Motors, lasers, sensors, hovercraft, magnets, music, sound, potato guns and lights! Take equipment apart Learn about electricity Discover how things work Make your own inventions Take home your creations.

Enrollment is $150/week for morning or afternoon class Enroll for full-day classes, 9am-4pm (including 1 hour for lunch) for $290/week. Extended hours option, 8–5:30pm, $360/week. Money back guarantee if you're not happy with the camp. Scholarships available. For questions, please call Camp Director, Amy Utzinger at:

Rocketry
Most of our rockets are powered by compressed air. The rocket body is made of a rolled tube of heavy paper, and after that the design is up to you. Some rockets are designed for distance (300 ft or so), some are designed to float gently down, pop out parachutes, etc. You'll also experiment with rockets propelled by liquid nitrogen. We give awards for design, distance, and originality.

Electricity
We'll begin with experiments and puzzles that teach the fundamentals of electricity and then go on to build electrical and electronic devices. If you already know enough about electricity when you arrive, you can jump right in inventing. We have a wide variety of electrical and electronic devices that you can use or modify to make your own inventions. We'll also play with some high voltage electricity that can make sparks and shocks, but isn't dangerous.

Take Apart
You'll have access to a screwgun and every other tool you need to take apart, copiers, printers, computers, motors, toys, and a variety of other electro-mechanical devices. You can use many of the parts to make moving art, electric noise generators, shock machines, vehicles, and an unlimited variety of your own inventions to take home.

Robotics
Most of this session will be building kits for robots you can take home: solder kits for older kids, and non-solder kits for younger kids. We'll also make our own version of a robot from the parts we collect from the machines we take apart. Last year we made a (coasting) go-kart with front and rear steering.

Lasers
You'll build a device that lets you send sound with a laser beam. It consists of a laser transmitter that you plug into an iPod or other mp3 player, a receiver, and an amplifier that you make with a 386 op-amp. This is fairly sophisticated for kids your age, but you can do it, and learn to solder along the way.

Welding
You'll start out by welding your name onto a piece of metal, and then you can learn to weld steel together. At first kids are reluctant to try. But once they start they don't want to stop.

Kinetic Art
We'll make moving sculptures power by motors or by the wind. In the past kids have made everything from waterwheels to hula dancers, spinning lights, beautiful windmills, and powered mobiles.

Overall the camp is not as structured as most camps because we want kids to have the freedom to discover, make mistakes, and make brilliant inventions.