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Virtual STEM Summer Camp

MakerState is so excited to continue STEM Summer Camp virtually this summer! MakerState’s virtual STEM Summer Camp features live instruction and a new hands-on project every session in art, computer programming, game design, 3D design, Minecraft engineering, and more. Weekly schedule and virtual programs every week this summer below. 

Way more than just computer time!

Three hours goes by so quickly with these creative projects plus healthy breaks for movement-based team-building games, mysteries to solve, scavenger hunts, fun Random Arts of Kindness outdoors projects to do with family and hands-on materials builds in arts, engineering and science experiments.

Live Instructors from top universities

Creative Time with friends & peers

Perfect for working parents

Outdoor art and play activities

Games & Tech your kids love

Your registration includes

Exclusive Subscription Included

More challenges for independent fun with new projects each week from our National Science Foundation video projects library in hands-on engineering, coding, 3D design projects and science experiments.

Help Desk Chat Support, Tutorials & Parent Orientation

Our goal is to keep your young engineer building so you can concentrate on your own work! Live instructor and chat help is available throughout the camp day to support and troubleshoot items with you. We will also send you invites to orientation sessions to make sure you’re confident in a great start to summer camp.

Safety First

We practice Online Safety & Privacy Guidelines

Excellent Staff

Live STEM instructors from NYC's finest universities. We ensure each young engineer (age 6-14) is engaged with a 8:1 ratio

Highlight Reel

All the fun and learning will be assembled in an awesome camp reel that will be emailed to you highlighting the coding and digital arts projects completed during the week!

Team Games

Break out into challenge groups and solve a riddle or complete a scavenger hunt

Live Science Experiments

Plus magic tricks, wizard potion brewing, one scene plays, joke swaps, and more

Camp Traditions

Daily Themes including DIY costumes, Homemade Hat Day, and PJ Day

Heroes Help

You and your friends receive a mystery challenge and solve it with your super powers as the clock ticks down

Choose a morning or afternoon camp session, or both, for a day of fun with a minimum of 3 registrants in each session!

What a camp session looks like:

Morning Session Afternoon Session Activity
10:00am - 10:30am EST 2:00pm - 2:30pm EST Icebreakers & Team-Building Games
10:30am - 11:30am EST 2:30pm - 3:30pm EST Create Challenge 1 & Round Up Recognition
11:30am - 11:50am EST 3:30pm - 3:50pm EST Snack Break with Games & Movement Play
11:50am - 12:40pm EST 3:50pm - 4:40pm EST Create Challenge 2 & Round Up Recognition
12:40pm - 1:00pm EST 4:40pm - 5:00pm EST Demo of next day’s Challenges & Intro Bonus Builds
1:00pm EST 5:00pm EST Dismiss

Virtual Camp Requirements

Many different themes to choose from!

Scratch Game Coders

Create stories, video games, and animated art as you learn to code with MIT’s block-based coding language for kids, Scratch.

3D Design Designers

Design, tinker and build toys, spacecraft, heroic figures and anything you can imagine in 3D computer-aided designer, TinkerCAD.

Lego Digital Designers

Lego brick builders unite! We’re snapping together spaceships, mystical creators, and cities in the same modeling program used to create the Lego Movies!

Rocket Scientists

Budding rocket scientists will launch into the universe by hand-building planes, rockets and moon bases to enable our journey to the stars.

Artists & Engineers

Creative tinkerers will construct bridges and towers and experiment with kitchen-based chemistry and engineering-inspired art in this great combination of art and science.

Science Lab Arts

Mad scientists, ready your home labs! We’re crafting experiments like Storm in a Jar, DIY Kaleidoscope, Chromatography Color Wheels, Rubber Eggs, Flag Day Pinwheels, all summer long!

Minecraft Engineers

Unite, build, create and survive in this epic open world adventure where creativity, problem solving, and teamwork win the day!

Pixel Artists

Create animated sprites and skins for your games and epic pixel art in the kid-friendly art tools, Piskel and Skincrafter.

Roblox Game Designers

Build a theme park, become a superhero, star in a fashion show, compete as a professional race car driver, or design your dream home to hang out with friends in a shared 3D world.

Random Arts of Kindness

Let’s get outside and create playful, “maniFESTive” art with chalk, posters, rock-painting and yarn that pays kindness and positivity forward in the community. We’re growing and serving at the same time!

