Summer Program

Wind and Water Fun (Morning)

Our planet is beautiful, and we want to keep it that way! Learn about the Earth and how we can use its natural resources to better humanity. You will construct contraptions that use wind or water to power them. Even more, you will get to play with wind and water!

Maker Workshop (Afternoon)

Build your own 3D models with paper, cardboard, clay, and other materials. You can create caterpillars, butterflies, boats, planes, and more!

Puppets and Storytelling (Morning)

A story and a puppet adds to the Camp fun. This interactive program invites children to make their own characters & fun crafts. Read and create your own stories, make puppets come to life with your imagination! Learn about puppets & how they can be used in your story!

Let's Go Camping! (Afternoon)

Come pitch your tent! Students will construct and paint a tent. What materials will we use? Explore modular structures made from cardboard and fabric to see which materials hold up to create your camping abode. Sit in your tent and analyze rocks, minerals, and other finds from our nature hikes.

STEAM Creations (Morning)

Join your friends in some fun problem-solving challenges. From bridges to marble roller coasters, learn how physics plays an important role in the stability of structures. Teamwork and collaboration will be key as you work with your partner(s) to solve problems and come up with the best design.

Art in the Yard (Afternoon)

Explore art using the outdoors as your canvas! You can make a collage out of leaves and other greenery, draw on the sidewalk using chalk, paint rocks using tempera paint, and more outdoor-centric art styles.

Young Engineers (Morning)

Build contraptions that move using large LEGO blocks. Students will build contraptions that will go on tracks, build cars, and more. Each contraption includes concepts of Newtonian Physics, which students learn through various games!

Music and Movement (Afternoon)

Music is a universal language loved by children and adults in cultures throughout the world. Children have an uninhibited inclination to move, dance, and make music, as well as an innate capacity to appreciate all types of music. Engage children in hands-on music-making activities such as singing, clapping rhythms, and creating homemade instruments using everyday household items. Encourage experimentation and improvisation to spark creativity.

Nature Explorers (Morning)

Discover the world around us. We will explore our yard and collect specimens to explore under a magnifying glass. Students will participate in hands-on activities to inspire wonder and awe about nature around them.

Board Games (Afternoon)

What makes board games fun and how can we get good at them? Learn to focus, concentrate, and strategize through fun games and activities. Children may bring their own games to share with other children.

LEGO Structures (Morning)

Make your first structure with LEGO blocks! Work on fun projects where you can build a city, farm or a place from your own imagination! You can create buildings like schools, houses, skyscrapers and work with your friends on a grand plan! 

Animal Exploration (Afternoon)

Do you like to pet animals? Come explore the fascinating world of animals. This week, we will invite guests to bring animals to our school. What makes them unique? How do they move about? Children will read books, make crafts and pet animals. 

LEGO Zoo Bots (Morning)

Build a whole ecosystem with different animals and plants - made from LEGO! Whether it has arms and legs or a beak and wings, every creature is buildable when you use your imagination. You may even add some technical elements to bring these beasts to life!

Math Magic (Afternoon)

Number tricks, board games, playing cards: how do they work, and how can we see patterns in nature? Learn about patterns and uncover the mysteries of math through fun games and activities.

Animals Around the World (Morning)

Come explore the fascinating world of animals. What makes them unique? How do they move about? Observe the size, shape, behavior, color, and fur that domestic animals have. Students will read books, make crafts, and pet animals.

Be the Professional You Want (Afternoon)

Learn about all the professions that make up our society, such as emergency workers (eg: Nurse, police officer, fire worker). Parents are invited to come in and talk about their work. Children can study a picture book about different careers and discuss their key roles, then use their knowledge to act out those professions!

Yoga & Mindful Movement (Morning)

YoGami Kids presents yoga and mindful movement for kids this summer. Through simple and fun themed sessions we will learn yoga poses, breathing techniques, and mindfulness-based activities to get physically strong and healthy. We will incorporate books, journaling, and simple crafts to promote rest, reset and rejuvenate.

