Explora offers a variety of week-long summer camps that inspire learners of all grade levels to get excited about science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM). At Explora, campers preK-12th will get engaged and keep their brain cells buzzing by exploring STEAM topics in materials-rich and creative environments.
Financial assistance is available for all summer programs on request. We don’t want anyone to miss out on summer camp! Contact reservations@explora.us for more information.
Each of these week-long, half-day camps is $170 for members/$195 for non-members.
Looking for camp all day? Enroll in morning and afternoon camp sessions. Campers staying all day will be supervised during lunchtime.
Beforecare is available from 8am- 9am, and aftercare is available from 4pm - 5:30pm, $10 per session. Pre-register for the week or pay by the session (card only). $50 for a week of beforecare. $50 for a week of aftercare.
Week 1: June 3 - 7, 2024
Monday - Friday
Heat Up, Cool Down
Grades Pre K
9am-12pm
Many materials respond to temperature change- see what happens when things get very cold and very hot. Can you use hot water to help blow up a balloon or cold water to help it shrink?
Week 1: June 3 - 7, 2024
Monday - Friday
Crazy Concoctions
Grades K-2nd
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Be an inquisitive scientist! Concoct slimy substances and observe their characteristics, watch colors change before your eyes as you mix different colored solutions to create new ones, and much more.
Week 1: June 3 - 7, 2024
Monday - Friday
Creative Robotics
Grades 3rd-5th
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Writing basic computer programs as a creative exercise helps to develop analytical skills, problem-solving, and logical thinking. By exploring MSW Logo, students will design and test objects in simulated motion, learning applications of simple coordinate geometry.
Week 1: June 3 - 7, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Great Explora Bake-Off
Grades 5th-8th
9am-12pm
$170 for members/$195 for non-members
Ready, Set, Bake! Throughout the week you will learn new skills in chemistry, calculating, baking and building. Then use your skills to participate in a final bake-off challenge! What can you create?
Week 1: June 3 - 7, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Digital Photography
Grades 5th-8th
9am-12pm
Materials fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
Unleash your creativity through the lens! Capture moments, tell stories, and learn the art of photography in a fun, hands-on environment that sparks your imagination, turning your snapshots into masterpieces.
Week 1: June 3 - 7, 2024
Monday - Friday
Airborne
Grades K-2nd
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Send items flying as we test planes, rockets, and catapults. Then become an aeronautical engineer as you create objects that float and flip, while building a parachute to safely land an egg.
Week 1: June 3 - 7, 2024
Monday - Friday
Kids Cook!
Grades 3rd-5th
9am-12pm
Let’s get cooking with Kids Cook! Cook traditional food from around the world as you learn about a variety of cultures, foods, and culinary techniques. Gain kitchen skills including tool identification and proper use, knife safety and food safety. Come discover, learn and have fun in the kitchen. Bon appetit, it’s time to eat!
Recipes and ingredients may contain nuts, gluten, dairy or eggs.
Offered in Collaboration with Kids Cook!
Week 1: June 3 - 7, 2024
Monday - Friday
Crazy About Colloids
Grades 3rd-5th
1pm-4pm
Elephant toothpaste, jiggle powder, and marshmallow fluff! Bounce into colloids by experimenting with gels, foams, and emulsions.
Week 1: June 3 - 7, 2024
Monday - Friday
Cuentacuentos
Grades 5th-8th
1pm-4pm
Spanish Theater Immersion
Learn and practice Spanish while having fun acting! Learn vocabulary and phrases through interactive storytelling and create a story that transforms into an original play in Spanish! All levels are welcome. In partnership with Spanish ABQ Language Institute.
Inmersión de teatro en español
¡Aprende y practica tu español mientras te diviertes actuando! ¡Aprende vocabulario y frases a través de la narración de cuentos y crea una historia que se transformará en una obra de teatro original en español! Esta clase es para cualquier nivel de español. En colaboración con Spanish ABQ.
Week 1: June 3 - 7, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Blast Off 2.0!
Grades 5th-8th
1pm-4pm
$170 for members/$195 for non-members
Calling all aspiring space explorers! Join our electrifying rocketry class to design, build, and launch your own rockets. Delve into the thrilling realms of aerospace engineering and witness your creations soar towards the skies in this awe-inspiring adventure of space exploration.
