Science Museum of Virginia Mad Science Camps

For kids in Grades 1 – 6.  Morning, Afternoon and Full Day Camps with Extended Care Available.

Camp Pricing: Depends on the camp.  Discounts are available for multi/sibling registrations, Early Bird Registration, Registration and the Science Museum of Virginia and Morning Camps.

Camp Schedule

5 Unique Themes
Red Hot Robots –  Grades 2 – 6  Learn about the uses of robots in our world and spend time experimenting with super cool red-hot robots. Experiment with sound sensing robots, line-tracking robots, amphibious robots and robots that can even play soccer! Discover the science of circuits and how robots use sensors to explore things around them. Use your skills to build your very own working robot to take home with you!  Daily Themes: Ready for Robots; Circuit Science; Use Your Common Sensors; Robots 101; and Advanced Robotics

Secret Agent Lab – Grades 1 – 5  James Bond? MacGyver? Austin Powers?!? Do you think you have what it takes to discover “who done it”? If so, this camp is for you! From secret communications and detective crime science to the inner workings of our cells and cool chemistry. Each day we sleuth out the answer to many of life’s mysteries!  Daily Themes: Gizmos and Gadgets; At the Scene of the Crime; Mad Messages; CSI (Cell Structure Investigation); and In the Lab

Eureka! The Inventor’s Camp – Grades 1 -6  Each day you’ll be given a series of challenges which must be overcome using basic materials, simple machines, tips from world famous inventors and the most important thing of all – your mind. With a little bit of ingenuity you’ll construct catapults and forts and then lay siege, fabricate a winning Egg Drop design, construct a dancing robot and assemble a working light saber to take home. While Thomas Edison said invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration, this camp is 100% fun!  Daily Themes: Rock, Paper, Scissors; Wild Blue Yonder; Shipwrecked; Whiz Kidz; and Science Fiction.Science Fact.

Crazy Chemical Conconctions – Grades 1 -5  From the lab to the kitchen, this half-day camp explores how chemistry affects our everyday lives. No boring equations in this camp as every day is loaded with hands-on activities and cool demonstrations. Your junior chemist will work with real lab tools, conduct experiments with all the states of matter, explore their home lab – the kitchen – and even create chemical works of art. Grab your goggles and join the chem-tastic fun.  Daily Themes: Chemistry Club; Reaction Time; Chemical Combo; Super Cool Concoctions; and Crazy Chem-mistry

Super-Duper Science Sampler – Grades 1 – 5  Explore five of the coolest branches of science on your way to becoming a certified Jr. Mad Scientist.  Discover how birds fly, how bugs walk on water and learn what an owl eats as we dissect owl pellets in Biology; build towering structures and ingenious contraptions via Engineering; experiment with Newton’s Laws of Motion and perform the Great Tablecloth Tug during Physics; stir-up crazy concoctions that become candy, ice cream and sidewalk chalk in Chemistry; then pan for gems, create thunder and lightning and make your own volcano in Earth Science.  It’s a camp so great it’s Super-Duper!  Daily Themes: Bird Biology; Crazy Chemistry; Earth Science; Jr. Engineers; and The Physics of Newton

Kate Semp

Kate Semp is a SAHM of 5 with a passion for travelling, cooking, technology and living life BIG. After graduating from William & Mary she did a stint in West Africa with the Peace Corps and teaching High School Biology. Trading in her passport for a wedding ring Kate moved to Richmond in 2001.

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