Science Museum of Minnesota ‘18 SUMMER Camps PROGRAMS FOR AGES 3-16 SMM.ORG/CLASSES | (651) 221-4511 Science Museum of Minnesota is declaring 2018 the Year of the Engineer!
In 2018, the Science Museum is shining a spotlight on the importance of engineering in our world. We’ll host special exhibits, films, programs, and special events throughout the year – all designed toget young people excited about engineering and related careers. Many of our camps have an engineering component or focus, here are a few and where you can find them in this catalog. Here are a few of the highlights. Visit smm.org/engineer to learn more.
NEW Marble Run Engineering – p. 7, 18, 27 & 28 Excellence Engineering – p. 7, 17, 23, & 25 NEW Metropolis Makers – p. 14 Camp Contraptions – p.21 Sunsational Solar Power – p.23 & 28 Game Pad –p. 22 & 29
See inside back cover for more information on how the Science Museum is celebrating the Year of the Engineer!
meet our team Our instructors, managers, registrars, materials staff, and program specialists all work together to create fun and educational summer experiences for campers. Top row: Vincent Harrison, Emily Poster, Culhane, Cole, Zeta Kilbride, Peter Midthun, Larry Thomas, Brendan Rhode, Tracy McMan, Farzad Sadjadi Middle row: Janet Groenert, Michelle Richardson, Jan Elftmann, Bril Macias, Sam Horak, Jessica Holm, skeleton, Becky Hill Bottom row: Kalia Vue, Peter Anderson, Sue Meyer, Kelley Meister, Anna Vaza, Gretchen Henke, Emilie Stallman Not pictured are our seasonal staff of counselors, assistants, team leads, and instructors who make our summer camp program possible. WEEK 1: JUN 11 - JUN 15 4
WEEK 2: JUN 18 - JUN 22 6
WEEK 3: JUN 25 - JUN 29 9
WEEK 4: JUL 02 - JUL 06 12
WEEK 5: JUL 9 - JUL 13 14
WEEK 6: JUL 16 - JUL 20 17
WEEK 7: JUL 23 - JUL 27 19
WEEK 8: JUL 30 - AUG 03 21
WEEK 9: AUG 06- AUG 10 23
WEEK 10: AUG 13 - AUG 17 25
WEEK 11: AUG 20 - AUG 24 29
WEEK 12: AUG 27 - AUG 31 30 WEEK 1: JUN 11 - JUN 15
FULL DAY AGES 6-8
WONKA WEEK INTRO. TO CARPENTRY LEGO AMUSEMENT PARK Enter the sweet world of candy as Head to the workshop and safely Learn about simple machines such you explore the wonders of the start to use carpentry tools such as as gears and pulleys while making Chocolate Factory. Whisk your way saws, hammers, and nails. Measure models of rides that move. At the through the Physical plant on the wood and build a wooden toy to end of the week, we’ll combine glass elevator, chocolate river, and take home. projects and make an amusement other fantastic, hair-raising, move- park for LEGO Minifigures. you-from-here-to-there systems. When: Mon-Fri Become a master candy maker as Jun 11-Jun 15 When: Mon-Fri you knead, mix, and pour to create 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Jun 11 – Jun 15 delicious confections every day. Ages: 6-8 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Explore the fascination with candies Course Code: YXITC0611 Ages: 6-8 people have enjoyed over 100 years Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: YXLAP0611 and invent a candy yourself that Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr could become one of the most fa- (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum mous candies in the world. You don’t (Education Entrance) need a golden ticket for this camp. WIZARD SCHOOL Not recommended for children with Perform science that looks like BLOW IT UP! food allergies. magic and amaze your friends and Make exploding baggies, make art family! Create potions that engage by popping balloons, check out dry When: Mon-Fri all your senses and make objects ice, and experiment with different Jun 11 –Jun 15 levitate in midair. Get sorted into a kinds of rockets in this exciting class. 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM house and earn your magic wand. Ages: 7-12 When: Mon-Fri Course Code: YDWNK0611 When: Mon-Fri Jun 11 – Jun 15 Fee: $367, $349 mbr Jun 11-Jun 15 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Location: Science Museum 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ages: 6-8 (Education Entrance) Ages: 6-8 Course Code: YXBIU0611 Course Code: YXWIZ0611 Fee: $188, $179 mbr MYSTERY CAMP Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum You’re on the case, and you’ll need Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) to use all the forensic tools up your (Education Entrance) sleeve to solve this mystery. Work SHOCKING ELECTRICAL with your scientific team and con- SUPER SCRATCH DISCOVERIES duct experiments as you use sci- Create your own simple interactive Explore magnetism and electricity! ence, logic, and ingenuity to solve animations, learn the basics of Investigate static electricity using a mystery. As the mystery unfolds, computer programming, and design everyday objects. Build a simple you’ll examine fibers under the mi- a simple computer game using circuit using a battery, wire, and croscope, fingerprint your suspects, Scratch Junior. Create your own motor, and experiment with different and put your heads together with board game as you discover basic circuit patterns. Put your circuit into a fellow campers to solve this year’s programming principles. Jitterbot to make it draw and dance! puzzling problem. When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri Jun 11 –Jun 15 Jun 11 –Jun 15 Jun 11 –Jun 15 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Ages: 6-8 Ages: 6-8 Ages: 8-12 Course Code: LXSUP0611 Course Code: YXSED0611 Course Code: YDMYS0611 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $367, $349 mbr Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum Location: St. Catherine University (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) (map will be sent before camp) 4 More info at (651) 221-4511 or smm.org/classes WEEK 1: JUN 11 - JUN 15
AGES 6-8 AGES 9-12
GAME ON! BLOW IT UP! MAKER: CARPENTRY Investigate how science, numbers, Make exploding baggies, make art Learn by doing! Pick up your tools and creative thinking are used to by popping balloons, check out dry and spend a week making projects in develop amazing and challenging ice, and experiment with different the carpentry workshop. Build marble board games and card games. kinds of rockets in this exciting class. mazes and games. Finish the week by Explore how logic is used in games at building your own design to take home. the Science Museum, and then work When: Mon-Fri as a game designer to build your own Jun 11 –Jun 15 When: Mon-Fri board game. Explore strategies and 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Jun 11 – Jun 15 game thinking to defeat your friends Ages: 9-12 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM or win together! Course Code: YNBIU0611 Ages: 9-12 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: YNMCC0611 When: Mon-Fri Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr Jun 11 –Jun 15 (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Education Entrance) Ages: 6-8 DESIGN A COMPUTER Course Code: YXGMO0611 GAME: CREATE YOUR OWN WIZARD SCHOOL Fee: $188, $179 mbr ADVENTURE GAME Explore the science in potions, Location: Science Museum Build your own interactive game or magic tricks, and other wizarding (Education Entrance) story using programming software secrets. Complete challenges to from the MIT Media Lab called Scratch. earn house points. Test your skills GET SET TO BE A VET Select a theme, write a story, build an with feats from each professor. Explore the careers of veterinarians, environment, create characters, then Create a light-up wand that would discover how to take better care add puzzles and sound effects. make Ollivander proud. of your pets, and make dog treats. Learn safe behavior around dogs, When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri examine real animal X-rays, and Jun 11 –Jun 15 Jun 11 – Jun 15 perform a mock surgery. 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Ages: 9-12 When: Mon-Fri Course Code: LNDAC0611 Course Code: YNWIZ0611 Jun 11 –Jun 15 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum Ages: 6-8 (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) Course Code: YXGSV0611 Fee: $188, $179 mbr GET SET TO BE A VET APP, BUILD, CODE Location: Science Museum Explore the careers of veterinarians, Quit playing someone else’s boring (Education Entrance) discover how to take better care app and design your own! Build of your pets, and make dog treats. an app using custom graphics and Learn safe behavior around dogs, sound that can tap into an Android examine real animal X-rays, and device’s built-in touchscreen, observe an animal dissection. accelerometer, and camera to create a truly interactive experience. When: Mon-Fri Upload an app to the Google Play Jun 11 –Jun 15 Store to share with friends. 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ages: 9-12 When: Mon-Fri Course Code: YNGSV0611 Jun 11 – Jun 15 Fee: $188, $179 mbr 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Location: Science Museum Ages: 9-12 (Education Entrance) Course Code: LNABC0611 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) 5 WEEK 2: JUN 18 - JUN 22
FULL DAY PRESCHOOL
WHAT’S UP DOC? CAMP CURIE: A SCIENCE CAMP PRESCHOOL SCIENCE: Investigate body systems and find FOR GIRLS DINOMANIA out what they do to keep you healthy, Dive into the wide world of science Look at dinosaur bones, make some breathing, growing, thinking, and as you develop experiments and different kinds of dinosaurs, and visit moving. Scope out what’s happening create imaginative projects. This our Dinosaurs and Fossils Gallery. when these systems are attacked year, explore the brain, delve into by disease or injury. Explore what mathematics, and use LEGO Bricks AGES 3-5 medical professionals can do to treat in engineering challenges. You will When: Mon-Fri and heal people. Discover for yourself investigate questions like: How do Jun 18-Jun 22 how treatments from long ago and far our senses relate to the brain? How 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM away can work to cure diseases and can we graph data that we collect to Course Code: YPDMA0618 “whatever ails you.” share it with others? And, how do we Fee: $68, $65 mbr use the engineering design process? Location: Science Museum When: Mon-Fri Learn about women working in the (Education Entrance) Jun 18-Jun 22 fields of math and science! 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM AGES 5-6 Ages: 8-12 When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri Course Code: YDWUD0618 Jun 18-Jun 22 Jun 18-Jun 22 Fee: $367, $349 mbr 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM 10:00 AM – 11:45 AM Location: Science Museum Ages: 6-9 Course Code: YRDMA0618 (Education Entrance) Course Code: YDCMC0618 Fee: $126, $120 mbr Fee: $367, $349 mbr Location: Science Museum Location: The Blake School, Wayzata (Education Entrance) (map will be sent before camp)
6 More info at (651) 221-4511 or smm.org/classes WEEK 2: JUN 18 - JUN 22
AGES 6-8
CARPENTRY FOR KIDS: EXCELLENCE ENGINEERING MINIFIGURE MOVIE STARS THE PINBALL MACHINE Have fun with engineering by Write and direct an exciting movie Design and construct your own pushing the limits in this camp. starring a LEGO Minifigure character tabletop pinball machine with wood Use your creativity and ingenuity of your own creation. Explore various and other materials. Experiment with to design things to go faster, reach animation and editing techniques. the dynamics of action/reaction and higher, last longer, and make people Design and construct your own sets cause/effect. and creatures happier. and props. Close out the week with a camper film festival! When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri Jun 18-Jun 22 Jun 18-Jun 22 When: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Jun 18-Jun 22 Ages: 6-8 Ages: 6-8 1:00 AM – 4:00 PM Course Code: YXCPN0618 Course Code: YXEEN0618 Ages: 6-8 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: LXMFM0618 Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) NEW ROBOTS AND ROCKETS MARBLE RUN ENGINEERING Find out what robots can and cannot Get rolling! Use your imagination do, make a robotic arm, and control to design a marble run with twists a robot. Experiment with propulsion and turns – and maybe even defy and make different kinds of rockets. gravity. Build tracks, raceways, and challenges for your marbles. When: Mon-Fri Experiment with physics and Jun 18-Jun 22 probability. Create, test, and improve 1:00 AM – 4:00 PM your creations throughout the week. Ages: 6-8 Course Code: YXRAR0618 When: Mon-Fri Fee: $188, $179 mbr Jun 18-Jun 22 Location: Science Museum 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Education Entrance) Ages: 6-8 Course Code: YXMRE0618 Fee: $188, $179 mbr WIZARD SCHOOL Location: Science Museum Perform science that looks like (Education Entrance) magic and amaze your friends and family! Create potions that engage all your senses and make objects levitate in midair. Get sorted into a house and earn your magic wand.
