2024 Summer Camps at Little Beakers - Sandy

Camp Descriptions and Schedule

To enroll in a 2024 Summer Camp session, click on the date and time of your preferred camp in the schedule below. Clicking on the date will take you to a new window, with a calendar and step by step instructions for reserving your spot. If the date/time on the calendar are not selectable, the camp is full. If that is the case, use the Contact Us form found at the bottom of the main page to have your name added to the waitlist (include camp name and date).


2024: A Science Odyssey - Bot Toyshop Camp offered June 3rd - 7th at 1:30 PM

  • Make and test drawing bots - take home

  • Tiny Racing Bots - Engineer, test, race, and take home

  • Conductive Playdough - take home

And the Eyes Have It! - All Glowing, 3-D & Optical Camp (3-day camp) offered July 1st - 3rd at 1:30 PM

  • Glow-in-the-dark volcanoes, chalk, and crystals - take home

  • Make 3-D and light diffraction glasses - take home

  • Make spectroscope and periscope - take home

Come On In…The Water’s Fine! - Marine Biology Camp #1 offered July 15th - 19th at 9 AM

  • Dissect preserved marine specimens (octopus, squid, shark)

  • Preparation of take-home specimen slides

  • Use standard and digital microscopes on specimens

Danger, Will Robinson! - Robotics & STEM Camp offered July 22nd - 26th at 1:30 PM

  • Solar power bots and simple machines

  • Electrochemistry to power clocks and lights

  • Car designs with highest velocity and acceleration, testing effects of friction with ramps

Don’t Try This at Home! - Chemical Reactions and Explosions Camp offered Aug 12th - 16th at 9 AM OR 1:30 PM

  • Use real lab tools and equipment to conduct chemical reaction experiments

  • Apply the scientific method while conducting chemical reaction experiments

  • Molecular model building and using standard and digital microscopes

Elementary! - Forensic Science Camp offered June 17th - 21st at 1:30 PM

  • Learn to use real forensic techniques and equipment

  • Make spy glasses and 3D glasses - take home

  • Mock-up Little Beakers crime scene investigation

Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog… - Mini-Vets Camp offered June 10th - 14th at 9 AM

  • Animal x-ray and anatomy analysis

  • Cow eye and frog dissections

  • Owl pellet investigation and analysis

It IS Safe to go Back in the Water… - Marine Biology Camp #2 offered August 5th - 9th at 1:30 PM

  • Dissect preserved marine specimens (sea urchin, sand dollar, stingray)

  • Mini boat engineering and testing - take home

  • Explore density and buoyancy through engineering and testing - multiple take homes

It’s Easy Being Green - Environmental Science Camp offered June 24th - 28th at 9 AM

  • Mini solar cars - Engineer, test and take home

  • Water treatment and recycling

  • Growing plant mazes and planters - take home

Just Take Two Aspirin… - Mini-Doctors Camp offered July 8th - 12th at 1:30 PM

  • Brain and heart dissections

  • Standard and digital microscope use, x-ray analysis

  • Analyzing bacterial growth using microbiological media

Make No Bones About It…This Will Be Fun! - Paleontology Camp offered June 10th - 14th at 1:30 PM OR July 29th - Aug 2nd at 1:30 PM

  • Take-home 3-ft dinosaur fossil set

  • Giant walk-through non-Newtonian “quick sand”

  • Analyze rock and gem samples

Move Over Musk! - Engineering and STEM Camp offered July 29th - Aug 2nd at 9 AM

  • Design and engineer light weight, boats - take home

  • Hydraulic machines, catapults, and roller coasters

  • Crash car designing, engineering and testing

So, What’s Bugging You? - Entomology and Annelids Camp offered June 3rd - 7th at 9 AM

  • Earthworm and grasshopper dissections

  • Use standard and digital microscopes

  • Sample collection and preparation of take-home microscope slides

Stand Back…She’s Gonna Blow! - Volcanoes, Reactions, and Explosions Camp offered June 17th - 21st at 9 AM OR July 15th - 19th at 1:30 PM

  • Build glow-in-the-dark volcanoes - take home

  • Explode volcanoes using various chemical reactions

  • Conduct chemical reaction experiments using real laboratory equipment

Tasty Chemistry - Chemistry in Food and Food in Chemistry offered July 22nd - 26th at 9 AM

  • The science of making ice-cream

  • Build and take home edible molecules, DNA and subatomic particles

  • Use electrochemistry to power lights and clocks

The More You Know, The More You Grow - Botany Camp offered July 8th - 12th at 9 AM

  • Mini greenhouse building and glowing flowers - take home

  • Create edible plant cell model - take home

  • Real carnivorous plant investigation

To Boldly Go Where No Kid Has Gone Before… - Astronomy and Aeronautics Camp offered Jun 24th - 28th at 1:30 PM OR Aug 5th - 9th at 9 AM

  • Build solar system model - take home

  • Build eclipse models - take home

  • Water and air Rockets design and testing

Will You Have What it Takes to Make it? - Survival Science Camp (3 Day Camp) offered July 1st - 3rd at 9 AM

  • Build a compass - take home

  • Design, build and test shelter models - take home

  • Build and test solar ovens and water filters - take home