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ABOUT DESTINATION SCIENCE
Join us this summer for 4 exciting weeks of summer science fun. These camps are kid tested and mother approved!
Destination Science provides a fun, safe and unique environment for exploration. Its four week-long programs are bursting with innovative, imaginative and unexpected science adventures for boys and girls ages 5-11.
Destination Science Camps gets KIDS EXCITED ABOUT SCIENCE and BUILDS GREAT LIFE SKILLS, while making fun discoveries, participating in engaging activities, and building cool science projects. Kids develop confidence and enthusiasm about science as they gain knowledge about how the world around them works. Kids build character and skills for life—including Curiosity, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cooperation, Persistence and more.
Destination Science kids experience “Aha!” moments of understanding, creativity, and curiosity while engineering, building, experimenting, and playing with astonishing gadgets and fantastic gizmos. Our top notch, enthusiastic educators make STEM learning an adventure! Build Soccer-Bots and Rube Cube Goldberg-like contraptions; roller coasters, carnivals, and marine explorers; build and train four robots and engineer with techno toys; build a dinosaur roverbot and launch to a fantastical planet. 2018 topics: Science Makers and Inventors Camp, Amusement Park Science Camp, Transforming Robots Camp, and Rovers Rocketing to Space Camp.
Destination Science provides a fun, safe and unique environment for exploration. Its four week-long programs are bursting with innovative, imaginative and unexpected science adventures for boys and girls ages 5-11.
OUR FORMULA FOR SUCCESS
COOL ACTIVITIES
Long before the first excited campers arrive at DS our expert Curriculum Development Team has searched the globe looking for unique building kits, astonishing gadgets & gizmos, and the best toys, with one big purpose; to stimulate young minds. We keep things fresh every year by presenting lots of exciting new activities.
PLAYFUL PRESENTATIONS
Pair these world-class, original activities with important science concepts and rich science vocabulary all wrapped up in an engaging, child-friendly presentation designed to help our kids understand the world around them. We make it a camp, not a summer school, that enriches kids through actual doing, not sitting.
GREAT STAFF
Hire the most motivated teachers who know how to make it fun and exciting to ask great questions, figure things out, invent, be curious and to play with a purpose in a safe, no pressure place that treasures open minds and the unique differences in all of our children.
LIFE SKILLS
At Destination Science, we use science to prepare your child for life! We make it fun and easy for kids to be excited, curious & confident about science! This early enthusiasm is a huge boost for our children that will help them both in and out of school. They appreciate and value the wonder of the world around them and take better care of it now, and as adults. Developing curiosity makes kids lifelong learners about everything. Our staff trained in special techniques, reinforces essential character qualities and life skills such as Creativity, Persistence, Confidence, Cooperation & Respect and more!.
LEARNING CONTINUES
Campers get to take home their projects, gizmos, gadgets & toys each day, along with a Brain Power Card. These cards give parents great questions to ask the kids about each project. This encourages family communication and puts children in the role of teacher, developing their confidence and pride. At Destination Science we know one of the great secrets of education: We learn things best when we have to explain them to someone else!
SCIENCE MAKERS & INVENTORS CAMP!
BUILD SOCCER-BOTS & RUBE GOLDBERG-LIKE CONTRAPTIONS.
Sports meets science with our Soccer-Robots & more! Become an engineer & invent your own science fun with moving motors, circuits & zip lines. Turn up the curiosity as you build your own Rube Goldberg inspired chain reactions using Newton’s Laws, crazy chemistry, & electric circuits. The fun never ends because your inventions go home. The world needs inventors like you!
Build Soccer-Bots | Design & create your frisbee golf course & skate park | Invent a pulley powered zip-line | Innovate your own sunglasses & spirographs | Build contraptions & electric circuits | Discover chemical reactions
TRANSFORMING ROBOTS CAMP!
BUILD & TRAIN 4 ROBOTS & ENGINEER WITH TECHNO TOYS.
