The camp provides an out-of-this-world experience with daily new missions and expert guests from the science community, offering collaborative STEM learning and Challenger Learning Center simulations.
Science Explorers Camp: Astronaut Academy offers an immersive, hands-on STEM experience for elementary-aged campers. Participants will delve into the wonders of space and flight through a variety of engaging activities. Campers will explore stars and constellations in a homemade planetarium, learn about Newton's Laws of Motion while building and launching their own rockets, and design and construct model space stations for a mission to Mars. They will also work in engineering teams to create space capsules to launch "eggstronauts." Full-day campers will further their astronaut training by building air-powered nano-rovers, creating craters and dry ice comets, and operating robotic arms to understand how astronauts use robots for satellite work. The camp aims to foster critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, and a lifelong interest in STEM.
A typical day involves hands-on STEM learning experiences, including astronaut challenges, science experiments, and aviation workshops, with new missions and expert guests from the science community daily.
This camp is best for curious children aged 7-11 who love science, discovery, and space, and enjoy hands-on experiments and creative problem-solving.
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