Science Camp Course Descriptions

Grade 1: Sports Spectacular
Ready, set, go! Explore the science of popular sports as we discover the forces behind running, jumping, balance, and more. Try the sport, then analyze the movements of the game and your body.

Grades 2-3: Go For Gold Game Design
Let the games begin! Unleash your creativity and innovation by designing custom characters, animations, and behaviors for video games using Scratch. Showcase your game and see how it stands up against the competition!

Grades 4-5: Animal Athletes
Take a look at incredible feats of animal athleticism: lizards running on water, the strength of an ant, the agility of a hummingbird. What would it take for humans to accomplish similar feats? Together we'll explore the adaptations of animal species then assess whether humans could possibly meet similar challenges.

Grades 6-8: Athletes in Motion
When athletes are at the starting line or taking the field, multiple forces and body functions must team up for the action to really get going. Learn how the physics of motion, the systems of human biology, and the complex actions of the brain and nervous system must work together to get athletes in the game!

Grade 1: Animal Spotlight
We share our world with many furry, scaly, feathered, and wild animal friends. Learn how animals and people enhance each other’s lives through encounters with live animals, sessions with animal professionals, and hands-on activities. Veterinary science, service animals, outdoor explorations, and more will be included in daily themes. Campers will design and showcase their own animal enrichment!

Grades 2-3: Science of Senses
Our five senses provide our brains with information about the world around us. What makes our sense development different from other animals'? How do individuals see color differently? Do we all have the same taste buds? Explore these concepts and many more as we gain an understanding of the human physiology that determines how we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell.

Grades 4-5: Anatomy Academy
What do you have in common with a shark, a hummingbird, and a worm? More than you may think. Discover how people and other animals are the same and yet vastly different. Explore contrasting body systems of humans and representative animals through lab dissections, live animal visits, and exciting activities that highlight the remarkable variety of animal life.

Grades 6-8: Code STEM: Inside the ER
This fast-paced, fascinating medical adventure will keep campers on their toes. Race through emergency-room simulations, craft model organs, investigate medical mysteries, and master real-world medical skills. From human anatomy to first aid to future tech, campers become the life-saving team behind every diagnosis and cure.

Grade 1: Sound Off!
Whether you want to crank it up to 11 or drop the beat, explore the science of sound by creating music of your own. We'll discover why different materials and shapes give instruments unique sounds. Get ready to feel the rhythm and move with the groove as we learn about the physics of music!

Grades 2-3: From Fiction to Fact
Awaken your imagination as science comes to life in your favorite stories. Each day, campers will investigate fictional adventures to discover how science could make them real. By the end of the week, we'll bring to life a new science-inspired story!

Grades 4-5: Most Deadly
What is truly the "Most Deadly" animal? Campers will learn the many natural survival tools that animals have developed to stay safe and survive. By the end of the week, they will discover which animal is the MOST deadly.

Grades 6-8: After the Zombie Apocalypse
The apocalypse brings down the electrical grid and upends life as we know it. Rebuild with science! Learn to survive as you build shelters, design water purification devices, and engineer vertical gardens. Create solar ovens, make electricity-generating devices, and plug civilization in again.

Grade 1: Explore the Planets
Get to know the fascinating planets of our solar system through hands-on activities, songs, and games. Explore each planet’s place in space. Then see all of them as NASA does in the biggest planetarium in America and on LSC’s giant, glowing globe called Science On a Sphere.

Grades 2-3: Destination: Mars
We glimpse a future when Earth no longer can support mankind and we have no other choice but to look upwards – to Mars! Explore the Red Planet in the Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium, investigate its rocky terrain up close using Science On a Sphere, and use engineering and robotics skills with your team of fellow scientists. Do you have what it takes to turn Mars into mankind’s second home?

Grades 4-5: Paleolithic Survival
Travel through time back to the Ice Age! Learn to survive as ancient humans did by exploring the science behind survival. Build simple tools, sail the seas, and more. Discover the fate of ancient megafauna and a time when we were not the top of the food chain.

Grades 6-8: Danger Zones
Natural events involving geology, the water cycle, volcanoes, meteors, and more can impact Earth. The effects can be dramatic, but keep your distance until it's safe again! Explore the wonder and destruction of our planet’s most powerful forces.

Grade 1: Ready to Ride
Need a ride? This camp explores things that make us go: cars, trains, boats, and more. Campers will learn about the engineering behind these modes of transportation, then create their own models.

Grades 2-3: RC Adventure
Discover the science and engineering behind remote-controlled vehicles through daily themed challenges involving air, land, and water. By exploring flight, buoyancy, motion, and control systems, campers will develop problem-solving skills, practice teamwork, and gain a foundational understanding of physics and engineering design all while having a blast piloting a variety of toys.

Grades 4-5: Reinventing the Wheel
They say you don't need to reinvent the wheel. But why not do it anyway! Campers will explore all the fun inventions that we use to ride, scoot, and roll around. Then we'll build our engineering skills as we create our own rides.

Grades 6-8: Rescuebots
When emergencies arise, it's robots to the rescue! Explore how innovations in robotics and technology advance our ability to respond to emergency situations.

Grade 1: Storybook Science
Enter the world of your favorite books and engineer new solutions to the characters’ problems. Explore the science behind why the three little pigs’ houses blew down. Find a solution to prevent Humpty Dumpty from breaking after his great fall. Build Corduroy the Bear a flashlight to help find his missing button. Let your imagination rewrite the story!

Grades 2-3: Wizard Academy
Calling all witches- and wizards-in-training! Build your bag of wizarding tricks as you investigate the science behind chemical potions, spells, invisibility, levitation, and more. Build glowing wands, whip up bubbling brews of slime, and become a master of illusion.

Grades 4-5: Medieval Engineering
Engineers in the Middle Ages designed machines capable of hurling massive weights great distances, and also built walls meant to stop them. Explore the physics and math that make catapults, trebuchets, and battering rams such effective tools of destruction. Use your new knowledge to design and build your own siege machine. Who will hold the long distance hurling record?

Grades 6-8: Prometheus Project
Legends say that humans stole fire from Mount Olympus. What other mythological power can humanity seize? Discover how we can harness the light of the sun, the power of the seas, the energy of lightning, and much more in this clash of titans and technology.