Mad Science has awesome weeklong summer camps for children ages 6 - 12. All of our camps have 2 instructors in each one and are limited to no more than 25 children per camp.
Mad Science invites you to discover claws, codes and constellations with our exciting Camp Number 1. Following are some topics you will explore during this fun five-day camp. These are only a sample of some of the activities that you will be doing each day. The topics will not necessarily follow this order. However, each of these topics will be included at some point in the camp.
Mad Messages
Decipher the world around you as you learn different ways to send mad messages. Use Morse code to send secret transmissions to your friends and to interpret secret messages from them. Discover the mystery of the Mad Science Message Wheel. Experiment with cool color-changing goldenrod paper.
Earth Awareness
Learn all about pollution and what it does to our planet. Determine what big problems a little pollution can cause with a lake in a bottle. Unearth pollution solutions and other ways to help our planet. Bake nachos with solar power and make your own recycled paper.
Science of Sport
Jump right into the science behind sports. Test what your toes have to do with tennis and what your feet have to do with football. Make a new friend named CG Owl and find out what he has to say about sports. See how much air your lungs can hold. Make a helmet for your own crash test egg.
Nature
Let your nose be your guide on a trail of scents. Follow the clues on this aromatic path. Experiment with natural dyes that you can find in fruits and veggies. Decorate your own painters cap with all the colors that nature has to offer. Use jaws and claws to feed your beastly stomach.
Space Day
Blast off with science as you launch a 'water bottle rocket'. Test soil for "Martian" life. Experiment with space suit design. Get a taste for space and eat like the astronauts when you make your own space snack. Learn how to throw water around and stay dry at the same time. Build your own rubber band powered space shuttle to take home.
Move with science in our exciting Camp Number 2. Following are some topics you will explore during this fun five-day camp. These are only a sample of some of the activities that we will be doing each day. The topics will not necessarily follow this order. However, each of these topics will be included at some point in the camp.
Jr. Engineers
Structures are all around you, everywhere you look and everywhere you go! Join a team of scientists to inspect the elements of structures as you build, test; and yes, even eat some structures you create. Climb inside a geodesic dome that you construct with fellow campers. Build a Soma cube puzzle that may even stump your parents!
Machine Mania
Investigate the world of simple machines as you learn that machines are helpful for work or play! Assemble and control pulleys, levers, catapults and mega-pinchers! Use the machines you create to feed yourself and shoot ping-pong balls! Operating your simple machines will make work seem like play.
Crazy Chemistry
Chemistry is part of your everyday life, but what is Chemistry? Explore this great topic and use chemistry to make your own sidewalk chalk and a chocolate candy roll. Create a crystal garden out of common household items and use chromatography to make a campT-shirt.
Birds & The Beasts
Study Biology as you become an ornithologist and discover the unique characteristics of birds. Investigate feathers to see how birds fly. Dissect owl pellets to find out what they eat. Make your own seed mixture to attract your favorite species of birds to your own yard.
Shutterbugs!
Explore the use of light to utilize more than one form of photography. Make a cool kaleidoscope with mirrors. Apply your skills to make a camera obscura that will help you to understand how a camera works. Get artistic with a diazzo chamber and create a print to take home.
Mad Science invites you to discover cells and crime with our exciting Camp Number 3. Following are some descriptions of topics you will explore during this fun five-day camp. These are only a sample of some of the activities that we will be doing each day. The topics will not necessarily follow this order. However, each of these topics will be included at some point in the camp.
CellCity
Take a fantastic trip into cell city. Learn about cells and the different parts within them. You will compare the parts of a cell to a real city as you investigate its different functions. Build your own take home model cell out of unique materials. Even your snack will be a fun cell model you can eat!
The Organ Trail
Do you know the recipe for a healthy body? You will after you journey down the Mad Science Organ Trail. Come to camp and meet Tall Paul! Paul is a torso model that can have his organs removed and replaced. Paul’s brains, bones, lungs, heart, and digestion systems will all be investigated. Make a gutsy apron and a model lung to take home.
Scene of the Crime
Team up with fellow campers to solve the "Great Cookie Caper" crime. Arrive at camp to find a real crime scene surrounded by crime scene tape. Walk the grid and collect evidence to solve the crime. All of your observation skills will be needed as you use your new magnifying glasses and notebooks to record your evidence. Use your forensic skills to solve the crime and make your own cookie snack.
Chemical Counting
Get ready for a day in the Mad Science Laboratory! Turn a lemon into a battery. Experiment with electrochemical reactions, as you electroplate a penny and a nickel. Learn how chemical elements help you to create chemical compounds. Put your new chemistry know-how to work as you make your own "brain goo"!
Radical Reactions
Ready, set, reactions! Learn with hands-on reactions that matter is never created or destroyed. Make a rainbow and a chemical clock in a cup. Experiment with chemical bonds and whirligigs as you discover conductivity. Make your own invisible ink to take home.
Mad Science invites you to launch your knowledge of rockets in our exciting Camp Number 4. Following are some topics you will explore during this fun five-day camp. These are only a sample of some of the activities that you will be doing each day. The topics will not necessarily follow this order. However, each of these topics will be included at some point in the camp. We will launch rockets and your child will build several types of rockets. Our camp includes everything your child needs during our camp day. However, if you wish to continue your child’s interest in rocket launches outside our camp, you will need to purchase a launch kit at a hobby shop.
Rocket Scientists
Blast your way into rocket science! Learn the Rocket Safety Code, so you can always have safe launches. Build your own rocket made of recycled materials. Launch your own water missile. Experiment with different rocket designs, as you learn what makes a rocket work.
Mission Control
Investigate Newton’s Laws of Motion first- hand. Learn about propulsion with air propelled miniature rockets. Then design your own! Build your own rocket pinwheel. Experience your first real rocket launch in Mad Science, when you fire off a rocket like the one you built.
Astronaut Training
Start building a new rocket with a payload tube! Build a model Saturn to take home. Create your own nanorover. Team up with fellow campers in a nanorover relay. Learn the history of space travel and how some space vehicles work.
Mission Recovery
Get ready to recover! Experiment with the best way to recover a rocket. Learn about parachutes, streamers, helicopters, and other types of recovery systems in this fun- filled day. Build a rocket that is powered by chemicals that you may have eaten!
Go for Launch
3, 2, 1, Blast Off! Experience the most advanced launches with your expert rocket team. Master the concept of rocket staging by operating your own staging exercises. Demonstrate the rocket principles that you have learned all week with a launching finale!
Join us for a marathon session of rocket building.Campers will build two great rockets over the course of the day.The Crossfire rocket soars up to 1300 ft while the Amazon towers over other rockets at 3 ft tall.Campers enjoy great themed games and snacks while learning all about launch safety.Every student receives a launch pad and launcher to continue the fun with their families and extend their learning into the home.