Discover today’s real robot transformers while you build one of your very own. Will you design yours to be a skyscraping Megabot or a racing Autobot? Prepare your transformer to parade, race, battle, and join in on the robot tug-of-war. Use the Engineering Design Process to complete challenges with cool techno-toys. This camp includes 4 amazing robots all designed by you and trained to follow you home.
Build & battle your robotic transformer | Train your programmable robot pet | Explore a sensor tracking robot | Design & build a spin & turn robot | Experiment with your own infrared remote controlled bug | Take home the full room “colors of light” projector & handheld 3D printers
AMUSEMENT PARK SCIENCE CAMP!
ROLLER COASTERS, CARNIVALS & MARINE EXPLORERS
Have you ever designed an amusement park? Join us & build your own kid-powered roller coaster – The Great Gravity Dropper! This coaster employs the power of physics including velocity, acceleration, speed, gravity & inertia. Engineer & innovate a crazy fun backyard carnival including centripetal force, simple machines & catapulting games. Next create your own floating Ocean Explorer for our new Marineland Exhibit. Touch a real shark & other marine specimens.
Build a working roller coaster | Experiment with tracks galore to design the longest, fastest, loop-the-loop coaster ever created! | Create challenges using centripetal force & catapulting science | Fish for prizes using the power of magnetism | Make & take an Ocean Explorer | Marine Touch & Learn Station: real shark, sea star, hermit crab | Explore the jet propulsion motion of the giant squid
ROVERS ROCKETING TO SPACE CAMP!
BUILD A DINOSAUR ROVER-BOT & LAUNCH A ROCKET TO A FANTASTICAL PLANET
Calling all future astronauts, we’re returning to space… Destination Dinoterra! A newly discovered planet inhabited with alien dinosaurs. Design & build your own Space Rover to gather & transmit information back to Earth. Become a rocket scientist as you build & blast-off your super-stellar H2O rocket. Astronomical fun & learning lasts all summer when you bring your robot, rocket, launch system & everything you made lands back home.
Build a motorized Space Rover | Discover Dinosaur facts | Excavate Meteorites, Dino Teeth & Copolite | Build & Launch your own H2O rockets | Engineer & design a 3D solar system map & constellation window | Experience Interplanetary mining | Take Home your own flying Drone Explorer
LEADERS IN TRAINING Grades 7th-11th
Has your teen previously participated in the Destination Science camp experience? Have they mentioned how they wish they could still be involved with Destination Science? Are they looking for something new and exciting to do this summer? Would they like to add real leadership experience to their school resumes? If so, they may want to consider becoming a Leader in Training with Destination Science!
WHAT IS LEADERS IN TRAINING? Leaders in Training is a hands-on leadership experience for kids entering 7th through 11th grade in the fall of 2018. This is perfect for graduates of Destination Science camp, student body officers, or any students interested in gaining real-world leadership experience.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: June 13, 2018 | Training Date & Time: June 23, 2018, 10:00am-3:00pm | Training Location: Adelphi University, Garden City
WE BUILD CURIOUS KIDS!
In all of our activities, we teach children how to ask great questions and how to wonder out loud. Every day provides opportunities to create new things and imagine. At Destination Science, we use science to prepare your child for life!
KIDS LOVE IT! We’re safe, non-stop fun, so kids can’t wait to go every day! We comb the globe every year searching for fun, child friendly materials that captivate & engage campers into the world of science. Our projects are innovative & diverse and best of all campers get to take home all of their creations.
DS IS REALLY GOOD FOR KIDS! Parents love that our fun-filled programs make positive, powerful differences in their children—giving life-long value! Our program is meticulously designed to use fun science as a tool to grow terrific skills for everyday life, including: PERSISTENCE, COOPERATION, CREATIVITY AND ESPECIALLY…CURIOSITY!
Science! STEM!!
STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) learning is more important than ever before. It has become a national movement. At Destination Science, we say “Science is a Way of Thinking!” When we know how to “do” science, we know how to be creative, critical, and organized thinkers and problem solvers. STEM is the educational backbone we use at Destination Science to keep our campers engaged in the world of science. By combining these four disciplines, we’re able to ensure that every student leaves camp with a new sense of empowerment, critical thinking, creative skills, and a collaborative mindset in solving problems.
TOP-NOTCH TEACHERS!
Highly enthusiastic teachers provide mature, professional leadership! They love seeing kids have fun while learning and exploring. Teaming up with these teachers are carefully selected university students with strong interests and abilities to lead and motivate young people. All of our staff are personally interviewed, background screened, and receive professional training to deliver our program with excellence and enthusiasm.
LASTING VALUE! NEW FRIENDSHIPS!
Kids take home all the projects & toys they build themselves to keep the fun and learning going long after camp is done! Campers love sharing with friends & family what they made & the science behind it.
PERSISTENCE, COOPERATION, CREATIVITY AND ESPECIALLY…CURIOSITY! NEW FRIENDS! Destination Science is a warm, wonderful environment where kids feel comfortable making connections with others! Parents tell us that their child loves that everyone at camp shares the idea that it is cool to be smart!
SCIENCE PREPARES KIDS FOR LIFE
We make it fun and easy for kids to be excited, curious & confident about science! Children appreciate and value the wonder of the world around them and take better care of it now, and as adults. Developing curiosity makes kids lifelong learners about everything.
We develop creativity, imagination, and the emotional intelligence needed to collaborate and develop great relationships with others. Our activities, teach kids how to ask great questions and how to wonder. We have special time every day for games and activities where children work with others to solve fun challenges and problems.
Campers will have their interest sparked in ways that motivate them to study science with confidence and enthusiasm. Encouraging kids to consider careers in science, engineering, and technology. The imaginative thinking that we develop is also necessary in design, art, music, and other creative fields. That’s good for them, and good for the world.
CAMPING EXPERIENCE
A typical day at camp includes both indoor and outdoor science activities, outdoor games, and one super-fun rally! After checking in and getting the day started, we’ll start with our first science station of the day, this activity includes a long-term project that will be completed by Friday. From there, we grab our snack and head outside to experience some outside action. Some of our outside activities include games with a SPLASH, so be prepared for some watery fun!
Next up…Engineering 2018! Campers will work in small teams to design creative solutions to fun challenges. Followed by lunch & fun group games. We will round out the day with our third exciting science station until it is time to say goodbye at 3:00, where we wrap up the lessons of the day and get ready for a whole new day of science tomorrow!
CAMPER GROUPINGS
At Destination Science, we’ve designed our camp themes for kids ages 5 to 11. In order for everyone to get the attention they deserve, we only have 14 to a group, separated by ages, so typically the five and six-year-olds work as a team, the seven and eight-year-olds group up, and those nine and older learn together.
DATES AND TIMES EXTENDED CARE
Our camps are held Monday through Friday, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm., during the summer beginning in early June and run through August. Each camp location has it’s own unique scheduling dates, so check your local listings for your particular camp’s details. All campsites will be closed on July 4th.
Our morning Extended Care lasts from 8:00am to 9:00 am and is $30 per week. Our after-camp Extended Care lasts from 3:00 pm to 5:00 or 5:30 pm (varies by location) and costs $65 per week. NOTE: You must register in advance to take advantage of these offers.
OUTDOOR GAMES WITH A SPLASH
Afternoons in the summer can get hot, so we play games designed us cool us off. Games that include a SPLASH of water. Kids do not need to wear or bring swim suits or towels, but occasionally your child may come home a little damp.
CAMP SPIRIT DAYS
It just wouldn’t be camp without the fun of Camp Spirit Days!
Thursday is “Crazy Dress-up Day!....Transforming Robots Camp! Robo Wear Day | Science Makers & Inventors Camp! Super Hero Day | Amusement Park Science Camp! Crazy Hair and Crazy Socks Day | Rovers Rocketing to Space Camp! Alien Day
Friday is “Wear Your Team Color” day!