Week 2: June 10 - 14, 2024
Monday - Friday
Amazing Light
Grades Pre K
9am-12pm
Explore the way light bounces, refracts, and casts shadows as you play with the amazing properties of light.
Week 2: June 10 - 14, 2024
Monday - Friday
What’s Cooking in Chemistry?
Grades K-2nd
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Become kitchen chemists while investigating reactions in various substances and foods. Make ice cream, experiment with numerous household materials, and more!
Week 2: June 10-14, 2024
Monday - Friday
Hot off the Presses
Grades 3rd-5th
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Using various materials and textures, explore printmaking techniques to create designs that consider line, shape, color, and pattern.
Week 2: June 10-14, 2024
Monday - Friday
Kids Cook!
Grades 3rd-5th
1pm-4pm
Let’s get cooking with Kids Cook! Cook traditional food from around the world as you learn about a variety of cultures, foods, and culinary techniques. Gain kitchen skills including tool identification and proper use, knife safety and food safety. Come discover, learn and have fun in the kitchen. Bon Appetit, it’s time to eat!
Recipes and ingredients may contain nuts, gluten, dairy or eggs.
Offered in Collaboration with Kids Cook!
Week 2: June 10 - 14, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Brain Games
Grades 5th-8th
9am-12pm
Materials fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
Delve into your brain—its parts, functions, and the many ways it works, and tricks, you. Learn to apply brain anatomy to human behavior and the 5 Senses. Then experiment with visual illusions and designs, hidden messages, thinking beyond the obvious, seeing your accuracy as an eyewitness, and learning to improve your memory.
Week 2: June 10 - 14, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Digital M3Dia
Grades 8th-12th
1pm-4pm
Materials Fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
TV and social media advertising, 3D printing and modeling, animation, and game development are just some of the things you can create all with today's computers. Explore different digital media and develop your inner entrepreneur as you shift from consumer to creator!
Week 2: June 10 - 14, 2024
Monday - Friday
Early Childhood Project GLAD: Jump, Run, Fly! Animals of the Chihuahua High Desert
Grades K-1st
9am-12pm
Materials fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
Let’s explore the desert! The Chihuahuan Desert is home to many different animals. How do we take care of the desert and the life it sustains? This camp is also a teacher training program.
Offered in Collaboration with Dual Language Education of New Mexico.
Week 2: June 10 - 14, 2024
Monday - Friday
Keep it Balanced
Grades K-2nd
1pm-4pm
Balance affects everything! Experiment with balancing objects, balance in the natural world, and balance in your body.
Week 2: June 10 - 14, 2024
Monday - Friday
Circuits All Around
Grades 3rd-5th
9am-12pm
Investigate electricity, electromagnetism, and motors. Experiment with fruits and vegetables, dry-cell batteries, simple motors, and small DC motors, while having fun with electrical engineering!
Week 2: June 10 - 14, 2024
Monday - Friday
Tech Girls
Grades 4th-7th
9am-12pm
Be inspired and empowered! Become a creator during this special coding program. Learn to code, program robots, use Micro:bits, create wearable technology, and design your own project that addresses real-world problems (no programming experience required).
Week 2: June 10 - 14, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Tiny Creatures
Grades 5th-8th
1pm-4pm
$170 for members/$195 for non-members
Explore the world through microscopes and discover the microorganisms that live all around us. Learn about the fungi that help grow our food, the bacteria that keep our digestive systems healthy, and the insects that are permanent residents on our bodies. Uncover the six main groups of tiny creatures through active collection, microscopic discoveries, and hands-on learning.
Week 3: June 17 - 21, 2024
Monday - Friday
Little Builders
Grades Pre K
9am-12pm
Explore the elements of construction using different materials! Students become architects and builders as they experiment with structure, tension, and shape.
Week 3: June 17 - 21, 2024
Monday - Friday
Animals of the Night
Grades K-2nd
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Nocturnal animals spend their lives in darkness: explore different nocturnal animals and discover how they experience their senses in the dark!
Week 3: June 17 - 21, 2024
Monday - Friday
Project GLAD: Animals in Their Ecosystems
Grades 3rd-5th
9am-12:30pm
Materials Fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
Dive into the captivating realm of ecosystems! Uncover the dynamic interactions between living and nonliving elements, witnessing the fascinating adaptations of animals to ever-changing environments. This camp is also a teacher training program.
Offered in Collaboration with Dual Language Education of New Mexico.
