Youth Summer Programs
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Beach Buddies
Ages 3-6 • June 27-August 12 • Location: Pomps Pond • Limit: 40/week Looking for a fun-filled morning or full day at the beach? Does your child enjoy small group activities? If so, Beach Buddies, held at Pomps Pond, is the perfect place to be this summer. Children will enjoy swimming lessons, along with boating, beach activities, arts and crafts & nature walks. Please bring a bathing suit, towel, sunscreen, water bottle, and snack each day. Full day, please also bring a lunch. Please label all belongings. 3 year olds can only register for half day* Half Day, 9:00 am-12 noon #021 June 27-July 1, $230 #022 July 5-8 (closed Mon, 7/5), $184 #023 July 11-15, $230 #024 July 18-22, $230 #025 July 25-29, $230 #026 Aug 1-5, $230 #027 Aug 8-12, $230 Full Day, 9:00 am-3:00 pm #028 June 27-July 1, $280 #029 July 5-8 (closed Mon, 7/4), $224 #030 July 11-15, $280 #031 July 18-22, $280 #032 July 25-29, $280 #033 Aug 1-5, $280 #034 Aug 8-12, $280 -
Woodwind and Brass Week
Band camp junior! Flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone. The high school marching band gets together to refresh their skills in the summer, why not grades 4-8? This is a great way to play some more music and have some fun with your fellow band mates. We will play a lot of music but also a few games!! We will perform at the August 3rd Andover Farmers Market.
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Make Your Own Games & Animations
Ages 7-12 Dive into the world of code by coding your own space shooter games, trivia games, music bands, beautiful computer-generated art and math simulations or tell a story! Coding can be for kids of all ages! Even beginners who have no prior coding experience before are able to jump in and learn too! Kids learn to code using visual code blocks that represent real programming concepts that scale from easy to advanced. They learn about sequencing, loops, infinite loops, conditionals, events and more. With our Drag and Drop Platform, kids learn to code by creating their own games!
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Intro to Python Programming
Ages 10-15 Python is a great way to start your journey in the world of text based coding. It’s a great first language because it’s concise, easy to read and very versatile. Whatever you want to do, you can do it in Python. Our Python course covers everything you need to know to master the language - from declaring variables to creating tuples. If your goal is to develop problem solving skills, learn cool technology or develop projects for college applications, Python is a great place to start!
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Game Based Python
Do you love playing games? Do you want to learn how to code? Well, you are in the right place! In our Game-Based Python course, you'll learn to code by playing a game and solving coding puzzles that get increasingly challenging. As you go, you'll get to create your own game in Python using the skills and problem solving skills you have just gained!
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Design Your Own Roblox Games
Anyone can build a game in Roblox! Roblox studio has all the tools to make your wildest gaming imaginations a reality. You tell us what game you want to make and we'll teach you the fundamentals and coach you through bringing that game to life! Whether you're new to coding or have some experience, you will be challenged and have fun while bringing your game to life. Through drag and drop techniques or pure scripting, you’ll be creating extensions to the Roblox game while fostering your creativity and learning real-world computer coding.
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Build Epic Worlds Together in Minecraft
Ages 6-12 In our Minecraft World Builder course, you will learn how to run a city, manage money and protect the environment, all within the 3D world of Minecraft! This course is not coding based but a platform for you to learn more about real world economics, city planning, and life management! In Minecraft World Builder, you will be a part of a committee and learn to manage money by building onto your ever growing city with your peers!
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Game Design (Drag n Drop/Visual Coding)
Ages 7-12 Coding can be for kids of all ages! Even beginners who have no prior coding experience before are able to jump in and learn too! Kids learn to code using visual code blocks that represent real programming concepts that scale from easy to advanced. They learn about sequencing, loops, infinite loops, conditionals, events and more. With our Drag and Drop Platform, kids learn to code by creating their own games!
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Modding with Minecraft
Ages 8-12 Explore, create or survive! Mine deep into the Minecraft world and create the future! In this creative camp, challenge the odds, craft your own kinds of weapons and build dream worlds using code. Do this while also learning fundamental programming concepts, level design, and problem-solving skills. You will make use of ready-made coding blocks to create mini versions of Minecraft games.
