Camp Topics


	Camp Topics

Mad Science has awesome weeklong summer camps for children entering grades 2-5, and Young Scientists Camp for ages 4-6. All of our camps have 2 instructors in each one and are limited to no more than 25 children per camp.

Following are the camps that we are offering:

Camp No. 1: Mystery Minds (grades 2-5)
Camp No. 2: Junior Engineers (grades 2-5)
Camp No. 3: Secret Agent Lab (grades 2-5)
Camp No. 4: Rockin' Rockets (grades 2-5)
Camp No. 5: Flying Physics (grades 2-5)
Camp No. 6: Robot World (grades 2-5)
Camp No. 7: NASA Space Camp (grades 2-5)

Camp No. 8: Chemworks Half-Day ( grades 2-5)

Camp No. 9: Young Scientists Half-Day (ages 4-6)

Following is a brief description of each one:

Camp No. 1

MYSTERY MINDS
(For grades 2-5)

Mad Science invites you to discover claws, codes and constellations with our exciting Camp Number 1. Following are some topics you will explore during this fun five-day camp. These are only a sample of some of the activities that you will be doing each day. The topics will not necessarily follow this order. However, each of these topics will be included at some point in the camp.

Mad Messages	Decipher the world around you as you learn different ways to send mad messages. Use Morse code to send secret transmissions to your friends and to interpret secret messages from them. Discover the mystery of the Mad Science Message Wheel. Experiment with cool color-changing goldenrod paper.
Earth Awareness	Learn all about pollution and what it does to our planet. Determine what big problems a little pollution can cause with a lake in a bottle. Unearth pollution solutions and other ways to help our planet. Bake nachos with solar power and make your own recycled paper.
Science of Sport	Jump right into the science behind sports. Test what your toes have to do with tennis and what your feet have to do with football. Make a new friend named CG Owl and find out what he has to say about sports. See how much air your lungs can hold. Make a helmet for your own crash test egg.
Nature	Let your nose be your guide on a trail of scents. Follow the clues on this aromatic path. Experiment with natural dyes that you can find in fruits and veggies. Decorate your own painters cap with all the colors that nature has to offer. Use jaws and claws to feed your beastly stomach.
Space Day	Blast off with science as you launch a 'water bottle rocket'. Test soil for "Martian" life. Experiment with space suit design. Get a taste for space and eat like the astronauts when you make your own space snack. Learn how to throw water around and stay dry at the same time. Build your own rubber band powered space shuttle to take home.

Camp No. 2

JUNIOR ENGINEERS
(For grades 2-5)

Move with science in our exciting Camp Number 2. Following are some topics you will explore during this fun five-day camp. These are only a sample of some of the activities that we will be doing each day. The topics will not necessarily follow this order. However, each of these topics will be included at some point in the camp.

Jr. Engineers	Structures are all around you, everywhere you look and everywhere you go! Join a team of scientists to inspect the elements of structures as you build, test; and yes, even eat some structures you create. Climb inside a geodesic dome that you construct with fellow campers. Build a Soma cube puzzle that may even stump your parents!
Machine Mania	Investigate the world of simple machines as you learn that machines are helpful for work or play! Assemble and control pulleys, levers, catapults and mega-pinchers! Use the machines you create to feed yourself and shoot ping-pong balls! Operating your simple machines will make work seem like play.
Crazy Chemistry	Chemistry is part of your everyday life, but what is Chemistry? Explore this great topic and use chemistry to make your own sidewalk chalk and a chocolate candy roll. Create a crystal garden out of common household items and use chromatography to make a camp T-shirt.
Birds & The Beasts	Study Biology as you become an ornithologist and discover the unique characteristics of birds. Investigate feathers to see how birds fly. Dissect owl pellets to find out what they eat. Make your own seed mixture to attract your favorite species of birds to your own yard.
Shutterbugs!	Explore the use of light to utilize more than one form of photography. Make a cool kaleidoscope with mirrors. Apply your skills to make a camera obscura that will help you to understand how a camera works. Get artistic with a diazzo chamber and create a print to take home.

Camp No. 3

SECRET AGENT LAB
(For grades 2-5)

Mad Science invites you to discover cells and crime with our exciting Camp Number 3. Following are some descriptions of topics you will explore during this fun five-day camp. These are only a sample of some of the activities that we will be doing each day. The topics will not necessarily follow this order. However, each of these topics will be included at some point in the camp.

