Option S 1: Rocket Ships and Dinosaurs (Ages 4-5)

For more details please click on our Parent Letter. This is an exciting camp with all of the hands-on and adventure you and your child can ask for. As you can imagine, this is one of our most popular camps.

• Our young astronauts will have a blast as they:
  • Go through Astronaut Boot Camp
• Create Glow in the Dark Galaxies
• Use balloon rockets, Stomp Rockets and Water rockets and Straw Rockets.
• They will also experience teacher launched rockets.
• They will have fun as they learn about planets and galaxies.
• Our excited time travelers get to Travel back in time to the land of the Dinosaurs in our "Imagine That!" Time machine! While there they will:
  • Make Fossils
  • Create and blast off a volcano that they can take home!
  • Pan for Gold
  • Study dinosaurs
  • Create beautiful crystals
    
  This camp fills up VERY fast! So sign up soon so YOUR child can have this adventure of a lifetime!

Option S 2: Time and Space Adventures (Ages 6-8)

• For additional information please click on our Parent Letter and see our You Tube Videos:Time and Space-Rockets :Time and Space at Wilson Creek;Time and Space Camp at Imagine That Learning Center
• Does your child want to become an astronaut? Do they REALLY like Rockets?
• Would they like to travel to the time of the dinosaurs? Learn what's deep in a cave? Well, this is the camp they have been waiting for!
• We take the children on an adventure of a lifetime as we imagine ourselves in prehistoric times where we:
  • Learn about dinosaurs
  • Make fossils and pan for gold!
• We will study the dynamic earth as we:
  • Build and blast off volcanoes
  • Create a Cave in a Box as we learn about Spelunking
  • Learn about the animals, microbes and geology of cave systems
  • Study and classify Rocks and Crystals and grow our own!
  • Learn about earthquakes and so much more
• If that's not enough, we will blast off into space as we:
  • Make and blast off Balloon Rockets, Bottle Rockets, Chemical Rockets, Straw Rockets, and Estes Rockets.
  • Learn about Newton's Law as we make a Newtons Car and a Balloon Car and learn the principles of rocket flight
  • Make glow in the dark galaxies
  • Go through astronaut boot camp!
• Don't miss this exciting adventure! This camp fills up very fast!
• Note: Please see option S 1 for a younger version of this camp.

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 S 5-CSI:  Crime Scene Investigation (Ages 9-12) 

To learn more about this curricula please view our Parent Letter.

Are you ready to understand the serious science that takes place behind the yellow crime scene tape? Well, this is your chance! In order to succeed at solving this crime we must unravel clues and secret messages-both invisible and cryptic. Each clue will make us learn a new skill to be better investigative scientist. These skills include:

• Learning to dust for and analyze fingerprints
• Collecting and comparing, foot prints and lip prints
• Handwriting analysis
• Using microscopes to analyze hair, fibers and powders
• Using flame test and LOTS of chemistry to analyze powders.
• Cell and DNA analysis using microscopes, models and DNA extraction
• Plant analysis
• Comparing Bite Marks and skeletal clues
• Blood and Hair Analysis

This is one cool camp!

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 R 13: Adventure Bots: (Ages 11-14) 

• This exciting class uses the LEGO® NXT MINDSTORM ™ Robots and Scratch Programming. The students will learn how programming works and will enjoy seeing the robots perform the task assigned. While there will be time spent assembling the robot, this camp focuses on programming the robot to perform the specific task assigned. See our YouTube Video of Camp Adventure Bots at Wilson Creek
• 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!!!
• The campers will be challenged to build robots for space exploration on a fantastic planet called Pantheon.  They will need to build a walking robot to plant a flag, a scorpion robot to defend their base, a giant claw to construct new hex-based housing, and a sorting machine to sort samples of space rocks for analysis.  With each new robot, campers will learn about building techniques and be challenged to apply them to their own designs.  Students will learn about gears, cams, cranks, differentials, and levers as they build robot parts that can rotate and move back and forth.  They will learn about sensors and center of gravity as they design robots that can stand on their own feet and respond to the environment.
• This camp will work for both beginner and experienced LEGO NXT MINDSTORM Programmers. The students who are not familiar with MINDSTORMS will have a special training the first day and experienced students will start off with the assigned programs.
• 8 hour extension option:  If your child signs up for an 8 hour camp, they will have the opportunity to explore new challenges.  These challenges will be based on additional fun and exciting programming and engineering tasks, like building a remote control, steering with clapping, robot kickball, and light-fearing and light-loving robots!
• There will not be a robot that your child will take home (please see the Building Bots camp for camp that has a take home robot). 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 STR 6: Technically Icky (Ages 3-5)