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Wilderness Medicine Summer Programs
Conquer the great outdoors! Camp participants will role-play emergency situations in the wild and learn how to prepare for natural disasters. These future emergency medics will learn about snake bites, hypothermia, tourniquets, poisonous plants, edible plants, distress signals, forest fires, tornadoes, mosquito bites, and more.
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Little Vet School Summer Program
Become a paw-some and purr-fect veterinarian! Camp participants will role-play the key responsibilities of a veterinarian and learn how to care for a dog and/or a cat. These future veterinarians will learn how to remove ticks, perform a nose-to-tail exam, understand proper animal nutrition and hydration, suture lacerations, and more!
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Wicked Cool Vet School
Grab your lab coat, animal lovers, as we learn about our favorite furry, flying and fishy friends! Make amazing animal models, build big bones, and investigate animal intestines from our favorite vertebrates: birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish. Dissect an owl pellet to discover a predator’s diet. Try your hand at catching some invertebrates as we study insect exoskeletons and get into tiny worlds to look at animal cells and parasites.
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Gadgets & Contraptions
Design, build, and experiment with classic moving gadgets and investigate how they work. Tinker with tops and construct zany ziplines. Create cars that move with magnets. Conquer kinetic energy with wind-ups and rubber band-powered playthings. Build a Rube Goldberg machine and engineer extraordinary buildings.
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Rocket Science
Entering Grades K-5 Features the all time favorite - customizable E2X model rocket. Keep a Captain’s Log as you investigate what’s inside the rocky planets and gas giants. Map distant constellations, create glittering moon rocks, and make galaxy slime as part of your out-of-this-world lunar journey. Blast off with a solid fuel high flying launch at the end of the week (weather permitting). Stay a full day to terraform a Mars colony and investigate how NASA’s DART mission is learning to redirect asteroids in space!
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Chemistry Creations
Entering Grades 1-5 Become a chemist and a creator as you discover hands-on science fun! You will explore the worlds of Chemistry and Science while creating fun things to take home. Learn about matter, chemicals, and reactions; watch demonstrations and create your own experiments; and use the Scientific Method to make some science fun! Take home your chemistry creations daily and wrap up the workshop by making ice cream using science.
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Arcade Electronics & Game-atorium
Do you like to play board and video games? How about working with electronics, cards, and dice to create and play your own games? Then this workshop is for you! Work together with electronics kits to build fun electronic games. Program a spinning light to display different sayings, learn to program the circuit board to test your memory, play games, and make different funky sounds. Play group games, card games, board games, and even make up your own to play. Come join the Game-atorium for some arcade fun!
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Ancient Egyptian Archaeology
Step back in time as you become an Archaeologist and explore Ancient Egypt! Excavate a mummy from a pyramid and keep the treasures inside. Learn about the importance of ancient Egyptian culture, create your own Ankh, make a paper pyramid to store artifacts, and explore fossils, artifacts, and art. Dig into the fun of exploring Ancient Egypt!
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Young Entrepreneurs (Summer)
Join ‘Young Entrepreneurs,’ an exciting course that uncovers your creativity, fires up innovation, and equips you to dominate the business world with your unique products or services! Learn and apply the skills entrepreneurs use to make millions of dollars! Turn everyday thoughts into exciting business ventures that win customers. Master planning and strategy like treasure hunters mapping out their journey. Discover money management secrets to fuel your business dreams. Dive into marketing to showcase your awesome products or services. Learn to create lifelong fans through excellent customer service and present your ideas with the confidence of a true business superstar! This course is your passport to entrepreneurship, essential skills, and a path to success! (Participants will need to bring their own laptop or tablet, ear buds, and need access to an email account.)
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CyberCrawler Robot
Build and take home your very own CyberCrawler Robot! This smart coding robotics kit entertains and teaches programming skills to inquisitive young future robotic engineers! With the aid of your instructor, you will each assemble your own robot that consists of 76 pieces. Once completed, a simple press-button programming keypad embedded on its cranium will send your CyberCrawler on its way! You can design obstacles and maze courses with your classmates and see how far you can go. With a maximum storage capacity of 64 tasks, your CyberCrawler Robot will be a terrific starter tool to learn the joy of coding. This very cool robot’s LEDs illuminate as it executes whatever you command. Come and join this fascinating and educational robotic experience!