Cell City	Take a fantastic trip into cell city. Learn about cells and the different parts within them. You will compare the parts of a cell to a real city as you investigate its different functions. Build your own take home model cell out of unique materials. Even your snack will be a fun cell model you can eat!
The Organ Trail	Do you know the recipe for a healthy body? You will after you journey down the Mad Science Organ Trail. Come to camp and meet Tall Paul! Paul is a torso model that can have his organs removed and replaced. Paul’s brains, bones, lungs, heart, and digestion systems will all be investigated. Make a gutsy apron and a model lung to take home.
Scene of the Crime	Team up with fellow campers to solve the "Great Cookie Caper" crime. Arrive at camp to find a real crime scene surrounded by crime scene tape. Walk the grid and collect evidence to solve the crime. All of your observation skills will be needed as you use your new magnifying glasses and notebooks to record your evidence. Use your forensic skills to solve the crime and make your own cookie snack.
Chemical Counting	Get ready for a day in the Mad Science Laboratory! Turn a lemon into a battery. Experiment with electrochemical reactions, as you electroplate a penny and a nickel. Learn how chemical elements help you to create chemical compounds. Put your new chemistry know-how to work as you make your own "brain goo"!
Radical Reactions	Ready, set, reactions! Learn with hands-on reactions that matter is never created or destroyed. Make a rainbow and a chemical clock in a cup. Experiment with chemical bonds and whirligigs as you discover conductivity. Make your own invisible ink to take home.

Camp No. 4

ROCKIN' ROCKETS
(For grades 2-5)

Mad Science invites you to launch your knowledge of rockets in our exciting Camp Number 4. Following are some topics you will explore during this fun five-day camp. These are only a sample of some of the activities that you will be doing each day. The topics will not necessarily follow this order. However, each of these topics will be included at some point in the camp. We will launch rockets and your child will build several types of rockets. Our camp includes everything your child needs during our camp day. However, if you wish to continue your child’s interest in rocket launches outside our camp, you will need to purchase a launch kit at a hobby shop.

Rocket Scientists	Blast your way into rocket science! Learn the Rocket Safety Code, so you can always have safe launches. Build your own rocket made of recycled materials. Launch your own water missile. Experiment with different rocket designs, as you learn what makes a rocket work.
Mission Control	Investigate Newton’s Laws of Motion first- hand. Learn about propulsion with air propelled miniature rockets. Then design your own! Build your own rocket pinwheel. Experience your first real rocket launch in Mad Science, when you fire off a rocket like the one you built.
Astronaut Training	Start building a new rocket with a payload tube! Build a model Saturn to take home. Create your own nanorover. Team up with fellow campers in a nanorover relay. Learn the history of space travel and how some space vehicles work.
Mission Recovery	Get ready to recover! Experiment with the best way to recover a rocket. Learn about parachutes, streamers, helicopters, and other types of recovery systems in this fun- filled day. Build a rocket that is powered by chemicals that you may have eaten!
Go for Launch	3, 2, 1, Blast Off! Experience the most advanced launches with your expert rocket team. Master the concept of rocket staging by operating your own staging exercises. Demonstrate the rocket principles that you have learned all week with a launching finale!

Camp No. 5

FLYING PHYSICS
(For grades 2-5)

Mad Science invites you to fly with science in our exciting Camp Number 5. Following are some topics you will explore during this fun five-day camp. These are only a sample of some of the activities that you will be doing each day. The topics will not necessarily follow this order. However, each of these topics will be included at some point in the camp.

The Milky Way	Take a trip into the galaxy! Discover the universe as you build your own planisphere to take home with you. Make your own sundial as you discover what the universe has to do with telling time.
The "Wright" Stuff	Learn all about the amazing Wright brothers as you build your own rubber band powered plane. Experiment with other flying devices in a wind tunnel. Discover that everything that flies doesn’t have wings.
Newton’s Loco-Motion	Fasten your seatbelt, for a day of motion! Learn how magicians can pull the tablecloth out from under dishes! Make your own inertia stick so that you can better understand just how stubborn inertia can be.
Gravity Gallery	Gravity is acting on you and everything around you all the time! Learn what gravity has to do with everyday life. Defy gravity with miniature hovercrafts and balloon-powered helicopters that you make and race yourself.
Up, Up and Away	Design, build and fly your own kite using ancient flying machines as your guide. Discover why kites have tails. Have a radical resistance race with your fellow campers.

