Camp COSI

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)

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)

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 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)

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)

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)

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)