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Electricity & Magnetmania
Learn all about electronics, magnetism, and more in this fun and educational hands-on workshop! Take part in our Minds in Motion electronic lab and take home your very own circuit kit. With the aid of your instructor, simply follow the colorful pictures in your manual to build up to 100 exciting projects such as a flying saucer, alarm, and doorbell! Watch electricity being produced by a hand held generator and take part in a cool activity involving a very powerful magnet. Behold a special magnetic top levitating and much much more!
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Build-A-Thon
This workshop is all about building! Learn the basics of the Engineering Design Process by using your very own building kit to keep at the end of the week. Use our build kits to create new constructions every day - and then knock them down at the end! Learn to use basic tools safely to construct using cardboard and other materials to invent and make your own designs. Come build up some fun!
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Space Robot: Mission To Mars
Let imagination take flight with this innovative, solar-powered workshop that explores Mars, our Solar System, and space travel! Mission Specialists use their very own Solar Space Fleet kit to create six different moving models that use three different interchangeable energy sources: solar energy, rechargeable battery, or battery pack. View 3-D images of the surface of Mars, make your own Rover, and fly a demo of the Ingenuity helicopter! The Space Fleet kit goes home with you at the end - time to blast off for fun!
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13-in-1 Solar Robot
In this workshop we explore the basics of robotics, electricity, and solar energy using your very own 13-in-1 solar robot kit to take home at the end of the week. Learn how to build a gear, use a basic motor, and create robots with different forms and functions. Use our free build and robotics kits to create your own designs. Come join us for some robot fun!
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Solarbot.14
Ages 8-12 Come and take home your very own 14 in 1 educational solar robot kit! Every hour more solar energy reaches the Earth then humans use in an entire year! Learn how solar energy works and witness firsthand how this technology can harness the sun’s energy source. This kit contains unique components and parts that operate on land and water. Construct 14 different solar powered robots from functional to comical designs which include a tortoise bot, bug bot, paddle bot, tumbler bot, monster bot, big wheeler bot, car bot, surfer bot, and rowing bot! Working with its motor, gears, and solar panel, watch your solar bot come to life without any batteries as it uses the power of the sun. Take part in one of the alternative energies that is used most widely across the globe. Use your own creativity, put your mind in motion, and create your own designs!
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Ages 8-12 Come join our minds in motion crime team in this fun and interesting program! We will provide you with all the tools you need to become your very own crime scene investigator. Learn all about forensics, searching for evidence, and gathering clues, and bring home your very own detective kit! Working in groups, you will conduct many science experiments in our crime lab to solve the mysteries at hand. You will also perform chemical analyses and observations working with powders, liquids, and much much more! Be amazed at how much science plays a part in solving crime. Come ready with your thinking caps and be prepared to use all the skills necessary to solve the crime of the century and help save the minds in motion laboratory!
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6-in-1 Space Fleet Robot
Ages 8-12 Build and take home your very own Solar Space Fleet Robot! The Solar Space Fleet Kit is an innovative solar powered science kit that can transform into six different lunar modules. Using your own mini solar panel, watch as direct sunlight brings the kits to life! Come join in this super fun solar space adventure!
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Amazing 100 Experiments Hands-On Science!
Come join this very cool and fun elementary school summer program! Each day the kids will explore up to 20 weird and wacky hands-on science experiments and will make and take home at least 10 different projects. We will explore weird motions and flying things, air and water pressure; crazy chemistry, light and sound, science magic, electricity, magnets, astronomy and more. Be prepared for lots of fun stuff. Each child receives a Free Top Secret Science Tee Shirt! A wonderful 6 hours of science each day.
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LEGO® Mindstorms Robotics
Our LEGO Mindstorms Robotics program is designed with advanced builders in mind! Using both the LEGO Mindstorms NXT and EV3 robotics systems participants will have an opportunity to construct and program several different robotics including a battle arena robot, stinging scorpion, and a marble shooting tank. This is the perfect class for those looking to take their LEGO building and programming to the next level!