Camp No. 6

ROBOT WORLD
(For grades 2-5)

Mad Science invites you to join us this summer in our Mad Science robot world in our exciting Camp Number 6. Learn about the uses of robots in the world. Spend time playing with our super cool red-hot robots. Use your skills to build your very own working robot to take home to "live" with you. Following are some topics you will explore during this fun five-day camp. These are only a sample of some of the activities that you will be doing each day. The topics will not necessarily follow this order. However, each of these topics will be included at some point in the camp.

Ready for Robots	Roll your way into robot science. Experiment with different robot designs, as you learn what makes a robot work. Invent your own robot designs using recycled materials.
Circuit Science	Discover the world of robots as we investigate the differences between humans and their robotic counterparts. What makes a robot work will be explored during hands-on activities and discussions.
Use Common Sensors	Each day some time will be spent perfecting a real working robot that we will finish and take home on Friday. We will be using our fine motor skills and we require that campers be entering the third grade so they do not become frustrated with construction.
Robots 101	Hand-on activities will include fun time with our robots. We will play games and experiment with super cool robots such as a soccer robot, a line tracker, a hyper peppy, and a robotic arm.
Advanced Robotics	Campers will learn how robots discover the environment they are placed in using sensors like infrared. Working in groups we will explore how robots work and how they can make our lives easier.

Camp No. 7

NASA HALF-DAY SPACE CAMP
(For grades 2-5)

Explore the farthest reaches of our solar system and create a lunar eclipse. Learn about our atmosphere then go to the end of a rainbow and investigate the life cycle of stars. Probe the mysteries of meteors. Learn about space travel and experience the life of an astronaut as you suit up for space flight!

Camp No. 8

CRAZY CHEMWORKS HALF-DAY CAMP
(For Grades 2-5)

Mad Science invites you to shake up a flask of fun in the lab as a junior chemist! These five half-days of chemistry are packed solid with cool reactions. Campers put on some goggles and change liquid to solid and back again. They get to handle laboratory tools, build and break molecules, and pick up some tricks on chemical changes.

Chemistry Club

Start your chemistry career with some laboratory basics. Campers learn to swirl, pour and mix like a scientist. Check out the colors of chemistry with the power of pH paper and create a stopper-popping reaction!

Reaction Time

Make some fast-acting changes with your fellow junior chemists! Campers teach themselves to tell the difference between physical and chemical reactions and then put their knowledge to the test! You'll be pushing the limits of chemistry today.

Chemical Combo

See the lighter side of science in this half-day of chemical fun! Campers see how white light brings rainbow colors to our eyes, and make some others glow. Mix up some solutions and make some slime!

Crazy Concoctions

Explore the science in your home. Find out what makes glue stick and try out a tape test. Learn how chemistry makes what you bake, and see the stuff that keeps bread together.

Super Cool Science

Chill down and heat up at the atomic level with solids, liquids and gases. See how cold dry ice is and melt metal in hot water! Make colorful chemical reactions and find out how they happen.

Camp No. 9

YOUNG SCIENTISTS HALF-DAY GARDEN CAMP
(For ages 4-6)

This exciting Mad Science camp offers young scientists (age 5-6) an introduction to basic environmental science. Each session is devoted to different aspects of the garden, allowing children to progressively enrich their understanding of how living things grow and how they interact with the environment around them. During the course of each three-hour session, children will perform hands-on experiments, play themed games and enjoy a snack and story related to the session's themes. Children will also make take-home projects each day.

Soil and Seeds

Learn where things grow, the different characteristics of seeds, and explore what seeds become. Dissect seeds, learn about the different ways that seeds are planted in nature and how plants travel through their seeds. Make your own seed badge to take home.

Sun, Wind & Rain

Discover what types of weather are vital for a healthy garden. Learn to identify basic weather conditions, and perform an experiment about water and wind shaping the garden. Make your own sun visor to wear while you work in the garden.

Plants and Leaves

Explore the different parts of plants and leaves. Learn more about plant characteristics through activities like leaf rubbings and examining plants and leaves under a microscope designed for young scientists. Make a Budding Bean necklace to take home.

Flowers, Fruits & Veggies

Investigate what plants produce. Examine the different parts of flowers, fruits and vegetables using your microscope. Create your very own plants and flowers in your journal and make beatiful art prints of fruits and vegetables to take home.

Butterflies, Ladybugs & Bees

Examine other inhabitants of the garden, including butterflies, ladybugs and bees, and learn how these creatures help the garden grow. Learn about pollination, how bugs see and basic bug anatomy. Make a butterfly bracelet to take home along with your camp journal from the week.

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