June 24th - 28th
Reactions In Action:
Shake up a flask of fun in the lab as a Junior Chemist! Try your hands as a real Mad Scientist in this whirlwind camp packed solid with cool reactions. Explore bubbling potions, slimy polymers, color changing liquids, dry ice bubbles, and solids that disappear in an instant! Start out the week learning about laboratory equipment at your personal lab tech bench. Then, slide down the PH scale and spend a day finding out how different chemicals react when mixed together. Build and break molecules and grow crystals in a petri dish. Ooze into a gooey day of making crazy concoctions such as glow putty, glow spheres in a test tube, thermochromic mixtures, and guar gum brain goo! Round out this radical week by manipulating matter in all of its three states! Take home a full set of Mad Science lab gear that includes a graduated cylinder, a flask, test tubes, goggles, and a lab coat. Come take a walk on the wild side of chemistry!
July 8th - 12th
Robot Recruit
Join Mad Science for a week of discovery and fun in this five-day Robotics Camp! Investigate robotic fundamentals with curious robots, learn about the history and current field of robotics, explore robot design potential by using robots that have big personalities, and build ingenious robots to take home. Compare, analyze, and test a variety of robots every day that are correlated to the daily concepts. We will explore circuits, electricity, sensors, gears, and advanced robotic applications. Learn about the mechanical aspects of robots with gears, gear ratios, and torque. Pick up the basics of electricity by snapping together circuits to make a remote-control rover robot. Experiment with sound sensing robots, line-tracking robots, industrial robots, app-controlled performance bots, robotic pets, the world's smartest and smallest robot, and so much more! Our future roboticist rounds out the week getting more in-depth experience programming robots as they cycle through programming stations that will enrich their understanding of programming. We welcome all children to become creative camper's that will design tomorrow’s robots today! *Important Notes: This camp is different from other Mad Science Robotics program. We do not build with Lego Robotics kits, but instead use some of the most innovative educational robotics kits to teach robot basics, circuity, programming, and much more in an age-appropriate and fun way! Our Robotics teaching edge comes from 12 years of facilitating this topic and a professional R & D team that stays up to date on this ever changing topic. Continue reading to learn why our Robotics Camp stands apart from all else!
August 5th - 9th
Eureka!
Inspire the inventor and scientist in you during this week of discovery and invention. Each day children will be given a series of challenges which must be overcome using basic materials, simple machines, tips from world famous inventors and the most important thing of all – your mind! If you were stranded on a desert island, how would you survive? You will need to build a shelter, find food and purify water, protect yourself and your teammates from the elements and find a way off the island. Journey to the future and examine the ultramodern inventions of the 23rd century. Then design the future - today! Create mini light sabers, mini-space stations, and electric flying contraptions. With a little bit of ingenuity, you’ll construct catapults and forts, build Ruberg contraptions that perform simple tasks, and experiment with humanoid robots. Take home projects include catapult, mystery sticks, tubular blow darts, and other wacky contraptions. While Thomas Edison said, “invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration” this camp is 100% FUN!
Details:
Camp Hours: 9am - 3pm (Drop off begins 8:45am)
Grades 1st-5th (Rising 1st Graders)
Late Fee:If a parent is more than 10 minutes late to pick up a child, a late pick up fee will be charged at $1/minute. Payment should be given to the Mad Science Instructor on the day of late pick up or by the next morning before camp starts.
For more information about Mad Science Camps, go to maine.madscience.org/parents or call 207-878-2222