Scroll down to see detailed information for all of our 2009 camps.
For Girls Only!
For Girls Only! – Girls will delve into how science affects our daily lives – explore our skeletal and circulatory systems, experiment with colors and light, investigate the features of animal creatures, examine the earth beneath your feet, and tons of more FUN. Brownies can qualify for the Eat Right, Stay Healthy and My Body Try-Its; Junior Girl Scouts can qualify for the Science in Everyday Life and Wildlife badges. Sorry boys, this camp is for girls only. Appropriate for ages 6 to 11 (must have completed Kindergarten).
Healthy Choices
Find out what it means to make a healthy choice for your life. Discover the new food guide pyramid and create your own. Plan out a healthy meal for your family. Go on a scavenger hunt to find out which nutrients are needed for a healthy body and which foods contain them.
Body Basics
Get a closer look at the stuff that makes up YOU! Put your eyes and brain to the reflex test. Use your muscles to play some body volleyball. Learn how to listen to your heart and take your pulse. Wear your tennis shoes and be prepared to play!
Eco-Explorers
Get a picture of the wildlife around you. Learn how to eat like a bird and classify animals into group. Take a magnified look at some plants and insects. Make tracks, animal tracks, that is as we discover the prints animals leave behind. Connect the links in a food chain and choose your own animal symbol to represent you.
The Science of Life
Science is everywhere, all around you, every day just waiting to be discovered. Find the natural geometry in spider webs as we examine structures. Experience the forces of nature as we discuss volcanoes and earthquakes. Catch the rainbow while mixing colors and tell the time by using the sun.
Weather Wonders
Watch the sky and uncover the weather. Be your own weather forecaster and learn the signs of rain or shine. Become a cloud watcher, a rain maker, and harness the wind. Create your own weather tool and know how to be prepared when hazardous weather strikes!
Kid’s Lab Camp
Kid’s Lab 2009 – Explore the science behind toys, create chemical reactions, discover what football players, ballet dancers, and scientists have in common, investigate the animal world, and probe the mysteries of outer space. This FUN science camp will capture the fascination of young science adventurers! Appropriate for ages 5 to 7.
Toy Science
Explore the science behind toys! Experiment with the science of motion using balls, yo-yos, and a marble roller coaster; become a “bubbleologist” as you discover how to make bigger and better bubbles; examine different toys that help illustrate the inventive nature of toy construction and scientific principles. Make your own bouncing ball to take home!
Forest Friends
Explore the animal world as you investigate animal life cycles and their habits, Learn about predators and prey. Make your own plaster cast of an animal's footprint. Meet and greet a living member of the Lumbricidae family. Play the nature scavenger hunt that combines science exploration with the animal kingdom!
Crazy Chemistry
Become a Mad Science chemist as you learn all about the chemistry of things that you see everyday. Discover how chemical reactions are everywhere and how you can figure out if a chemical change has occurred right before your very eyes. Mix, mush and brew together different chemicals to create things that you can use in this hands-on chemistry adventure.
Science of Sport
What do football players, scientists and ballet dancers have in common? Explore how Newton helps us learn why we move the way we do, and improve the games we play. Campers experiment with games and activities while learning how physical and chemical sciences affect their equipment, movement, and technique.
Space Place
Young Mad Science astronauts explore the mysteries of the solar system. Children will discover how astronauts live and work in space. The sun, the moon, the stars, and gravity are only a few of the things that must be dealt with on this Mad Science space mission. We’ll cap off today’s activities with a rocket launch.
Robots 2009 Camp
Build your own working robot to take home and keep! This year’s model is the Kabuto-Mushi Robot. Explore the “FUN”damentals of robotics as you construct this sleek-looking, powerful, infrared remote controlled robot. You will assemble the gear boxes, install the 4 motors, connect the wires in the body and the controller. and more! Appropriate for ages 7 to 11 (must have completed 1st grade).
In addition to the descriptions listed below, campers will work each day on building their robot. Campers follow the step-by-step verbal directions given by the instructor and work on the same building steps at the same time. Our instructors inspect each building step along to way to help ensure success. On the last day, after campers are finished building, they will test out their completed robots in fun, interactive activities.
The Robots Are Coming!