Parent Letter for Technically Icky

What a great Combination! We will combine the fun of icky squishy science with the LEGO® Education's Tech Machines and Early Simple Machines! Does your child like to mix, make, laugh and learn? Then this is the camp for you! Dr. Lipid is back and boy is he mad! Our arch enemy is up to no good and we have to stop him! Investigative fun is yours as the O.X.Y.S. (Only Excellent Youth Scientist ) match their 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 work their way through the snares Dr. Lipid left behind!

• We will make slime, GAC and Magic Mud!
• We will learn some "interesting" facts about our bodies, bugs and animals!
• We will shrink eggs, make gas, and other things that fizzle and pop!
• What more could you want? Well, how about building the coolest machines to help us along they way?
• Your child will continue with icky squishy exploration using LEGO technology by building worms, snakes and fish. They will also build working machines with moving parts using small hand friendly tools that enhance dexterity such as screwdrivers and integrated screws in order to create boats and planes!  All the while they will also be learning about Pulleys and Propellers working with reels, hooks, and scoops and learning how to cooperate with a teammate!  Fun, to be had by everyone!
• 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!

Option STR 6: Technically Icky (Ages 3-5)

Parent Letter for Technically Icky

What a great Combination! We will combine the fun of icky squishy science with the LEGO® Education's Tech Machines and Early Simple Machines! Does your child like to mix, make, laugh and learn? Then this is the camp for you! Dr. Lipid is back and boy is he mad! Our arch enemy is up to no good and we have to stop him! Investigative fun is yours as the O.X.Y.S. (Only Excellent Youth Scientist ) match their 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 work their way through the snares Dr. Lipid left behind!

• We will make slime, GAC and Magic Mud!
• We will learn some "interesting" facts about our bodies, bugs and animals!
• We will shrink eggs, make gas, and other things that fizzle and pop!
• What more could you want? Well, how about building the coolest machines to help us along they way?
• Your child will continue with icky squishy exploration using LEGO technology by building worms, snakes and fish. They will also build working machines with moving parts using small hand friendly tools that enhance dexterity such as screwdrivers and integrated screws in order to create boats and planes!  All the while they will also be learning about Pulleys and Propellers working with reels, hooks, and scoops and learning how to cooperate with a teammate!  Fun, to be had by everyone!
• 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!

Option STR 7: TechnoBot: The Worm Hole Adventure(Ages 6-7)

Click here to see the Parent Letter. This will be an incredible combination of science and Technology where we will use the LEGO Education WeDo Robots, Early Simple Machines and Motorized Machines along with experiments that boggle your mind and have the children saying “NO WAY!” 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) AGAIN! We have found the lab of Dr. Lipid, our arch enemy. We discovered that he plans to build a submarine that can go though a worm hole in space! We must discover why and fast! Where is he taking it?

• To help our O.X.Y.S. solve this mystery and understand the strange combinations of diagrams on the wall of Dr. Lipids lab we must:
  • Learn how to build a Hydrometer and Submarine!
  • Learn Physiology as we investigate bones, muscles and blood. Use microscopes
  • Understand Physics and Structures and build, build, build!
• In addition to all of this the students will use LEGO® Technology with the following:
  • Students will get their first introduction to robotics with the newly introduced LEGO® Education WeDo™ Robotics Software and Construction Set. Students will learn how to program and create a working model, use software media to acquire information, and use feedback to adjust a programming system output. The students will explore a series of cross-curricular, theme-based activities while developing their skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as well as language and literacy.
  • Early Simple Machines and Motorized Machines, the students will focus on one of the following programs: Gears, Levers, Pulleys or Wheels and Axles. Working in teams of two, your child will learn the scientific principles above while getting comfortable with building using the LEGO TECHNIC® pieces. This program will improve your child’s problem solving skills while encouraging team work.
  • There is so much more we cannot begin to cover it here,the only question is will you send your child or yourself to this Incredible Camp!

