Aeronautics & Drones
Aeronautics & Drones
Explore flight like never before as you fly drones and engineer amazing flying machines! Learn about the state of the art flying robotic technology, the four Forces of Flight, Bernoullis' principle, the effects of air properties on aircrafts, and more! You'll spend the week engineering multiple aircraft designs to take home as you learn to fly a drone, hone your skills, and join an aerial competition.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| June 15 – 19 | 7 – 9 | $316 |
| June 15 – 19 | 10 – 12 | $316 |
African Adventure
African Adventure
Grab your passport - it's time to go on an adventure to remember! Africa is a large continent with many things to do and see. Learn about sand dunes, savannas, and rainforests. Explore Africa's many countries and meet Como's African plants and animals.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| June 22 — 26 | 8 — 10 | $344 |
Animal Engineers
Animal Engineers
People aren't the only ones who build things! Many animals are excellent engineers, too. In this camp, we'll meet some of Como's animal engineers and try our hand at building nests, tunnels, dens, and even art, using nature as our guide.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| July 20 — 24 | 6 — 8 | $344 |
Battle Bots
Battle Bots
Have a blast engineering amazing battle bots to battle other teams! With a ton of gears, LEGO® Technic pieces and moving parts for you to lay hands on, small teams will create their very own battle bot, rescue bot, racing car, and more! Battle your friends, improve your design, and test again.
Older campers will use the Mindstorm EV3 construction set and software to learn advanced robotics principles as they improve STEM skills. Working as a team, students will learn advanced STEM skills by building and programming the Mindstorms EV3 robots.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| July 6 — 10 | 6 — 8 | $316 |
| July 6 — 10 | 9 — 11 | $316 |
| July 6 — 10 | 12 — 14 | $316 |
| July 27 — 31 | 7 — 9 | $316 |
Chess
Chess
Find out why chess is the most popular game in the world. This camp covers rules, strategies and tactics as we bring the pieces to life in a fun way using creativity and imagination. Try a giant chess set, the biggest you've ever seen! The benefits of chess have been proven to help with logic, memory, analysis, reading, and more. Beginners and those with some experience are welcome.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| August 17 — 21 | 7 — 9 | $334 |
| August 17 — 21 | 10 — 12 | $334 |
Dem' Bones
Dem' Bones
Do frogs have bones? Do snakes have tails? How are bird wings like human arms? Answer these questions and more as you build a skeleton, examine animal skulls, compare your bones and explore body movements. Dress for outdoor activity at the Nature Center.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| August 10 — 14 | 6 — 8 | $299 |
| August 10 — 14 | 9 — 11 | $299 |
Enraptured with Raptors
Enraptured with Raptors
Want to learn all about birds of prey called raptors? Find out what characteristics all raptors have in common and the differences between owls, falcons, hawks, and other raptors. Take part in activities at the Raptor Center, and see live raptors up close!
