Lego Mind Palace

No following instructions here! While our time will be mostly student-directed, we will focus the builds on specific design themes each day. Each theme is meant to provide context for students to make some design considerations given a few constraints, while keeping to their creative vision. One day, we might ask students to create animals and their habitat if they lived on Mars. Another day, we might introduce an artist like M.C. Escher and ask students to create a Lego build inspired by his illusionist art work. Every session is sure to be a creative blast!

Ages

Dates

Hours

6-9

June 27-July 1

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$400

N/A

***FULL***

Canvas Painting & Drawing En Plein Air

Calling to all young Monets and Cassatts! This camp is perfect for artists passionate about drawing and painting. Our day is divided between life drawing and expressive painting. Projects will strengthen skills and challenge our creative hearts. Campers are allowed to bring in images they'd like to learn how to paint. We will explore painting surfaces, sizes and materials. Our life drawing will be spent outdoors observing nature and learning how to draw landscapes and farm animals. For inspiration we will take short walks (5-10 minutes, so bring your bug spray and sunscreen) to the campus barn to visit with our furry friends, and the pond to visit both flora and fauna.

Ages

Dates

Hours

9-14

June 27-July 1

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$400

N/A

***FULL***

Illustrate It!

Let's make our stories come to life through illustrations! All forms of illustration techniques will be covered during our week of camp. We will spend time writing and illustrating our own bedtime story. For inspiration, we will visit the barnyard to learn how to draw our resident farm animals and take short nature walks to the pond to help us observe from nature and create beautiful landscape paintings. Cartooning and drawing techniques will also be covered.

Ages

Dates

Hours

6-8

July 5-8

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$320

N/A

***FULL***

Animate It!

One part creation, one part production, all parts fun! Using any materials on hand (e.g., LEGO or clay), campers will combine their power of storytelling with image-capture technology. They will create videos in which their creations interact with each other through the power of stop-motion animation. Instructors will help campers develop short storyboards, set up the video camera, and use the animation software. At the end of class, we will email campers their videos. Develop all your STEAM skills as you produce a visual masterpiece.

Ages

Dates

Hours

9-14

July 5-8

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$320

N/A

***FULL***

Duct Tape & Wire Sculpture

Using duct tape as our medium, campers will design their own fashion accessories, artwork, mobiles, and more. To take creations to the next level, we will combine this medium with other materials such as fabric and wire to to your pieces! We will learn techniques in felting and design patterns for duct tape and fabric. Instruction will be mixed between guided skill demonstrations and independent creative execution.

Ages

Dates

Hours

8-14

July 11-15

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$400

$20

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Minecraft Mission Impossible: Redstone Engineering & Traps

Minecrafters turn into secret agents as they develop their own impossible mission story line. From this, they'll create their world and own version of the "NOC" lis protected by a state-of-the art security system. Advanced campers willl also learn how to use redstone engineering to create their security traps and contraptions that will thwart their fellow 'Crafters who will be invited to test the security system.

Ages

Dates

Hours

A: 6-8

B: 9-14

July 11-15

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$400

N/A

***FULL***

Cardboard Creations

Campers will embark on cooperative adventures that will challenge their scientific, engineering, and creative abilities. We will demonstrate basic techniques to manipulate the humble cardboard and create a masterpiece. Several of the creations will be team-focused as well, promoting and inspiring collaboration and cooperation.

Ages

Dates

Hours

6-8

July 18-22

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$400

$20

***FULL***

Cardboard Engineering

Campers will embark on cooperative adventures that will challenge their scientific, engineering, creative, and physical abilities. They may need to design and build a boat out entirely out of cardboard, and to up the ante, they'll also have to test it themselves! One day they might learn about trebuchets, and launch water balloons out of our very own (made entirely out of cardboard!), or they might be asked to create a Rube Goldberg kinetic sculpture. Several of the design challenges will be team-focused as well, promoting and inspiring collaboration and cooperation.

