So what is a day of Camp like at Discover Science Center?
Sign your kids up for a fun-filled day at Discover Science Center. Our science/STEM camps are enhanced with art and creativity projects to help kids integrate what they have learned.
PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES
Friday, May 26
8:30am-4:30pm (extended hours 8:30am-5:30pm)
Ages 6-11
Campers join us for a day of automotive design and engineering as they explore how centrifugal force works on train wheels, recreate the Wright Brother's infamous airplane, and test different types of cars to see which ones can survive impact.
Location: Science Center (suite 5) - Roswell
$89 ($99 extended hours)
10% sibling discount available at checkout.
Sign your kids up for a fun-filled day at Discover Science Center. Our science/STEM camps are enhanced with art and creativity projects to help kids integrate what they have learned.
PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES
Friday, May 26
8:30am-4:30pm (extended hours 8:30am-5:30pm)
Ages 6-11
Campers join us for a day of automotive design and engineering as they explore how centrifugal force works on train wheels, recreate the Wright Brother's infamous airplane, and test different types of cars to see which ones can survive impact.
Location: Discover Science Center - Roswell
$89 ($99 extended hours)
10% sibling discount available at checkout.
CREATIVE CODING CAMP
May 30–June 2 (4 days)
8:30am-4:30pm (extended hours 8:30am-5:30pm)
Ages 6-11
Campers practice keyboarding, learn coding commands to create fun apps and games they can play at home, and use offline activities to understand computational thinking. Campers are encouraged to bring their own tablet or laptop (a physical keyboard is needed for coding projects), but we have a few to share.
Location: Discover Science Center - Roswell
$288 ($328 extended hours)
Sibling discount available at checkout
EXPLORING SPACE CAMP
June 5-9
8:30am-4:30pm (extended hours 8:30am-5:30pm)
Ages 6-11
Kids explore our solar system and beyond as we conduct experiments with the moon and light, create a model of our planets and investigate comets.
Location: Discover Science Center - Roswell
$335 ($385 extended hours)
Sibling discount available at checkout
GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY
June 12-16
8:30am-4:30pm (extended hours 8:30am-5:30pm)
Ages 6-8 - This week, campers investigate characteristics of rocks and gemstones, learn about crystallization as they create their own “geodes,” study fossils and learn how they formed, and dig like a paleontologist as they search for prehistoric life forms
Ages 8-11 - Campers explore rocks, gems and fossils, learn how they formed and practice classifying them. We experiment by creating and destroying landforms, and make crystals and fossil replicas. Campers investigate their favorite dinosaur, and tell us how they think they lived.
Location: Discover Science Center - Roswell
$335 ($385 - extended hours)
10% sibling discount at checkout
June 19-23
8:30am-4:30pm (extended hours 8:30am-5:30pm)
Ages 6-8 - Young campers learn how to use tools to take apart household electronics and explore what is inside, create art projects from upcycled materials, complete building challenges using our giant bricks, as well as our LEGO® bricks, and make robots that scribble.
Ages 8-11 - Campers learn about creating models using our 3D printer, have fun building circuits, use tools to take apart household electronics and battery-operated toys, upcycle the parts to make a new creation, design and build simple and motorized LEGO® vehicles, and design and create mini-robots.
Location: Discover Science Center - Roswell
$335 ($385 - extended hours)
10% sibling discount at checkout
ROBOTICS CAMP
Monday- Friday June 26-30
8:30am-4:30pm (extended hours 8:30am-5:30pm)
Ages 6-8 – This week, we explore robots as we learn how our Ozobots work, build vibrating robots and , program with our Root robots. Campers are encouraged to bring their own device or laptop, but we have a few to share.
Ages 8-11 - Campers spend the week designing, building, and programming robots. We design our own prototypes, build and program LEGO Mindstorms and program with our Root robots. Campers are encouraged to bring their own device or laptop, but we have a few to share.