Register Now!

WEEK 1 - MORNING

Adventure Camp with Lego Robotics, 3D Design & Minecraft Adventures

WEEK 1 - AFTERNOON

Rockets & Roblox: 3D Design for Outer Space

WEEK 2 - MORNING

3D Design, Lego Robotics & Minecraft Worldbuilding

WEEK 2 - AFTERNOON

Game Design with Lego Robotics, Scratch Coding & Roblox

WEEK 3 - MORNING

Game Design & Coding Animation with Scratch & Minecraft

WEEK 3 - AFTERNOON

$275

3D Design with Roblox & Robotics

WEEK 4 - MORNING

$275

Hands-on Engineering with Lego, TinkerCAD & Minecraft

WEEK 4- AFTERNOON

$275

Lego Robotics & Coding Engineers with Scratch & Roblox

WEEK 5 - MORNING

$275

Creative Coding & Animation with Minecraft & Scratch

WEEK 5 - AFTERNOON

$275

Arts & Engineers 3D Design & Roblox Coding

WEEK 6 - MORNING

$275

Lego Robotics & 3D Design with Minecraft

WEEK 6 - AFTERNOON

$275

Creative Coding with Scratch & Roblox

WEEK 7 - MORNING

$275

Animation Arts & Coding with Scratch & Minecraft

WEEK 7 - AFTERNOON

$275

Space Engineering with TinkerCAD & Roblox

WEEK 8 - MORNING

$275

3D Invention with Lego Robotics, TinkerCAD & Minecraft

WEEK 8 - AFTERNOON

$275

Space Engineering with Scratch & Roblox

WEEK 9 - MORNING

$275

Creative Coding & Lego Robotics with Scratch & Minecraft

WEEK 9 - AFTERNOON

$275

Animating New Worlds with TinkerCAD & Roblox

WEEK 10 - MORNING

$275

3D Design & Worldbuilding with TinkerCAD & Minecraft

WEEK 10 - AFTERNOON

$275

Rocket Science & Roblox with Scratch Game Design

Adventure Camp with Lego Robotics, 3D Design & Minecraft Adventures

Date : 06/29/2020 – 07/03/2020, Time : 10:00am – 1:00pm
Adventure Camp with Lego Robotics, 3D Design & Minecraft Adventures Design and code virtual Lego robots, 3D creatures and vehicles, and amazing new game maps in Minecraft in this game-based week of creativity and building. It’s adventure time!

Three hours goes by so quickly with these fun projects plus healthy breaks for movement-based team-building games, mysteries to solve, scavenger hunts, fun Random Arts of Kindness outdoor projects to do with family, and hands-on materials builds in arts, engineering and science experiments.

Mac or Windows PC with webcam (sorry, no iPads, tablets or Chromebooks)

Rockets & Roblox: 3D Design for Outer Space

Date : 06/29/2020 – 07/03/2020, Time : 02:00pm – 5:00pm
Rockets & Roblox: 3D Design for Outer Space We’re building outer space obby games in Roblox, 3D designing Mars bases in TinkerCAD, and rockets to get there in this creative space-based camp week. Outer space awaits!

Three hours goes by so quickly with these fun projects plus healthy breaks for movement-based team-building games, mysteries to solve, scavenger hunts, fun Random Arts of Kindness outdoor projects to do with family, and hands-on materials builds in arts, engineering and science experiments.

Mac or Windows PC with webcam (sorry, no iPads, tablets or Chromebooks)

3D Design, Lego Robotics & Minecraft Worldbuilding

Date : 07/06/2020 – 07/10/2020, Time : 10:00am – 1:00pm
3D Design, Lego Robotics & Minecraft Worldbuilding This camp is all about 3D worldbuilding in Minecraft and TinkerCAD plus crafting and coding virtual Lego robots to navigate those new worlds. Let’s go!

Three hours goes by so quickly with these fun projects plus healthy breaks for movement-based team-building games, mysteries to solve, scavenger hunts, fun Random Arts of Kindness outdoor projects to do with family, and hands-on materials builds in arts, engineering and science experiments.