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 STR 10: X-treme Builders Camp (Ages 11-14) 

• This will be for those who LOVE building advanced and complicated LEGO Machines and the thrill of archetectural design.
• For the Science, students will incorporate engineering design into drawing, calculating and building a model frame house. They will use their own design using grid paper. They will understand and incorporate the idea of using the materials provided. Doors and windows will be designed to scale. They will then cut the wood beams and glue them together to create the scale model home.
• Time permitting, the students will also learn what is required to heat and cool a home using insulation.
• The technology is reserved for our oldest students only. If your child loves building very challenging structures with LEGO's this will be the camp for them! The builders will need to have a more in depth knowledge of LEGO building and pieces. The activities are motorized, pneumatics powered and also non-motorized. Some of the activities that they build will include a walking dinosaur, a crane, a submarine a zepplin, and a motorized cable car.
• The activities built will be use universal joints, piston connectors, knowledge of structural integrity and an imagination to step outside the box and try new building techniques.

You Tube Videos of the Cranes, Legos and the teachers from 2012 camp.
X-treme Builders Camp with Crane;  X-treme Builders Camp with LEGOS

Option STR 11: Energy Bots Renewable City (Ages 11-14) 

• Your student will Learn about Renewable Energy Resources through Science and Robotics. They will learn to program the LEGO® NXT MINDSTORMS ™ Robot. They will also build and take home a tin can robot. Explorations include:
  • Using a large model Wind Turbine the students will measure how mechanical energy is converted into electrical energy. This energy will power a motor and light LEDs. Once they have learned about wind energy, they will program their MINDSTORMS Robot to solve real world engineering challenges at a wind turbine power facility.
  • Next the students will investigate another renewable energy source: A hydroelectric dam. The students once again will investigate the science behind the water powered generator and test how this system works. They will then apply their programming and problem solving skills to their robot to train it to solve a problem in at a hydroelectric plant.
  • If that's not enough the students will then test a solar powered model car and energy house. Their robot must be programmed to place a solar panel on a house and then return it to the generator.
  • Building a TAKE HOME Robot: Each student will build their own motorized Tin Can Robot that walks. The students will also program their MINDSTROMS robot to sort the recyclables out of the trash. They will then use their recycle can to build and TAKE HOME your own motorized Tin Can Robot that walks
  • YouTube Video: Building Bots Robot Camp at Sweet Apple Elementary
• Note: MINDSTORMS ROBOTS will not be taken home. The Tin Can Robot will be the take home robot.

Imagine That! uses its own special brand of creativity to create age appropriate Art programs that encourage a love of art and a tremendous sense of self confidence! Our exceptional program offers personalized instruction in drawing and painting plus some exciting age appropriate craft activities.  Your fabulous artists will become familiar with using perspective, shading, color mixing, proportion, framing and composition. This will enable your child to capture their subject on paper, canvas, tiles, & more!
Our exciting projects include: 

• Grand Canyon Painting
• Stained Glass Art
• Weaving
• Line Drawing
• Drawing Animals
• Aztec Art
• Faux Stained Glass Art
• Making bowls and fruit out of clay
• Self Portraits
• Watercolor Landscapes
• Aluminum String Art
• Cartooning and Anime
• Rolled Paper Art and lots more! 
  
  Our camp will work with your child's ability level, from beginning to advanced skills. 

• PreK-1st: We will work with your young artist to help them develop their ability to create and express themselves through many different media. In addition to painting and drawing, we will use many different materials and crafts to help them refine their eye-hand coordination and fine motor skills.
• 2nd-8th: Our older art students will work with fine arts techniques to improve their ability to draw and paint with confidence! In addition, they will have age appropriate crafts. New this year: Anime will be taught for our older students.

Imagine That! uses its own special brand of creativity to create age appropriate Art programs that encourage a love of art and a tremendous sense of self confidence! Our exceptional program offers personalized instruction in drawing and painting plus some exciting age appropriate craft activities.  Your fabulous artists will become familiar with using perspective, shading, color mixing, proportion, framing and composition. This will enable your child to capture their subject on paper, canvas, tiles, & more!
Our exciting projects include: 

• Grand Canyon Painting
• Stained Glass Art
• Weaving
• Line Drawing
• Drawing Animals
• Aztec Art
• Faux Stained Glass Art
• Making bowls and fruit out of clay
• Self Portraits
• Watercolor Landscapes
• Aluminum String Art
• Cartooning and Anime
• Rolled Paper Art and lots more! 
  
  Our camp will work with your child's ability level, from beginning to advanced skills. 

