Camp COSI

Build amazing structures like catapults and newspaper towers by exploring simple machines.

Single-Day Camp Date:
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 : 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $60.00 per camper
Nonmembers – $65.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
8:00am - 9:00am – $5.00 per camper
4:00pm - 5:00pm – $5.00 per camper

Launch rockets, make solar system necklaces and explore the solar system with a visit to the COSI Planetarium.

Single-Day Camp Date:
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 : 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $60.00 per camper
Nonmembers – $65.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
8:00am - 9:00am – $5.00 per camper
4:00pm - 5:00pm – $5.00 per camper

Get energized with electricity by exploring circuits and Watts. Experience electricity by trying out our Electrostatic Generator!

Single-Day Camp Date:
Thursday, May 31, 2018 : 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $60.00 per camper
Nonmembers – $65.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
8:00am - 9:00am – $5.00 per camper
4:00pm - 5:00pm – $5.00 per camper

Time to put on your lab coat and goggles as we become Chemists. Take a look into the states of matter and what is a chemical or physical change.

Single-Day Camp Date:
Friday, June 1, 2018 : 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $60.00 per camper
Nonmembers – $65.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
8:00am - 9:00am – $5.00 per camper
4:00pm - 5:00pm – $5.00 per camper

Build amazing structures like catapults and newspaper towers by exploring simple machines.

Single-Day Camp Date:
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 : 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $60.00 per camper
Nonmembers – $65.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
8:00am - 9:00am – $5.00 per camper
4:00pm - 5:00pm – $5.00 per camper

Launch rockets, make solar system necklaces and explore the solar system with a visit to the COSI Planetarium.

Single-Day Camp Date:
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 : 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $60.00 per camper
Nonmembers – $65.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
8:00am - 9:00am – $5.00 per camper
4:00pm - 5:00pm – $5.00 per camper

Get energized with electricity by exploring circuits and Watts. Experience electricity by trying out our Electrostatic Generator!

Single-Day Camp Date:
Thursday, May 31, 2018 : 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $60.00 per camper
Nonmembers – $65.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
8:00am - 9:00am – $5.00 per camper
4:00pm - 5:00pm – $5.00 per camper

Time to put on your lab coat and goggles as we become Chemists. Take a look into the states of matter and what is a chemical or physical change.

Single-Day Camp Date:
Friday, June 1, 2018 : 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $60.00 per camper
Nonmembers – $65.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
8:00am - 9:00am – $5.00 per camper
4:00pm - 5:00pm – $5.00 per camper

Dress for a mess and prepare to get gooey with COSI’s famous Messy Science. Together, we’ll experiment with COSI’s top secret formulas for flubber, oobleck, slime, and other chemical concoctions. Along the way, we’ll investigate chemical and physical changes and make things ooze, slime, and pop!

Weeklong Camp Dates:
June 11 - June 15, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm
July 23 - July 28, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Design, build, test, and redesign in this imaginative, inventive hands-on camp. First, we’ll explore simple machines and force and motion to see how they power the world around us, then we’ll become engineers to see how our designs can become taller, faster, stronger, and more efficient!

Weeklong Camp Dates:
June 18 - June 22, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Have an aspiring paleontologist in your family? In this larger-than-life week of camp, we’ll dig deep into the world of dinosaurs to explore how these amazing creatures moved, ate, lived, and died. Together, we’ll analyze fossils, dig for artifacts, and even walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs… and the scientists who study them!

Weeklong Camp Dates:
June 25 - June 29, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm
July 30 - August 3, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Colors, shadows, light, perception... Art is science brought to life! In this collaborative and creative camp, aspiring artists and rising scientists alike will join forces to experiment with color mixing, multiple media, and sensational showcases to display the magnificent – and sometimes messy! – world of art.

Weeklong Camp Dates:
July 9 - July 13, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Ever wonder what’s out there? Get a new perspective with COSI’s Space Camp, an out-of-this-world week of interstellar exploration! We’ll explore our Solar System, engineer rockets, and learn about life in space. Plus, we’ll get an exclusive showing inside COSI’s Planetarium – the largest in Ohio!