Mac or Windows PC with webcam (sorry, no iPads, tablets or Chromebooks)

Game Design with Lego Robotics, Scratch Coding & Roblox

Date : 07/06/2020 – 07/10/2020, Time : 02:00pm – 5:00pm
Game Design with Lego Robotics, Scratch Coding & Roblox Love video games? Let’s build and code them in Roblox Game Studio and MIT’s Scratch. Plus challenges in robot building and coding with virtual Lego Mindstorms robotics. Time to build, code and play!

Three hours goes by so quickly with these fun projects plus healthy breaks for movement-based team-building games, mysteries to solve, scavenger hunts, fun Random Arts of Kindness outdoor projects to do with family, and hands-on materials builds in arts, engineering and science experiments.

Mac or Windows PC with webcam (sorry, no iPads, tablets or Chromebooks)

Game Design & Coding Animation with Scratch & Minecraft

Date : 07/13/2020 – 07/17/2020, Time : 10:00am – 1:00pm
Game Design & Coding Animation with Scratch & Minecraft We’re designing, animating and coding games with MIT’s Scratch and the epic worldbuilding game of Minecraft in this art and design based week of creativity. Dream it. Build it!

Three hours goes by so quickly with these fun projects plus healthy breaks for movement-based team-building games, mysteries to solve, scavenger hunts, fun Random Arts of Kindness outdoor projects to do with family, and hands-on materials builds in arts, engineering and science experiments.

Mac or Windows PC with webcam (sorry, no iPads, tablets or Chromebooks)

3D Design with Roblox & Robotics

Date : 07/13/2020 – 07/17/2020, Time : 02:00pm – 5:00pm

3D Design with Roblox & Robotics
Our challenge this week is to 3D design new worlds in TinkerCAD and Roblox obby (obstacle) courses and craft and code virtual Lego robots to navigate them.
Are you ready to take the challenge and build solutions together? Let’s go!

Three hours goes by so quickly with these fun projects plus healthy breaks for movement-based team-building games, mysteries to solve, scavenger hunts, fun Random Arts of Kindness outdoor projects to do with family, and hands-on materials builds in arts, engineering and science experiments.

Mac or Windows PC with webcam (sorry, no iPads, tablets or Chromebooks)

Hands-on Engineering with Lego, TinkerCAD & Minecraft

Date : 07/20/2020 – 07/24/2020, Time : 10:00am – 1:00pm
Hands-on Engineering with Lego, TinkerCAD & Minecraft We’re 3D designing with virtual Lego bricks and TinkerCAD and mapping and playing together in Minecraft worlds in this week of computer-aided creativity. Let your imagination shape your world!

Three hours goes by so quickly with these fun projects plus healthy breaks for movement-based team-building games, mysteries to solve, scavenger hunts, fun Random Arts of Kindness outdoor projects to do with family, and hands-on materials builds in arts, engineering and science experiments.

Mac or Windows PC with webcam (sorry, no iPads, tablets or Chromebooks)

Lego Robotics & Coding Engineers with Scratch & Roblox

Date: 07/20/2020 – 07/24/2020, Time : 02:00pm – 5:00pm
Lego Robotics & Coding Engineers with Scratch & Roblox How much fun can one week of camp be? Roblox obby course creation? Check! Virtual Lego robotics? Yes! MIT Scratch video game design? Oh yeah! All together–let’s build and play!

Three hours goes by so quickly with these fun projects plus healthy breaks for movement-based team-building games, mysteries to solve, scavenger hunts, fun Random Arts of Kindness outdoor projects to do with family, and hands-on materials builds in arts, engineering and science experiments.

Mac or Windows PC with webcam (sorry, no iPads, tablets or Chromebooks)

Creative Coding & Animation with Minecraft & Scratch

Date : 07/27/2020 – 07/31/2020, Time : 10:00am – 1:00pm

Bring new worlds to life!

This week includes: 
Create worlds and games in Piskel animator
Design games in MIT’s Scratch
Build worlds in Minecraft
Physical builds
Games with healthy movement
Other fun games and projects!

Artists, creators and coders unite!

Arts & Engineers 3D Design & Roblox Coding

Date : 07/27/2020 – 07/31/2020, Time : 02:00pm – 5:00pm

If you can imagine it, you can build it. 

This week includes:
3D design games and obby courses in TinkerCAD
Design virtual Lego blocks
Explore the never-ending fun world of Roblox
Physical builds
Games with healthy movement
Other fun games and projects!