Instrumental Exploration (Afternoon)

Explore all the ways people make music with fun instruments like small drums, jingle bells, or rhythm sticks. Let your children explore the different sounds and create their own music. Students can work together to follow the beat in a simple song.

Energy Enthusiasts (Morning)

What is climate change and what are we doing about it? Learn about how we make energy and how we’re using renewable energy sources to combat climate change. You’ll get to build wind turbines, solar panels, and other green energy devices that power our world.

Fitness Class (Afternoon)

Fitness-inspired activities and games for every age and skill level. There will be basic and moderate athletic concepts designed to make fitness fun, gain mulit-sport skills, and create enthusiasm for movement. We will learn about teamwork, sportsmanship, and group dynamincs in team-based activities, as well as personal development in individual challenges and games.

Cartoon Creator (Morning)

Have you wondered how cartoons are made? Learn to tell your own animated stories through flipbooks, stop motion, and Scratch programming! Design your characters, write out the dialogue, and bring it all together in an animated scene.

Art in Action (Afternoon)

Artists use many different styles and processes to convey meaning in their works. This class will introduce the methods by which artists create unique and powerful masterpieces and enable students to make their own. Students will also visit the nearby Worcester Art Museum to study the work of professional artists.

STEAM Creations (Morning)

Join your friends in some fun problem-solving challenges. From bridges to marble roller coasters, learn how physics plays an important role in the stability of structures. Teamwork and collaboration will be key as you work with your partner(s) to solve problems and come up with the best design.

Fitness Class (Afternoon)

Fitness-inspired activities and games for every age and skill level. There will be basic and moderate athletic concepts designed to make fitness fun, gain mulit-sport skills, and create enthusiasm for movement. We will learn about teamwork, sportsmanship, and group dynamincs in team-based activities, as well as personal development in individual challenges and games.

LEGO WeDo Robotics (Morning & Afternoon)

Make your first robot with LEGO WeDo! Work on fun projects where your robots tackle different challenges like towing loads, climbing a rope, and racing one another!

Virtual Explorers (Morning)

Become a programming master and navigate your way through virtual worlds with code. Solve puzzles and complete challenges to level up your coding game and learn to think like a computer. Once you've proven yourself to be a computing expert, you may join the older students and explore the world of Minecraft.

Fitness Class (Afternoon)

Fitness-inspired activities and games for every age and skill level. There will be basic and moderate athletic concepts designed to make fitness fun, gain mulit-sport skills, and create enthusiasm for movement. We will learn about teamwork, sportsmanship, and group dynamincs in team-based activities, as well as personal development in individual challenges and games.

Robust Robots (Morning & Afternoon)

Whether you are trying to rescue people affected by a fire or natural disaster, or trying to explore a cave, ocean, or even another planet, a strong and reliable robot is a great tool to use when a task is too dangerous for a human. Design your own rugged robots that can traverse the hardest obstacles and save the day!

Smart City (Morning)

Learn how to design a thriving city that people want to live in! Use LEGO to build out train and bus networks to move people around, hospitals and other public services to help people in need, parks and greenery to bring life and nature to your city, and much more.

Math Magic (Morning)

Number tricks, board games, playing cards: how do they work, and how can we see patterns in nature? Learn about patterns and uncover the mysteries of math through fun games and activities.

FIRST LEGO League (Morning & Afternoon)

Get a first taste of the FIRST LEGO League competition experience! Students will work together as a team to take on the new FLL Explore season. Apply your robotics skills to solve many science and engineering problems in one large, long-term project. All are welcome to participate, but this class is especially recommended for students who wish to join the robotics team during the school year and attend the competition events later in the year. Please visit https://www.first-lego-league.org/en/get-to-know/explore for more details on the competition.

Game Designer (Morning)

Video games are fun to play, but how are they made? With Scratch programming, you will learn how to recreate some of the video game classics like Pong, Breakout, Super Mario Bros., and more! Or, come up with your own game design and let others play what you made.

