Imagine spending your summer building a rocket or a robot, learning surgery skills like frog dissection and building a lung model, or designing your own tornadoes!   

Offering opportunities for children, grades PreK - 6th, to learn through enriching activities that explore science and technology. 
Choose from a variety of full-day, week-long STEM programs: from chemistry to coding, biology to astronomy, robotics to engineering, and more! 

Jr. RPG Game Design

Make your role-playing games come to life! Our Jr. RPG Game Design camp shows 1st-3rd grade campers how to create their very own epic role-playing game where they will battle fierce monsters prowling in a dungeon. Campers will learn what RPG is, the history of RPG, all the basics, the characters, and all aspects of the game.

Club SciKidz uses RPG Maker VXAce which features:

• A drag-drop interface
• Library of characters
• Tile-based environments
• Enhanced map editor
• Built-in character generator with custom sprites and faces
• Custom items and weapons
• Full inventory of weapons and armor

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 Little Space Explorer 

Kids of all ages love space, so that’s why we created Little Space Explorer for PreK and Kindergarten campers. We all remember watching the launch of space rockets from NASA, the first steps by man on the moon, watching astronauts float in zero gravity and of course those bulky but futuristic space suits. Campers will become astronauts in training as they learn about and participate in hands-on activities about the sun, moon, planets, and the life of an astronaut. Projects include Making Moon Sand, Fizzing Planets, creating a galaxy, participating in an astronaut obstacle course, and many more.

3D Creator

This camp is great as an introduction to 3D printing. Campers will be using 3Doodler Pens to create amazing 3D structures. Campers will learn how to properly use the 3D pen and learn about its practical uses in the fields of Science and Technology. They will also be introduced to concepts of engineering and participate in different engineering challenges to put their skills to the test throughout the week.  They will apply their newfound knowledge as they design, plan, and create their own 3D projects. Some sample projects include bridge building and replicas of famous structures.

All 3D projects and their 3D pen sets will be taken home by campers at the end of the week.

Great Masters

Design, draw, build, construct, paint and sculpt as you explore the great artists and engineers of the world while creating your own distinctive flair and style! Travel throughout time as you experiment with thick paints like Van Gogh, go wild with clay a la Pablo Picasso, design 3D Nevelson installations, experience first-hand the challenge of doing Michelangelo’s ceiling paintings, discover the playful work of Matisse, and create self-portraits like Frida Kahlo. Learn design engineering skills to build a castle like architect Julia Morgan’s Hearst castle and construct a prototype flying machine like Leonardo da Vinci and the Wright Brothers. This camp offers hands-on imaginative projects while combining art and engineering!

Pokemon Professors

Prepare for your next Pokemon adventure! Not only is your goal to “catch ’em all”, but you’ll also be applying scientific theories and conducting experiments along the way. Throughout this exciting adventure, you’ll meet Pokemon of all types and conduct hands-on science experiments that grant insight into the wonderful world of Pokemon. The exciting activities include: a chemical reaction Pokemon hatching, catapult launching to catch your very own Pokemon, exploring the effectiveness of Pikachu’s electricity, observing Bug Pokemon and the real insects and organisms they resemble, reflect on the 3 states of matter with Ditto Slime, and much much more. Are you ready for your greatest Pokemon adventure yet?

Jr. Vet

Emergency Vet is a camper favorite, and we’ve been receiving requests for years to create a “Vet Camp” for our younger campers. Campers will begin learning about what a vet is and what they do. They will learn the basic anatomy of and care for both cats and dogs, as well as more advanced care like stitches and broken bones. They’ll also spend time learning about the different body systems, including the circulatory, respiratory, and skeleton systems, by creating and making models of these important systems. Throughout the week, your aspiring veterinarian will do 20 different and engaging hands-on activities and projects! At the end of the week, all campers will bring home their Future Veterinarian Kit and first aid supply kit.

