Camp Descriptions 2020
The health and safety of our community continues to be our primary concern in this fluid situation. We thank you for your patience, cooperation and understanding at this time. If you have questions please reach out to connieobrien@unomaha.edu.
Please visit www.unomaha.edu/camps to view our online learning opportunities for this summer.
- To help you and your child choose the best science or math camps for her/him, please read over all of the descriptions.
- Most camps are open to children ENTERING grades 4 - 10. Totally Cool Math & Science Combo is open to 3rd graders.
- Camps with off-campus field trips are marked with a *. No trips will take place on Mondays. Fieldtrip explanations will go home with campers on Monday of each week.
| Camps for Girls | Camps for Entering 8-10 Graders | Camps for Entering 6-8 Graders |
| Camps for Entering 4-5 Graders | Camps for 3rd Graders |
Camps for Third Graders
Totally Cool Math and Science Combo
- Cost: $200
- Offered ONLY to Entering 3rd - 4th graders This is the same camp offered four times.
Experience being inside a bubble! Begin to explore the exciting worlds of Science and Math through sound, light and color! Make tessellation t-shirts. M&M Math, bubbles, pitch, mirrors and color top the list of activities. Solve puzzles and play with time. Play Egyptian Baseball! Make oobleck and get MESSY!
Camps for Girls
3D Printing for Tomorrow for Girls
- Cost: $210
- 6th - 8th grade girls
Campers design paper living habitats made for future moon bases, then design their habitats to fit 3D digital standards. Astronauts are heading to the Moon and Mars; they may use the food storage prototypes you design! Drawing digitally in a 3D program is a highlight of the camp. Campers will also use various techniques to design and print in 3D.
Astronomy for Girls
- Cost: $200
- 6th - 8th grade girls
Enjoy the moon, the stars and the sun in UNO's Kountze Planetarium! Sharpen your problem solving skills as you learn about Newton's Laws. Collaborate with team members as you learn the science of optics. Spend an evening viewing the planets and deep-sky objects through full-size telescopes! (Weather permitting)
EV3 Engineering I for Girls
- Cost: $210
- 6th - 8th grade girls
This camp uses LEGO™ Mindstorms Education EV3 to build, program and test solutions using the EV3 Intelligent brick. Brainstorming creative solutions to engineering situations using rotation, light, ultrasonic and touch sensors, students practice collaboration and problem solving skills.
Stack It Up! Structural Engineering for Girls
- Cost: $200
- 4th - 5th grade girls
Explore a sophisticated interlocking brick system with essential engineering and construction techniques from the Lego Master Builder Academy. Apply those concepts while learning some basic NXT programming tasks. Collaborate with partners to create stories about your creations!
Understanding Electricity for Girls
- Cost: $200
- 4th - 5th grade girls
How does electricity work in houses? Investigate the concepts of energy and electricity using snap circuits, experiments and activities. An Omaha Public Power District expert visits to discuss electricity basics. Put your knowledge to the test and electrify a city using Micro:Bits!
Camps for Eighth - Tenth Graders
Camps with off-campus field trips are marked with *.
HALF DAY CAMPS for Eighth - Tenth Graders
Astronomy
- Cost: $170
- 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Half Day)
Look for asteroids, search for supernova, dissect starlight and design experiments. Take rocket building to a new level. Spend an evening exploring the Omaha night sky! (Weather permitting)
*Geology
- Cost: $170
- 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Half Day)
Using advanced experiments, students will learn about a diverse number of geologic processes involving volcanoes, glaciers, river systems and mass movement. Explore UNL’s Elephant Hall for a closer look at Nebraska’s minerals and fossils!
Zombies, Spiderman, Science - Oh My!
- Cost: $170
- 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Half Day)
See what Super Heroes and Zombies have to teach us about our brains, bodies and technology! How could their fictional powers and mutations have anything to do with “normal” humans? Learn some physiology that might help you survive a Zombie attack!
Explore Biomedical Engineering
- Cost: $170
- 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Half Day)
This camp explores the numerous fields within Biomedical Engineering, including Biomaterials, Imaging, and medical devices. Investigate the amazing devices engineers create. Campers will practice engineering problem solving along with communication and collaboration skills that are vital in the field.
3D Printing for Tomorrow
- Cost: $210
Campers in this camp design paper living habitats made for future moon bases, then design their habitats to fit 3D digital standards. Astronauts are heading to the Moon and Mars; they may use the food storage prototypes you design! Drawing digitally in a 3D program is a highlight of the camp. Campers will also use various techniques to design and print in 3D.
Adventures in the Chem Lab
- Cost: $210
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 to solve in the Chem Lab.
