Option S 3: BLAST OFF! an Intro to Flight (Ages 9-12)

This exciting program takes our future pilots and astronauts to a whole new level.

• Join us as we explore the basics of flight. We will learn about Bernoulli's Principal and the forces that affect flight such as Lift, Thrust, Drag and Weight
• Use our flight simulator and fly radio controlled planes and more!
• We will learn about overcoming Inertia as we make our own rockets and planes and test them.
• We will make and use Water and Air Pressure assisted rockets, Chemical rockets and Estes rockets.
• Watch our YouTube Video from Blast Off Camp Summer of 2011

Option S 4-Spies and Sleuths (Ages 6-8) 

• This is a great “Who dun it?” adventure! Please see Parent Letter Here!
• Dr. Lipid is back and boy is he mad! Our arch enemy is up to no good and we have to stop him!
• We are the O.X.Y.S. (Only Excellent Youth Scientist ) and we must match our wits against Dr. Lipid, Head of the Organization of M.O.R.O.N.S. (Magical Ogres Reshaping Our Natural Systems). The children will learn many exciting science principles as they learn to solve a crime scene and track Dr. Lipid!
• In order to succeed at solving this crime we must unravel clues and secret messages-both invisible and criptic. Each clue will make us learn a new skill to be better investigative scientist. These skills include:
  • Becoming fingerprint, foot print and lip print detectives!
  • Learning Spy Games
  • Making Alarms to protect our headquarters-the children will learn about circuits.
  • Make and take home a periscope to spy around corners with!
  • Using microscopes we will learn to analyze hair, fibers and powders
  • Useing flame test and LOTS of chemistry to analyze powders.
• The children will have a grand finale crime scene to practice the skills they have learned.

Option STR 8 Goo, Gas, Great Balls of Fire!:  Science and Technology focusing on Chemistry, Physics and LEGO Technology (Ages 7-10)

• This camp is an incredible combination of Science and Technology where we will use the LEGO Crazy Contraptions and Technics, along with exciting science experiments! This is a great hands-on fun camp. What more could you want in one camp!

• View the Science Parent Letter for this Camp

  Science Portion: Make lots of cool chemical and Physical reactions! Use science to determine if something is actually TRUTH or LEGEND!

  • Make Explosive reactions that blast 30 feet high.
  • Make our own soft drink as we learn about constants, variables and ratios. We will then decide if its Truth or Legend that a soft drink can rot your teeth!
  • Make our own dinosaur toothpaste.
  • Explore dry ice, make GAC, Slime and so much more!
  • Investigate endothermic and exothermic reactions with salts that get hot and cold.
  • Perform color changing acid base reactions and flame test!
  • Learn about florescence and black lights!
  • Can you balance and egg on its head only one time a year?
  • Explore magnetism to see if an eel skin wallet can demagnetize a credit card!

  LEGO® Technology

  • In addition to all of this the students will use LEGO® Technology with the following:
    • Crazy Contraptions: These are just plain fun and the teachers (and students) favorites.
    • Technic's: These activities really get down to the bones of how things work.

Option STR 9: Techno-Build: Structures & Engineering (Ages 8-10) 

• This camp is an amazing combination of fun hands-on Science and Engineering and LEGO® Technology and Robotics. What more could you ask for? For more detail, click the Parent Letter here.
• TECHNOLOGY will incorporate two programs:
  • LEGO® Education Pneumatics:  The students will build many machines that are operated by a Pneumatic system.  Explore power systems and components, sequence and control, pressure, prototyping, kinetic and potential energy and much more!
  • LEGO® Powered Science & Technology Program: Here the students will build a different motorized and non motorized models each day. These will be models that MOVE and can be modified by the student teams to perform a task in the most optimal method. This will introduce gears and pulleys, structural design, forces and motion, energy and more. This will help the students understand how robots move.
SCIENCE and ENGINEERING portion we will build a large model pinball machine, model bridges, large domes, skyscrapers, and trebuchets,. They will learn the basic principles of structural design including:
• Strength, torsion and weight and the concepts behind simple and complex machines.
• As the students use scientific inquiry, they will learn teamwork and problem solving in a creative and fun way.