Mini Medical School

We’re excited to bring our youngest campers a brand new camp that will take them on a tour of the human body! Mini Medical School will introduce campers to the career of being a doctor and all that it entails. They’ll practice bandaging the boo-boos of their stuffed animal and caring for the patient, and they’ll even get their own medical and first aid kit to bring home at the end of the week! Campers will also learn about some of the different body systems and organs that keep our bodies alive and functioning. They’ll make their own stethoscope and inflatable lungs and models of the heart and the human eyeball! They will even learn about x-rays and learn how doctors use them to figure out if there is a “boo boo” that we can’t see from the outside of the body. Each lesson consists of an engaging hands-on activity or experiment where campers will not only learn, but have fun.

Jr. American Doll Adventures

This brand new camp is geared for rising 1st-3rd graders who love American Girl Dolls! This camp will feature four of the recent modern Girl of the Year characters and one of the characters of the Contemporary Characters line and will be the perfect blend of crafts, STEAM related lessons and activities, and life-lessons that we can learn from each character. Campers are not required to bring their dolls to camp, but are welcome to, as they will be making some crafts and projects specifically for her! We look forward to this exciting new camp!

Grossology

Campers will discover loads of horribly fantastic experiments! This is science with the squishy bits left in it! Projects include Bulging Bag of Brains, Baby Diaper Dissection, Eyeball Acrobatics, and Bird Barf. But besides just “doing” and “talking about” gross stuff, campers will be learning the science behind it. They’ll learn that science is messy, and sometimes gross! And even the gross stuff is important and plays an important part in our world. There is tons of chemistry and biology for your aspiring doctor or scientist in our most disgusting camp! Grow your own bacteria and make “snot”, dissect owl pellets and learn about tapeworms. If your camper loves anything gross, join us for a week in Grossology!

Jr. Physician

Make NO bones about it; this camp is for the aspiring “Jr. Physician”. Campers will learn that their bodies are made up of miles of blood vessels, hundreds of muscles, several thousands of hairs, a furnace, a filter, AND a fancy computer! Your budding physician will really have a pulse on the human body with this camp! Throughout the week they will build a lung model, create a spinal column, be real lab technicians as they swab and grow their own bacteria, and participate in many more experiments in anatomy and physiology.  Campers receive their own stethoscope and reflex hammer. If there is a future doctor in your house-this is the camp for them!

Jr. Robot Engineer

This camp is an introduction into the world of robotics. Campers will learn about the six simple machines and how they are incorporated into more complex machines that we use in our every day lives! Campers will also have fun constructing their very own moving robot! Campers will apply and extend their knowledge about circuits and power sources as they build our “Mars-like” RC Rover. The radio-controlled RC Rover is capable of performing several different experiments, builds, and activities. Campers will be able to take home the robots they build for hours of fun after the camp week has finished!

Emergency Vet

This camp is a camper’s ticket to the world of Veterinary Medicine. Lessons will give campers the opportunity to look into the real and exciting field of Veterinary Medicine. Throughout the week, campers will complete several hands-on experiments including: learning suturing techniques, dog CPR, and how to use a syringe! They also learn the basics about training and working with dogs,  and put what they’ve been learning into practice. To learn about the different systems of animals, campers will perform three dissection activities: Sheep Heart, Owl Pellet, and Crayfish. Activity topics include: Animal behavior, clinical procedures, preparation for a career in veterinary medicine, first aid & dentistry care, diseases and parasites, microscopy, anatomy, and more.

Special Effects

Believe it or not, this camp is the first camp ever offered by Club SciKidz and it remains a camper favorite! Campers learn the science behind Hollywood’s special effects, including decades ago when “moving pictures” were first being developed, to more current effects like green screen technology. Activities will demonstrate concepts related to light, sound, perception, illusion, and model building. One of the great features of this camp is that all campers will create (and take home!) a movie using techniques in Claymation and Stop-Motion Animation. Lessons include plot development, story boarding, set building, filming and sound effects.

Minecraft Game Design

In this innovative experience, campers will become engineers and architects as they build, explore, and survive in their Minecraft world. Campers will learn about the connection between digital and real-world environments and explore hands-on how real-world environments inspire game designers to create biomes in games. Using Minecraft Education Edition, campers will work together to create settlements in one of the many biomes Minecraft has to offer and even learn about those same biomes in the real world! Towards the end of the week, the campers will put their builds to the ultimate test and defend their settlements from invasions. And never fear, before camp is over, campers will get a chance to do what all Minecraft players love to do: DESTROY!

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