Aquatic life is fascinating!  In this camp, you’ll learn all about life in the water, how to keep your fish as healthy as possible and how to keep their environment healthy too.  You camper will design and create their very own aquarium to take home with them, as well as learn the key tasks which will keep the tank and the fish happy and healthy.

Ozobot is an award-winning, classroom coding system that uses 2 different methods of coding (on-screen using Ozobot Blockly or on paper using color (colored markers or stickers) to instill the fun and magic of coding to young learners.  Your child will put their robots (Evo or Bit) through its paces in this camp using different strategies and real time learning to create challenges for their robots with their classmates.

Reuben "Rube" Goldberg was an engineer in the early 1900s with a passion for drawing. Goldberg later went into sketching comics for local papers, many of his most famous comics featured crazy contraptions to help carry out simple everyday tasks. In this camp, we will learn how to incorporate our creativity into science and engineering through studying simple machines and designing our own contraptions!

Calling all Lego lovers! Do you like to build? Have you ever dreamt of making your creations come alive? If so, this is the class for you.

This class is designed to ignite students’ curiosity in science, engineering, technology and coding. Come spend a week learning some basic engineering principles, while collaborating with others. Then together we’ll make your creation(s) come alive while learning some basic coding.

This new camp is for any aspiring chemists! Campers will mix and complete experiments all week as they learn about states of matter, solutions and mixtures, density, crystals, salts, pH, chemical reactions and so much more (these campers will be the envy of all the grown-ups)!

Does your student wonder what it takes to be a secret agent? In this camp campers will engage in various labs that follow the secret agent theme. Some of the activities will include cracking encrypted messages, exploring forensic science and chemistry as well as working on their surveillance skills.

Communicating with each other: How do we make sure that the information we are sharing is clear and precise? (Scientific method in simple form)

Intel: How can we gather information from around us? Observations and Inferences Card Sort and Mystery Box Activity

Measuring Lab: (Rainbow lab) Students will measure, mix and pour dangerous chemicals (colored water) to create 6 essential secret agent chemicals for the Secret Agent Headquarters.

Secret Message: lemon juice hidden messages, creating cyphers

Types of evidence collected: Hair, Fingerprints, comparing handwriting, unknown substances

Calling all Lego lovers! Do you like to build? Have you ever dreamt of making your creations come alive? If so, this is the class for you.

This class is designed to ignite students’ curiosity in science, engineering, technology and coding. Come spend a week learning some basic engineering principles, while collaborating with others. Then together we’ll make your creation(s) come alive while learning some basic coding.

Have a curious and creative mind on your hands? In this week-long science camp, kids will combine their inner budding scientist and their artistic side to learn, explore, create and have fun! In addition to working on arts and crafts, kids will learn and experiment with different materials to learn why some materials are used more than others and why some just don’t make the cut. Kids will also learn how to make their own chalk, watercolors, and other items to discover the chemistry - the how and why - behind the art.

Ozobot is an award-winning, classroom coding system that uses 2 different methods of coding (on-screen using Ozobot Blockly or on paper using color (colored markers or stickers) to instill the fun and magic of coding to young learners.  Your child will put their robots (Evo or Bit) through its paces in this camp using different strategies and real time learning to create challenges for their robots with their classmates.

Join us as we hop in a canoe and dissect all that Lake Wingra has to offer!  Campers will paddle out into nature and discover the unique ecosystem this area provides.  Adventure and science await as you collect numerous samples from the lake to study and catalog.

Join us as we explore the engineering and design process! Campers will become chemical engineers as they work to design their own plant-based biodegradable bioplastics (designing mini catapults, testing ingredients to create the best bouncy balls) and then using what we learned from the design process to develop bioplastics as a possible solution to current plastic problems. 

Geoscience is fun for all ages!  Campers will “dig into” many topics like fossils, dinosaurs, weather, space and untold geological processes that will keep them intrigued while learning how all of these super cool aspects help us tell the stories of our world’s past and help us to prepare for its future.

 

Our world is SO big!  Realistically, your camper will be confronted daily with an engineering problems that need to be solved. Working as Environmental Engineers, we will examine real-world problems and environmental disasters and engineer ways to prevent, reduce, and clean up the mess. 

Our canvas will be beautiful Lake Wingra as we head out into nature and discover the unique ecosystem this area provides. Canoeing and exploring await us!  Learn all about what lives in our lake - plants, fish and more!

People have found ways to build games using dice, cards, art, trivia, and anything else within reach, and this camp will explore how to build a game using a computer. In this camp, students will learn the key concepts needed to build a computer game and have the freedom to build and write their own story for a text-based adventure game. Students will learn how to design a game, develop a plan for creating their design, and how to use the Python programming language to build their game. This course will help students explore areas such as logic, critical thinking, and computer science.