Week 3: June 17 - 21, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Digital M3Dia
Grades 8th-12th
9am-12pm
Materials Fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
TV and social media advertising, 3D printing and modeling, animation, and game development are just some of the things you can create all with today's computers. Explore different digital media and develop your inner entrepreneur as you shift from consumer to creator!
Week 3: June 17 - 21, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Biotech
Grades 8th-12th
1pm-4pm
Materials Fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
Would you like to create medicines, clean up pollutants, or protect crops from pests? These are just some of the things that you can do as a biotechnologist! Build biotech skills with scientists from UNM as you run experiments that control cells using engineered DNA! You could be starting your career in biotech!
Presented in partnership with and with funding assistance from Lakin Labs of UNM.
Week 3: June 17 - 21, 2024
Monday - Friday
Raceways and Roadways
Grades K-2nd
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Calling all speed-racers! Test different shapes to see what makes the best wheels, investigate different surfaces as roadways, and create a roller coaster!
Week 3: June 17 - 21, 2024
Monday - Friday
Blast Off!
Grades 3-5th
9am-12pm
Calling all rocket scientists! Design paper rockets and plastic bottle rockets that will fly straight and go to altitudes of several hundred feet when launched. Discover the laws of motion as well as the forces of thrust, air resistance, and gravity as you rocket into the stratosphere.
Week 3: June 17 - 21, 2024
Monday - Friday
Cycles of Life
Grades 3rd-5th
1pm-4pm
From the magic of metamorphosis to the wonders of growth and decay: delve into captivating lessons and hands-on activities that unveil the secrets of nature’s ever-turning wheel of life.
Week 3: June 17 - 21, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Nano Science
Grades 5th-8th
1pm-4pm
$170 for members/$195 for non-members
Come explore the science of the super small. Nanometer-sized objects are too small even for ordinary microscopes to see them! Investigate how scientists can work with items that are too small to see, explore products that use nanotechnology, and discover how nanotechnology gives ordinary materials special properties.
Presented in partnership with the Cavallo Research Group at the University of New Mexico with support from the National Science Foundation (Award No. 2144944)
Week 4: June 24 - 28, 2024
Monday - Friday
Super Shapes
Grades Pre K
9am-12pm
Shapes are all around us! Discover the astounding elements of circles, triangles, and more in this hands-on camp.
Week 4: June 24 - 28, 2024
Monday - Friday
What’s that Sound?
Grades K-2nd
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Explore sound waves and observe how they travel through water or air. Students will feel vibrations caused by sound waves and experience these waves doing work.
Week 4: June 24 - 28, 2024
Monday - Friday
Energy Transformers
Grades 3rd-5th
1pm-4pm
During these energizing activities, participants explore the different forms of energy and how these forms are converted from one to another. Students will experiment with “Newton’s Cradles” and build wind turbines that produce electricity.
Week 4: June 24 - 28, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Raspberry Pi®
Grades 5th-8th
1pm-4pm
$170 for members/$195 for non-members
Learn real programming skills as you discover the ins and outs of a Raspberry Pi®, a computer the size of a credit card that you get to take home!
Raspberry Pi® is a trademark of the Raspberry Pi® Foundation. Funding assistance for this camp has been provided by Van Dyke Software.
Week 4: June 24 - 28, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Engineering in Space: NASA Style Rover System
Grades 8th-12th
1pm-4pm
$170 for members/$195 for non-members
Design, fabricate, and program a robotic arm attachment for an existing six-wheel rover platform. See if you can complete the mission of opening the external door of the Lunar base from its outside. To complete this mission, your team must design the attachment to operate the external release level and attach it to an existing rover platform. You’ll then have to operate your design remotely through a first-person view headset.
Offered in Collaboration with NM Tech Mechanical Eng Robotic STEM Outreach Programs
Week 4: June 24- 28, 2024
Monday - Friday
Art Experiments
Grades K-2nd
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Explore science through art as you compare ingredients and variables in homemade paints, paper, doughs, and other art materials that you’ll use to create art pieces and sculptures, some of which you can eat!
Week 4: June 24 - 28, 2024
Monday - Friday
In the Swing
Grades 3-5th
9am-12pm
Periodicity, harmonic motion, and oscillations, oh my! Discover pendulums and their surprising role in the world around us.