Ages

Dates

Hours

9-14

July 18-22

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$400

$20

***FULL***

Cardboard Mythical Quest

Wits will be put to the test as our campers create a mythical world and STEAM adventures, honing their 21st century skills! Campers will collaborate in groups to create their own characters and clans; develop their team's identity and motto; and build their associated attire like wands, crowns,armor, staffs, and more. They will follow maps to find treasure, build huts and forts; and much more.

Ages

Dates

Hours

A: 6-8

July 25-29

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$400

$20

***FULL***

Experimental Painting and Drawing

Students will review the elements and principles of design and, learn about contemporary artists. We will provide a foundation to express their art through painting and drawing.

Ages

Dates

Hours

9-14

Aug 1-5

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$400

N/A

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Minecraft Adventurecraft

Have you ever embarked on an adventure in Minecraft, fraught with puzzles and danger? Perhaps you've wanted to design your own adventure instead, and pit players against gauntlets of monsters through winding labyrinths. In Adventurecraft, we will help campers to create their own mysteries for their friends to explore and teach some tips and tricks to make any normal room contain a monarch's hoard of secrets.

Ages

Dates

Hours

A: 6-9

B: 9-14

Aug 1-5

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$400

N/A

***FULL***

Lego Urban Planning

This camp is perfect for kids who love to create unique worlds and ecosystems. We will collaborate as a group to come up with our own culture and civilization, and then imagine what a city or neighborhood might look like in that world. Each camper will take an aspect of our city and build it out. At the end of the week, we will put our masterpieces together, and enjoy all our work. Throughout the week, we will document our ideas and plans and then compare it to our final builds.

Ages

Dates

Hours

6-9

Aug 8-12

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$400

N/A

***FULL***

Kidpreneurs

Throught the week, campers will learn how to think like an entrepreneur. We will take them through fun brainstorming activities, as they figure out an idea for a business. This business can be a product or a service, and we will help them think through how to build out a plan and prototypes. Campers will think about brand positioning, taglines, and brand marks (e.g. logo, colors, imagery, fonts). Taking all of these elements together, campers will implement their design and create a print ad. We will also cover basic financial considerations like product price, cost of goods, and other expenses to introduce business principles. At the end of the week, campers will create 5-minute presentations to pitch to potential sharks!

Ages

Dates

Hours

9-14

Aug 8-12

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$400

N/A

***FULL***

Intro to Visual Art

Campers learn the basics of different art mediums, how to look and see like an artist, and why collaborative art is important.

Ages

Dates

Hours

6-8

Aug 15-19

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$400

N/A

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Minecraft: Creative Worlds

Campers will imagine themselves in a spacecraft and travel to different "lands" (or time) where they will learn about and research different types of architecture or aspects of space. Inspired by what they've learned, campers will "craft" their world iin Minecraft. Projects will be student-driven and guided by our instructor and counselors who will also provide instruction. At the end of the week, each camper will act as a guide as we all cram into the tour bus.

Ages

Dates

Hours

A: 6-9

B: 9-14

Aug 15-19

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$400

N/A

***FULL***

3A's: Literary Arts, Visual Arts, and Theater Arts

We will take inspiration from our favorite books this week. We will read a different book each day and create mixed-media arts and crafts project in the morning. Our afternoons will be spent playing theater improv games and creating our own mini skits in the woods. Skills covered in language and reading, theater performance, fine arts, & recreation.

Ages

Dates

Hours

6-8

Aug 22-26

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$400

N/A

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Minecraft Creative Challenges

Calling all builders, planners and creative thinkers! Each day, we will face a challenge that will require your expertise! For example, a massive Blaze outbreak has been sighted in Minecraft, and it's up to you to build defenses to keep them at bay! The only problem is that Blazes tend to light things on fire, so you'll have to build out of ice to keep things cool. Attendees will be using Minecraft Creative mode to build a fortress entirely out of ice, but be warned - after the allotted build time, a horde of Blazes will arrive to test your frozen defenses. Can you take the heat, or will your defenses melt like a hot knife through butter? Next day, a monster apocalypse! Who knows what will come up the next day...

Ages

Dates

Hours

A: 6-9

B: 9-14

Aug 22-26

8:30am-3:30pm

Camp Price

Materials Fee

1 Week

$400

N/A

***FULL***