Stem And Steam Camp Summer Dates
Plainview and Oyster Bay Locations
Ages 5-15 Campers 5-111, 12-15 year olds can be considered CITs and come to camp at a reduced rate in exchange for assistance with materials and help with the younger campers.
16 year olds who have worked as CITs are eligible for assistantship postions starting at $15./hour
Monday-Thursday 9:30-12:30
$55/day or $200/week
Ages 12-15 year olds CITs $25/day
June 27th and June 28th Oyster Bay
July 1st- 3rd Plainview
July 8th-11th Plainview
July 15th-18th Plainview
July 22nd-25th Plainview
August 19th-22nd Oyster Bay
August 26th-29th Oyster Bay
Classes in both locations make full use of a town of Oyster Bay park in walking distance. Each day includes a stem project, games and activities, nature exploration and playground time. Bathing suits are recommended for sprinker/splash pool time on very hot days.
Call or text message 646-283-4192 to reserve your space
Daily Schedule
9:20-10:00 As campers arrive they participate in a collaborative building project, involving paper, clay, legos and up-cycled materials
10-11:00 Campers begin their independent take home project of the day(campers can choose the daily project or one from previous days they may have missed).
11:00 Snack and bathroom break, sunscreen applied
11:15-12:15 Outdoor time, this may include; rocket launches, nature exploration, playground time, scavenger hunts and cooperative games or time in our splash pool
12:15 Pack up and Clean up time or quiet indoor game
Collaborative Building
Each week we have a different collaborative design project. Ages 5-12 work together to build one aspect of a village. During week 1, we built bridges. One of our older students attempted to make hers a drawbridge while another proceeded to teach us about Humbolt Squid, which he drew beautifully in the water, while others chose to build roads connecting to the bridges and lego cars to travel along them. Collaborative building is entirely camper led with instructor support for materials and ideas. Each child is encouraged to become engaged in one aspect of the process.
June 27th and 28th
Imaginary Creatures
We’ll let our imaginations run amok as we envision then create our own imaginary friends. We’ll add a motor and watch them wiggle and dance. We’ll collaboratively build a play space for our creatures to move around through as well as a playground in a box for them to enjoy!
Week #2
Tuesday July 2nd, Wed. July 3rd and Friday July 5th
Red, White and Blue; Color Your World!
BEgin each day by following the paint splatter to our colorful room and add to our collaborative mural.
Tuesday:
We’ll make a rainbow in a bowl and make a firework launcher. We’ll look at the science behind rainbows and take home a pair of light difracting glasses to watch the fireworks.
Wednesday:
Light up the night! We’ll make light up firefilies and a light up lava lamp. We’ll also mix a glow in the dark concotion.
Friday:
Black Light Party! Wear some white and we’ll watch it glow. We’ll mix a rainbow in a bowl and make a color changing potion. We’ll alo make fiary gardens and gnome homes with glowing rocks to light up your gardens at night!
Week #3
July 9th and 11th
Bubbly Mixtures and Slimy Concotions
Tuesday: Elephant Toothpaste and Oobleck!
Just like on Nickelodeon, it’s time to get slimed!
We’ll make a slimy mixure of oobleck in our wading pool and have some fun sliming one another. Oobleck is made from cornstrch and water and washes off clothng and hair easily (however participants can choose to opt out of being slimed :).
Indoors we’ll make a bubbly beverage and mix up a batch of elephant toothhpaste, then watch as it oozes out of our bottled containers from a frothy mess!
Thursday:
Indoors
We’ll make stretchy slime today add a host of ingredients and experiement to see which we like best. We’ll also make a bubbly potion in our cauldrons.
Outdoors: We’ll try out the Gazillion Bubble Show’s recipe for the most resilient bubbles and watch them soar.
Week#4
July 15th-July 18th
Dinosaurs Roar!
Each morning will begin with cooperative additions ot our Jurassic Park as we add volcanoes, trees, giant insects and more of what our imaginations dictate.