When: Mon-Fri Jun 18-Jun 22 1:00 AM – 4:00 PM Ages: 6-8 Course Code: YXWIZ0618 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance)
7 WEEK 2: JUN 18 - JUN 22
AGES 9-12
WIZARD SCHOOL CARPENTRY FOR KIDS: SCI-FI CAMP Explore the science in potions, AMERICAN GIRL DOLL Discover the real science behind magic tricks, and other wizarding FURNITURE some of the best ideas in science secrets. Complete challenges to Make furniture for American Girl fiction. From Star Trek to Doctor earn house points. Test your skills and similar dolls. Learn tool use Who, learn the reality behind the with feats from each professor. and safety techniques so that you fantasy. Find out how something Create a light-up wand that would can continue to design and build can be “bigger on the inside,” create make Ollivander proud. furniture at home. your own alien from another world, and build your own sci-fi technology When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri to take home. Jun 18-Jun 22 Jun 18-Jun 22 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM When: Mon-Fri Ages: 9-12 Ages: 9-12 Jun 18-Jun 22 Course Code: YNWIZ0618 Course Code: YNAMD0618 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr Ages: 9-12 Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum Course Code: YNSFI0618 (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum VIDEO MASHUP NEW (Education Entrance) Discover video editing and special effects. Combine short video and ATLAS ADVENTURE sound clips to create your own Chart the course to adventure! Learn mashup movie, and then use a green how to seek and find using maps, screen to add yourself to a story the stars, and modern technology. you create. Learn Adobe Elements Use tools like compasses and GPS Premiere video editing software. to navigate the world around you, try geocaching, and make a personal When: Mon-Fri map of nearby parks. Jun 18-Jun 22 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM When: Mon-Fri Ages: 9-12 Jun 18-Jun 22 Course Code: LNVID0618 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Fee: $188, $179 mbr Ages: 9-12 Location: Science Museum Course Code: YNATA0618 DISEASE DETECTIVES (Education Entrance) Fee: $188, $179 mbr Use a microscope and study different Location: Science Museum kinds of pathogens. Examine the SPECTACULAR CIRCUITRY (Education Entrance) body’s immune system and see how Learn how electricity flows through a diseases spread. Participate in a complete circuit. Use this knowledge simulation of an epidemic where you to manipulate materials and create a will be on a team of scientists fighting magnetic, buzzing maze, while also a disease outbreak. building a flashing pair of flip flops. When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri Jun 18-Jun 22 Jun 18-Jun 22 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YNDID0618 Course Code: YNSPC0618 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) 8 More info at (651) 221-4511 or smm.org/classes WEEK 3: JUN 25 -JUN 29
FULL DAY AGES 6-8
CAMP RUNESTONE FOR BLOW IT UP! NEW YOUNG WIZARDS Make exploding baggies, make art STAR Join us where fantasy and fact are by popping balloons, check out dry STAR: TRANSFORMATIONS swirled together to create bewitching ice, and experiment with different Investigate transformations through tales. Apparate from one adventure kinds of rockets in this exciting class. Science, Theater, and ARt in to another as you examine the this unique collaborative camp! exploits of Harry P. and other famous When: Mon-Fri Change happens in the natural fictional characters. Make herbal Jun 25 –Jun 29 world, within ourselves, and even potions. Learn about carnivorous 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM on a global scale. Learn about plants and vampire bats. Make your Ages: 6-8 different types of transformations - own house elf puppet and fly off with Course Code: YXBIU0625 from metamorphoses to chemical a sure-fire spell for distinguishing Fee: $188, $179 mbr reactions to evolutionary changes. between science and magic. Location: Science Museum Explore theater activities and create (Education Entrance) art based on transformation. STAR When: Mon-Fri Collective is a collaboration between Jun 25 –Jun 29 SUPER SCRATCH the Science Museum, SteppingStone 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Create your own simple interactive Theatre, and COMPAS. Ages: 7-11 animations, learn the basics of Course Code: YDCRW0625 computer programming, and design When: Mon-Fri Fee: $367, $349 mbr a simple computer game using Jun 25-Jun 29 Location: St. Catherine University Scratch Junior. Create your own 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM (map will be sent before camp) board game as you discover basic Ages: 6-12 programming principles. Course Code: YDSEC0625 Fee: $349 When: Mon-Fri Location: Science Museum Jun 25 –Jun 29 (Education Entrance) 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ages: 6-8 Course Code: LXSUP0625 SCIGIRLS CAMP Fee: $188, $179 mbr Develop and conduct investigations Location: Science Museum using scientific inquiry with girls (Education Entrance) who are passionate about science! Imagine a day in the life of a science CALLING ALL MARINE explorer, researching, testing, and BIOLOGISTS collecting data along the way. See Probe the depths of the sea and how environmental engineers use explore the variety of life in the that data to solve problems. Discover ocean. See a squid from the inside how nutrition, physical, and mental out while dissecting. Discover ocean activities impact the way human habitats, build a coral reef model, and bodies work and stay alive. get swallowed up by a giant whale!
When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri Jun 25-Jun 29 Jun 25 –Jun 29 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Ages: 6-8 Course Code: YDSGC0625 Course Code:YXCMB0625 Fee: $367, $349 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: University of Minnesota, Location: Science Museum St. Paul Campus (map will be sent (Education Entrance) before camp) 9 WEEK 3: JUN 25 -JUN 29
AGES 6-8 AGES 9-12
LEGO CASTLES NEW PRACTICAL POTIONS Learn about medieval technology as Expand your knowledge of potions you build drawbridges, catapults, and CODE A BOT and spells as you brew helpful a castle using LEGO Technic pieces. Use a unique coding system to household compounds. Discover the program a mini robot called an American Wizarding school houses When: Mon-Fri Ozobot. Make Ozobot dance, do and perform challenges to earn Jun 25 –Jun 29 tricks, and work together with other points. Broaden your wizarding skills 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ozobots. Create costumes and in this exciting class! Ages: 6-8 design a neighborhood for your Course Code: YXLEC0625 Ozobot. Your ideas make the Ozobot When: Mon-Fri Fee: $188, $179 mbr move and groove! Jun 25 –Jun 29 Location: Science Museum 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Education Entrance) When: Mon-Fri Ages: 9-12 Jun 25 –Jun 29 Course Code: YNPPO0625 CHEMISTRY IN THE KITCHEN 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Fee: $188, $179 mbr Explore how chemistry makes Ages: 6-8 Location: Science Museum delicious foods. Use everyday Course Code: YXCAB0625 (Education Entrance) ingredients and kitchen tools to Fee: $188, $179 mbr measure, mix, cook, and bake. Test Location: Science Museum DESIGN A COMPUTER your experiments by eating them! (Education Entrance) GAME: CREATE YOUR OWN Not recommended for children with ADVENTURE GAME food allergies. SPYMASTERS Build your own interactive game or How to spy with your little eye. story using programming software When: Mon-Fri Hone your powers of observation from the MIT Media Lab called Jun 25 –Jun 29 and master spycraft. Decrypt secret Scratch. Select a theme, write a 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM codes, read signposts, and build story, build an environment, create Ages: 6-8 alarms and spy equipment to use in characters, then add puzzles and Course Code: YXCIK0625 your room. sound effects. Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri (Education Entrance) Jun 25 –Jun 29 Jun 25 –Jun 29 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM SECRET HIDING PLACES Ages: 6-8 Ages: 9-12 Hide your secrets in plain sight. Course Code: YXSPY0625 Course Code: LNDAC0625 Make trap doors, camouflage an Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr object, and draw maps to reveal their Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum location. Hunt the final treasure by (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) following a trail of clues.
When: Mon-Fri Jun 25 –Jun 29 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 6-8 Course Code: YXSHP0625 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance)
More info at (651) 221-4511 or smm.org/classes WEEK 3: JUN 25 -JUN 29
AGES 9-12
THEME PARK PHYSICS APP, BUILD, CODE Find out what puts the “thrill” in Quit playing someone else’s boring theme parks. Learn real physics and app and design your own! Build design your own ride! Take a look an app using custom graphics and at the secrets of carnival games and sound that can tap into an Android recreate classic theme park illusions. device’s built-in touchscreen, accelerometer, and camera, to create When: Mon-Fri a truly interactive experience. Upload Jun 25 –Jun 29 an app to the Google Play Store to 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM share with friends. Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YNTPP0625 When: Mon-Fri Fee: $188, $179 mbr Jun 25 –Jun 29 Location: Science Museum 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Education Entrance) Ages: 9-12 Course Code: LNABC0625 BLOW IT UP! Fee: $188, $179 mbr Make exploding baggies, make art Location: Science Museum by popping balloons, check out dry (Education Entrance) ice, and experiment with different kinds of rockets in this exciting class.
