, build and display an interactive exhibit using various creative technologies, including AI, projection-mapping and digital drawing tools. Students will use their artistic and technical skills to make a collaborative exhibition piece that would be displayed after the camp's completion. Led by guest educator and artist John-Mark Collins.
