We are taking robotics to a higher challenge level! This camp offers choices and independence to our most experienced ROBOLAB™ enthusiasts. You will explore all options and plan the outcomes you want to happen. Each activity encourages thinking and problem solving.

Spend an evening viewing the planets and deep-sky objects through big telescopes! Learn how gravity binds solar systems together or tears them apart. Design and build a rocket. Explore electromagnetic energy in the Kountze Planetarium and complete a mission aboard the Maverick Space Shuttle!

Helium, hydrogen, oxygen.... Things blow up! Things freeze! Watch chemical changes and make a polymer. Screaming gummy bears and ice cream in an instant are mysteries, until you enter the Chemistry Zone!

Explore camera obscura and cyanotypes at Hot Shops Art Gallery. Create and mount your own creations based on the works of several artists. With UNO art students, discover the science of shapes and structure in nature.

This is the branch of biology that’s concerned with the quest for extraterrestrial life and the effects of outer space on living organisms. Look for life under a microscope. Discuss what life is. Search for life in space!

Understand how people affect animals, plants, and ecosystems. Use the science of ecology to find ways to preserve wildlife. Explore, in the early summer sun, native habitats recently recreated within the Omaha area. Establish an “Ecological Friendly Footprint” in your own backyard!

Investigate the earth and our interactions with it. Make sand candles and a mosaic map with ceramic tiles pieces! Explore edible geography. Use maps, computers and the Global Positioning Satellites. A Geography Bee rounds out the week.

Explore woodland and grassland ecosystems. Dissect flowers, fruit and fish. Take a Micro Odyssey. Enter the fascinating world of insects! It’s a biological adventure.

Learn about collecting and storing energy. Harness wind, water and solar power using LEGO™s. Omaha Public Power District experts will teach you about the awesome generating power of giant wind turbines and geothermal mines.

Back in the Durham Science Center for the fourth summer! Use you observational skills and logical thinking to study codes and code breaking, osteology, and entomology. Use FACES software to create composite facial sketches and compete an online bullet identification simulation. Forensics is a hot topic!

Volcanoes, plate tectonics, extruding magma and mountain building are just a few of the concepts that come alive in this camp! You will use stereoscopes and view topographic maps. Explore the geology of Nebraska! Study on-site at Schramm Park and the Platte River.

Play games all day and learn strategies to outwit worthy opponents. Games such as Chess, Checkers, Stratego and others will help you strengthen those problem solving skills. Learn how to THINK TO WIN!

This camp is a dynamic fun-filled excursion into engineering. It is an in-depth initiation into mobile robotics. Developed at Carnegie Mellon University, campers will progress through activities that will teach programming, behaviors, systems, control, sensors, feedback and more!

This camp is not for novice robotics campers! The second course in LEGO™ Engineering will dig deep into the First LEGO™ League’s 2007 “Power Puzzle.” Become comfortable with the problem solving strategies encountered in LEGO™ competitions.

Learn programming fundamentals while playing with LEGO™s! Build gadgets and program them using the ROBOLAB™ language. Can you build and program a robot that can face the toughest challenges?

Campers will learn the real science behind some science fiction films. You will also get a behind the scenes glimpse of how a science fiction story is created. Create fiction based on futuristic science! You will write and create a sci-fi comic book of your own using different media. Perhaps you will make contact with another world!

Presented by UNO’s Theater Department, this camp will explore the world of theater in a completely new way. Through improvisation and skits, learn the building blocks of theater and present a demonstration for friends and family.

Create instruments, visit a recording studio, and preform in a rhythm band. Learn about sound waves, acoustics and other principles of physics.

Investigate the concepts of energy, electricity, and environment using LEGO™s. Discover the difference between kinetic and potential energy. Find out about joules and watts. Build and power a motor with a capacitor! Link you new skills to the real world through a visit to Omaha Public Power District facilities!

How do adaptations help animals live in their environment? Visit the Henry Doorly Zoo and Wildlife Safari Park to see how habitats are created to support healthy animals. Participate in activities and learn the science of the zoo.