When: Mon-Fri Jun 25 –Jun 29 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YNBIU0625 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) TEEN
TEEN COMPUTER GAME Build your own interactive adventure game using Scratch programming software. Learn advanced programming techniques such as scoring, lives, and power-ups. Share and play your game with others.
When: Mon-Fri Jun 25 –Jun 29 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 13-16 Course Code: YTTCG0625 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance)
11 WEEK 4: JUL 02 - JUL 06 (There will not be camp on Wednesday July 4th)
AGES 6-8
WIZARD SCHOOL SPYMASTERS GET SET TO BE A VET Perform science that looks like How to spy with your little eye. Hone Explore the careers of veterinarians, magic and amaze your friends and your powers of observation and discover how to take better care family! Create potions that engage master spycraft. Decrypt secret codes, of your pets, and make dog treats. all your senses and make objects read signposts, and build alarms and Learn safe behavior around dogs, levitate in midair. Get sorted into a spy equipment to use in your room. examine real animal X-rays, and house and earn your magic wand. perform a mock surgery. When: Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri When: Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri Jul 2-3, Jul 5-6 When: Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri Jul 2-3, Jul 5-6 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Jul 2-3, Jul 5-6 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ages: 6-8 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 6-8 Course Code: YXSPY0702 Ages: 6-8 Course Code: YXWIZ0702 Fee: $150, $143mbr Course Code: YXGSV0702 Fee: $150, $143mbr Location: Science Museum Fee: $150, $143mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) INTRO TO CARPENTRY MAD SCIENTIST’S LAB Head to the workshop and safely Concoct chemical potions and start to use carpentry tools such as LEGO MACHINES AND conduct crazy science experiments. saws, hammers, and nails. Measure STRUCTURES Work with dry ice and explore motion. wood and build a wooden toy to Learn new LEGO building techniques take home. to make machines that move and When: Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri structures that can bear weight. Jul 2-3, Jul 5-6 When: Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Jul 2-3, Jul 5-6 When: Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri Ages: 6-8 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Jul 2-3, Jul 5-6 Course Code: YXMSL0702 Ages: 6-8 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Fee: $150, $143mbr Course Code: YXITC0702 Ages: 6-8 Location: Science Museum Fee: $150, $143mbr Course Code: YXLMS0702 (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum Fee: $150, $143mbr (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum DRAWING + ANIMATION = (Education Entrance) MOVIES MINIFIGURE MOVIE STARS Draw your own creations and attach Write and direct an exciting movie limbs and other moving parts. Bring starring a LEGO Minifigure character them to life using HUE stop-motion of your own creation. Explore various animation software. Plan and film animation and editing techniques. adventures for your characters with Design and construct your own sets props and backgrounds of your own and props. Close out the week with design. Share your movies online. a camper film festival!
When: Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri When: Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri Jul 2-3, Jul 5-6 Jul 2-3, Jul 5-6 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 6-8 Ages: 6-8 Course Code: LXDAM0702 Course Code: YXMFM0702 Fee: $150, $143 mbr Fee: $150, $143 mbr Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance)
12 More info at (651) 221-4511 or smm.org/classes WEEK 4: JUL 02 - JUL 06 (There will not be camp on Wednesday July 4th)
AGES 9-12
CASTLES AND CATAPULTS BUILD A REMOTE Design and build a miniature castle CONTROL CAR to scale using wood, your ingenuity, Build a self-propelled, wire-controlled and skill. Experiment with medieval vehicle using batteries, motors, and technology like trebuchets and cata- wiring. Test out your car’s perfor- pults to defend your castle. mance under a variety of conditions.
When: Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri When: Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri Jul 2-3, Jul 5-6 Jul 2-3, Jul 5-6 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YNCAC0702 Course Code: YNBRC0702 Fee: $150, $143mbr Fee: $150, $143mbr Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance)
LEGO ADVANCED VEHICLES WIZARD SCHOOL Discover the next level of LEGO Explore the science in potions, magic vehicle construction. Build model tricks, and other wizarding secrets. vehicles that have 4-wheel drive, Complete challenges to earn house multispeed transmission, and rack points. Test your skills with feats from and pinion steering. each professor. Create a light-up wand that would make Ollivander proud. When: Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri Jul 2-3, Jul 5-6 When: Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Jul 2-3, Jul 5-6 Ages: 9-12 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Course Code: YNLAV0702 Ages: 9-12 Fee: $150, $143mbr Course Code: YNWIZ0702 Location: Science Museum Fee: $150, $143mbr (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) GET SET TO BE A VET Explore the careers of veterinarians, THEME PARK PHYSICS discover how to take better care Find out what puts the “thrill” in of your pets, and make dog treats. theme parks. Learn real physics and Learn safe behavior around dogs, design your own ride! Take a look examine real animal X-rays, and at the secrets of carnival games and observe an animal dissection. recreate classic theme park illusions.
When: Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri When: Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri Jul 2-3, Jul 5-6 Jul 2-3, Jul 5-6 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YNGSV0702 Course Code: YNTPP0702 Fee: $150, $143mbr Fee: $150, $143mbr Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance)
13 WEEK 5: JUL 9 - JUL 13
FULL DAY PRESCHOOL AGES 6-8
NEW PRESCHOOL SCIENCE: ROBOTS BLOW IT UP! Program your own Ozobot to Make exploding baggies, make art METROPOLIS MAKERS discover the fascinating world of by popping balloons, check out dry Have you ever wondered how cities robots through movement and play. ice, and experiment with different develop and evolve? In Metropolis kinds of rockets in this exciting class. Makers, you will take on the role of city AGES 3-5 planner to solve problems, engineer When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri structures, and design city layouts. Jul 9 –Jul 13 Jul 9 –Jul 13 Put it all together to create a mini 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM metropolis built from LEGO Bricks. Course Code: YPROB0709 Ages: 6-8 Fee: $68, $65 mbr Course Code: YXBIU0709 When: Mon-Fri Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr Jul 9 –Jul 13 (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM (Education Entrance) Ages: 9-12 AGES 5-6 Course Code: YDMET0709 When: Mon-Fri SUPERNOVA SCIENCE Fee: $367, $349 mbr Jul 9 –Jul 13 Connect to the cosmos and see Location: Science Museum 10:00 AM – 11:45 AM yourself among the stars. Find your (Education Entrance) Course Code: YRROB0709 place in the universe by creating Fee: $126, $120 mbr your own telescope, constellation, OCEAN EXPEDITION Location: Science Museum and galaxy. Use real astronomical Dive into the deep blue sea to (Education Entrance) techniques to reveal how we know discover whales, sharks, and other so much about space. deep sea creatures. Build your favorite ocean organism for our When: Mon-Fri walk-through ocean environment. Jul 9 –Jul 13 Step up close to sharks at a local 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM aquarium. Head to the lab to dissect Ages: 6-8 a squid. Explore human impact on Course Code: YXSNS0709 the salty solution that covers two- Fee: $188, $179 mbr thirds of Earth’s surface. *Includes Location: Science Museum field trip to Sea Life Aquarium and a AGES 6-8 (Education Entrance) behind-the-scenes tour. CHEMISTRY IN THE KITCHEN JEWELRY MAKER’S WORKSHOP When: Mon-Fri Explore how chemistry makes Work with various materials and Jul 9 –Jul 13 delicious foods. Use everyday tools to design and make your 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM ingredients and kitchen tools to own necklaces and other jewelry. Ages: 7-11 measure and mix, cook, and bake. Examine different gemstones and Course Code: YDOEC0709 Test your experiments by eating find out where they come from. Fee: $367, $349 mbr them! Not recommended for Learn how people in many cultures Location: University of Minnesota, children with food allergies. have decorated themselves St. Paul Campus (map will be sent throughout time. before camp) When: Mon-Fri Jul 9 –Jul 13 When: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Jul 9 –Jul 13 Ages: 6-8 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Course Code: YXCIK0709 Ages: 6-8 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: YXJMW0709 Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) 14 More info at (651) 221-4511 or smm.org/classes WEEK 5: JUL 9 - JUL 13
AGES 6-8 AGES 9-12
GAME ON! JEWELRY MAKER’S WORKSHOP DESIGN A COMPUTER Investigate how science, numbers, Work with various materials and GAME: CREATE YOUR OWN and creative thinking are used to tools to design and make your ADVENTURE GAME develop amazing and challenging own necklaces and other jewelry. Build your own interactive game or board games and card games. Examine different gemstones and story using programming software Explore how logic is used in games find out where they come from. from the MIT Media Lab called at the Science Museum, and then Learn how people in many cultures Scratch. Select a theme, write a work as a game designer to build have decorated themselves story, build an environment, create your own board game. Explore throughout time. characters, then add puzzles and strategies and game thinking to sound effects. defeat your friends or win together! When: Mon-Fri Jul 9 –Jul 13 When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Jul 9 –Jul 13 Jul 9 –Jul 13 Ages: 9-12 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Course Code: YNJMW0709 Ages: 9-12 Ages: 6-8 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: LNDCG0709 Course Code: YXGMO0709 Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) INTRO TO CHEMISTRY Enter the exciting world of chemistry! Investigate chemicals and colors, gases and liquids, weights and densities.
