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NASA: Journey into Outer Space

Half Day ¨C Ages 5-12

From our Earth¡¯s atmosphere to the outer reaches of our solar system, this hands-on program sends you on a quest for exploration! Comets, planets, stars and more are all waiting to be discovered. Steer a laser beam through a laser maze, Learn bout the four forces of flight, the challenges of space travel, and participate in a rocket launch! Investigate Explore the science involved in rocket construction as you build your own rocket that you can take home! Topics include¡­

:¡ñ Earth and Beyond¡ñ Astronaut-in-Training ¡ñ Solar Launch ¡ñ Eye on the Sky ¡ñ Space Voyage

Claws, Codes & Constellations!

Full Day ¨C Ages 5-12

Mad Science invites you to decipher the world around you.  Use Morse code to send secret messages to you friend.  Get a taste for space as you launch a ¡®bottle rocket¡¯, test soil for ¡°Martian¡± life and experiment with space suit design.  Discover pollution solutions by baking nachos with solar power.  Test what your toes have to do with tennis.  Grow jaws and claws to feed your beastly stomach. Each day features a new topic¡­

¡¤ Mad Messages ¡¤ Earth Awareness ¡¤ Science of Sport ¡¤ Nature ¡¤ Space Day

Science in Motion!

Full Day ¨C Age 5-12

Mad Science invites you to discover how things move with science.  Take apart pellets to see what an owl cannot digest!  View the world through a camera obscura that you make yourself.  Join a team of camper engineers and build bridges, domes, cubes and pyramids.  Assemble and control pulleys, levers, catapults, simple machines and megapinchers!  Make your own sidewalk chalk, crystal gardens and chromatography-dyed T-shirt! Topic include:

¡¤ Jr. Engineers ¡¤ Machine Mania ¡¤ Crazy Chemistry ¡¤ The Birds & The Beasts ¡¤ Shutterbugs!

All New Spy Academy!

Full Day ¨C Ages 5-12

Begin a fun journey into the world of detection, spy science, and forensics. Join the Mad Science Bureau of Investigations to sniff out forgeries and counterfeits!  Foil a burglary using state-of-the-art security methods! Practice detective skills with the cool Take-Home Fingerprint-Dusting Kit! Follow Sherlock¡¯s footsteps to learn what tracks n¡¯ trails can teach us! Learn how to decipher numbers to send secret messages to your friends!

¡ñ Spy Academy¡ñ Sleuths on the Scene ¡ñ Discover Detection¡ñ Forensics ¡ñ Science of Security

Flight Academy

Full Day & Half Day Programs ¨C Ages 5-12

From the earliest flying machines to the first rocket flights, this week long, hands-on program will allow

students to explore and build many different flying devices. See how Newton¡¯s Laws of motion explain how things move and how rockets fly and show them how amazing our Milky Way is.

The ¡°Wright Stuff¡± ¡¤ Up,Up & Away ¡¤ The Milky Way ¡¤ Newton¡¯s Loco-Motion ¡¤ Rockin¡¯ Rockets

3, 2, 1 Blast Off!

Full Day ¨C Ages 7-13

This action packed week will focus solely on rockets and the physics of rocket flight and expand on many of the concepts covered in Rockin¡¯ Rockets & Aerodynamics.  After learning the model rocket safety code, campers will build ten different types of rockets and participate in the launching of six

different rockets including a boggle rocket that they will build from scratch!

¡¤ Rocket Basics ¡¤ Rocket Flight ¡¤ Mission Control ¡¤ Rocket Propulsion & Recovery ¡¤ Go For Launch!

Red Hot Robots

Full Day - Ages 7-12 & Middle School Camp

Join us for a week of fun with amazing robots! Learn about the uses of robots in our world and spend time experimenting with super cool red-hot robots. Experiment with sound sensing robots, line-tracking robots, amphibious robots and robots that can even play soccer! Discover the science of circuits and how robots use sensors to explore things around them. Use your skills to build your very own working robot to take home with you!

¡ñ Ready for Robots ¡ñ Circuit Science¡ñ Use Your Common Sensors!¡ñ Robots 101¡ñ Advanced Robotics

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