In today’s world we seem to be experiencing a robot invasion – they help build our cars, they vacuum our floors, they explore outer space. But what exactly is a robot? Can a robot do my chores? What do they look like? How do they move? Is a robot intelligent? Campers will explore the answers to these questions and more through hands-on activities and games.
Simple Machine Mania
Levers and pulleys and gears, Oh My! Campers will be introduced to simple machines, how they work, and how we use them to do the simplest daily tasks or combine them to make complex machines.
Circuit Science
Campers will build simple circuits which will help them to understand how electricity works. They will demonstrate what they learned after they build the wireless controller for their robots.
Use Your Common Sensors
Human beings receive information through our five senses, and the brain evaluates the information and gives instructions to the legs, arms, and hands of how to respond. Campers will learn about sensors and how they enable a robot to learn about the surrounding environment.
Robots 101
Campers will learn about robot design as well as the applications of robotic technology. Additionally, campers will discover how flexible robots are (or aren’t) as they compare and contrast robotic and human movement capabilities.
Secret Agent Lab Camp
New activities for 2009! Create codes, solve secret messages, match simulated blood from a crime scene, examine forensic evidence, investigate the science of security. Campers will uncover the science involved in evidence gathering and analysis; figure out the science of forensics, and master the spy game in this FUN hands-on camp that combines spy science with the science of sleuthing. Appropriate for ages 7 to 11 (must have completed 1st grade).
Discover Detection
Are detectives really scientists in disguise? Discover what it takes to be a detective in this hands-on look at detective science. Campers will create, collect, and analyze evidence and discover what skills are necessary as a crime scene lab technician.
Funky Forensics
Figure out the science of forensics in this hands-on look at crime scenes. Evidence collection and puzzle making will lead campers to understanding why forensic scientists like to understand the complete picture before they make decisions. Campers will probe the science of tracking by creating a scenario on a case card according to a pre-determined story.
Science of Security
Become a super spy and learn clever ways of performing tasks in this hands-on view at the science that spies use. Campers discover what it takes to keep things safe and how technology works in the spy game! Campers will put their spy skills to the test by building their very own secret safe and challenging others to crack the code!
Sleuths on the Scene
Spy Academy
Look out 007 - the Mad Science Spy Academy is in session! From edible messages, “dead drops” and decoding clues, campers will have the opportunity to check out the skills that spies have in this hands-on journey into the world of espionage. Campers will make their own secret code breaker to communicate stealthily at home, like real spies.
Rocket and Space
Adventures Camp
3…2…1…Blastoff for a mission of FUN! Explore the Earth's atmosphere, discover comets, planets, and more, test your skills against the challenges of space travel, build a rocket, and participate in a rocket launch. You’ll find this camp to be out of this world! Appropriate for kids 7 – 11 years old (must have completed first grade).
Earth and Beyond
Explore the farthest reaches of our solar system and create a lunar eclipse in this “mad” planetary tour! Learn how the planets stack up, go on a mission to explore the atmosphere on Earth, and beyond! Travel to the end of the rainbow and make a sunset! Mix up various planetary atmospheres, one molecule at a time, discover how stars would look in space, and see what makes stars twinkle.
Astronaut-in-Training
Discover technology designed for outer space! Steer a laser beam through a laser maze, find hidden mountains using the principles of radar technology, and discover everyday objects that were originally designed for use in space! And that’s just the beginning! Live the life of an astronaut as you suit up for space flight! Find out how much you would weigh if you lived on Neptune, and how old you would be if you lived on Saturn.
Solar Launch
This stellar program is your ticket to the stars! Watch star dust burn, and journey through a soapy galaxy as you investigate the life cycle of stars! Then, it’s your chance to become a rocket scientist! Investigate the four forces of flight, and explore the science involved in rocket construction as you build your own Skyblazer Rocket that you can take home!
Eye on the Sky
Probe the mysteries of meteors and bounce around satellite light in this phenomenal program on space phenomena! Learn how to tell the difference between stars, planets and satellites in the night sky. See comets up close as one is formed before your eyes!
Space Voyage
Learn what it takes to be a true globetrotter! Race a balloon rocket and design your own car engine as you learn about thrust. See the principles of propulsion at work in a real rocket launch, and build your very own Shuttle Copter™ to fly to the skies!
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