Summer Camps: Ages 8-12

These full-day themed summer camps feature a mixture of physical activity, STEAM Discovery, games in our gymnasium and outdoor time in the sunshine. With new adventures each day and new themes weekly, your child will never be bored! It’s our goal to provide a safe environment for your child to make memories, meet new friends, and explore their unique talents and interests. Camps are limited to 12 children per week to maintain social distancing. All applicable COVID-19 safety protocols will be in place.

  • Drop-off: 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. / Pick-up: 4:00 – 4:30 p.m.
  • Instructors: Wade Kramm and Brennan Poole
  • Special weekly visits every Friday
  • Pricing: $294 members / $324 non-members (July 5-8: $235 / $259 non-members)
  • After-care is available until 6:00pm for the flat weekly fee of $100 ($80 week of July 4) per camper and is limited to 10 children. (Purchase after-care separately.)
  • Cancellation Policy: Cancellations made within 13 days prior to camp start date will not receive a refund. Cancellations made 14 days or more prior to the camp start date will receive a full refund. Full refunds will be given to those who follow the cancelation policy or if a camp is canceled. Changes to any registration will result in a $20 administrative fee.

Need help or have questions?

Contact Marcia Becker, Programs Manager, at mbecker@lauriannwestcc.org or 412-828-8566 (ext. 103).

JUNE 6-10: MISSION TO MARS

For this one-week mission, you will learn to think and solve problems like real NASA engineers! Through fun, hands-on activities, we will apply science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills to solve fun challenges facing our trip to Mars. Our mission will include landing safely on the planet’s surface, creating space vehicles to pick up and collect rock samples and designing a rocket to blast off back to earth.

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JUNE 13-17: TOYS THAT MOVE CAMP: THE PHYSICS OF PLAY

Toys are even more fun when they can move by themselves! With a few basic construction skills and some help from physics you can create fun, kinetic toys such as marble runs and rubber band powered cars. Each class we will discover new ways to set materials in motion using gravity, wind, stored energy, and motors.

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JUNE 20-24: MINECRAFT MAKER CRAFT

A week of Minecraft-centric activities and projects that will have your kids talking all Summer! The characters, items, tools of the games serve as a springboard for real-world building, crafting and art making.

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JUNE 27-JULY 1: WATER EXPLORATION

Explore and test the amazing substance known as water! This week is a perfect blend of art making, science experiments and play! Create a hydraulic arm, test the buoyancy of materials, create toy sailboats, attempt to make the world’s biggest soap bubble and more!

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JULY 5-8: BUILDING OUR GREEN FUTURE

This technology-focused camp will explore ways to design a better future for all of us. Learn about sustainable energy and green technology that helps to reduce the harmful impact humans have on the environment. Practical projects and lessons include ways to limit greenhouse gas emissions, low-impact farming, conservation and other resourceful ways to solve the planet’s problems.

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JULY 11-15: SURVIVOR CAMP

Outwit, outPLAY and outlast! This camp encourages strategic thinking, creativity, teamwork and athletics. Name your team and design a flag. Work as a team to complete challenges designed by fellow campers. Who will be the sole survivor?

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JULY 18-22: FLIGHT CAMP

How can an airplane that weighs 75 tons fly through the sky? Spend the week discovering the secrets of flight as we build and experiment with helicopters, gliders, helium balloons, paper airplanes, kites and rockets!

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JULY 25-29: MAKING MUSIC - BUILDING INSTRUMENTS

Explore the science of sound while crafting your own musical instruments! This week, learn how to manipulate sound waves by constructing various string, percussion and wind instruments from around the world. Mbiras, xylophones, guitars and many more can be made with only a few simple household items!

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AUGUST 1-5: HOW THINGS WORK

Have you ever stopped to wonder how a bridge can hold hundreds of cars without collapsing or how skyscrapers are designed to withstand earthquakes? Through tinkering and testing, learn firsthand how engineering, physics, observation and imagination came together to make these and other great inventions!

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AUGUST 8-12: SPY CAMP

Are you sneaky, quick thinking and resourceful? Then join the Secret Organization of Spies! Each day you will learn how to craft grappling hooks, extend-o grabbers and periscopes using simple materials from around the house. Also, as an important part of your spy training, you will learn the art of creating and sending messages through various secret codes. eraweb enoemos yam eb gnihctaw ouy!

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