Your imagination has no limits. Neither does this week of fun-first creativity!

Lego Robotics & 3D Design with Minecraft

Date : 08/03/2020 – 08/07/2020, Time : 10:00am – 1:00pm

Engineering plus art plus 3D design–that’s a fun week of camp! 

This week includes: 
Create worlds in Minecraft
Use your virtual Lego robot to explore
Physical builds
Games with healthy movement
Other fun games and projects!

You can learn to build anything you can imagine!

Creative Coding with Scratch & Roblox

Date : 08/03/2020 – 08/07/2020, Time : 02:00pm – 5:00pm

If you love games, this is your week! 

This week includes:
Design 3D games in MIT’s Scratch
Code and animate in Roblox Game Design Studio
Physical builds
Games with healthy movement
Other fun games and projects!

Have a dream? So do we! Let’s build them together!

Animation Arts & Coding with Scratch & Minecraft

Date : 08/10/2020 – 08/14/2020, Time : 10:00am – 1:00pm

Animate your imagination!

This week includes:
Design characters in Piskel
Design your own game in MIT’s Scratch
Code amazing worlds in Minecraft
Physical builds
Games with healthy movement
Other fun games and projects!


Is there an adventure hero inside you? Let’s fly together!

Space Engineering with TinkerCAD & Roblox

Date : 08/10/2020 – 08/14/2020, Time : 02:00pm – 5:00pm

Get ready for launch!

This week includes:
Build NASA-inspired spaceships in Tinkercad
Animate worlds in Roblox
Space themed physical builds
Games with healthy movement
Other fun games and projects!


3, 2, 1, blast off to your creative future!

3D Invention with Lego Robotics, TinkerCAD & Minecraft

Date : 08/17/2020 – 08/21/2020, Time : 10:00am – 1:00pm

Challenge your imagination!

This week includes:
3D design dragons, villages and more in TinkerCAD
Create new worlds in Lego Robotics and Minecraft
Physical builds
Games with healthy movement
Other fun games and projects!

 Let’s 3D design together in this week of imagination-based challenge builds.

Space Engineering with Scratch & Roblox

Date: 08/17/2020 – 08/21/2020, Time: 02:00pm – 5:00pm

Future astronauts, this one’s for you!
This week includes: 
Build your own rocket in MIT’s Scratch
Code a space video game in MIT’s Scratch
Craft worlds beyond Earth in Roblox Game Studio
Space themed physical builds
Games with healthy movement
Other fun games and projects!


Ready up for launch. We’re headed for our outer reaches!

Creative Coding & Lego Robotics with Scratch & Minecraft

Date: 08/24/2020 – 08/28/2020, Time : 10:00am – 1:00pm

Future engineers, this is your camp.
This week includes:
Create worlds in Minecraft
Code games in MIT’s Scratch
Program and build AI intro virtual Mindstorm Robots
Physical builds
Games with healthy movement
Other fun games and projects!

Imagine your future…and build it!

Animating New Worlds with TinkerCAD & Roblox

Date: 08/24/2020 – 08/28/2020, Time : 02:00pm – 5:00pm

Creative type? This is your camp week.
This week includes:
 3D design toys, products and worlds with TinkerCAD and Roblox
Create animated characters and populate them in Piskel.
Physical builds
Games with healthy movement
Other fun games and projects!


The world is your palette. Let’s create!

3D Design & Worldbuilding with TinkerCAD & Minecraft

Date: 08/31/2020 – 09/04/2020, Time : 10:00am – 1:00pm

3D design, virtual Lego brick building, and Minecraft Engineering all in one week? Yep!
This week includes: 
Design and build new cities in Lego Digital Design
Create worlds in Minecraft
3D Design dragons in TinkerCAD
Physical builds
Games with healthy movement
Other fun games and projects
 
Let’s start building!

Rocket Science & Roblox with Scratch Game Design

Date : 08/31/2020 – 09/04/2020, Time : 02:00pm – 5:00pm

Dreams of space? Let’s build some rockets to get us there!                    

This week includes: 
Craft simulated space games in MIT’s Scratch
Create new worlds in Roblox Game Studio
Space themed physical builds
Games with Healthy Movement
Other games and projects! 

Rocket science, Roblox and game design. What a week!