When: Mon-Fri Jul 9 –Jul 13 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YNITC0709 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) VIDEO MASHUP Discover video editing and special BLOW IT UP! effects. Combine short video and Make exploding baggies, make art FROZEN SOLID sound clips to create your own by popping balloons, check out dry Do you want to build a snowman… mashup movie, and then use a green ice, and experiment with different in the summer? Make indoor snow, screen to add yourself to a story kinds of rockets in this exciting class. grow crystal snowflakes, and freeze you create. Learn Adobe Elements liquid in an instant. Experiment with Premiere video editing software. When: Mon-Fri heat and cold, and taste some frozen Jul 9 –Jul 13 treats along the way. When: Mon-Fri 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Jul 9 –Jul 13 Ages: 9-12 When: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Course Code: YNBIU0709 Jul 9 –Jul 13 Ages: 9-12 Fee: $188, $179 mbr 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Course Code: LNVID0709 Location: Science Museum Ages: 6-8 Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) Course Code: YXFRZ0709 Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) 15 WEEK 5: JUL 9 - JUL 13
AGES 9-12
SPECTACULAR CIRCUITRY DAZZLING DIGITAL ART Learn how electricity flows through a Using computer design programs, complete circuit. Use this knowledge you will create computer code to to manipulate materials and create a craft your own digital and printed magnetic, buzzing maze, while also art. Explore the intersection of math building a flashing pair of flip flops. and design as you combine different shapes, colors, and patterns. Display When: Mon-Fri your projects in a student gallery for Jul 9 –Jul 13 others to enjoy! 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 9-12 When: Mon-Fri Course Code: YNSPC0709 Jul 9 –Jul 13 Fee: $188, $179 mbr 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Location: Science Museum Ages: 9-12 (Education Entrance) Course Code: LNDDA0709 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance)
16 More info at (651) 221-4511 or smm.org/classes WEEK 6: JUL 16 - JUL 20
FULL DAY AGES 6-8
WONKA WEEK JEWELRY MAKER’S WORKSHOP EXCELLENCE ENGINEERING Enter the sweet world of candy as Work with various materials and Have fun with engineering by you explore the wonders of the tools to design and make your pushing the limits in this camp. Chocolate Factory. Whisk your way own necklaces and other jewelry. Use your creativity and ingenuity through the Physical plant on the Examine different gemstones and to design things to go faster, reach glass elevator, chocolate river, and find out where they come from. higher, last longer, and make people other fantastic, hair-raising, move- Learn how people in many cultures and creatures happier. you-from-here-to-there systems. have decorated themselves Become a master candy maker as throughout time. When: Mon-Fri you knead, mix, and pour to create Jul 16 –Jul 20 delicious confections every day. When: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Explore the fascination with candies Jul 16 –Jul 20 Ages: 6-8 people have enjoyed over 100 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Course Code: YXEEN0716 years and invent a candy yourself Ages: 6-8 Fee: $188, $179 mbr that could become one of the Course Code: YXJMW0716 Location: Science Museum most famous candies in the world. Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) You don’t need a golden ticket for Location: Science Museum this camp. Not recommended for (Education Entrance) FROZEN SOLID children with food allergies. Do you want to build a snowman… WIZARD SCHOOL in the summer? Make indoor snow, When: Mon-Fri Perform science that looks like grow crystal snowflakes, and freeze Jul 16 –Jul 20 magic and amaze your friends and liquid in an instant. Experiment with 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM family! Create potions that engage heat and cold, and taste some frozen Ages: 7-12 all your senses and make objects treats along the way. Course Code: YDWNK0716 levitate in midair. Get sorted into a Fee: $367, $349 mbr house and earn your magic wand. When: Mon-Fri Location: Science Museum Jul 16 –Jul 20 (Education Entrance) When: Mon-Fri 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Jul 16 –Jul 20 Ages: 6-8 COMIC AND ANIMATION 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Course Code: YXFRZ0716 CONVENTION Ages: 6-8 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Come to our cartoon convention. Course Code: YXWIZ0716 Location: Science Museum Wield a pen to experiment with Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) different ways to sequence your Location: Science Museum illustrated adventures. Sketch your (Education Entrance) DETECTIVE SCIENCE own comic and publish it in our Be a detective. Hone your anthology. Write and direct an exciting PHYSICS TOYS powers of observation and movie starring a LEGO Minifigure Make toys to take home that spin, deduction. Fingerprint, perform character of your own creation. Bring balance, light up, and make sound. chromatography, and analyze your movie to life as you create unique Explore the basics of motion, pitch, evidence microscopically. Join sets and props. Explore various color, and light. together to solve a mystery on the animation styles in HUE Animation last day. using some unusual stars. View your When: Mon-Fri movies throughout the week! Jul 16 –Jul 20 When: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Jul 16 –Jul 20 When: Mon-Fri Ages: 6-8 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Jul 16 –Jul 20 Course Code: YXPHA0716 Ages: 6-8 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: YXDET0716 Ages: 7-12 Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code:YDCAC0716 (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum Fee: $367, $349 mbr (Education Entrance) Location: Metropolitan State University (map will be sent before camp) 17 WEEK 6: JUL 16 - JUL 20
AGES 6-8 AGES 9-12 PHYSICS TOYS INTRO TO CHEMISTRY Make toys to take home that spin, Enter the exciting world of balance, light up, and make sound. chemistry! Investigate chemicals Explore the basics of motion, pitch, and colors, gases and liquids, color, and light. weights and densities.
When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri Jul 16 –Jul 20 Jul 16 –Jul 20 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 6-8 Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YXPHP0716 Course Code: YNITC0716 Fee: $188, $179 mbr DIGITAL FLIX Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum Explore the world of film production! Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) You can be a director, actor, (Education Entrance) cinematographer, and producer of your LEGO MACHINES AND films and a team film project! Record WIZARD SCHOOL STRUCTURES movies using a digital video camera, Explore the science in potions, Learn new LEGO building techniques then use software to edit it. Post it magic tricks, and other wizarding to make machines that move and online to share with your friends. secrets. Complete challenges to structures that can bear weight. earn house points. Test your skills When: Mon-Fri with feats from each professor. When: Mon-Fri Jul 16 –Jul 20 Create a light-up wand that would Jul 16 –Jul 20 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM make Ollivander proud. 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Ages: 6-8 Course Code: LNFLX0716 When: Mon-Fri Course Code: YXLMS0716 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Jul 16 –Jul 20 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) Ages: 9-12 (Education Entrance) Course Code: YNWIZ0716 NEW Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum MARBLE RUN ENGINEERING (Education Entrance) AGES 9-12 Get rolling! Use your imagination PRACTICAL POTIONS to design a marble run with twists DESIGN A COMPUTER Expand your knowledge of potions and turns - maybe even defy GAME: CREATE YOUR OWN and spells as you brew helpful gravity. Build tracks, raceways, ADVENTURE GAME household compounds. Discover the and challenges for your marbles. Build your own interactive game or American Wizarding school’s houses Experiment with physics and story using programming software and perform challenges to earn probability. Create, test, and improve from the MIT Media Lab called Scratch. points. Broaden your wizarding skills your creations throughout the week. Select a theme, write a story, build an in this exciting class! environment, create characters, then When: Mon-Fri add puzzles and sound effects. When: Mon-Fri Jul 16 –Jul 20 Jul 16 –Jul 20 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM When: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Jul 16 –Jul 20 Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YNMRE0716 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Course Code: YNPPO0716 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Ages: 9-12 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum Course Code: LNDCG0716 Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance)
18 More info at (651) 221-4511 or smm.org/classes WEEK 7: JUL 23 - JUL 27
FULL DAY PRESCHOOL EARTH DEFENDERS CAMP CURIE: A SCIENCE PRESCHOOL SCIENCE: Step up and learn how to become CAMP FOR GIRLS KITCHEN CHEMISTRY an Earth Defender! Spend a week Explore the brain, delve into Measure, mix, and bake pretzels and upcycling materials to create useful mathematics, and use LEGO Bricks cookies. Pop popcorn and make a and unique treasures. Explore in engineering challenges. You will drink in your in-house “laboratory.” ways that you can help local plants, investigate questions like: How do animals, and insects using science our senses relate to the brain? How AGES 3-5 and engineering. Learn how you can we graph data that we collect to When: Mon-Fri can protect and participate in the share it with others? And, how do we Jul 23 –Jul 27 systems that sustain life on Earth. use the engineering design process? 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM Learn about women working in the Course Code: YPKIC0723 When: Mon-Fri fields of math and science! Fee: $68, $65 mbr Jul 23 –Jul 27 Location: Science Museum 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM When: Mon-Fri (Education Entrance) Ages: 8-12 Jul 23 –Jul 27 Course Code: YDEDF0723 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM AGES 5-6 Fee: $367, $349 mbr Ages: 6-9 When: Mon-Fri Location: Science Museum Course Code: YDCMC0723 Jul 23 –Jul 27 (Education Entrance) Fee: $367, $349 mbr 10:00 AM – 11:45 AM Location: Metropolitan State University Course Code: YRKIC0723 (map will be sent before camp) Fee: $126, $120 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) AGES 6-8 MAD SCIENTIST’S LAB CALLING ALL MARINE CARPENTRY: FURNITURE Concoct chemical potions and BIOLOGISTS Use the lingo of the carpenter and conduct crazy science experiments. Probe the depths of the sea and the tools of the trade. Build a pine Work with dry ice and explore motion. explore the variety of life in the and plywood table to use in a fort or ocean. See a squid from the inside bedroom. When: Mon-Fri out while dissecting. Discover ocean Jul 23 –Jul 27 habitats, build a coral reef model, and When: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM get swallowed up by a giant whale! Jul 23 –Jul 27 Ages: 6-8 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Course Code: YXMSL0723 When: Mon-Fri Ages: 6-8 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Jul 23 –Jul 27 Course Code: YXCAF0723 Location: Science Museum 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) Ages: 6-8 Location: Science Museum Course Code: YXCMB0723 (Education Entrance) SUPER SCRATCH Fee: $188, $179 mbr Create your own interactive Location: Science Museum animations, learn the basics of (Education Entrance) computer programming, and design a computer game using Scratch Junior. Create your own board game with basic programming principles.
