Portland Summer Camp 2012 - Portland & Vancouver


	Portland Summer Camp 2012

Parents looking for Portland Summer Camp in the Portland/Vancouver Area:

Do you dread the summer when your kids whine about "nothing to do" or they sit all day long playing video games?

Here's the perfect solution...

Mad Science Portland Summer Camp!

Age appropriate activities keep kids engaged
Kids learn by doing, exploring, discovering
Every day kids make and take home a new science project
Our camps are Kid Approved because we do stuff kids love

Kid Approved

Mad Science Portland Summer Camps are half-day and full-day camps for kids in Preschoool through the 6th Grade that introduce, explore, test, and play with science concepts. Each camp is 5 days and every day a new topic is introduced and explored. Every day kids get to make and take home a science project.

Mad Science Summer Camp is a great way to engage young minds and bodies this summer.

Who knows what your kids might do with their new interest in science.

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Camp for Kids Ages 4-5

Let’s Get Growing
Young campers get to explore the dirt! They learn how and where and why things grow. They are growing everyday and at camp they get to see how the soil, sun, rain and bugs help our plants grow.

Kids get to make and take home: Garden Journal, Hand-decorated Foam Sun-visor, Grasshead, Seed Stick, Leaf Rubbings, handmade Laminated Placemat, Bug Bracelet, and a Sprouting Bean Necklace.

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Camps for Kids Entering Kindergarten through 2nd Grade

Jr. Science Explorers
Jr. Science Explorers develop Earth awareness, explore the world as Junior Naturalists, then head for space as Junior Astronauts.

Kids get to make and take home: Camp Journal, Hand-pounded T-shirt, CG Owl , Sun Catchers, Handmade Paper, Solar Prints, Mini Straw Rocket, Mad Science Shuttle Copter.

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Rockets & the Science of Flight
Space, rockets, planes and flight—get a little bit of everything that flies. Campers have a blast learning the how and why of aerodynamics.

Kids get to make and take home: Mad Science Camp T-shirt, Paper Airplanes, Rubber-band Powered Airplane, build your own Kite, build your own Sundial, create an Inertia Pole, and build a Mad Science Skyblazer II rocket.

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Jr. Moving with Science
Campers explore how science keeps their world moving through a glimpse into chemistry, biology, engineering, physics and optics.

Kids get to make and take home: Mad Science Camp T-shirt, Soma Cubes and Triangle Puzzles, Birdhouse and Biology Blast Journal, Polyacrylamide Crystals, Sidewalk Chalk, Mega-Pinchers, Catapult, Diazo Prints.

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Imagination Academy
Inventions, dinosaurs and gravity are just a few stops we make as kids discover, create and play their way around the world of science in the Imagination Academy.

Kids get to make and take home: Dinosaur Tooth Casting, Parachute, Distorted Image Viewer, Mad Science Patented Invention.

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Camps for Kids Entering 2nd Grade through 6th Grade

Moving with Science
Moving with Science campers will explore how our world is kept moving through science. Kids take a close-up view of chemistry, biology, engineering, physics and optics.

Kids get to make and take home: Mad Science Camp T-shirt, Soma Cubes and Triangle Puzzles, Birdhouse and Biology Blast Journal, Polyacrylamide Crystals, Sidewalk Chalk, Mega-Pinchers, Catapult, Diazo Prints.

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Secret Agent Lab
Campers step into the shoes of a detective to uncover the science in evidence gathering and crime scene investigation. It’s a week of Mad Science sleuthing!

Kids get to make and take home: Secret Agent tools: Inspect-it-kit, Whodunit kit, Spy Glasses, Door Handle Burglar Alarm, Spy Academy t-shirt, Case Stamper Kit, Rubber Casting.

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Rocket Lab
A camp about rockets, rockets and more rockets! Kids get to build and launch a rocket everyday at camp. The importance of teamwork in launching rockets is also discovered as kids get to try their hand at each role in the "Rocket Launch Team".

Kids get to make and take home: Rocket Journal, Mad Science Camp T-shirt, Estes Alpha Rocket, Bog Roll Rocket, Estes Aerospace Rocket, Skyblazer II rocket.

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CSI Science
Campers learn how knowledge of chemistry and biology can make you a great detective. We’ll take a close up look at the human body and explore the world of cool chemical reactions. Help us solve the Mad Science mystery at “the Scene of the Crime”.

Kids get to make and take home: Mad Science Camp T-shirt, Model Cell, Model Lung, Model Muscles, Lemon Powered Battery, electroplating, Detective Gadget Kit, Child ID Kit.

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Kids Entering 3rd through 6th Grades

Robotics 101
Campers spend the week discovering the world of automation as they learn the basics and complexities of robotics. Kids build 2 robots of their own.

Kids get to make and take home: your own end effector, design your own robot then let the Mad Scientist print it on your camp t-shirt, a hydraulic end effector, a simple motor, an electromagnet, learn the binary number system and take home a binary magic trick, build solar robots form the OWI solar robot kit, build a line tracker robot, build a dinosaur walking robot

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