Option R 12: Mini Bots (Ages 8-10) 

• Introduction to Programming and Robotics using NXT MINDSTORM™ Robots and Scratch Programming. The students will have a great time as they really get to understand what makes a robot operate. They will build and program robots that interact with their environment. Please see our YouTube Video and the Fox 5 News vidoe of Mini Bots Camp: Mini Bots at Imagine That! Mini Bots on Fox 5 News  (be sure to click the arrow in the middle of the picture)
• Scratch Programming: Here is the program your technology minded student has been waiting for. With Scratch, your child will learn how to create computer programs using drop and drag technology that will bring their imagination to life right before their eyes! They will have the opportunity to make cartoons, movies, video games, animate their stories and compose music all done with Scratch. When your child comes home every evening from camp ask them to show you what they created. You will be amazed!!
• In this fun filled camp we will be using Mindstorm Technology to create animal robots. We will have bull fights with “El Toro” the bull and Grasshopper races. Your students will build and program a Llama that spits balls across the room and program the Peacocks plumes to expand. How far can you program a Rabbit to hop? While building these crazy animals, students will learn how to program Distance, Speed, Rotations, Degrees, Ports and so much more!
• This camp is open to students new to LEGO MINDSTORM NXT robotics and those who are experienced.  More experienced builders will be challenged to design earlier than those who are new to the system
• There will not be a robot that your child will take home.
• This is a great place to start if you are considering a MINDSTORM Robot for your child or already have one and want to get the most out of it. It is also great preparation for First LEGO League (FLL)

Option Option AST 19 The Creators (Ages 8-12) Art, Science and Technology

• Click to see the Parent Letter for The Creators
• Art: The art will focus on drawing and painting technics for older students. Please see our art page for more information. Art will include learning perspective, Painting like the Masters, Drawing Cartoons and more.
• Technology: The LEGO Technology will support the science that is being taught. A few of the machines they will build are:
  • To incorporate sudden impact they will build a Cable Car with parachuting man,
  • To learn about centrifugal force they will build a Motorized Merry Go Round,
  • To incorporate lights, they will build stop lights and Morse code machines
• Science: In this class we will learn about cause and effect in our world.  We will focus on physics as we ask the following questions. 
  • Investigate Physics with our Balls and Tracks and Colliding Balls!
  • What is the Impact of dropping a water balloon (our brain child) from a great height and what can we do to keep it from breaking?  How can we apply that to a helmet design?  How can we reduce the force of impact?
  • What is the Impact of a vacuum on a liquid and a solid? 
  • Design a "Ping Pong Ball Launcher".
  • What is the Impact of Rotational Velocity on a sphere?  Can that give us the spin we need on a ball?   
  • What is the Impact of centrifugal force and how does that keep us in our seats on amusement park rides? 
  • What is the result of a sudden Impact on a physical object such as ball?  How can this help us in sports? 
  • What is the impact of Inertia and Friction on the table cloth and china trick?
    

This is a great camp for students with inquiring minds who want to know the reason why. Each question will have a series of cool and exciting experiment and activities to help them answer these questions.  They will also be encouraged to take it to another step and develop their own questions and experiments to prove or disprove their theories.

Please note this is the similar to the Creators camp from Summer 2012 and some experiments overlap our older after school program for this year. We are offering it again due to its popularity but please choose another program if your child has done this before.

Video of The Creators

Option AST 20 Ladies in Lab Coats: Art, Science and Programming (Ages 8-11)

Exciting new camp for girls only! Get together with your best friends and have a great week of fun, creativity and learning. They will be excited to show you what they created each day.  You will be amazed!

• Art and Design: This camp will be a fun and exciting introduction to Sewing, Art and Design. It takes skill and imagination to create your own fashion, design and Art.  We’ll begin with the basics such as learning to thread a needle, sewing a button, making cloth flowers, weaving a work of art and creating sock monsters.  Just to name a few of our fun activities. We will also create objects to decorate your room!  Students will learn how color, form and texture is used to create a successful project.

• Science:  We will focus on environmental science as we make a bio dome to take home. Learn about erosion and how to stop it, use soil and leaf chromatography to solve a crime, learn the effects of acid rain, learn how pollution can find its way into the food chain and our food, make our own thermometer, clean up and oil spill with slush powder, make a cloud in a bottle, make a battery out of lemons, make recycled paper and use it for a card, make a solar water distiller and more. 

• Programming:  We will continue with our creativity as we introduce programming with Scratch programming.  In this class we will focus on creating our own music and art on the computer! 

• For parents of girls from the owner of Imagine That!.  I am a girl (ok, all grown up now) but as a child I was no priss. I loved anything to do with science, exploration AND art.  I studied Engineering at a school where women are still a minority in many technical fields.  We want to encourage girls to have fun with science and technology starting now and leading up to a time where they can be leading scientist in the world.  We make this fun and funny and girls LOVE IT.  I would like to be part of a society where we continue to encourage our daughters to LOVE science.  Women make great scientist and can change the world!