When: Mon-Fri Jul 23 –Jul 27 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ages: 6-8 Course Code: LXSUP0723 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum 19 (Education Entrance) WEEK 7: JUL 23 - JUL 27
AGES 6-8 AGES 9-12 DRAWING + ANIMATION = 3D ANIMATION APP, BUILD, CODE MOVIES Take your drawing skills to the next Quit playing someone else’s boring Draw your own creations and attach level! See the world as a 3D animator! app and design your own! Build limbs and other moving parts. Bring Create a character and learn new an app using custom graphics and them to life using HUE stop-motion animation techniques. Try out specific sound that can tap into an Android animation software. Plan and film skills for 3D modeling by practicing with device’s built-in touchscreen, adventures for your characters with hands-on materials and software, then accelerometer, and camera to create props and backgrounds of your own print out your creation to take home. a truly interactive experience. design. Share your movies online. When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri Jul 23 –Jul 27 Jul 23 –Jul 27 Jul 23 –Jul 27 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Ages: 9-12 Ages: 6-8 Course Code: LNDAN0723 Course Code: LNABC0723 Course Code: LXDAM0723 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) GAMER GIRLS CALLING ALL MARINE SUPERNOVA SCIENCE Are you a gamer girl? Design an BIOLOGISTS Connect to the cosmos and see interactive game with characters Probe the depths of the sea and yourself among the stars. Find your that you create using Scratch 2.0 explore the variety of life in the place in the universe by creating software. Add your own sound and ocean. See a squid from the inside your own telescope, constellation, animation. Post your game online to out while dissecting. Discover ocean and galaxy. Use real astronomical share with others. habitats, build a coral reef model, and techniques to discover how we know get swallowed up by a giant whale! so much about space. When: Mon-Fri Jul 23 –Jul 27 When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Jul 23 –Jul 27 Jul 23 –Jul 27 Ages: 9-12 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Course Code: YNGGR0723 Ages: 9-12 Ages: 6-8 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: YNCAM0723 Course Code: YXSNS0723 Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) PRACTICAL POTIONS Expand your knowledge of potions CARPENTRY FOR KIDS: and spells as you brew helpful TEEN THE PINBALL MACHINE household compounds. Discover the DESIGN AN APP Design and construct your own American Wizarding school’s houses Hey game designers! Take the next step tabletop pinball machine with wood and perform challenges to earn and design your own app. Share it with and other materials. Experiment with points. Broaden your wizarding skills your friends to test and play. Using the the dynamics of action/reaction and in this exciting class! free versions of online programs, you cause/effect. can build a professional quality game When: Mon-Fri that can be played on computers, the When: Mon-Fri Jul 23 –Jul 27 web, or even portable devices. Jul 23 –Jul 27 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ages: 9-12 When: Mon-Fri Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YNPPO0723 Jul 23 –Jul 27 Course Code: YNPIN0723 Fee: $188, $179 mbr 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum Ages: 13-16 Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) Course Code: YTDAA0723 (Education Entrance) Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) WEEK 8: JUL 30 - AUG 03
FULL DAY AGES 6-8 ROBOTICS LAB CHEMISTRY IN THE KITCHEN GEARS AND CONTRAPTIONS Program handheld computers to Explore how chemistry makes Make gadgets and contraptions control sensors and motors on delicious foods. Use everyday using pulleys, wheels, axles, ramps, a robot. Learn about the history ingredients and kitchen tools to and levers. Play with different and current uses of robots. Then measure, mix, cook, and bake. Test combinations of gears and construct step into the future as you build a your experiments by eating them! a gearbox to take home. cutting-edge, Arduino-controlled Not recommended for children with spider robot that responds to its food allergies. When: Mon-Fri environment. Take your robot Jul 30 –Aug 3 home and reprogram it using your When: Mon-Fri 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM new skills. Investigate artificial Jul 30 –Aug 3 Ages: 6-8 intelligence and biomimicry. Learn 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Course Code: YXGAC0730 about the Kinematic Chain. Build a Ages: 6-8 Fee: $188, $179 mbr robotic arm. Course Code: YXCIK0730 Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) When: Mon-Fri Location: Science Museum Jul 30 –Aug 3 (Education Entrance) WIZARD SCHOOL 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Perform science that looks like Ages: 9-12 WIZARD SCHOOL magic and amaze your friends and Course Code: YDROB0730 Perform science that looks like family! Create potions that engage Fee: $367, $349 mbr magic and amaze your friends and all your senses and make objects Location: Science Museum family! Create potions that engage levitate in midair. Get sorted into a (Education Entrance) all your senses and make objects house and earn your magic wand. levitate in midair. Get sorted into a CAMP CONTRAPTIONS house and earn your magic wand. When: Mon-Fri Experiment with materials, tools, Jul 30 –Aug 3 levers, pulleys, and gears to create When: Mon-Fri 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM art in motion. Share engineering Jul 30 –Aug 3 Ages: 6-8 solutions to daily design challenges, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Course Code: YXWIP0730 whether you need to make a zipline Ages: 6-8 Fee: $188, $179 mbr or safely drop an egg. Explore the Course Code: YXWIA0730 Location: Science Museum effects of gravity, angle, velocity, and Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) friction. Design and assemble a long Location: Science Museum chain-reaction machine. Incorporate (Education Entrance) ) the knowledge of motion you have developed during the week to propel GET SET TO BE A VET the action to a boisterous finale! Explore the careers of veterinarians, Share films of the event online. discover how to take better care of your pets, and make dog treats. When: Mon-Fri Learn safe behavior around dogs, Jul 30 –Aug 3 examine real animal X-rays, and 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM perform a mock surgery. Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YDCCO0730 When: Mon-Fri Fee: $367, $349 mbr Jul 30 –Aug 3 Location: Metropolitan State University 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (map will be sent before camp) Ages: 6-8 Course Code: YXGSA0730 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance)
21 WEEK 8: JUL 30- AUG 03
AGES 6-8 AGES 9-12
SUPER SCRATCH APP, BUILD, CODE NEW Create your own simple interactive Quit playing someone else’s boring animations, learn the basics of app and design your own! Build ATLAS ADVENTURES computer programming, and design an app using custom graphics and Chart the course to adventure! Learn a simple computer game using sound that can tap into an Android how to seek and find using maps, Scratch Junior. Create your own device’s built-in touchscreen, the stars, and modern technology. board game as you discover basic accelerometer, and camera to Use tools like compasses and GPS programming principles. create a truly interactive experience. to navigate the world around you. Upload an app to the Google Play Try geocaching and make a personal When: Mon-Fri Store to share with friends. map of nearby parks. Jul 30 –Aug 3 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri Ages: 6-8 Jul 30 –Aug 3 Jul 30 –Aug 3 Course Code: LXSUP0730 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Fee: $188, $179 mbr Ages: 9-12 Ages: 9-12 Location: Science Museum Course Code: LNABC0730 Course Code: YNATA0730 (Education Entrance) Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum GET SET TO BE A VET (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) Explore the careers of veterinarians, discover how to take better care LEGO ADVANCED VEHICLES GET SET TO BE A VET of your pets, and make dog treats. Discover the next level of LEGO Explore the careers of veterinarians, Learn safe behavior around dogs, vehicle construction. Build model discover how to take better care examine real animal X-rays, and vehicles that have 4-wheel drive, of your pets, and make dog treats. perform a mock surgery. multispeed transmission, and rack Learn safe behavior around dogs, and pinion steering. examine real animal X-rays, and When: Mon-Fri observe an animal dissection. Jul 30 –Aug 3 When: Mon-Fri 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Jul 30 –Aug 3 When: Mon-Fri Ages: 6-8 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Jul 30 –Aug 3 Course Code: YXGSP0730 Ages: 9-12 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: YNLAV0730 Ages: 9-12 Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: YNGSV0730 (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum AGES 9-12 (Education Entrance) BUILD A REMOTE CONTROL CAR GAME PAD Build a self-propelled, wire-controlled Design your own adventure game vehicle using batteries, motors, and using Scratch software. Write a wiring. Test out your car’s performance story, design an environment, create under a variety of conditions. characters, and add sound effects. Build your own game controller to When: Mon-Fri play your game. Jul 30 –Aug 3 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM When: Mon-Fri Ages: 9-12 Jul 30 –Aug 3 Course Code: YNBRC0730 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Fee: $188, $179 mbr Ages: 9-12 Location: Science Museum Course Code: LNGPD0730 (Education Entrance) Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum 22 More info at (651) 221-4511 or smm.org/classes (Education Entrance) WEEK 9: AUG 06- AUG 10
FULL DAY PRESCHOOL AGES 6-8
WONKA WEEK PRESCHOOL SCIENCE: LEGO BLOW IT UP! Enter the sweet world of candy as FUN FOR THE VERY YOUNG Make exploding baggies, make art you explore the wonders of the Build with LEGO Duplo sets as you by popping balloons, check out dry Chocolate Factory. Whisk your way engage in storytelling and creative play. ice, and experiment with different through the Physical plant on the kinds of rockets in this exciting class. glass elevator, chocolate river, and AGES 3-5 other fantastic, hair-raising, move- When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri you-from-here-to-there systems. Aug 6 – Aug 10 Aug 6 – Aug 10 Become a master candy maker as 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM you knead, mix, and pour to create Course Code: YPLVY0806 Ages: 6-8 delicious confections every day. Fee: $68, $65 mbr Course Code: YXBIU0806 Explore the fascination with candies Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr people have enjoyed over 100 (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum years and invent a candy yourself (Education Entrance) that could become one of the AGES 5-6 most famous candies in the world. When: Mon-Fri EXCELLENCE ENGINEERING You don’t need a golden ticket for Aug 6 – Aug 10 Have fun with engineering by this camp. Not recommended for 10:00 AM – 11:45 AM pushing the limits in this camp. children with food allergies. Course Code: YRLVY0806 Use your creativity and ingenuity Fee: $126, $120 mbr to design things to go faster, reach When: Mon-Fri Location: Science Museum higher, last longer, and make people Aug 6 – Aug 10 (Education Entrance) and creatures happier. 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Ages: 7-12 AGES 6-8 When: Mon-Fri Course Code: YDWNK0806 Aug 6 – Aug 10 Fee: $367, $349 mbr SPYMASTERS 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Science Museum How to spy with your little eye. Ages: 6-8 (Education Entrance) Hone your powers of observation Course Code: YXEEN0806 and master spycraft. Decrypt secret Fee: $188, $179 mbr CAMP CURIE: A SCIENCE CAMP codes, read signposts, and build Location: Science Museum FOR GIRLS alarms and spy equipment to use in (Education Entrance) Dive into the wide world of science your room. as you develop experiments and SUNSATIONAL SOLAR POWER create imaginative projects. This When: Mon-Fri Power up with sunlight, no batteries year, explore the brain, delve into Aug 6 – Aug 10 here. Make a miniature green mathematics, and use LEGO Bricks 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM house. Go direct from solar cells to in engineering challenges. You will Ages: 6-8 motors and explore the power of investigate questions like: How do Course Code: YXSPY0806 the sun. Design a solar powered our senses relate to the brain? How Fee: $188, $179 mbr boat. See how fast your solar can we graph data that we collect to Location: Science Museum powered car can go. share it with others? And, how do we (Education Entrance) use the engineering design process? When: Mon-Fri Learn about women working in the Aug 6 – Aug 10 fields of math and science! 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 6-8 When: Mon-Fri Course Code: YXSSP0806 Aug 6 – Aug 10 Fee: $188, $179 mbr 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Location: Science Museum Ages: 6-9 (Education Entrance) Course Code: YDCMC0806 Fee: $367, $349 mbr Location: St. Catherine University (map will be sent before camp) 23 WEEK 9: AUG 06- AUG 10