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| June 8 — 12 | 6 — 7 | $309 |
| June 8 — 12 | 8 — 9 | $309 |
| July 20 — 24 | 6 — 7 | $309 |
| July 20 — 24 | 8 — 9 | $309 |
Fish Finders
Fish Finders
Get hooked on a lifetime activity! Explore underwater habitats, learn about water stewardship and regulations, and increase your fishing skills during this week. Fun activities include fish anatomy, pop can casters, pond dipping and more! This camp takes place at the lake, so dress for outdoor activity.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| June 15 – 19 | 8 – 10 | $299 |
Forces of Nature
Forces of Nature
Learn to turn sunlight into energy, harness the wind, and capture the power of water. In this camp you will explore nature's energy sources by making and racing your own solar car, designing your own kite, launching water bottle rockets, and more! Dress for outdoor activity at the Nature Center.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| July 6 — 10 | 10 — 12 | $309 |
| July 20 — 24 | 8 — 10 | $309 |
Gear it Up
Gear it Up
Explore aspects of the theories of motion, force, and speed while constructing real-world gear ratio models and examining the patterns they create. Learn about the relationships between fractions and factoring through a variety of hands-on activities, using visualization and modeling to discover the principles that make the world go 'round.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| August 3 — 7 | 9 — 11 | $289 |
Geology Rocks
Geology Rocks
Become a Mad Science Geologist as we explore Earth and its hidden treasures. Discover the wonders of rocks, fossils, dinosaurs, minerals and geological phenomena like earthquakes, mountains and volcanoes. Start your own rock and mineral collection, grow a crystal, and prepare a fossil to take home.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| August 17 — 21 | 6 — 8 | $334 |
| August 17 — 21 | 9 — 11 | $334 |
Grossology
Grossology
Uncover the gross but fascinating charactersitics of raptors. Learn why a Turkey Vulture poops on its feet and how it stays healthy even though it eats dead animals. Explore the difference between owl pellets and owl mutes. Look at the life cycles of some parasites that are "hitch hikers" on raptors and learn why these "natural recyclers" are an important part of the food chain. Try many hands-on activities and see live education owls, hawks, falcons, eagles, and a Turkey Vulture.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| July 6 — 10 | 8 — 9 | $309 |
| July 6 — 10 | 10 — 12 | $309 |
Intro to Coding
Intro to Coding
Our younger campers will spend the week creating their own video game! Choose your story-line with dragons, princesses, or wild & wacky aliens; add challenges and levels of diffulty, then share by email or post on the web to challenge family and friends. Practice math, logic, and programming.
Older campers will get a head start in learning how to code using one of the key programming languages used by professional developers - Python. Its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C++ or Java, making it the perfect coding language for beginners. Python is a text based language; students should have familiarity with keyboarding, and basic computer skills.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| June 22 — 26 | 7 — 9 | $324 |
| June 22 — 26 | 10 — 12 | $324 |
| July 27 — 31 | 8 — 10 | $324 |
| August 3 — 7 | 12 — 14 | $324 |
Kids vs. Wild
Kids vs. Wild
In this exciting new camp, you and your fellow campers will be challenged to create cool contraptions to survive in the wild! You'll spend the week learning how to engineer a periscope, harness the power of the sun to cook, design a device for drinkable water, construct a shelter, and more!
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| July 13 — 17 | 7 — 9 | $319 |
| July 13 — 17 | 10 — 12 | $319 |
Nature's Kitchen: Supreme
Nature's Kitchen: Supreme
Explore natural processes like volcanoes, soil formation, and bee behavior while trying supremely delicious recipes to make things like oozing mud cakes, a "classic" stone soup, sticky honey treats, and more. Dress for outdoor activity at the Nature Center.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| June 8 — 12 | 6 — 8 | $299 |
| June 15 — 19 | 6 — 8 | $299 |
Raptor Biomimicry & Engineering
Raptor Biomimicry & Engineering
What do talons have to do with nonslip shoes, or vultures with solar energy? How do feathers and eggs inspire insulators and camouflage? Explore nature's designs and how humans can be inspired by them! Spend the week designing and engineering using raptor adaptations and live birds as your muse at the Raptor Center!