Week 4: June 24 - 28, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Arduino-Based Robotic Combat Bot
Grades 5th-8th
9am-12pm
$170 for members/$195 for non-members
Experiment with design options and work through a conceptual structural design as you build a robot. Learn to program an Arduino-based remote-operated robot, and hold an end-of-week tournament to see whose robot is the most robust and durable. You’ll also get to experiment with some more advanced robots from New Mexico Tech.
Offered in Collaboration with NM Tech Mechanical Eng Robotic STEM Outreach Programs
Week 4: June 24 - 28, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Intro to Engineering
Grades 8th-12th
9am-12pm
Materials Fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
What in the world is engineering? Almost everyone has heard of Mechanical and Computer Engineering, but what are Materials, Mineral, Chemical, and Environmental Engineering? Join New Mexico Tech for hands-on explorations of these five areas of engineering, learning real-world applications of these disciplines and why they are important to civilization.
Offered in Collaboration with NM Tech Materials and Metallurgical Engineering
Week 5: July 8 - 12, 2024
Monday - Friday
How Attractive
Grades Pre K
9am-12pm
Investigate which items are attracted to magnets, make your own magnet, race magnetic cars, and more!
Week 5: July 8- 12, 2024
Monday - Friday
Keep it Balanced
Grades K-2nd
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Balance affects everything! Experiment with balancing objects, balance in the natural world, and balance in your body.
Week 5: July 8- 12, 2024
Monday - Friday
Creative Robotics
Grades 3rd-5th
1pm-4pm
Writing basic computer programs as a creative exercise helps to develop analytical skills, problem-solving and logical thinking. By exploring MSW Logo, students will design and test objects in simulated motion and learn applications of simple coordinate geometry.
Week 5: July 8 - 12, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Radio Crafters
Grades 5th-7th
Half-day camp; 1pm-4pm
Materials fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
Get ready for a week of crafting and coding adventures! Learn to animate pocket-sized computers with MakeCode, a programming platform developed by Microsoft. Play games, design papercrafts, and solve puzzles. Make LED lights come to life using your creativity! Discover the science of wireless communication and how our devices send messages. Use these skills to create a community solution with radio communication. Great for beginner coders.
Presented in partnership with BSCS Science Learning with support from the National Science Foundation
Week 5: July 8 - 12, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Bio Tech
Grades 8th-12th
1pm-4pm
Materials fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
Would you like to create medicines, clean up pollutants, or protect crops from pests? These are just some of the work that you can do as a biotechnologist! Build biotech skills with scientists from UNM as you run experiments that control cells using engineered DNA! You could be starting your career in biotech!
Presented in partnership with and with funding assistance from Lakin Labs of UNM.
Week 5: July 8 - 12, 2024
Monday - Friday
Crazy Concoctions
Grades K-2nd
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Be an inquisitive scientist! Concoct slimy substances and observe their characteristics, watch colors change before your eyes as you mix different colored solutions to create new ones, and much more.
Week 5: July 8 - 12, 2024
Monday - Friday
Breakfast Science
Grades 3-5th
9am-12pm
Bananas, Bagels, and Bacon! Why is breakfast the most important meal of the day? Let’s get messy as we test and taste our theories.
Week 5: July 8- 12, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Water Mania
Grades 5th-8th
9am-12pm
Materials fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
Dive into water science with guest educators from UNM’s Center for Water & the Environment. Through coding, designing, and inventing, you’ll work with a variety of water samples and test for water quality, build water level monitors, and learn about careers in water management and resources. Water is a crucial New Mexico resource: learn about the intersection of water and tech that has real-world applications!
Offered in collaboration with the Center for Water & the Environment
Week 5: July 8- 12, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Nano Science
Grades 8th-12th
9am-12pm
$170 for members/$195 for non-members
Come explore the science of the super small. Nanometer-sized objects are too small even for ordinary microscopes to see them! Investigate how scientists work with items too small to see, explore products that use nanotechnology, and discover how nanotechnology can give ordinary materials special properties.
Presented in partnership with the Cavallo Research Group at the University of New Mexico with support from the National Science Foundation (Award No. 2144944)
Week 5: July 8- 12, 2024
Monday - Friday
Lets Dive In!
Sensory Friendly Camp
For our Neurodiverse learners
Ages 6-8 years
1pm-4pm
$175 for one child and $300 for two children
Week 6: July 15 - 19, 2024
Monday - Friday
Amazing Light
Grades Pre K
9am-12pm
Explore the way light bounces, refracts, and casts shadows as you play with the amazing properties of light.