AGES 6-8 AGES 9-12
CHEMISTRY IN THE KITCHEN SCRATCH GAME MASTERS VIDEO MASHUP Explore how chemistry makes Advance your Scratch 2.0 computer Discover video editing and special delicious foods. Use everyday game-making skills as you power effects. Combine short video and ingredients and kitchen tools to up, make your own blocks, and use sound clips to create your own measure, mix, cook, and bake. Test the camera to control the game mashup movie, and then use a green your experiments by eating them! with your body. This camp is a great screen to add yourself to a story Not recommended for children with follow up to our popular Design a you create. Learn Adobe Elements food allergies. Computer Game class. Access your Premiere video editing software. game online to play later. When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri Aug 6 – Aug 10 When: Mon-Fri Aug 6 – Aug 10 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Aug 6 – Aug 10 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 6-8 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YXCIK0806 Ages: 9-12 Course Code: LNVID0806 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: LNSGM0806 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) NEW BUILD A REMOTE CONTROL CAR DESIGN A COMPUTER Build a self-propelled, wire-controlled CODE A BOT GAME: CREATE YOUR OWN vehicle using batteries, motors, and Use a unique coding system to ADVENTURE GAME wiring. Test out your car’s performance program a mini robot called an Build your own interactive game or under a variety of conditions. Ozobot. Make Ozobot dance, do story using programming software tricks, and work together with other from the MIT Media Lab called Scratch. When: Mon-Fri Ozobots. Create costumes and Select a theme, write a story, build an Aug 6 – Aug 10 design a neighborhood for your environment, create characters, then 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ozobot. Your ideas make the Ozobot add puzzles and sound effects. Ages: 9-12 move and groove! Course Code: YNBRC0806 When: Mon-Fri Fee: $188, $179 mbr When: Mon-Fri Aug 6 – Aug 10 Location: Science Museum Aug 6 – Aug 10 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Education Entrance) 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Ages: 6-8 Course Code: LNDCG0806 Course Code: YXCAB0806 Fee: $188, $179 mbr TEEN Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) 3D WORLDS (Education Entrance) Investigate the world of 3D design, BLOW IT UP! game-making, and programming. Make exploding baggies, make art Explore 3D Worlds using a variety AGES 9-12 by popping balloons, check out dry of programs during a week in the INTRO TO CHEMISTRY ice, and experiment with different third dimension. Enter the exciting world of chemistry! kinds of rockets in this exciting class. Investigate chemicals and colors, gases When: Mon-Fri and liquids, weights and densities. When: Mon-Fri Aug 6 – Aug 10 Aug 6 – Aug 10 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM When: Mon-Fri 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 13-16 Aug 6 – Aug 10 Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YTTDW0806 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Course Code: YNBIU0806 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Ages: 9-12 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum Course Code: YNITC0806 Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) WEEK 10: AUG 13 - AUG 17
FULL DAY
SCIGIRLS CAMP LEGO LAB NEW Develop and conduct investigations This camp is awesome! Experiment STAR using scientific inquiry with girls using LEGO for printmaking, mold STAR TRANSFORMATIONS who are passionate about science! making, and mosaics. See LEGO Investigate transformations Imagine a day in the life of a science come to life in a movie you animate. through Science, Theater, and ARt explorer, researching, testing, and Build large collaborative projects and in this unique collaborative camp! collecting data along the way. See photograph your microscale creations. Change happens in the natural how environmental engineers use world, within ourselves, and even that data to solve problems. Discover When: Mon-Fri on a global scale. Learn about how nutrition, physical, and mental Aug 13- Aug 17 different types of transformations activities impact the way human 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM - from metamorphoses to bodies work and stay alive. Ages: 6-9 chemical reactions to evolutionary Course Code: YDLEG0813 changes. Explore theater When: Mon-Fri Fee: $367, $349 mbr activities and create art based on Aug 13- Aug 17 Location: St. Catherine University transformation. STAR Collective 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM (map will be sent before camp) is a collaboration between the Ages: 9-12 Science Museum, SteppingStone Course Code: YDSGC0813 Theatre, and COMPAS. Fee: $367, $349 mbr Location: St. Catherine University When: Mon-Fri (map will be sent before camp) Aug 13- Aug 17 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Ages: 6-12 Course Code: YDSEC0813 Fee: $349 Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance)
AGES 6-8
WIZARD SCHOOL EXCELLENCE ENGINEERING DETECTIVE SCIENCE Perform science that looks like magic Have fun with engineering by Be a detective. Hone your powers and amaze your friends and family! pushing the limits in this camp. of observation and deduction. Create potions that engage all your Use your creativity and ingenuity Fingerprint, perform chromatography, senses and make objects levitate in to design things to go faster, reach and analyze evidence midair. Get sorted into a house and higher, last longer, and make people microscopically. Join together to earn your magic wand. and creatures happier. solve a mystery on the last day.
When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri Aug 13- Aug 17 Aug 13- Aug 17 Aug 13- Aug 17 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ages: 6-8 Ages: 6-8 Ages: 6-8 Course Code: YXWIA0813 Course Code: YXEEN0813 Course Code: YXDET0813 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance)
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AGES 6-8 AGES 9-12
ROBOTS AND ROCKETS SECRET HIDING PLACES WIZARD SCHOOL Find out what robots can and cannot Hide your secrets in plain sight. Explore the science in potions, do, make a robotic arm, and control Make trap doors, camouflage an magic tricks, and other wizarding a robot. Experiment with propulsion object, and draw maps to reveal their secrets. Complete challenges to and make different kinds of rockets. location. Hunt the final treasure by earn house points. Test your skills following a trail of clues. with feats from each professor. When: Mon-Fri Create a light-up wand that would Aug 13- Aug 17 When: Mon-Fri make Ollivander proud. 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Aug 13- Aug 17 Ages: 6-8 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM When: Mon-Fri Course Code: YXRAR0813 Ages: 6-8 Aug 13- Aug 17 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: YXSHP0813 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr Ages: 9-12 (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum Course Code: YNWIA0813 (Education Entrance) Fee: $188, $179 mbr WIZARD SCHOOL Location: Science Museum Perform science that looks like LOTS AND LOTS OF ROCKS (Education Entrance) magic and amaze your friends and Study sand, pebbles, minerals, and family! Create potions that engage rocks from Antarctica to Minnesota. all your senses and make objects Learn how they are formed and levitate in midair. Get sorted into a where they can be found. Start your house and earn your magic wand. own collection and organize and display your finds. When: Mon-Fri Aug 13- Aug 17 When: Mon-Fri 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Aug 13- Aug 17 Ages: 6-8 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Course Code: YXWIP0813 Ages: 6-8 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: YXLOT0813 Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) DESIGN A COMPUTER GAME: CREATE YOUR OWN ROBOTS AND ROCKETS ADVENTURE GAME Find out what robots can and cannot Build your own interactive game or do, make a robotic arm, and control story using programming software a robot. Experiment with propulsion from the MIT Media Lab called and make different kinds of rockets. Scratch. Select a theme, write a story, build an environment, create When: Mon-Fri characters, then add puzzles and Aug 13- Aug 17 sound effects. 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 6-8 When: Mon-Fri Course Code: YXRAR0813 Aug 13- Aug 17 Fee: $188, $179 mbr 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Science Museum Ages: 9-12 (Education Entrance) Course Code: YNDAC0813 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance)
26 More info at (651) 221-4511 or smm.org/classes WEEK 10: AUG 13 - AUG 17
AGES 9-12
SCI-FI CAMP NEW Discover the real science behind some of the best ideas in science fiction. MARBLE RUN ENGINEERING From Star Trek to Doctor Who, learn Get rolling! Use your imagination to the reality behind the fantasy. Find out design a marble run with twists and how something can be “bigger on the turns - maybe even defy gravity. Build inside,” create your own alien from tracks, raceways, and challenges another world, and build your own sci-fi for your marbles. Experiment with technology to take home. physics and probability. Create, test, and improve your creations When: Mon-Fri throughout the week. Aug 13- Aug 17 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM When: Mon-Fri Ages: 9-12 Aug 13- Aug 17 Course Code: YNSFI0813 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Fee: $188, $179 mbr Ages: 9-12 Location: Science Museum Course Code: YNMRE0813 (Education Entrance) Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum WIZARD SCHOOL (Education Entrance) Explore the science in potions, magic tricks, and other wizarding secrets. Complete challenges to earn house points. Test your skills with feats from each professor. Create a light-up wand that would make Ollivander proud.
When: Mon-Fri Aug 13- Aug 17 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YNWIP0813 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance)
DIGITAL FLIX Explore the world of film production! You can be a director, actor, cinematographer, and producer of your films and a team film project! Record movies using a digital video camera, then use software to edit it. Post it online to share with your friends.
