MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMP SESSIONS

Put your critical reading, writing, debate and thinking skills to use as we rock Mock Trial! This session's problems focus on discrimination, burden of proof, preponderance of the evidence, and witness credibility. Bring your sense of justice as we explore the cases of The Night the Knight was Banned from the Round Table, Kenny Cheer, and C. Zure vs. McPizza!

Learn to code using Scratch, Finch Robots, and online 3D modeling software to create a 3D model you can print! Printing in 3D from student code makes the coding experience more meaningful, tangible, and fun!

Take a trip across the solar system and make discoveries about the moon, planets, comets and more! Build a lunar rover and explore edible moon rocks. Launch a rocket and land on Mars. Build your very own dirty snowball. Come explore these challenges and more as you trek across the solar system.

Students will have an opportunity to learn how to use Adobe After Effects. They will learn how to make Kinetic Typography music videos. They will have fun downloading their favorite songs (school appropriate) and videos to create and enhance their music video. We will explore other Adobe programs like Adobe photoshop as well. So if you enjoy music and enjoy expressing your creativity, this is the class for you.

Do you love solving and designing puzzles? Unleash your problem-solving skills to Escape from Mosquito Cove! Then design your own escape challenges for fellow campers to try.

Math, fun? ABSOLUTELY! Come strengthen your foundational math concepts in fun and inventive ways! Launching water balloons helps us with fractions and volume, Giant Battleship improves our graphing skills, and creating mini-versions of models helps us with scale. Let's MATH!!

Have you heard of tiny homes? Have you seen tiny houses being planned out and built on TV? Come Build A Tiny House! This activity will put the designing into the YOUR hands! You will discover how (and why) math concepts such as area, perimeter, and geometry are used in building a home. You will use skills such as problem solving, collaboration, design, and planning.

Outwit, outlast, and outplay! Test your mental and physical "survival" skills while competing in teams to become the ultimate survivors! As a bonus, you'll learn how to survive in some of the deadliest biomes on the planet. Warning: This camp may cause brain strain and uncontrollable laughter.

Join us as we master the engineering design process to solve real world challenges. Build the strongest earthquake tower. Create the fastest rocket car. Explore robots that write. Design a parachute and save a pilot. Test your nautical skills in our boat challenge. Come have fun learning how engineering technology helps solve problems!

Do you like to tinker? Come take part in exploring, designing, and engineering wild, wacky, and impractical Rube Goldberg machines. What is a Goldbergh gadget? It is a contraption in which a series of devices that perform simple tasks are linked together to produce a domino effect in which activating one device triggers the next device in the sequence. This session will bring out the innovator and creative mind of our campers!

Come learn how to code as you play and make characters complete tasks on your computer screen! Or create music! Or create a game! Learn JavaScript (if you dare!).