Science Camps for Ages 8 to 10

Eight to Ten year olds enter a new level in these more challenging workshops.  Here students learn the responsible use of cutters, screw drivers, pliers, and hot glue guns.  Soldering skills are taught to those who wish to learn.  As with all Big Sky workshops, there is an emphasis on balancing fun with focus so that projects are completed.

Race Cars Advanced* 8-10 June 9-13

Do you love cars?  Do you love speed?  Do you love to invent things that actually work?  Come to the races and build a balloon car, an Alka-seltzer rocket dragster, a solar electric car of the future and a computer junk derby downhill racer of your own design.  

Build-a-Beast Advanced* 8-10 June 16-20 / July 7-11

Like Dr. Frankenstein (but much nicer) you will take a pile of old computers and electronic junk and piece it together into a motorized beast of your own design.  Will it be a hard drive horse?   A zombietron?   A unixacorn?  What will you create? 

Solar Animatronics Advanced* 8-10 June 23-27

Back in the 1950’s Walt Disney created an amazing world of motorized animals. He called his creations Animatronics.  Come create a creature of your own and then get it moving in your solar electric powered Animatron Theatre.

Future Town Advanced* 8-10 July 14-18

Hard to imagine it, but you are the old folks of the future.  What kind of world do you want to live in?  Using parts that you find inside old computers you will design and create a miniature future city.  Will it light up?  Will you add motorized spinning wind turbines?  Will you make a working crane operated by a funny looking humanoid constructed from electronic circuits?  I think you will!

Game Design Advanced* 8-10 July 21-25

Humans are playful animals.  We love games.  At this camp you build a box full of classic games from around the world.  Then you get to design your own game with lights, motors, and buzzers.  Scientists do like to play!

Wizards Advanced* 8-10 July 28-August 1

Join the hundreds of kids in Santa Fe who have graduated from the Big Sky School of Wizardry and Magic.  Make a motorized, spinning wizard crystal ball, a super bright wizard power ring, and an all new fiber optic wizard wand.

Booms and Biospheres Advanced* 8-10 August 4-8

Did you know that you are a hairy bag a chemicals living on a fragile ball floating through space?  So, how about learning what it’s all made of?  Create concoctions, grow prehistoric creatures from eggs (for real), create explosions and implosions, and finally create your own self sustaining biosphere! 

Rockets and Launchers 8-10 August 11-15

Water rocketry has got to be the cheapest fun on earth. Using recycled bottles and other parts you will make a rocket that will fly up to 400 feet in the air.  Then learn the fascinating science of pressure and projectiles as you launch paper rockets over 100 feet (with goggles on, of course!).

*Advanced 8-10 While projects are similar to 5-7 group, advanced camps give kids more independence, more tools, more sophisticated materials and introduce more advanced concepts and skills.