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| July 27 — 31 | 9 — 11 | $309 |
| July 27 — 31 | 12 — 15 | $309 |
Robotics
Robotics
Young engineers will explore the mechanical and electrical engineering that makes robots possible while building circuits, experimenting with gears, and exploring the sensors that robots use to see and hear to guide their actions. Get ready to spend the week learning about the fundamentals of programming robots while building the OWI All Terrain 3-in-1 Robot.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| August 10 — 14 | 12 — 15 | $374 |
Science Kaleidoscope
Science Kaleidoscope
Have fun and learn with our friends at Mad Science as you explore the fields of chemistry, Egyptology, and engineering. Help build a giant geodesic dome, build a model pyramid, and write with hieroglyphs. Make your own chromotography T-shirt and mix different ingredients to create sidewalk chalk, bath fizzers, and edible treats.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| August 10 — 14 | 7 — 9 | $344 |
| August 10 — 14 | 10 — 12 | $344 |
Sensational Spiders
Sensational Spiders
Meet a tarantula, explore Arachnid relatives, go on a web hunt and try some spider foods (yes, real bugs!). Also, learn about tick safety, discover the truth about Daddy Longlegs, and try out a weaving project. Dress for outdoor activity at the Nature Center.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| July 27 – 31 | 6 – 8 | $299 |
| July 27 – 31 | 9 – 11 | $299 |
Soaring the World with Raptors
Soaring the World with Raptors
Have you ever wondered what it takes to be a raptor? Soar the world with them through all four seasons! Learn what it takes to migrate, survive the winter cold, nest in the spring, and swap in a whole new set of feathers as you get up close and personal with the birds at the Raptor Center.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| August 3 — 7 | 6 — 7 | $309 |
| August 3 — 7 | 8 — 9 | $309 |
Stone Soup
Stone Soup
Explore the world of volcanoes, rocks and minerals, traveling sediments, gigantic earth movements, Minnesota's fossil history and prepare a "stone soup." Dress for outdoor activity at the Nature Center.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| August 3 – 7 | 6 – 8 | $299 |
| August 3 – 7 | 9 – 11 | $299 |
Ultimate 3D Design & Printing
Ultimate 3D Design & Printing
Check out this awesome new camp! Discover the exciting world (and potential) of 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) and 3D printing. During this week, you will learn how to use a CAD program, and have fun solving engineering challenges where you'll have to design and print the best solution. Imagine, design and watch your model come to life!
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| June 8 — 12 | 7 — 8 | $316 |
| June 8 — 12 | 9 — 11 | $316 |
Water Journey: Drink
Water Journey: Drink
Where does water in our drinking fountain come from? Where does it go? Get ready for a grand adventure as you follow water in and out of pipes, and through treatment plants all the way to the Mississippi River! Get your hands dirty planting to protect water at a wetland. All week you'll take photos and make art about your discoveries on your field trips, and share your work in an online gallery using story maps! No prior experience or equipment is needed.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| July 13 – 17 | 6 – 8 | $304 |
| July 13 – 17 | 9 – 11 | $304 |
Water Journey: Rain
Water Journey: Rain
Where does the rain go? Get ready to explore as you follow water's path from the sky to the land and down the storm drain, through a wetland, and all the way to the Mississippi River! Get your hands dirty planting to protect water at a wetland. All week you'll take photos and make art about your discoveries on your field trips, and share your work in an online gallery using story maps! No prior experience or equipment is needed.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| July 20 — 24 | 6 — 8 | $304 |
| July 20 — 24 | 9 — 11 | $304 |
Wildlife Garden & Yoga
Wildlife Garden & Yoga
What do frogs, trees, and mountains all have in common? They're all yoga poses! Experience the restorative powers of nature in this exciting new camp as you learn about different wildlife gardens including soil habitats, pollinators, grasslands, woodlands, and more. Spend the week creating fun crafts and projects, as well as practicing beginner yoga poses on daily field trips.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| June 22 – 26 | 6 – 8 | $299 |
| August 17 – 21 | 8 – 10 | $299 |
Wizarding World of Wildlife
Wizarding World of Wildlife
In the Tradition of Hogwarts, discover potions, herbology, transfiguration and the care of magical creatures. What do raptors have to do with dragons? Which magical house will you end up in? What magical properties will your wand be made out of? Find answers to these questions and uncover the secrets of Minnesota's Hedwig and other interesting animals at the Raptor Center.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| June 15 — 19 | 8 — 9 | $309 |
| June 15 — 19 | 12 — 15 | $309 |
| June 22 — 26 | 8 — 9 | $309 |
| June 22 — 26 | 10 — 12 | $309 |
Working with Wildlife
Working with Wildlife
What is it like to work with wildlife? Come find out and explore careers in veterinary medicine, animal care, animal training, field biology, scientific illustrations and art! Participate in lots of hands-on activities and get up close and personal with The Raptor Center's live education birds. A fun way to learn about the exciting science of working with wildlife! This camp includes an extra field trip.
| Dates | Ages | Price |
|---|---|---|
| July 13 — 17 | 9 — 11 | $309 |
| July 13 — 17 | 12 — 15 | $309 |
