The sun is your best friend if you know how to use it! This class teaches how to cook with just the sun. Solar cooking bypasses traditional cooking means. No electricity, gas, charcoal, or wood needed for solar cooking. Students will learn how to cook meals, dry food for preservation, and purify water all with the sun. In the end, students will build their own mini sun oven and take home an edible micro green plant. Each participant will take home a mini solar oven.

Grades 2-5 Launch and watch your very own rocket speed 300 feet into the air! Then it is yours to take home! Students will make and take home multiple rockets of varying difficulty throughout this session. We will use these rockets and airplanes to investigate basic aeronautical concepts, including propulsion, thrust, lift, drag, and more. We will also hypothesize about travel in outer space, how to get a United States astronaut to Mars, and life on Mars. Do you have the right stuff? NOTE: Parents will be asked to contribute two 2-liter soda bottles (empty) for two different experiments. Tuition includes $25 materials fee.

Unlock your inner engineer! Join us as we explore, investigate and solve problems, while learning about mechanical engineering building blocks. This exciting engineering class combines LEGO® Education™ and LEGO® Technic™ materials to explore machines. Students will be working in pairs, enjoying hands-on activities that emphasize building techniques, while understanding the mechanical principles of pulleys, levers, gears and wheels. Students will be encouraged to apply their learning to develop creative solutions to engineering challenges.

Stimulate your child's creativity by designing and building epic, solar-powered cars, robots, and machines from easy-to-assemble parts. In addition, your young tikes will build solar powered cranes, lift bridges, and many other designs. Let your little engineers explore the world of solar energy while learning how to problem solve and stretch the imagination. Each participant will take home a mini solar project.

Compete in a world of pixelated challenges! Join us for a thrilling week of Minecraft competitions, where you'll test your skills against other players in a variety of exciting events. Create arenas with others, like the giant Colosseum. Build different mini games or work together to make a giant battle arena! We will be using the PC/Java Edition of Minecraft. Bring a USB drive to save your games on the last day. Minecraft is a Mojang Studios trademark. This camp is not affiliated with them.

Kids will learn about art mediums through nature and how it connects to different science principles through our activities. Depending on the weather some of the activities we may do are making charcoal sticks, paint & dye color science, fiber weaving, animal footprints, and more! Kids will benefit from being able to creatively express themselves while also learning about art, science, and history. This class is a mixture of indoor and outdoor activities so make sure kids dress for the weather and wear closed-toed shoes! Kids will be able to take home most of their creations.

Kids will learn survival skills through fun games and activities. They will leave knowing a wide variety of outdoor survival skills like the rule of three, how to signal for help, shelter engineering, fire science and safety, treating water, orienteering, and more! Plus, at the end of the camp they will get the chance to test out all their skills in a survival scenario and graduate from Survival Camp! The skills are not only great for a lost/survival situation but also for camping and outdoor excursions as well as teaching kids’ confidence, self-reliance, teamwork, and problem solving. Make sure to dress for the weather and wear closed-toed shoes and long pants as most of the class will be spent outdoors!

Designed by the experts at MIT, this unique system teaches children about simple machines, engineering, programming, and so much more. The LEGO® Education WeDo Robotics Builders class allows students to explore different concepts in robotics. Possible models may include scuba driver, clown fish, bathyscope, sea gulls, submarines, and more. Students will build LEGO® models featuring working motors, tilt sensors, motion detectors, and a LEGO® USB Robotics Hub. Students will be working in pairs.

Learn how to create YouTube content! Shoot videos, edit sound, and create an online presence with YouTube. In the first half of camp, learn the tricks pro filmmakers use for better shots, lighting and sound. You will also learn to use our film editing software in a class project. In the second half of camp, students will work on a group unboxing or product review video. Edit your video, add transitions and special effects, and insert a soundtrack. Finally, share your finished video with the world. Bring a USB drive (at least 8 GB) to save your video on the last day. Students should have basic reading skills.