• PreK-1st: We will work with your young artist to help them develop their ability to create and express themselves through many different media. In addition to painting and drawing, we will use many different materials and crafts to help them refine their eye-hand coordination and fine motor skills.
• 2nd-8th: Our older art students will work with fine arts techniques to improve their ability to draw and paint with confidence! In addition, they will have age appropriate crafts. New this year: Anime will be taught for our older students.

OPTION AST 15 Make It and Bake It Art and Science Combination (Ages 4-5)

We will learn about the science of cooking as we mix, measure, make and bake. Great experience for little hands! For lots more detail, read the Parent Letter!

Your child will be excited to get to eat the food they make each day!

• The fun doesn't stop there! They will get to learn the Science behind their cooking as they look at the yeast under a microscope, learn why fruits turn brown, and explore the fizzling properties of baking soda and vinegar!
• We will make yeast rolls, Ice Cream, Sun Tea, our own vinegar, cookies and more.
• The creative craft activities will include making objects that can be worn or displayed out of many different materials. Activities include clay fruit sculptures, color wheel cookies, painting a pot and planting seeds.
• We will also do vegetable print making,make pictures from beans and seeds, draw fruits and vegetables, and make a wacky vegetable and fruit sculptures and more.

 

Option AST 16 Make It ,Bake It and Create It:  Art and Science Combination (Ages 6-8)

We will learn about the art and science of cooking as we mix, measure, make and bake. For lots more detail, read the Parent Letter!

Your child will be excited to get to eat the food they make each day!

• Science: The fun doesn't stop there! They will get to learn the Science behind their cooking as they look at the yeast under a microscope, learn why fruits turn brown, and explore the fizzling properties of baking soda and vinegar! We will make yeast rolls, Ice Cream, Sun Tea, our own vinegar, cookies, and more.
• Arts and Crafts:
  • The creative craft activities will include making objects that can be worn or displayed out of many different materials. Activities include clay sculptures of fruit in a bowl, stained glass pictures, candle holders and lots more.
  • Art will also involve vegetable print making, pictures from beans and seeds, drawing fruits and vegetables, and making a wacky fruit and vegetable sculptures and more.
• Note: Please see option AST 15 for the 4 and 5 year old version of this camp.

Option AST 17 What’s It All About?: Art, Science and Technology (Ages 5-7)

• Science:
  • We will study the wonders of water and what happens when it freezes. gets mixed with other liquids and solids, and find out why some things float or sink and more!
  • We will make our own boats, bubbles, glue, and other messy concoctions
  • We will have a blast with surface tension and the apparent "cool magic" of it.
  • We will study the animals that live in the water and some of their funny adaptations.
• Art The art will include water color pictures, under water pop art pictures, bubble pictures, fish art, and marbling techniques.
• Technology What? You want more? Well, how about building the coolest machines to help us along they way? Students will continue to learn about water while building the animals that live in it. Utilizing LEGO Technics your child will build frogs that hop and make sounds, Manta Rays that wing through the water using cams and axles and sea horses and Angel fish using gears and much more!

Option AST 18 Imagination Station: Art, Science and Creative Dramatics all in on place! (Ages 5-7)

• Please review details in our Parent Letter
• Your child will love the creativity of this camp! They will be active participants in creative story telling where they will get to mime parts of the story.
• The children will create puppets of people and animals and create an environment background for their stage where they will put on a puppet show for parents.
• The science will be a fun combination of activities that relate to the stories and puppet shows. It will include weather, habitats, bugs, owls, predator and prey and lots more!
• They will not be able to stop talking about all the fun they are having! We call it learning, they call it FUN!

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!

  
  

  
  

Option Artrageous Art Adventures

Learning art will be fun as we draw and paint still life's, figures, landscapes, and more. We will take you through step-by-step techniques to leave your artist more comfortable and capable of capturing their subject on paper.

New Projects for this summer: Bark Painting, Rolled Paper Crafts, Stained Glass Art, Grand Canyon Painting, and Loom Weaving.

• Art Adventures Outline:
  • Structure and Form -- Learn how to get your subject down on paper.
  • Proportion and Shape -- Learn how to make the parts of your subject be in proper proportion.
  • Light and Shading.
  • Texture and Pattern.
  • Framing and Composition.
  • Color mixing and learning different media. We will be working with:
    • Pencils (color and black)
    • Pastels
    • Paints
  • Proportions and Shapes of the Human Body including:
    • Head and facial Features
    • Hands
    • Gesture drawings
  • Drawing Trees
  • Perspectives -- One Point, Two Point
  • Using perspective to draw landscapes and buildings
  • Cartooning