STEM Summer Camp 2023
is now open for registration!

Every week of MakerState’s STEM Summer Camp features themes in hands-on creative projects including art and engineering, robotics, coding, rocket science, game design, Minecraft, 3D design and 3D printing, and more. 

Our camps feature lots of socializing, team creativity and outdoor play, fostering skills in communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. Summer Camp is led by our Maker Fellow camp coaches, background-checked teaching artists and undergrads in STEM with passions in STEM/STEAM (STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math).

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Lots of Outdoor Play & Games!

We’re really focusing on hands-on building with friends, outdoor play, and lots of fun team challenges this summer! We’ll head outside for every STEM crafts project that we can and add lots of breaks for fun, healthy games outdoors like Water Balloon Olympics, Amazing Races with Parkour, Freeze Dances, Scavenger Hunts, and Capture the Flag Laser Tag!

In between our hands-on projects, we’ll take play breaks in and outside that give us plenty of time for fun, healthy games like Capture the Flag Laser Tag and water balloon relays!

Register Multiple Weeks and/or Siblings and Save!

5% off each week you register for (applies as you register for multiple weeks and/or multiple siblings),

up to 25% off your total purchase.

0 % off
for 2 weeks registration
6 % off
for 3 weeks registration
11 % off
for 4 weeks registration
16 % off
for 5 weeks registration
21 % off
for 6 weeks registration

Keeping your kids healthy and safe

Our camps comply with CDC and NYC Covid health regulations to include any distancing and masking mandates in place at the time of the camp.

What a Day at Camp looks like

Drop off and creative play Open Makerspace: exploring and creating with littleBits, MaKey MaKey, CircuitScribe, Snap Circuits, and more

Circle Meeting: Explore the morning Challenge and the project we’ll build with a special emphasis on how it’s built, the STEM concept/skill we’ll learn, and where we see this in the real world (we’ll break for snacks during this morning build time)

Break for lunch and physical play recess that includes games, laser tag, water balloons and more

Circle Meeting and another Challenge and project building session in the afternoon
Circle Debrief: we reflect upon our creativity and collaboration and earn our badges

Open Makerspace-+L parents/guardians may arrive to observe & begin the pick up process

All campers must be picked up by 4pm; register for After Camp Care on our site if you are arriving after 4pm.

After Camp Care (separate registration)

Learn why Camp is so much Fun

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Hands-on building

Every day features hands-on building projects and science experiments as well as creative projects in 3D printing, Robotics Arts, Minecraft Engineering, Laser Tag and Outdoor Play.

STEAM tech projects in:

  • Scratch Coding: MIT’s art-centric, color block-based coding platform
  • Tinkercad: Computer Aided 3D Design and 3D printing
  • Lego Robotics: Virtual robotics with obstacle courses, artificial intelligence, and coding
  • Kerbal Space Program: the kid-friendly rocket simulation used by NASA and SpaceX
  • Minecraft Engineering: Mine, build and code in a an open sandbox play world
  • Roblox Game Studio: Play, code and design games together in this open play world
  • Lego Digital Design: imagine, design and create your own Lego pieces
  • Piskel: 2D art and animation creation
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Daily Camp Traditions

Monday

DJ Playlist
Day
We’re brainstorming our favorite songs and creating a fun playlist to listen to all week!

Tuesday

Rainbow True Colors Day
Wear your favorite color on the outside and express your inner color (favorite personality trait) all day!

Wednesday

Hero
Day
Bring one item that represents a superpower that you have or aspire to and we’ll form a team!

Thursday

Zootopia
Day
We each have a favorite animal and we’ll talk about how to protect them!

Friday

Dream
Pajama Day
Dress up in your pajamas and bring a dream you have for your future!

Daily Challenges

Every day features a new challenge that includes creativity, construction, puzzle-solving, coding, computational thinking, and collaboration. Break times include project challenges in video game design, robotics obstacle courses, and Minecraft Engineering.

Earn Daily Badges!

We’ll earn Challenge Badges for every project we build, representing new skills like Problem Solving, Teamwork, Design Thinking, and Change Makers. Our sticker badges are so much fun to collect! Along the way, we’ll earn Challenge Badges for new skills like Computational Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering Design, Teamwork, and ChangeMaking. Fun first, hands-on, creative, skill-building! See you at STEM & Coding Summer Camp!
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Strong Minds are Built, not Born

Our daily projects introduce executive functioning and self-regulation skills. Executive functioning is the mental process that enables us to plan, focus attention, make decisions, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. Our approach to Executive Functioning comes from the Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University.

We’re Building a Sustainable & Inclusive Future

Every camp week features building and art projects that help create a more sustainable and inclusive community.

Social Emotional Learning

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is how children learn to understand and manage emotions, set goals, show empathy for others, establish positive relationships, and make responsible decisions. Our approach to SEL comes from the pioneering SEL research and standards of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.

Fun first, hands-on, creative, skill-building! See you at STEM & Coding Summer Camp!

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Deeper Learning at MakerState STEM Camp

Fostering Executive Functioning

Our daily projects and practice introduce executive function and self-regulation skills. Executive functioning is the mental process that enables us to plan, focus attention, make decisions, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. These fundamental abilities, often called the “CEO of the Brain”, enable school achievement, positive behaviors and relationships, healthy life choices, and later career success. Our approach to Executive Functioning comes from the Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University.

Social Emotional Learning

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is how children learn to understand and manage emotions, set goals, show empathy for others, establish positive relationships, and make responsible decisions. Our young engineers practice these SEL skills within daily project-based learning experiences. Our approach to SEL comes from the pioneering SEL research and standards of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL).

After Camp Care

After Camp Play extends the fun of STEM Camp until 5:30pm!

We keep the camp fun going from 3:30pm to 5:30pm every day with outdoor games, ScratchGeocaching, Lego Creative Challenges, Scratch Coding Game Tournaments, Minecraft Engineering, and makerspace creative time. Pick up any time until 5:30pm. See below for late pick up fees that apply for picks up after 5:30pm. You may register for an entire week for $120 or one or more single days for $30/day.

What if I’m running late to pick up my child?

Same day purchase of After Camp is a great option if you know you are going to be running late that day. It happens! In those cases, please text your camp director and ensure that you’ve purchased a single day of After Camp on our site ($30) by the time you pick up your child.

Extended Day Charges

If you pick up after 4pm, you must be registered and paid on our website for After Camp for that day at $30.

QUESTIONS? Drop us a line in the chat! See you in camp!