Includes 10 hours of age-appropriate content, beautifully designed materials, all necessary activity supplies, plus BONUS activities such as hands-on demo ideas and STEM games. Activities in this camp include:

• Edible Rock Candy: Students explore the concept of super saturation as they work to make their own edible rock candy
• Jack & the Beanstalk: Students use the engineering design process to build a tower that can support a figurine “Jack” and survive a high-speed windstorm
• Super Slime: Students learn about polymers as they make and decorate their own slime in this popular activity
• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs: Students use the engineering design process to build the best possible shelter for a figurine pig that can survive the wrath of the big bad wolf
• MYO Ice Cream: Students learn to follow a protocol, take exact measurements and the impact of changing temperature on states of matter as they work towards a tasty frozen treat
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Students use the engineering design process to design a structure that’s just right.Structures must meet certain height requirements and support the weight of a bear figurine.
• Invisible Ink: Students are introduced to chemical reactions as they explore different methods for using and interpreting coded invisible messages
• Magnets Push, Magnets Pull: Students learn about the properties of magnets and use the engineering design process to build a three-dimensional maze that can be solved with the use of magnet
• Mini lava lamps: Students learn about density as they work to make a lava lamp out of water and vegetable oil
• Marshmallow Spaghetti Bridge: Students use the engineering design process to build a bridge that can support a certain amount of weight

Includes 10 hours of age-appropriate content focused on a different STEM topic each day, plus beautifully designed materials, all necessary activity supplies, plus BONUS activities such as hands-on demo ideas and STEM games.

DAY ONE: WHAT IS STEM?

• Students dispel misconceptions about the field as they draw what they think of when they think of when they hear the word “scientist.”
• Ice Melting Blocks: Students learn about the scientific process as they explore thermal conductivity, making a hypothesis about which materials will melt ice the fastest
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Students learn about the importance of PPE when working in the lab, decorate lab coats, and practice “gowning up” for an experiment

DAY TWO: BIOLOGY

• DNA Ladders: Students learn about the structure of DNA and make models out of candy
• DNA Extraction: Students explore the scientific method as they extract DNA from fruit
• Biomimicry: Students use the engineering design process to design a prosthesis based on designs found in nature

DAY THREE: CHEMISTRY

• Chemical & Physical Changes: Students explore chemical and physical changes by mixing various substances that result in a variety of reactions
• Bottle Rocket Truck: Students use the engineering design process to design a truck and propulsion system based on their knowledge of chemical and physical changes

DAY FOUR: PHYSICS

• Rolling Rovers: Students design a model rover that is capable of traveling over the varied terrain found on Mars
• Balloon Rockets: Students explore Newton’s 2nd and 3rd laws of motion by creating a self-propelled rocket
• Egg Drop Challenge: Students use the engineering design process to create a container that can safely harbor a fragile egg during a drop

DAY FIVE: ENGINEERING

• Paper Strength and Gumdrop Challenge: Students explore the use of shapes and identify which structures are the strongest to support engineering design
• Circuits: Students use the engineering design process to create a simple robot that lights up, produces sound, and moves on its own

Includes 10 hours of age-appropriate content focused on a different STEM topic each day, plus beautifully designed materials, all necessary activity supplies, plus BONUS activities such as hands-on demo ideas and STEM games.

DAY ONE: WHAT IS STEM?

• Ice Melting Blocks: Students learn about the scientific process as they explore thermal conductivity, making a hypothesis about which materials will melt ice the fastest
• Black Box Challenge:Students use the scientific method to identify what’s inside an opaque container without looking inside
• Crime Solvers: Students use forensics skills and techniques to decipher evidence left behind at a crime scene

DAY TWO: BIOLOGY

• DNA Extraction: Students extract DNA from fruit and their own cheek cells
• Not-so-Secret Code: Students work to translate coded materials similar to how transcription makes an RNA copy of a gene’s DNA sequence

DAY THREE: CHEMISTRY

• Chemical & Physical Changes: Students explore chemical and physical changes by mixing various substances that result in a variety of reactions
• Identify that Powder: Students work to identify unknown substances by the chemical properties of each substance
• Bottle Rocket Truck: Students use the engineering design process to design a truck and propulsion system based on their knowledge of chemical and physical changes

DAY FOUR: PHYSICS

• Rolling Rovers: Students design a model rover that is capable of traveling over the varied terrain found on Mars
• Space Capsule Challenge: Students use the engineering design process to create a space capsule for an astronaut. Teams compete to determine whose capsule will endure the least amount of force on impact

DAY FIVE: ENGINEERING

• Cookie Monster Manufacturing: Students work in teams as they race to produce identical “cookies”as they learn about manufacturing concepts and quality control
• Water Tower Challenge: Students use the engineering design process to design a mechanism for transporting water from one location to another using a limited budget and supplies