Location: Discover Science Center - Roswell
$335 ($385-extended hours)
10% sibling discount at checkout
LEGO® DESIGN CAMP
Monday, July 3
8:30am-4:30pm (extended hours 8:30am-5:30pm)
Ages 6-11
Campers join us for a day of LEGO® design and engineering. We explore fundamental engineering principles related to force and motion, explore how simple machines and mechanisms reduce the effort needed to move objects, and design and construct structures and machines out of LEGO® to investigate how design affects functionality.
Location: Discover Science Center - Roswell
$89 ($99 extended hours)
Sibling discount available at checkout.
Wednesday- Friday July 5-July 7 (3 days)
8:30am-4:30pm (extended hours 8:30am-5:30pm)
Ages 6-11
Ages 6-8 - Young campers learn the science of solving mysteries as they test their observation and interview skills, investigate fingerprints, DNA and ink samples, and analyze clues left behind at our "crime scene."
Ages 8 -11 - Older campers take Forensic Science to the next level using microscopes to investigate hair, fiber and pollen evidence, learning how DNA sequences are analyzed, identifying blood types from synthetic blood, and recovering fingerprint evidence.
Location: Discover Science Center - Roswell
$225 ($255 extended hours)
10% sibling discount at checkout
OCEAN SCIENCE
Monday- Friday July 10-14
8:30am-4:30pm (8:30am-5:30pm extended hours)
Ages 6-11
Ages 6-8 - Young campers explore the beach and ocean this week. They learn how sand is made, experiment with water density, dissect a squid and other ocean creatures, study their favorite sharks, and more.
Ages 8-11 - Campers discover what it is really like to study ocean habitats and creatures as they learn about saltwater tanks, experiment with buoyancy, study sharks, dissect different marine organisms, and see how scientists conduct research.
Location: Discover Science Center - Roswell
$335 ($385 extended hours)
10% sibling discount at checkout
MAD SCIENCE
Monday- Friday July 17-21
8:30am-4:30pm (8:30am-5:30pm extended hours)
Ages 6-11
Ages 6-8 - Kids love potions. This week the young campers explore chemistry by creating potions that change color, fizz, bubble and smoke, learn about polymers with water balls and slime, make non-Newtonian fluids, and study the power of magnetism.
Ages 8-11 - This week, campers conduct laboratory experiments involving chemical reactions, experiment with polymers, create metal crystals, and explore electricity with circuits and magnetism with ferrofluid.
Location: Discover Science Center - Roswell
$335 ($385 extended hours)
10% sibling discount at checkout
MINI-MED AND VET SCHOOL
Monday- Friday July 24-28
8:30am-4:30pm (8:30am-5:30pm extended hours)
Ages 6-8 - Campers learn about the tools doctors and veterinarians use, study how our bodies and our pets’ bodies work, get grossed out with brains, burps and x-rays, and investigate germs.
Ages 8-11 - This week we study how the body works, use microscopes to see what different types of cells look like, and even investigate a real (not human) heart and brain. Our Doctors-In-Training learn basic first aid and care for animals, as well as study dental and bone x-rays.
Location: Discover Science Center - Roswell
$335 ($385 extended hours)
10% sibling discount at checkout
Monday- Friday July 31- August 4
8:30am-4:30pm (extended hours 8:30am-5:30pm)
Ages 6-11
Ages 6-8 - Art and science go hand-in-hand. Campers learn about symmetry and its importance to biology and art, create paintings with paint made in nature, use physics to create balancing sculptures, and more.
Ages 8-11 - Campers use science to make works of art, learn how famous painters used science to create their masterpieces, use saltwater as paint and learn about fusing glass.
Location: Discover Science Center - Roswell
$335 ($385 extended hours)
Sibling discount available at checkout
8:30 Camper arrival and free play
9:15 Introductions and Lab Notebooks
9:30 Science Activity 1
10:30 Morning snack and free play
11:00 Science Activity 2
12:00 Lunch and free play
12:30 Outside play
1:30 Science Activity 3
2:30 Afternoon snack and free play
3:00 Science Activity 4
4:00 Clean up
4:30 Camper pick up
5:30 Extended-day camper pick up
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