Monday: We begin our journey by resurrecting some ancient dinosaurs. We’ll preserve a fly in amber, then learn about DNA as we extract it from a strawberry and envision how Jurassic Park was conceived. We’ll also set up a decomposition experiment using apple cores in soil, sand rocks do determine rates of decompostion.
Tuesday: We’ll make a mud flat and bury our dinosaurs inside, then let it harden in the sun. When we return from our outdoor playtime, we’ll use excavation tools to unearth them.
Wednesday: We’ll begin to build our own hybirdized dinosuars based on common characteristics of dinos we know. For example our dino might walk on two legs but have Stegasarus sails or an Ankylosaurus club tail. We’ll use boxes and duct tape to build our dinos.
Since volcanoes are closely associated with the Jurassic period, we’ll build two types of volcanoes and make some awesome flowing lava flumes.
Thursday: We’ll unearth our decomposing apple cores, explode our volcanoes again and complete our Jurassic Park scene.
Week #5
Medieval Times
July 22nd-July 25th
Each day will begin with the construction and additions to our Medieval Castles. Camperw will work in teams adding to and elaborating on theri castles.
Monday: We’ll learn about fire breathing dragons, make a dragon hoop glider and learn how dragons may have managed flight.
Tuesday: We’ll use ziplines and pulleys to carry ammo and goods around the castle, design and construct our catapults and prepare for battle.
Wednesday: We’ll design swords and armor to protect ourselves in battle. We’ll tweak our catapult designs and add reinforcements to our castles. We’ll also prepare our supply of ammo for our impending battle!
Thursday: It’s time to storm the castle! Using our handmade catapults on wheels, we’ll maneuver them to storm our enemies castles, devising a game of skill and strategy to defeat our rival villagers.
Week #6
July 29th-Aug. 1st
Space Week
Monday: We begin our journey on Earth and build a variety of rockets to launch us out of the Earth’s atmosphere. We’ll learn the parts of rockets and how they work, we’ll launch a water rocket as well as alka seltzer rockets to get us to the ISS
Tuesday: We’ll arrive aboard the ISS,. prepare a dehydrated space snack, use lots of velcro and experience a bit of what life is like for astronauts living aboard the ISS. We’’ll build space probes and launch them using our alka seltzer rockets
Wednesday: We’ll begin our solar system models as we continue to explore outward into space. We’ll design each planet then attach them to our model.
Thursday: We’ll add details to our solar system models, then with a short burst of air, we’ll make our way back to earth. We’ll examine the earth’s layers and make an edible earth to enjoy!
August 19th-22nd
Creative Chemistry
Monday: We’ll blow up balloons uisng the power of chemistry and make our own sour dough starter. We’ll make our own bread and watch it rise!
Tuesday: We’ll make some color changing mixtures and test a variety of household items for thier acidity. We’ll also make some homemade play doh with neon colors mix ins.
Wednesday: We’ll observe sinking and floating phenomeno as we make our own lava lamps, and experiement with a cartesian diver inside a soda bottle.
Thursday: We’ll learn about freezing and melting points as we make our own variety of homemade ice cream!
Undersea Adventures
August 26-29th
Each day will begin with some time to add to our undersea mural depicting the layers of the ocean as wel head deeper and deeper
Monday: Taking advantage of the low tide, we’ll also do some crab hunting today, as it will be low tide as well as some beach combing. Then build a coral reef terrarium using colorful clay and gravel as well as our beach findings.
Tuesday: We’ll dscover sharks and map out the shortest to the larget. We’ll dig for shark teeth and make a model of a megalodon tooth! Then we’ll dive deeper to make an angler fish model complete with a cricuit to light it up.
Wednesday: We’ll make a hydrothermal vent community in our terrariums and explode our underwater volcanoes.
Thursday: We’ll design a tool to explore the ocean bottom while at the surface and test it out at Roosevelt Beach. We’ll design different methods for powering boats using balloon powered motors, paddles and sails.