Week 6: July 15- 19, 2024
Monday - Friday
Airborne
Grades K-2nd
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Send objects flying as we test planes, rockets, and catapults. Then become an aeronautical engineer as you create items that float and flip, while building a parachute to safely land an egg.
Week 6: July 15 - 19, 2024
Monday - Friday
Crazy About Colloids
Grades 3rd-5th
1pm-4pm
Elephant toothpaste, jiggle powder, marshmallow fluff! Bounce into colloids by experimenting with gels, foams, and emulsions.
Week 6: July 15 - 19, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Sparkle Tech
Grades 5th-7th
1pm-4pm
Materials Fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
Imagine spending your days surrounded by a rainbow of LEDs, soft fabrics, and buzzing circuits as you bring your fashion design ideas to life. Interact with different electronic components as you make cards, toys, jewelry and/or wearables. During the camp, you will learn about the science of circuits, switches, and basic electronics with daily design projects. Discover how technologies like semiconductors and microelectronics are made and how we can use them to make a better future world. And don't worry if you've never picked up a soldering iron or a sewing needle before. Our instructors will be by your side every step of the way, guiding you through the process of making, design thinking, and helping to let your creativity shine!
Presented in partnership with BSCS Science Learning with support from the National Science Foundation
Week 6: July 15 - 19, 2024
Monday - Friday
Let's Dive In!
Sensory Friendly Camp
Just for our Neurodiverse learners
Ages 9-12
1pm-4pm
$175 for one child and $300 for two children
Week 6: July 15 - 19, 2024
Monday - Friday
Animals of the Night
Grades K-2nd
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Nocturnal animals spend their lives in darkness: explore different nocturnal animals and discover how they experience their senses in the dark!
Week 6: July 15 - 19, 2024
Monday - Friday
Circuits All Around
Grades 3-5th
9am-12pm
Investigate electricity, electromagnetism, and motors. Experiment with fruits and vegetables, dry-cell batteries, simple motors, and small DC motors, having fun with electrical engineering!
Week 6: July 15 - 19, 2024
Monday - Friday
Breakfast Science
Grades 3rd-5th
9am-12pm
Bananas, Bagels, and Bacon! Why is breakfast the most important meal of the day? Let’s get messy as we test and taste our theories.
Week 6: July 15 - 19, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Great Explora Bake Off
Grades 8th-12th
1pm-4pm
$170 for members/$195 for non-members
Ready, Set, Bake! Throughout the week you will learn new skills in chemistry, calculating, baking and building. Then use your skills to participate in a final bake-off challenge! What can you create?
Week 6: July 15 - 19, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Renewable Energy
Grades 5th-8th
9am-12pm
Materials fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
Join is for an unforgettable journey into the realm of renewable energy and contribute to a cleaner and brighter tomorrow! This transformative experience offers hands-on learning and exploration of various renewable resources. Campers will engage in exciting experiments, gain insights into water power, and discover the vital role it plays in shaping a greener and more sustainable future.
Offered in Collaboration with the Sandia National Laboratories Water Power Organization
Week 7: July 22 -26, 2024
Monday - Friday
Super Shapes
Grades Pre K
9am-12pm
Shapes are all around us! Discover the astounding elements of circles, triangles, and more in this hands-on camp.
Week 7: July 22 -26, 2024
Monday - Friday
Raceways and Roadways
Grades K-2nd
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Calling all speed-racers! Test different shapes to see which one makes the best wheels, investigate different surfaces as roadways, and create a roller coaster.
Week 7: July 22 -26, 2024
Monday - Friday
Blast Off!
Grades 3rd-5th
1pm-4pm
Calling all rocket scientists! Design paper rockets and plastic bottle rockets that fly straight and go to altitudes of several hundred feet when launched. Discover the laws of motion, the forces of thrust, air resistance, and gravity as you rocket into the stratosphere.
Week 7: July 22 - 26, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Blast Off 2.0!
Grades 5th-8th
9am-12pm
$170 for members/$195 for non-members
Calling all aspiring space explorers! Join our electrifying rocketry class where you’ll design, build, and launch your own rockets. Delve into the thrilling realms of aerospace engineering and witness your creations soar toward the skies in an awe-inspiring adventure of space exploration.
Week 7: July 22 - 26, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Raspberry Pi®
Grades 9th-12th
9am-12pm
Learn real programming skills as you discover the ins and outs of a Raspberry Pi®, a computer the size of a credit card that you get to take home!
