Camp COSI

Does your youngest scientist want to keep the learning going this summer? COSI provides a great opportunity for preschoolers to engage with science during the summer! Week long camps offered for ages 3-5 for kids not yet ready to go in to Kindergarten. This camp is half day that includes a daily snack and all supplies. Become a different scientist every day, and explore with us here at COSI!

Weeklong Camp Dates:August 5 - August 9, 2019: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Weeklong Camp Fees:$150.00 - Members | $165.00 Non-Members

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:July 8 - July 12, 2019: 9:00am - 4:00pm
July 29 - August 2, 2019: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Weeklong Camp Fees:$300.00 - Members | $330.00 Non-Members
Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Lace up your boots, ready your tools, and step into the great outdoors with Camp COSI as your guide! In this extraordinary introduction to the natural world, we’ll get our hands dirty by meeting COSI’s living animal collection, exploring habitats, ecosystems, and the interactions between living things that make our world a spectacular place to live -- all from inside the walls of COSI!

Weeklong Camp Dates:July 22 - July 26, 2019: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Weeklong Camp Fees:$300.00 - Members | $330.00 Non-Members
Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

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:August 5 - August 9, 2019: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Weeklong Camp Fees:$300.00 - Members | $330.00 Non-Members
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:July 8 - July 12, 2019: 9:00am - 4:00pm
July 29 - August 2, 2019: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Weeklong Camp Fees:$300.00 - Members | $330.00 Non-Members
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:July 22 - July 26, 2019: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Weeklong Camp Fees:$300.00 - Members | $330.00 Non-Members
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 22 - July 26, 2019: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Weeklong Camp Fees:$300.00 - Members | $330.00 Non-Members
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:August 5 - August 9, 2019: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Weeklong Camp Fees:$300.00 - Members | $330.00 Non-Members
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 8 - July 12, 2019: 9:00am - 4:00pm
August 5 - August 9, 2019: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Weeklong Camp Fees:$300.00 - Members | $330.00 Non-Members
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:July 22 - July 26, 2019: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Weeklong Camp Fees:$300.00 - Members | $330.00 Non-Members
Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

What does it take to build a skyscraper? A rollercoaster? Wire a house? At this camp, you'll learn what different engineers do to design the world around us then see if you have what it takes to join them! With a different design challenge each day, what will you build?

Weeklong Camp Dates:July 29 - August 2, 2019: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Weeklong Camp Fees:$300.00 - Members | $330.00 Non-Members
Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)

Learn to create digital art with Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator! Campers will explore photo compositing and vector art while discovering how their digital creations can be realized into physical products through the use of Tech Studio's laser cutter and vinyl cutter.

Weeklong Camp Dates:July 29 - August 2, 2019: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Weeklong Camp Fees:$300.00 - Members | $330.00 Non-Members
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. Campers will learn to design 3D models in Autodesk design software, print one of their models using Tech Studio’s variety of 3D printers, and discuss the past/present/future of additive manufacturing.

Weeklong Camp Dates:August 5 - August 9, 2019: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Weeklong Camp Fees:$300.00 - Members | $330.00 Non-Members
Optional Wrap-Around Care Fees:4:00pm - 5:30pm – $10.00 per day, per camper (A snack will be provided)