Weeklong Camp Dates:
July 16 - July 20, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm
August 6 - August 10, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Do you have what it takes to become the next great space explorer? COSI’s Astronaut Adventures camp will take you on an out-of-this-world trip beyond Earth’s atmosphere to explore our Solar System and beyond, engineer rockets, and see the marvels of space up-close in an exclusive show in our Planetarium.

Weeklong Camp Dates:
June 11 - June 15, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

If play is the highest form of research, join us in an advanced course! In COSI’s Dare to Design camp, we’ll explore the engineering that makes our world a better place to live. Experiment with simple machines, force and motion, and more as we innovate and explore to solve real-world challenges.

Weeklong Camp Dates:
June 18 - June 22, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Do you think science is cool? I mean, really cool? COSI’s one-of-a-kind Silly Science camp is for you. In this behind-the-scenes camp, we’ll explore some of COSI’s classics like you’ve never seen them before. You’ll get an inside look at our top secret slime recipe, see how we make things pop, fizz, and bubble, and see the crazy-cold effects of liquid nitrogen up close.

Weeklong Camp Dates:
June 25 - June 29, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm
August 6 - August 10, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

What is a robot? How does it work? There’s one way to find out. During the week camps will explore energy, circuitry, and the “language” robots speak: programming! Working in pairs, campers will get hands-on to learn programming basics with Bee Bots, then take control of real LEGO® WEDO robots that light up, make noise, and move!

Weeklong Camp Dates:
July 9 - July 13, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm
July 16 - July 20, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm
July 30 - August 3, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Nah, it’s Super-Science! Come prepared for your super hero training by using science to bring “impossible” super powers to life! Learn to levitate, create weather, and even fly!

Weeklong Camp Dates:
July 16 - July 20, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

65 million years ago, giants walked the Earth. In this one-of-a-kind camp, we’ll dig into the science of these prehistoric creatures to explore the world they lived in, how they survived, and the evidence they left behind. Plus, we’ll get an amazing look at the American Museum of Natural History’s Dinosaur Gallery to explore amazing artifacts and the latest scientific evidence.

Weeklong Camp Dates:
July 23 - July 28, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Become a part of an engineering team using a LEGO® Mindstorms® EV3 robot – a sophisticated and state-of-the-art handheld robot waiting for your input. Working in pairs we will put our robot to the test to complete an array of challenges. Throughout the week campers will learn the importance of robot sensors, and how these sensors allow the robot to “see” the world around them. Practice programming, sequencing, measurement, teamwork and more as you test and adjust your plan one step at a time.

Weeklong Camp Dates:
June 11 - June 15, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm
July 16 - July 20, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Hold on tight! In this thrilling week of camp, we’ll explore the science of screams to design, build, and test our own roller coasters. Then, we’re off to an exclusive tour of Kings Island to spend the day riding some of the world’s best rides and learning what it takes to make them work. Not a thrill ride junkie? No worries! All thrill levels are welcome. (Cost for this camp is $375 for COSI Members and $405 for general guests as it includes park admission to Kings Island)

Weeklong Camp Dates:
June 18 - June 22, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $375.00 per camper
Non-Members – $405.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Prepare for blast off as we take a new look at space in this exhilarating interstellar camp. How do humans explore space? To find out, we’ll examine how we learn about the universe beyond our home planet and get hands-on with rockets, rovers, and astronaut missions. Of course, we’ll also get closer than ever with exclusive access to the Planetarium at COSI – the largest in Ohio!

Weeklong Camp Dates:
June 25 - June 29, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Do you spend your summer playing video games? Ever dream of developing your own? It all begins with COSI’s cutting-edge Video Games camp, where we’ll explore basic programming concepts with the Scratch software, then develop, experiment and expand to create a shareable video game for all to enjoy.

Weeklong Camp Dates:
July 9 - July 13, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm
August 6 - August 10, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Bring the scientific method to life in this chemistry camp for all, as we explore the chemical and physical changes that surround us. How can something be not a gas, not quite a liquid, but not really a solid? What is Flubber? Or “elephant toothpaste?” Explore it all when we get up-close and personal with chemistry.