*Art in Science
- Cost: $200
Scientists become great artists in Art in Science! Campers work side-by-side with internationally exhibited artist Bart Vargas, who uses unique materials to raise awareness of our environment. Create and mount your own creations based on the works of several artists. Discover the science of shapes and structure in nature.
Astrobiology
- Cost: $190
Join the quest for extraterrestrial life and learn about the effects of outer space on living organisms. Look for life under a microscope. Study UFOs! Define life! Search for life in space.
Dynamic Earth
- Cost: $190
Investigate the earth and our interactions with it. Use maps and computers to learn about unique landscapes. Explore geography with activities such as an afternoon of GEOcaching and mosaic maps and creating your own island with contour lines. A Geography Bee rounds out the week!
*Eco Excitement - Biology
- Cost: $200
Investigate what is inside crayfish, rats and flowers through dissection! Collect and examine specimens from Walnut Creek. Explore cells by creating a cell using Jell-o! Explore aquatic life and learn about grasslands. Argue fruit vs vegetable. Enter the fascinating world of cells, genetics and DNA.
EV3 Engineering I
- Cost: $210
This camp uses LEGO™ Mindstorms Education EV3 to build, program and test solutions using the EV3 Intelligent brick. Brainstorming creative solutions to engineering situations using rotation, light, ultrasonic and touch sensors, students practice collaboration and problem solving skills.
EV3 Engineering II (Must have taken EV3 Engineering I)
- Cost: $200
This camp is not for novice robotics campers! Campers will collaborate with a partner to expand upon experiences in NXT and EV3 camps to solve problems encountered in LEGO™ competitions while enjoying new challenges in robotics.
EV3 III: Connect to the Future (Must have taken EV3 II and I)
- Cost: $200
King of the Hill, racetrack time trials and Robo Challenge are among the unique challenges and competitions campers will encounter in EV3 III! Campers will use Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to control LEGO Robots. Explore functions and switches not used in previous camps as well as discuss radio waves and infrared communication.
Forensic Science
- Cost: $210
Forensic Science is all about criminal investigation! Use your observational skills and logical thinking to study codes and code breaking, osteology and entomology. Learn all about hair samples, blood spatters and fingerprints. Use software to create composite facial sketches.
Get Your Game On! Strategies of the Mind
- Cost: $190
Learn or extend your skills in Chess, Checkers, Stratego and other games as you strengthen your problem solving skills. Play games all day and learn strategies to outwit worthy opponents. Learn how to THINK TO WIN!
Get Your Game On! Strategies of the Mind: Advanced (Must have taken Get Your Game On!)
- Cost: $190
Learn advanced strategies in Chess, Risk and Settlers of Catan along with the strategies of backgammon, cribbage, hearts and more. Continue to strengthen your thinking skills through game playing.
GIS - Mapping Today's World
- Cost: $200
A unique camp, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) uses as remote sensing data from satellites, GPS, computer technology and geographic data to produce extremely precise maps in entertaining and enlightening ways. GEOcaching and map making will highlight this camp!
*Go Green!
- Cost: $200
Explore how ecosystems work. Discover your carbon footprint. Create models of plants, build sculptures, test air and water quality in places you visit. Study snails and study life on the edge. Field trips to the Council Bluffs Recycling Center and Heron Haven/Hefflinger Park.
Micro: Bits - Python Coding
- Cost: $210
Campers will code Micro:Bit processors using Python language. In Java Script, they will drag and drop blocks of code to program their Micro:Bit to respond to light, motion and temperature.
Mathemagic
- Cost: $190
Come and learn mysterious Mathematical Magic. Learn how YOU can apply the wonders of magic and mathematics to dazzle your friends, your parents and even your teachers!
*Powering the Future
- Cost: $200
Harness wind, water and solar power using windmills, solar panels and turbines. Find out about giant wind turbines and geothermal energy. Visit an Omaha Public Power District facility! (Conditions permitting)
Sound Effects
- Cost: $190
Channel your inner rock star by blending sound and technology. No musical background is required! Investigate the Anatomy of a Groove and learn how animal and human sounds are alike and different. Learn about Jack Foley and movie sound effects.
Wild Blue Yonder!
- Cost: $210
High altitude ballooning! Create a lab and send it into near space attached to a high altitude balloon. Campers will be examining the layers of the atmosphere, building a space capsule, and visiting the timeline of high altitude projects. Analyze your near space data.
- Cost: $200
How do adaptations determine where animals live? Visit Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Wildlife Safari Park to study how to create habitats to support healthy animals. Participate in activities and learn the science of the zoo.
Camps for Fourth - Fifth Graders
Camps with off-campus field trips are marked with *.