Raspberry Pi® is a trademark of the Raspberry Pi® Foundation. Funding assistance for this camp has been provided by Van Dyke Software.
Week 7: July 22 -26, 2024
Monday - Friday
What’s Cooking in Chemistry?
Grades K-2nd
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Become kitchen chemists while investigating reactions in various substances and foods. Make ice cream, experiment with household materials, and more!
Week 7: July 22 -26, 2024
Monday - Friday
Hot off the Presses
Grades 3-5th
9am-12pm
Using various materials and textures, explore printmaking techniques to make designs that consider line, shape, color, and pattern.
Week 7: July 22 -26, 2024
Monday - Friday
Tech Girls
Grades 4-7th
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Be inspired and empowered! Become a creator during this special coding program. Learn to code, program robots, use Micro:bits, create wearable technology, and design your own project to address real-world problems (no programming experience required).
Week 7: July 22 -26, 2024
Monday - Friday
¡Música Maestro!
Grades 5-8th
1pm-4pm
Spanish Music Immersion
Immerse yourself in this music-theme Spanish week. Develop acting, singing, and performance skills in Spanish. Collaborate in staging of a short musical production! All levels are welcome. In partnership with Spanish ABQ Language Institute
Inmersión de música en español
Sumérgete esta semana en este taller de música en español. Desarrolla tus habilidades de actuación, canto y presentación en español. ¡Colabora en la puesta en escena de una producción musical corta! Esta clase es para todos los niveles de español. En colaboración con Spanish ABQ.
Week 7: July 22 - 26, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Digital M3Dia
Grades 8th-12th
1pm-4pm
Materials fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
TV and social media advertising, 3D printing and modeling, animation, and game development are just some of the things you can create all with today's computers. Explore different digital media and develop your inner entrepreneur as you shift from consumer to creator!
Week 8: July 29 - August 2, 2024
Monday - Friday
Heat Up, Cool Down
Grades Pre K
9am-12pm
Many materials respond to temperature change: see what happens when items get very cold and very hot. Can you use hot water to help blow up a balloon or cold water to help it shrink?
Week 8: July 29- August 2, 2024
Monday - Friday
What’s that Sound?
Grades K-2nd
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Explore sound waves and observe how they travel through water or air. Students will feel vibrations caused by sound waves and experience these waves doing work.
Week 8: July 29- August 2, 2024
Monday - Wednesday
Breakfast Science
Grades 3rd-5th
1pm-4pm
Bananas, Bagels, and Bacon! Why is breakfast the most important meal of the day? Let’s get messy as we test and taste our theories.
Week 8: July 29 - August 2, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Digital Photography
Grades 5th-8th
1pm-4pm
Materials fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
Unleash your creativity through the lens! Capture moments, tell stories, and learn the art of photography in a fun, hands-on environment that sparks your imagination and turns your snapshots into masterpieces.
Week 8: July 29- August 2, 2024
Monday - Friday
Art Experiments
Grades K-2nd
9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Explore science through art as you compare ingredients and manipulate variables of homemade paints, paper, doughs, and other art materials used to create art pieces and sculptures, some of which you can eat!
Week 8: July 29 - August 2, 2024
Monday - Wednesday
In the Swing
Grades 3rd-5th
9am-12pm
Periodicity, harmonic motion, and oscillations, oh my! Discover pendulums and their surprising role in the world around us.
Week 8: July 29 - August 2, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Tiny Creatures
Grades 5th-8th
9am-12pm
Materials fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
Explore the world through microscopes and discover the microorganisms that live in the world around us. Learn about the fungi that help grow our food, the bacteria that keep our digestive systems healthy, and the insects that are permanent residents on our bodies. Uncover the six main groups of tiny creatures through active collection, microscopic discoveries, and hands-on learning.
Week 8: July 29 - August 2, 2024
Monday - Friday
X Studio
Go Green!
Grades 5th-8th
9am-12pm
Materials fee only camp: $20 members/$30 non-members
Become a power engineer and learn about electric power grids including power generation, transmission, and distribution. Explore renewable energy systems like solar, wind, and fuel cell. Learn about the concept of microgrids and how local generation resources can help power grids survive natural disasters. You’ll even have the opportunity to tour the UNM microgrid.
Presented in collaboration with the UNM’s Power System Emerging Technologies lab. Supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number ECCS-2338555.