When: Mon-Fri Aug 13- Aug 17 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YNFLX0813 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) 27 WEEK 11: AUG 20 - AUG 24
PRESCHOOL AGES 6-8
PRESCHOOL SCIENCE: SUPER SCRATCH MINI MINECRAFT DINOMANIA Create your own simple interactive Bring the world of Minecraft to life. Look at dinosaur bones, make some animations, learn the basics of Craft custom costumes and objects. different kinds of dinosaurs, and visit computer programming, and design Mine ores and see real world our Dinosaurs and Fossils Gallery. a simple computer game using minerals. Pick up some real rock Scratch Junior. Create your own knowledge. NOTE: We will not play AGES 3-5 board game as you discover basic the Minecraft game during this camp. When: Mon-Fri programming principles. Aug 20-Aug 24 When: Mon-Fri 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM When: Mon-Fri Aug 20-Aug 24 Course Code: YPDMA0820 Aug 20-Aug 24 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Fee: $68, $65 mbr 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ages: 6-8 Location: Science Museum Ages: 6-8 Course Code: YXMIM0820 (Education Entrance) Course Code: YXSUP0820 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum AGES 5-6 Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) When: Mon-Fri (Education Entrance) Aug 20-Aug 24 NEW 10:00 AM – 11:45 AM SUNSATIONAL SOLAR POWER Course Code: YRDMA0820 Power up with sunlight, no batteries MARBLE RUN ENGINEERING Fee: $126, $120 mbr here. Make a miniature green Get rolling! Use your imagination Location: Science Museum house. Go direct from solar cells to to design a marble run with twists (Education Entrance) motors and explore the power of and turns - maybe even defy the sun. Design a solar powered gravity. Build tracks, raceways, boat. See how fast your solar and challenges for your marbles. AGES 6-8 powered car can go. Experiment with physics and probability. Create, test, and improve CALLING ALL MARINE When: Mon-Fri your creations throughout the week. BIOLOGISTS Aug 20-Aug 24 Probe the depths of the sea and 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM When: Mon-Fri explore the variety of life in the Ages: 6-8 Aug 20-Aug 24 ocean. See a squid from the inside Course Code: YXSSP0820 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM out while dissecting. Discover ocean Fee: $188, $179 mbr Ages: 6-8 habitats, build a coral reef model, and Location: Science Museum Course Code: YXMRE0820 get swallowed up by a giant whale! (Education Entrance) Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum When: Mon-Fri BLOW IT UP! (Education Entrance) Aug 20-Aug 24 Make exploding baggies, make art 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM by popping balloons, check out dry LEGO CASTLES Ages: 6-8 ice, and experiment with different Learn about medieval technology as Course Code: YXCAM0820 kinds of rockets in this exciting class. you build drawbridges, catapults, and Fee: $188, $179 mbr a castle using LEGO Technic pieces. Location: Science Museum When: Mon-Fri (Education Entrance) Aug 20-Aug 24 When: Mon-Fri 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Aug 20-Aug 24 Ages: 6-8 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Course Code: YXBIU0820 Ages: 6-8 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: YXLEC0820 Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) 28 More info at (651) 221-4511 or smm.org/classes WEEK 11: AUG 20 - AUG 24
AGES 9-12
BLOW IT UP! Make exploding baggies, make art by popping balloons, check out dry ice, and experiment with different kinds of rockets in this exciting class.
When: Mon-Fri Aug 20-Aug 24 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YNBIU0820 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) DESIGN A “SMART” HOUSE GAME PAD INTRO TO CHEMISTRY Design and create a play-sized, Design your own adventure game Enter the exciting world of interactive dream home. Build your using Scratch software. Write a chemistry! Investigate chemicals house from recycled materials and story, design an environment, create and colors, gases and liquids, use an Arduino board to customize it characters, and add sound effects. weights and densities. with light, sound, and sensors. Take Build your own game controller to your house home! play your game. When: Mon-Fri Aug 20-Aug 24 When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Aug 20-Aug 24 Aug 20-Aug 24 Ages: 9-12 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Course Code: YNITC0820 Ages: 9-12 Ages: 9-12 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: YNDSH0820 Course Code: YNGPD0820 Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) DIGITAL FLIX Explore the world of film production! CALLING ALL MARINE You can be a director, actor, BIOLOGISTS cinematographer, and producer of your Probe the depths of the sea and films or a team film project! Record explore the variety of life in the movies using a digital video camera, ocean. See a squid from the inside then use software to edit it. Post it out while dissecting. Discover ocean online to share with your friends. habitats, build a coral reef model, and get swallowed up by a giant whale! When: Mon-Fri Aug 20-Aug 24 When: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Aug 20-Aug 24 Ages: 9-12 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Course Code: YNFLX0820 Ages: 9-12 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: YNCMB0820 Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance)
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AGES 6-8
BUILD A FORT LEGO MACHINES AND NEW These forts will be too big to fit STRUCTURES under the dining room table! Come Learn new LEGO building techniques CODE A BOT build big with cardboard and create to make machines that move and Use a unique coding system to the life-size fort of your dreams! structures that can bear weight. program a mini robot called an Ozobot. Make Ozobot dance, do When: Mon-Fri When: Mon-Fri tricks, and work together with other Aug 27-Aug 31 Aug 27-Aug 31 Ozobots. Create costumes and 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM design a neighborhood for your Ages: 6-8 Ages: 6-8 Ozobot. Your ideas make the Ozobot Course Code: YXBAF0827 Course Code: YXLMS0827 move and groove! Fee: $188, $179 mbr Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum Location: Science Museum When: Mon-Fri (Education Entrance) (Education Entrance) Aug 27-Aug 31 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM WIZARD SCHOOL MAD SCIENTIST’S LAB Ages: 6-8 Perform science that looks like Concoct chemical potions and Course Code: YXCAB0827 magic and amaze your friends and conduct crazy science experiments. Fee: $188, $179 mbr family! Create potions that engage Work with dry ice and explore Location: Science Museum all your senses and make objects motion. (Education Entrance) levitate in midair. Get sorted into a house and earn your magic wand. When: Mon-Fri Aug 27-Aug 31 When: Mon-Fri 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Aug 27-Aug 31 Ages: 6-8 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Course Code: YXMSL0827 Ages: 6-8 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Course Code: YXWIZ0827 Location: Science Museum Fee: $188, $179 mbr (Education Entrance) Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance)
ROBOTS AND ROCKETS LEGO AMUSEMENT PARK Find out what robots can and cannot Learn about simple machines such do, make a robotic arm, and control as gears and pulleys while making a robot. Experiment with propulsion models of rides that move. At the and make different kinds of rockets. end of the week, we’ll combine projects and make an amusement When: Mon-Fri park for LEGO Minifigures. Aug 27-Aug 31 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM When: Mon-Fri Ages: 6-8 Aug 27-Aug 31 Course Code: YXRAR0827 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Fee: $188, $179 mbr Ages: 6-8 Location: Science Museum Course Code: YXLAP0827 (Education Entrance) Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance)
30 More info at (651) 221-4511 or smm.org/classes WEEK 12: AUG 27 - AUG 31
AGES 9-12
MAKER: CARPENTRY BE A PALEONTOLOGIST APP, BUILD, CODE Learn by doing! Pick up your tools If you dig fossils, this camp is for Quit playing someone else’s boring and spend a week making projects in you! Create an excavation site and app and design your own! Build the carpentry workshop. Build marble use real tools to uncover the fossils. an app using custom graphics and mazes and games. Finish the week by Find out about recent discoveries sound that can tap into an Android building your own design to take home. and name a new dinosaur. Visit the device’s built-in touchscreen, dinosaur gallery and experiment on accelerometer, and camera to When: Mon-Fri real fossils. create a truly interactive experience. Aug 27-Aug 31 Upload an app to the Google Play 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM When: Mon-Fri Store to share with friends. Ages: 9-12 Aug 27-Aug 31 Course Code: YNMCC0827 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM When: Mon-Fri Fee: $188, $179 mbr Ages: 9-12 Aug 27-Aug 31 Location: Science Museum Course Code: YNBAP0827 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Education Entrance) Fee: $188, $179 mbr Ages: 9-12 Location: Science Museum Course Code: YNABC0827 SCRATCH STATE FAIR MIDWAY (Education Entrance) Fee: $188, $179 mbr Recreate your favorite attractions Location: Science Museum from the Midway at the State Fair. WIZARD SCHOOL (Education Entrance) Use the LEGO WeDo sensors and Explore the science in potions, MIT’s Scratch software to perceive magic tricks, and other wizarding DISEASE DETECTIVES the ring toss accuracy or activate secrets. Complete challenges to Use a microscope and study the dunk tank. Post video of your earn house points. Test your skills different kinds of pathogens. projects online. with feats from each professor. Examine the body’s immune system Create a light-up wand that would and see how diseases spread. When: Mon-Fri make Ollivander proud. Participate in a simulation of an Aug 27-Aug 31 epidemic where you will be on a 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM When: Mon-Fri team of scientists fighting a disease Ages: 9-12 Aug 27-Aug 31 outbreak. Course Code: YNSFM0827 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Fee: $188, $179 mbr Ages: 9-12 When: Mon-Fri Location: Science Museum Course Code: YNWIZ0827 Aug 27-Aug 31 (Education Entrance) Fee: $188, $179 mbr 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Location: Science Museum Ages: 9-12 DESIGN A COMPUTER (Education Entrance) Course Code: YNDID0827 GAME: CREATE YOUR OWN Fee: $188, $179 mbr ADVENTURE GAME Location: Science Museum Build your own interactive game or (Education Entrance) story using programming software from the MIT Media Lab called Scratch. Select a theme, write a story, build an environment, create characters, then add puzzles and sound effects.
When: Mon-Fri Aug 27-Aug 31 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ages: 9-12 Course Code: YNDCG0827 Fee: $188, $179 mbr Location: Science Museum (Education Entrance) 31 REGISTRATION
WHEN TO REGISTER One week before camp begins, you will receive a camp communication via email. This email will Museum Members General Public include important information about the following: February 13 February 27 *Mailed or faxed registrations will not be processed until WAIVERS above dates. All participants must have a waiver signed by a parent/ guardian submitted the first day of camp. Anyone who You can purchase a membership online and immediately registers online agrees to the waiver as part of the receive priority registration benefits. registration process. Those who register by phone will receive a follow-up email requesting that they electronically HOW TO REGISTER sign this waiver on our website. Only one waiver per Online (preferred method) participant is required. A copy of the waiver is available Classes can be purchased at smm.org/classes with online at smm.org/classes. a credit card or funds on account. An email confirmation will be sent to you immediately. HEALTH INFORMATION If your child has a medical condition, severe allergy, *if you experience difficulties with online registration, dietary restrictions, or other special need, please note this please call (651) 221-4511 for assistance. during your registration. Fields used to outline any specials needs are designated on both online and paper forms. If Mail you have special concerns, please call (651) 221-4511. Mail registration form with payment (check or credit card number) to: DROP OFF AND PICK UP Science Learning Division You will receive a Child Verification Card via email. This Attn: Registration Coordinator card must be clearly displayed in order to pick up Science Museum of Minnesota a child. You can drop off/pick up your child at our 120 West Kellogg Blvd. education entrance up to 30 minutes before/after their Saint Paul, MN 55102 program, free of charge. If your camp is off-site (U of M, St. Catherine’s, The Blake School, or Metropolitan State Fax University) your camp communication email will include Fax the registration form with payment (credit card specific information about that site and a map for drop of and number) to (651) 221-4528. pick up. Waiting List GENERAL POLICIES AND If your desired camp is full and you sign up for the waiting PROCEDURES list, we will contact you if an opening becomes available. CANCELLATION POLICY 1. All class reservations are nonrefundable: Scholarship Application—Now No cash or credit card refunds are issued for program Please see page 36 for detailed information orders. If you need to cancel, you must call 14 days about scholarships. before the start of the program in order to transfer to a future program OR have a credit placed on your Science Museum account for the full value of the class. This credit can be used for future camps, classes, birthday parties, or memberships; the credit cannot be used for admission to the Omnitheater, Special Exhibits, or General Exhibits. No transfers or credits for orders cancelled within 14 days of the program start date.
