Rochester Museum & Science Center Summer Fun Camps | July 27- July 31 |
*The event has already taken place on this date: Fri, 07/31/2015
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Summer Fun Camps at the RMSC: July 27- July 31
Gimme 5!
Ages 2-3 (Parent with Child)
Put your senses to the test as you spend the next five days experimenting with your five senses! Perform experiments that test your ability to taste, touch, see, hear and smell. Follow a scent trail, trick your taste buds, learn about light and sound waves and “gimme 5” for a sensationally fun time!
PWC 9-11:30am
Course #:M128
Cost: $85
The Animal Kingdom
Ages 3-4
Find your place in the wild animal kingdom! From fuzzy mammals and scaly reptiles, to slimy amphibians and birds with beaks, explore what makes animals so awesome. Create your own animals to take home and discover what animals live in the zoo and in your own backyard!
9-11:30am / 1-3:30pm
Course #: M129 (am) / M130 (pm)
Cost: $85 ea.
AM Session PM Session
Shoot for the Stars
Ages 4-5
Look deep into space as you explore stars, planets and galaxies! Blast off rockets, train to become an astronaut, and study the sun, moon and stars. Discover our place in space as you create your own galaxy to take home. Hunt for aliens and learn what it takes to shoot for the stars and zoom to the moon!
9-11:30am / 1-3:30pm
Course #: M131 (am) / M132 (pm)
Cost: $85 ea.
AM Session PM Session
Mysterious Matter
Ages 6-7
What’s the matter? It’s no mystery that matter is all around us and that it makes up all things! Explore the big three states of matter—solids, liquids and gases, and discover if others exist! Experiment with how matter changes forms, investigate viscosity and create your own slime to take home.
9-11:30am / 1-3:30pm
Course: M133 (am) / M134 (pm)
Cost: $85 ea.
AM Session PM Session
Bad to the Bones
Ages 5-7 (Almost Camp)
Go digging for dinosaur bones, learn about dinosaur defenses and even design your own dinosaur as you go back in time to when the dinosaurs ruled the Earth! Investigate what made these prehistoric creatures so bad to the bone. Study fossils and footprints like paleontologists do and make your own fossils to take home!
AC 9am-2:30pm
Course #: L204
Cost: $180
Circus, Circus
Ages 6-8
Welcome to the greatest show on Earth! Experience the physics and forces at work behind spectacular feats of mind, strength, balance and motion! Reveal the math and science behind jugglers, tightrope walkers, clowns and more! Design and participate in your own circus complete with games, animals and amusement! Enjoy a trip to SeaBreeze Amusement Park.
9am-4pm
Course #: S328
Cost: $250
NXT 2.0
Ages 6-8
Get ready for NXT 2.0—the same NXT you know and love, but with a new challenge for you, your team, and your ‘bot to overcome! You don’t need to have taken NXT before to participate in NXT 2.0. Learn to program a robot to obey your every command! Working within the FIRST U.S. Model of Teamwork, you and your team compete with others to complete robot challenges. Get ready for new challenges, to build better ‘bots, and to meet local professionals in the robotics field.
9am-4pm
Course #: S329
Cost: $250
Volts & Jolts
Ages 9-11
Have a hair-raising good time experimenting with the basics of electricity. Get all charged up with hands-on challenges. Build circuits, create static electricity and discover the connection between electricity and magnetism. From the first light bulb to the electric car, study the impact of electricity on our daily lives.
9am-4pm
Course #: S330
Cost: $225
BIO: 101
Ages 9-11
Brush up on your bio basics and bring your biological curiosity up a notch as you focus on life! Observe and explore the natural world around us, investigate the amazing human body, get-hands on with cells, analyze adaptations, and learn about life as we know it! Get ready for fossil finding, DNA extracting, and dissections! Camp includes dissection.
9am-4pm
Course #: S331
Cost: $225
Myth Busters
Ages 12-15
Have you ever wanted to be a myth buster? Test the validity of different scientific myths using the scientific method. Brainstorm, design and build your own experiments. Find out if these myths are plausible, confirmed or busted!
9am-4pm
Course #:S332
Cost: $250
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