COLLEGE FOR KIDS: IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD CAMP DESCRIPTIONS

Preschool Activities (ages 3-5)

Prerequisite: Ages 3-5, must be toilet trained

Traditional preschool activities will offer a week of learning friendship skills, the four basic shapes, colors, numbers and hands-on, theme-related activities just for preschoolers. There will be songs, stories, snacks, crafts, music and more. There will be a snack provided each day.

High Fives (age 5)

Prerequisite: Age 5, entering kindergarten in the fall Includes more advanced activities for 5-year-olds entering kindergarten in the fall. Concepts include days of the week, months, the alphabet, counting, simple math and patterns. We will draw, write, cut and glue, paint and work on art projects. There will be snacks provided each day.

3D Pen Creations

Discover how to create amazing 3D objects that can be brought to life with a 3D Pen. You will literally have technology at your fingertips. We will create a pair of silly glasses, a practical birdhouse and use teamwork to create objects that will compete in doodle contests.

Art Attack

Discover the budding artist inside you. Use your creativity to make different types of art each day. Expect to get your hands super messy while exploring pottery, oil pastels, charcoal, splatter painting and so much more. Students should wear clothes that they don’t mind getting stained.

Babysitting Basics (ages 11+)

Learn what to do in an emergency or in case of illness; prevent accidents; play with children of various ages; select safe toys and games; and dress, diaper and feed infants. Upon completion, students receive a certificate from MCC Community and Workforce Education.

Chemical Reactions!

Explosions! Eruptions! Changes in color! This course is all about the changes that happen in chemical reactions. Kids will have the chance to participate in a laboratory-style experience and mix chemicals to see their reactions — mad science!

Crazy Circuits

How many ways can we light up an LED? How do batteries work? What crazy things can we do to generate our own electricity? Let’s build some circuits and run some wires and find out! Kids in this course will spend their days exploring the fascinating facets of electrical engineering!

Creative Capturing

A spring flower, a summer sunset, the changing leaves of autumn or winter’s new fallen snow are all experiences that can be captured by using photography. In this course, students learn to capture images using photography techniques and then edit their photos in software to create beautiful works of art.

Cooking with Science

Explore cooking through hands-on science experiments. Students will eat their way through various exciting learning opportunities using elements like matter, solar power and many other interactive projects. Come hungry and ready to taste test all week.

Forces of Flight

Children will be introduced to the four forces of flight: weight, lift, thrust and drag. Using paper airplanes, paper rockets and drones, students will learn how each of the four forces of flight affects an aircraft in the sky.

Explore with LEGO®

Discover the exciting and popular world of LEGO®. Explore engineering, math, science and art in this highly collaborative environment. Experience both hands-on individual challenges and competitive team challenges. Let’s get LEGO® crazy!

Mini Med School

In this fun, interactive and hands-on biology class, we will dive deep into the human body and look at everything, stretching from your head to your toes. You will get up close and personal with preserved animal organs and get the chance to learn how the body functions. Many exciting and fascinating experiments await.

Roller Coasters and Rockets

Join us in designing and building contraptions that are wild, crazy or simply defy logic. As young engineers, we will construct our own marble roller coasters and super sturdy flying discs, build unique skewer structures and shoot rockets into the sky. It’ll be a blast.

STEM Challenge

Join us for mornings packed full of hands-on experiments, intriguing games and exploration kits. Our STEM camp combines science, technology, engineering and math in an innovative and engaging way. Get ready to be innovative.

Structures and Skeletons!

How do skyscrapers stay standing? How do bridges cross rivers? Why can people stand up to gravity? Each one has a structure or skeleton to hold them up. During this course kids will build a skyscraper from paper, a bridge from toothpicks and a dinosaur from plastic.