Yoga & Mindful Movement (Afternoon)

YoGami Kids presents yoga and mindful movement for kids this summer. Through simple and fun themed sessions we will learn yoga poses, breathing techniques, and mindfulness-based activities to get physically strong and healthy. We will incorporate books, journaling, and simple crafts to promote rest, reset and rejuvenate.

Minecraft Modded Adventures (Morning)

Participate in a collaborative Minecraft experience where you work with others to overcome challenges and reach a goal. Expand and customize your Minecraft experience by installing mods, setting up servers, exploring custom maps, and even playing in virtual reality.

Fitness Class (Afternoon)

Fitness-inspired activities and games for every age and skill level. There will be basic and moderate athletic concepts designed to make fitness fun, gain mulit-sport skills, and create enthusiasm for movement. We will learn about teamwork, sportsmanship, and group dynamincs in team-based activities, as well as personal development in individual challenges and games.

Robotic Inventor (Morning & Afternoon)

Build and program all kinds of robots using the LEGO MINDSTORMS platform. Use motors and sensors to create machines that can think and react to the world around them. Come up with unique and interesting robot designs to solve different challenges and compete against other robots.

3D Designer (Morning)

Learn to design objects and parts the way an engineer would! Get started with basics of 3D modeling: primitive shapes, dimensions, hollow objects, and assemblies. Bring your 3D designs to life using our laser cutter and 3D printer.

Fitness Class (Afternoon)

Fitness-inspired activities and games for every age and skill level. There will be basic and moderate athletic concepts designed to make fitness fun, gain mulit-sport skills, and create enthusiasm for movement. We will learn about teamwork, sportsmanship, and group dynamincs in team-based activities, as well as personal development in individual challenges and games.

Sumo Bots (Morning & Afternoon)

Design your own fighting robot using LEGO MINDSTORMS! You and an opponent will battle it out in a robotic sumo wrestling match. Your robot must be smart and strong enough to push the other one out of the ring…or else you may be the one getting eliminated!

Minecraft Modded Adventures (Morning)

Participate in a collaborative Minecraft experience where you work with others to overcome challenges and reach a goal. Expand and customize your Minecraft experience by installing mods, setting up servers, exploring custom maps, and even playing in virtual reality.

Fitness Class (Afternoon)

Fitness-inspired activities and games for every age and skill level. There will be basic and moderate athletic concepts designed to make fitness fun, gain mulit-sport skills, and create enthusiasm for movement. We will learn about teamwork, sportsmanship, and group dynamincs in team-based activities, as well as personal development in individual challenges and games.

Creative Automation (Morning & Afternoon)

Discover the ways that you can use automation to augment your everyday life. Build robots to help perform tasks like cleaning up clutter, sorting objects, writing, or whatever else you come up with.

Computer Engineering (Morning)

What parts go into designing and building a computer? In this class, you’ll learn about all the hardware and software components that make up a computer, how to customize a computer to fit your needs, and how to assemble many different kinds of PCs. You’ll also explore ways to upgrade or repurpose older computers to breathe new life into them.

Electrical Elemental (Afternoon)

Build your own electrical circuits with components like LEDs, resistors, and capacitors! Learn to read and draw circuit diagrams, use breadboards for quick prototyping, and solder components together. Connect your circuits to an Arduino microcontroller to make games, toys, robots, and more!

FIRST LEGO League (Morning & Afternoon)

Get a first taste of the FIRST LEGO League competition experience! Students will work together as a team to take on the new FLL Challenge season. Design, build, and program a versatile robot that can complete over a dozen different challenges in a fixed amount of time. All are welcome to participate, but this class is especially recommended for students who wish to join the robotics team during the school year and attend the competition events later in the year. Please visit https://www.first-lego-league.org/en/get-to-know/challenge for more details on the competition.

3D Designer (Morning & Afternoon)

Learn to design objects and parts the way an engineer would! Get started with basics of 3D modeling: primitive shapes, dimensions, hollow objects, and assemblies. Bring your 3D designs to life using a laser cutter and 3D printer.