Learn how birds and beasts catch their prey! Flow through the food chain and discover how animals and insects adapt to life on our planet. Explore how a change in the wind, water, and temperature affects all of Earth’s inhabitants. Build wooden birdhouses, dissect owl pellets and learn how animals navigate the world using scent trails. Campers will also build a bug house to observe critters and identify animals by making plaster animal tracks.
Explore all of the cells, organs, muscles, and bones that make up YOU! Put yourself together from the inside out, while learning about all the systems that make your body tick! Get microscopic while making a model cell, create a stethoscope to hear your heartbeat, and inflate model lungs that work just like yours! Get a little sticky while making “Mad Mucus” and a mashed potato brain!
Step into the world of leadership and learn the art of negotiation and persuasion in this interactive and hands-on course. Drawing inspiration from influential books like Getting to Yes and How to Win Friends and Influence People, this class equips students with practical tools to build relationships, resolve conflicts, and achieve their goals. Through engaging [...]
Take the challenge of creating a great lemonade stand business. Students will touch upon design, production (making the product), sales (selling the product), accounting (keeping track of the money), marketing (telling people about your product & business) and managing (organizing the business). Budding entrepreneurs will be developing their lemonade recipe, creating a product name, analyzing [...]
Whether you enjoy building or destroying structures, you’ll love this camp! Work with pulleys, wedges, screws, and levers, build your own catapults and play robot soccer! Exercise your ability to work with others while constructing a geodesic dome big enough for all campers to fit inside! Let the engineering excitement begin!
This class was created to stimulate excitement for problem-solving. Students will be training for competition in the Math Olympiads by exploring the twelve problem-solving strategies recommended by Dr. George Lenchner, creator of the Math Olympiads. Mathletes will be taking math contests from prior years and even play Math Jeopardy! Students will be pumping their math [...]
Students will take part in several scenarios where they apply their math skills to make the best decisions. In one scenario, they inherit a large sum of money and explore the topics of spending, saving, investing and taxes. In another scenario, they are planning a shopping trip in a foreign country and must convert currency, [...]
Students explore more advanced topics like engineering with Redstone, using enchantments, brewing potions, surviving zombie sieges and excavating structures. Students will also learn about World Edit, an application that enables Minecraft enthusiasts to build and edit maps. When and Where The Class is Offered: Week 1 - June 23-27, 2025 1:30PM-5:00PM Chatham Week 2 - [...]
Students will be building their dream home, setting up their village, replicating a famous building like the White House and building the Golden Gate Bridge as a team. Students will explore effective communications skills through discussions and group exercises in Minecraft. When and Where The Class is Offered: Week 1 - June 23-27, 2025 9AM-12:30PM [...]
