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!

Through Scientific investigation, students will learn about the geology and physical geography of the Omaha area. While on field trips, campers will collect data and samples with probes and PDAs. Upon your return to the lab, you will analyze and draw conclusions based on your own data!

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.

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!

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!

Build and program a ghost train, a bumper car, a merry-go-round and a tour bus! Use engineering to make a working LEGO™ amusement park. Experiment with the rides and create you own!

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!

Learn about the planets, stars and moon in the Durham Science Center’s Mallory Kountze Planetarium. Study solar activity with big telescopes on our rooftop observatory. Compete in the “Great Balloon Rocket Race!” Complete the week by building and launching a rocket!

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.

If you like to dig for rocks and fossils, this is for you! You will visit Schramm Park for a dig! Discover what geologists do and make a stratigraphic model. Earth Science will really rock you!

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!

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!

Study meteorology and explore hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, rain, snow and on and on! Meet weather forecasters. Visit the National Weather Service office in Valley. This camp is for you, whatever the weather!

Encounter the countries of Germany, France and Spain in this cultural adventure. You will learn some of each language and enjoy the music and food of each country. A special camp created and taught for Foreign Language lovers.

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 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.

Come and explore math in a musical way! Create equations with music instruments and discover what music and math have in common. Brought to you by the UNO Department of Music!

You will learn about conservation of angular motion using tops and gyroscopes. Use vectors, momentum and torque. Weigh a car! Explore physics with activities instead of a book. Have fun learning physics!

Are toys machines? Learn all about spinning, pulling and pushing! Investigate the park and your toy box. Science is everywhere! You life you with a giant pulley! What do butter and simple machines have in common? A mighty tasty exploration!

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?

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?

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.

For robotics enthusiasts! Developed by the University of Oregon for use by incoming college freshmen, TekBots™ are being adapted to middle and high school levels by UNO’s Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering and School of Education. If you are a girl entering eighth, ninth, or the tenth grade and have an interest in engineering, TekBots™ Camp is the camp you are looking for. TekBots demonstrate basic applications in wireless, video and signal processing, sensors, electronics, control systems, embedded systems, digital logic and introductory programming.

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

Do you LOVE nature? Want to dip nets into a stream and study tiny living things? Explore the predatory/prey cycle. Build your own critter condo. Study many living organisms in Biology Camp!

Back once again to inspire the desire for travel! Choose the geography of the countries you would like to explore. Journey to the formation of the Saharan Desert or enter the mysterious jungles of Borneo. Apply for a passport to travel the world without leaving Omaha!

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!

Math, bubbles, sound, light and color top the list of activities. Make tessellation t-shirts! Solve puzzles and learn new games. Play Egyptian Baseball! Make oobleck and get MESSY!

What makes animals so different and unique? Learn about adaptations, visit the zoo to observe animal adaptations at work, create an ocean habitat t-shirt.

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.