Weeklong Camp Dates:
July 23 - July 27, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Trouble’s afoot, and we need your help! How can science help solve a mystery? That’s the question, and in this astounding forensic exploration, we’ll use science to find out the answer. As tension builds and the excitement rises, you’ll collect clues, analyze evidence, and study the suspects… can you solve the case?

Weeklong Camp Dates:
July 30 - August 3, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $300.00 per camper
Non-Members – $330.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Do you spend your summer playing video games? Ever dream of developing your own? In Tech Studio’s Video Games camp, we’ll explore game mechanics, character design, and advanced programming concepts with MIT’s Scratch. Campers will develop a story and bring it to life in the form of a challenging, interactive game.

Weeklong Camp Dates:
June 18 - June 22, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $375.00 per camper
Non-Members – $405.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Dig deeper into programming of robots. Campers will work in pairs to program EV3 robots to complete challenges. Installing and using robotic senses, campers will lead their LEGO® EV3 Robots to accomplish a variety of challenges.

Weeklong Camp Dates:
June 25 - June 29, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $375.00 per camper
Non-Members – $405.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Are you an aspiring songwriter? Ever wonder about music creation software? Tech Studio’s music programming camp will focus on foundational music theory lessons and apply these lessons to Apple’s Logic Pro X software. Campers will learn to program a drum beat through a discussion of common uses of musical meter and percussion instruments, develop a bassline by utilizing scales, and implement the basics of melody and harmony.

Weeklong Camp Dates:
July 9 - July 13, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $375.00 per camper
Non-Members – $405.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Plug into the world of electronics and learn how the components in your everyday devices are wired and programmed. Campers will build a foundation in circuitry and JavaScript coding with Micro:bit! They will apply their new skills by programming sensors and LED lights into useful, real world, interactive devices.

Weeklong Camp Dates:
July 23 - July 27, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $375.00 per camper
Non-Members – $405.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Transform your creativity from a computer screen to the real world through 3D modeling and printing. Educators in COSI’s Tech Studio will teach campers to design 3D models in Autodesk design software, and guide small workgroups in a collaborative, team driven design challenge, resulting in an assembled 3D print to be displayed in the Tech Studio!

Weeklong Camp Dates:
August 6 - August 10, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $375.00 per camper
Non-Members – $405.00 per camper

Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:
4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Purchase the High School Tech Week Full Week Experience package. This package includes all 5 camps for a discounted rate.

High School Tech Week Full Week Camp Dates:
Monday, June 4, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Tuesday, June 5, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Wednesday, June 6, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Thursday, June 7, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Friday, June 8, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $400.00 per camper
Non-Members – $430.00 per camper

Learn to create digital art by exploring the tools of Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator. Discover how your digital creation can be realized into a physical product with the use of Tech Studio's laser cutter and vinyl cutter.

High School Tech Week Day 1 Camp Date:
Monday, June 4, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $90.00 per camper
Non-Members – $100.00 per camper

Work with DSLR camera and learn basic camera functions (shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and frame rates) and videography techniques. Additionally, explore Adobe’s Premiere Pro software for video editing.

High School Tech Week Day 2 Camp Date:
Tuesday, June 5, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $90.00 per camper
Non-Members – $100.00 per camper

Use Apple’s Logic Pro X software to create music with virtual instruments incorporating lessons on music theory.

High School Tech Week Day 3 Camp Date:
Wednesday, June 6, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $90.00 per camper
Non-Members – $100.00 per camper

Receive an introduction to the Arduino language and construct basic circuits using the Arduino Uno microcontroller and solderless breadboard. Also learn to write code to take input from sensors and control LED lights.

High School Tech Week Day 4 Camp Date:
Thursday, June 7, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $90.00 per camper
Non-Members – $100.00 per camper

Learn to use Autodesk software for 3D modeling. Additionally, concepts of 3D printing will be discussed and Tech Studio printers will be on display

High School Tech Week Day 5 Camp Date:
Friday, June 8, 2018: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $90.00 per camper
Non-Members – $100.00 per camper

Enhance your knowledge of design as you discover the science behind colors, pixels, and more. Participants receive a snack and take home art project.

Single-Day Camp Date:
June 9, 2018: 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Cost:
Members – $30.00 per camper
Non-Members – $33.00 per camper