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Camp Young Scientist $225/wkThe Young Scientists Science Day Camp was created in response to requests by parents to have a science camp for their younger children. All Young Scientist activities meet or exceed the National Science Standards. Fun and excitement is fostered by great lessons and hands-on experiments. This program is designed to meet the needs of children ages 6-8.
The Young Scientist Camp covers a broad range of fun and exciting science topics such as: Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Lab Process Skills.
Sample Projects:
Grow - Beast Experiment! Wacky Window Paint! Super Bouncing Balls! Cosmic Rocket! Wurmz and Dirt! Driving Submarines!
This camp offers an exciting introduction into the basics of Palenotology! This exciting adventure in Paleontology will have your child playing in the dirt and having the time of their lives! Campers will be immersed in several hands-on projects that they will take home to continue their adventure. Plus this camp offers fun and dynamic science games!
Sample Projects:
Panning for Gems and Minerals! Crack Open a Geode! Miniature Dinosaur Dig! Build and take away a cool T-Rex Model!
Camp Cosmos $225/wkJoin us as we race across the Milky Way with several astronomy projects! This is the camp that your child will be talking about for a long time!
Sample Projects:
Rocket Construction! Using Solar Glasses! Constructing and Using a Star Finder! Build a Telescope! Campers will build and launch their own rocket!
Camp Jolly Roger $225/wkArrrrrrrg! Welcome Me Hearties! Join us as we sail away on our pirate adventure and explore the crystal blue oceans searching for sea life, gold, gems, amd maybe even some buried treasure! Oceanography was never this much fun!
Sample Projects:
Map Making and Orienteering! Knot Tying! Shark Tooth Necklace! Build a Model of a Tall Ship! and several others.
Make NO bones about it; this camp is for the aspiring "Young Physician". Campers will learn that their bodies are miles of blood vessels, hundreds of muscles, many thousands of hairs, a furnace, a filter, AND a fancy computer! Your Young Physician will really have a pulse on the human body with this camp!
Sample Projects:
Building a Lung Model! Testing for Germs! Squid Dissection! Skin Prints!
Camp Little Robot Inventor $225/wk plus a $45 lab feeThis camp is an introduction into the world of robotics. Campers will learn about the six simple machines and how they are incorporated into more complex machines. Each camper will work on a variety of projects in areas such as electricity, magnetism and construction.
Sample Projects:
Creating Electric Circuits! Building a Small Battery Powered Car! Build and take home a Robot of their own!
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Campers will work in the areas of observation, experimentation and trial and error.
This is a new camp for 2008! Campers will discover loads of horribly fantastic experiments! Projects focus on blood, bones and body bits! This is science with the squishy bits left in it!
Sample Projects:
Bulging Bag of Brains! Simulated Snot! Baby Diaper Dissection! Eyeball Acrobatics!
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Grossologists will indulge in many other sickening body experiments.
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