3D Printing for Tomorrow
- Cost: $210
Campers in this brand new camp design paper living habitats made for future moon bases, then design their habitats to fit 3D digital standards. Astronauts are heading to the Moon and Mars; they may use the food storage prototypes you design! Drawing digitally in a 3D program is a highlight of the camp. Campers will also use various techniques to design and to print in 3D.
Antarctica: Science on Ice!
- Cost: $190
Antarctica: the coldest, windiest, driest place on Earth! Learn about the major Earth systems: atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere and biosphere. Find out what’s with all the ice. Explore Antarctica!
*Art in Science
- Cost: $200
Scientists become great artists in Art in Science! Campers work side-by-side with internationally exhibited artist Bart Vargas, who uses unique materials to raise awareness of our environment. Create and mount your own creations based on the works of several artists. Discover the science of shapes and structure in nature.
Astronomical Adventures
- Cost: $200
Build and launch a rocket! Learn about planets, stars and moons in the Mallory Kountze Planetarium. Study solar activity with large telescopes on our rooftop observatory. Compete in the Great Balloon Race and much more!
*Earth Science - What Rocks Our Earth
- Cost: $200
If you like to dig for rocks and fossils, this is for you! You will visit Schramm Park for a fossil dig. Discover what geologists do and make a stratigraphic model. Learn how to identify minerals, create artesian wells and study river systems using the university’s stream table. Earth Science will really rock you
EV3 Engineering I
- Cost: $210
This camp uses LEGO™ Mindstorms Education EV3 to build, program and test solutions using the EV3 Intelligent brick. Brainstorming creative solutions to engineering situations using rotation, light, ultrasonic and touch sensors, students practice collaboration and problem solving skills.
EV3 Engineering 1.5 (Must have taken EV3 Engineering I)
- Cost: $200
Campers will collaborate with a partner to expand upon experiences in EV3 I camps to solve problems encountered in LEGO™ competitions while enjoying new challenges in Lego robotics.
Get Your Game On! Strategies of the Mind
- Cost: $190
Learn or extend your skills in Chess, Checkers, Stratego and other games as you strengthen your problem solving skills. Play games all day and learn strategies to outwit worthy opponents. Learn how to THINK TO WIN!
*Physics with Toys
- Cost: $200
Learn all about spinning, pulling and pushing! Investigate a park and your toy box. Science is everywhere! You lift you with a giant pulley! What do butter and simple machines have in common? A mighty tasty exploration!
*Powering the Future
- Cost: $200
Newly updated curriculum! Harness wind, water and solar power using windmills, solar panels and turbines. Find out about giant wind turbines and geothermal energy. Visit an Omaha Public Power District facility! (Conditions permitting)
Practical Math
- Cost: $190
The purpose of this camp is to present fun and practical applications for mathematical problem solving and programming using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, online applets, coding and a variety of games. Create and develop a sales plan for your own candy bar. Campers will work collaboratively to explore Math creatively.
Sounds of Music
- Cost: $190
Explore the science of sound, acoustics and instrument construction. Campers will learn about music classifications: aerophone, membranophone, idiophone and chordophone. They will create unique instruments inspired by world music. This is new and improved music camp!
Stack It Up! Structural Engineering
- Cost: $200
Explore a sophisticated interlocking brick system with essential engineering and construction techniques from the Lego Master Builder Academy. Apply those concepts while learning some basic NXT programming tasks. Collaborate with partners to create stories about your creations!
Understanding Electricity
- Cost: $200
Investigate the concepts of energy and electricity using snap circuits, experiments and activities. An Omaha Public Power District expert visits to discuss electricity basics. Put your knowledge to the test and electrify a city using Micro:Bits!
*Weather - Forces of Nature
- Cost: $200
Forces of Nature can make kids mini meteorologists! 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!
*Wild Side - Biology
- Cost: $200
Jump into the Wild Side of Biology! Study plants, animals and their relationship with the environment. Learn about the predator/prey cycle, and why it is important to us. Study tiny water creatures at a local lake. Visit Glacier Creek and net insects! Build a critter condominium for a tiny critter. Study living organisms in Wild Side Biology Camp!
The World!
- Cost: $200
Choose countries to explore; learn their landscapes, cultures and foods! Take a “trip” to discover the wilds of the Black Forest, the Great Barrier Reef or maybe the Great Wall of China. From the Sahara Desert and the Amazon rainforest to the islands of the Galapagos and the mysterious Borneo – apply for a passport and travel the world without leaving Omaha!
*Zoology
- Cost: $200
In Zoology, we study extreme animals! What makes animals different and unique? Learn about adaptations, visit the zoo to observe animal adaptations at work, create an ocean habitat t-shirt. Have fun with others who love animals!
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