- To help you and your child choose the best science or math camps for them, please read over all of the descriptions for their grade level.
- 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. Field trip explanations will go home with campers on Monday of each week.
| Camps for Entering 8-10 Graders | Camps for Entering 6-8 Graders | |
| Camps for Entering 4-5 Graders |
Camps for 3rd Graders | Camps for Girls |
Camps for Third Graders
Totally Cool Math and Science Combo
- Cost: $250
- Offered ONLY to Entering 3rd–4th graders. This is the same camp offered three different weeks.
Jump into Math and Science by experiencing activities that are magical, methodical and messy! Gaze out from inside a GIANT bubble, analyze seeds and M&Ms. Explore water properties, patterns around us, and probability. Work with logic, light and sound in new, exciting ways. Totally Cool Math and Science Campers will be mathmagicians, Egyptian baseball players and wild scientists.
Camps for Girls
VEX Robotics
- Cost: $250
Students enjoy hands-on-learning activities that allow them to apply technology, science, math, and engineering skills as they enjoy a 21st-century learning experience. STEM Labs are fun STEM engagements that align to educational standards. All STEM Labs contain activities that are structured around iterative, engineering design processes, real-world applications and opportunities for students to build teamwork and collaboration skills.
Camps for Eighth–Tenth Graders
Camps with off-campus field trips are marked with *.
HALF DAY CAMPS for Eighth–Tenth Graders
Explore Biomedical Engineering
- Cost: $185
- 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (Half Day)
Explore the numerous fields within Biomedical Engineering, including Biomaterials, Imaging, and medical devices. Investigate the amazing devices engineers create. Campers practice engineering problem solving along with communication and collaboration skills that are vital in the field.
3D Printing for Tomorrow
- Cost: $250
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.
Astronomy
- Cost: $250
Explore electromagnetic energy in the Kountze Planetarium! Build and launch your own rocket. Learn how gravity binds solar systems together or tears them apart.
Adventures in the Chem Lab
- Cost: $250
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: $250
Scientists become great artists in Art in Science! Campers use 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: $250
Join the quest for possible 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: $250
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: $250
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 versus vegetable. Enter the fascinating world of cells, genetics and DNA.
Forensic Science
- Cost: $250
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: $250
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 SOLVE!
Get Your Game On! Strategies of the Mind, Advanced
- Cost: $250
(Must have taken Get Your Game On!)
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.
VEX Robotics
- Cost: $250
Students enjoy hands-on-learning activities that allow them to apply technology, science, math, and engineering skills as they enjoy a 21st-century learning experience. STEM Labs are fun STEM engagements that align to educational standards. All STEM Labs contain activities that are structured around iterative, engineering design processes, real-world applications and opportunities for students to build teamwork and collaboration skills.
Camps for Fourth–Fifth Graders
Camps with off-campus field trips are marked with *.
3D Printing for Tomorrow
- Cost: $250
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. Use various techniques to design and to print in 3D.
*Art in Science
- Cost: $250
Scientists become great artists in Art in Science! Campers use unique materials to raise awareness of our environment. Display your own creations based on the works of several artists. Discover the science of shapes and structure in nature.
Astronomical Adventures
- Cost: $250
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: $250
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!
Get Your Game On! Strategies of the Mind
- Cost: $250
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 SOLVE!
*Physics with Toys
- Cost: $250
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!
VEX Robotics
- Cost: $250
Campers participate in activities that allow them to develop technology, science, math, and engineering skills as they build and program. VEX Robotics uses engineering design processes, real-world applications to encourage students to build teamwork and collaboration skills. The VEX platform encourages students to design creative solutions and innovate through experimentation.
*Weather — Forces of Nature
- Cost: $250
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 (if allowed by NWS). This camp is for you whatever the weather!
*Wild Side — Biology
- Cost: $250
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!
*Zoology
- Cost: $250
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!