2. If we cancel a program: If a minimum enrollment has not been reached one week prior to the first session, we must cancel the program. Customers will be contacted by telephone and we will suggest alternate classes. If we are unable to accommodate a suitable transfer, we will issue a full refund.
32 More info at (651) 221-4511 or smm.org/classes STUDENT SAFETY WHAT TO WEAR / BRING AND RESPONSIBILITY • The museum is not responsible for lost, missing, The Science Museum is responsible for students’ safety or damaged personal items. during scheduled program time. We do not release • If attending camps or classes all day, bring a bag unchaperoned students from programs due to issues of lunch and a drink. safety and liability. Exceptions will be made for students • Wear close-toed shoes and comfortable clothing leaving the museum to meet parents or ride a bus home. that can get messy. Written permission releasing the child must be provided • Shoes with wheels are prohibited at the museum by a parent or guardian. and in museum programs. • Please leave valuables like collectable cards BEHAVIOR POLICY and personal electronics at home. In order to make the experience of our programs • If your child has an inhaler or epi pen - please have a a positive one for all students and staff, we have method for them to keep it on them at all times. established a policy to manage behavior incidents that involve chronic disruption of classes and/or safety. We EXTENDED CARE reserve the right to remove students who do not adhere Morning extended care costs $7 per day, per child. It begins to our behavior policy which is available available online at 7:30 a.m. and goes until the program start time. *Morning at smm.org/classes/policies. extended care is NOT available at offsite locations.
LUNCH Afternoon extended care costs $7 per day, per child. It If your child is attending camp all day, lunch supervision begins at the program end time and concludes at 5:30 p.m. is provided at no extra charge. Campers must bring a bag at the Science Museum, or 5:00 p.m. at offsite locations lunch with a drink. No refrigeration is available. Campers are not allowed to use the vending machines or museum Extended care punch cards: restaurants. You can purchase a 5 punch extended care card for $35. Each punch equals one morning OR one afternoon SNACKS session of extended care per child. Your card is kept on All camps include a 15 minute snack/play break. Due to file and punched as you use it. Leftover punches can allergies and dietary restrictions, the Science Museum be used at a later date within the same summer. Punch does not provide snacks to campers. Please send cards can be purchased online, on your mailed/faxed snacks in your child’s lunch bag if you so choose. registration form, or in person. Codes for purchase can be found at smm.org/classes – click on “keywords” and select extended care.
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FULL DAY SUMMER CAMP LOCATIONS MUSEUM DROP-OFF
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University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences 147 Gortner Avenue, Saint Paul Metropolitan State University 700 E 7th Street, Saint Paul The Blake School 301 Peavey Lane, Wayzata Science Museum of Minnesota 120 West Kellogg Blvd., Saint Paul
St. Catherine University 2004 Randolph Avenue, Saint Paul
LOOK GOOD AND FEEL GREAT THIS SUMMER! SUMMER CAMP T-SHIRTS SUPPORT EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND
You will feel great in a 100% cotton shirt and know you have made it possible for other families to experience fun hands-on science camps at the Science Museum. The cost is $15 per shirt.
34 More info at (651) 221-4511 or smm.org/classes DONATIONS WISH LIST
DONATIONS NEEDED: • Paper towel tubes—nothing thicker than can be cut by scissors • Toilet paper tubes (ones with paper stuck to them get thrown out, so please don’t send those) • 8 oz., 20 oz., 1 liter & 2 liter plastic pop/water bottles • Plastic rectangular baby-food containers with lids • Oatmeal and any cylindrical box like Swiss Miss or Pringles (lids are nice to have) • Gallon or ½ gallon ice cream buckets with handles • Shoe boxes • Grocery bags—paper and plastic • Plastic containers with lids, 16 oz. and smaller (margarine, yogurt, cottage cheese, etc.) • Small boxes from toothpaste, tea, jewelry, etc. • Plastic film containers • Prescription pill bottles with non-child-proof caps and no labels • Spools from thread or adding machines/cash registers • Pizza box supports (generally look like little tables) • Buttons and jewelry • Grated parmesan plastic shaker jars • Mint tins (like altoids) • Thick short rubber bands-like those on broccoli bunches • Styrofoam food trays • Scrap fabric, ribbon & yarn • Plastic or silk plants • Electronic toys (broken or not)-should move, light up and/or make noise • Electronic greeting cards (the whole card or just the electronic “innards”) • Any small odds and ends (we call those doodads) like toys or pieces of toys, packaging, etc.
THINGS WE DO NOT TAKE: • computer hard drives, printers, or monitors • television sets • microwaves • cell phones • anything with a rechargeable battery still attached • fans or vacuum cleaners
Questions? Please call Tracy McMan at (651) 221-4741 or contact her at [email protected].
35 PHILIP H. THOMPSON SCHOLARSHIP FUND APPLY TODAY! TO APPLY Scholarships are distributed through a random lottery. 1. Complete the one-page scholarship application. • Drawings begin when registration opens for members Your application cannot be processed without proof Feb 13th. of assistance or a copy of the first page of your latest • You will be contacted if your family is selected. tax return. Please black out any social security or • Apply only once, drawings continue until all funds account numbers. have been distributed. • If you are NOT selected, your payment will NOT be 2. Complete a class registration form, be sure to list a processed. second choice in case your first choice is full. You may • No payments are processed unless a scholarship has register for one class per student, per session (summer, been awarded, and you will be contacted before your fall, spring). payment is processed. 3. Enclose payment for class, preferably check or credit TWO TYPES OF SCHOLARSHIPS card. If no funds are available or the class is full, your 85% Scholarships: payment and documents will not be processed and Available to families receiving public assistance shredded. (See programs in Section “A” below) For 85% scholarship: 50% Scholarships: Member price $ x .15 = $ (amount you pay) Available to families needing financial assistance. For 50% scholarship: For more information, call (651) 221-4511. Member price $ x .50 = $ (amount you pay)
4. Send scholarship application, financial information, class registration, and payment to Education Division Scholarships, Science Museum of Minnesota, 120 West Kellogg Blvd., Saint Paul, MN 55102.
Please note that the refund policies listed in the catalog apply to scholarship co-payments. See smm.org or call (651) 221-4511 for complete policies.
FINANCIAL INFORMATION. FILL OUT SECTION A OR SECTION B.
SECTION A: SECTION B: Our family receives public assistance. We are Our family does not receive public applying for a scholarship for 85% of class fee. assistance. We are applying for a scholarship for 50% of the class fee. Check all that apply: o TANF 1. Please provide the following information: o MFIP o General Assistance $______Monthly gross o WIC $______Spouse’s monthly gross o Medicaid or Medical Assistance $______Other income o SSI (child or spousal support, student grants) o Food Stamps $______Total family income (past year) o Section 8 housing o MN Care 2. Additional financial information: o Free or Reduced Price School Meals You must send a copy of the first page of your latest tax return (or other statement of income if You must send proof of current enrollment in no tax return is available). Please black out any one of these programs. Please black out any social security numbers. social security numbers.
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Date Address SUMMER CAMPS REGISTRATION FORM REGISTRATION CAMPS SUMMER Name 1. PARENT INFO 1. PARENT Name City/State/Zip Home phone phone Work Cell phone 3. CHILD INFO Birth date _ USE OFFICE 4. PROGRAM SELECTION INFO 5. PAYMENT date Card type______Exp. Card # Name Signature payment Check Age ______Email (to receive confirmation) (to Email ______Special needs Address
38 More info at (651) 221-4511 or smm.org/classes 2018 IS THE YEAR OF THE ENGINEER! Transform how you – and your kids – think about engineering! In 2018, the Science Museum is shining a spotlight on the importance of engineering in our world. We’ll host special exhibits, films, programs, and special events throughout the year – all designed to get young people excited about engineering and related careers. Here are a few of the highlights. Visit smm.org/engineer to learn more.
CARDBOARD OPEN JAN 13–MAR 15 ENGINEERING GALLERY
Come play, build, and create in an entire exhibit gallery filled with cardboard, the raw material of creativity! The Science Museum is devoting 3,500 square feet of space to cardboard-inspired ingenuity.
OPEN MAR 2–OCT 11
Soar above the world’s tallest bridge and travel at speeds approaching 700 mph— all on the Omnitheater’s giant screen! In Dream Big: Engineering Our World, you’ll see engineering marvels from around the world—from the Great Wall of China and the world’s tallest skyscrapers to underwater robots and solar cars.
OPEN MAR 16–SEPT 3
Imagine engineering marvels like New York’s Empire State Building, Japan’s Tokyo Skytree Tower, and Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands Resort – made entirely out of LEGO® Bricks! At this spring’s Towers of Tomorrow exhibit, visitors will stand in awe of these remarkable creations and be inspired to build one of their own!
*AuSM and Science Museum of Minnesota members save $25 on registration. Register through the AuSM website at: www.ausm.org/fall-winter-spring/science-museum-2017 Become a member: smm.org/members NON-PROFIT ORG. US POSTAGE PAID SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA
120 West Kellogg Boulevard, Saint Paul, MN 55102 DATED MATERIAL OPEN IMMEDIATELY
Celebrating birthdays and other special occasions is easy!
Parties at the museum are a blast for your kids, and hassle-free for you. Our hands-on fun experts will make your child’s party unforgettable. What’s included: • A private birthday room • One hour of facilitated science activities based on chosen theme • Thirty minutes of free time for gifts, food, and fun • General admission to the museum to use the day of either before or after your party • Upgrade options available such as “Party Plus”, Omnitheater tickets, and catering.
Visit smm.org/birthdays or call (651) 221-4511 for pricing, description of party themes and other information.
Mention the Code Below and Save on Your Party! $5 Off $15 Off SMM Member Party Price or Non-Member Party Price Code: SUMMEM18 Code: SUM18
Discount valid until December 31, 2018. Payment in full is due at time of booking. Call (651) 221-4511 to book