2025 Camp Descriptions: Little Beakers - Utah

 And the Eyes Have It! - All Glowing, 3-D and Optical Camp

• Glow-in-the-dark volcanoes, chalk, crystals, and density charms

• 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

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

• Preparation of take-home specimen slides

• Use of standard and digital microscopes on specimens

Danger, Will Robinson! - Bots and STEM Camp

• Solar power bots and simple machines

• Electrochemistry to power clocks and lights

• Car designs velocity and acceleration, testing effects of friction

Did Someone Call For A Doctor? - Jr. Doctor Camp *for Ages 9+* 

• Collect and study DNA - take home

• Identify and study organ systems

• Sheep/Cow eye, heart, brain, lung, kidney and liver dissections

Don’t Try This at Home! - Chemical Reactions and Explosions Camp *for Ages 9+*

• Use real lab tools and equipment to conduct advanced 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

• Learn to use real forensic techniques and equipment

• Take home spy scope and 3D glasses

• Mock-up Little Beakers crime scene investigation

Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog… - Mini-Vets Camp

• Animal x-ray and anatomy analysis

• Cow eye and frog dissections

• Owl pellet investigation and analysis

It’s Easy Being Green - Weather and Environmental Science Camp

• Mini solar cars - Engineer, test and take home

• Make a cloud in a bottle 

• Growing plant mazes and planters - take home

It IS Safe to Go Back in the Water! - Marine Biology Camp #2

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

• Explore density and buoyancy through engineering and testing 

• Use standard and digital microscopes

Just Take Two Aspirin… - Mini-Doctors Camp

• Brain and heart dissections

• Use standard and digital microscope, x-ray analysis 

• Analyzing bacterial growth using microbiological media

Make No Bones About It…This Will Be Fun! - Paleontology and Geology

• Take-home 3-ft dinosaur fossil set

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

• Analyze rock samples and make take home gems

Move Over Musk! - Engineering and STEM Camp

• Design and engineer light-weight boats - take home

• Hydraulic machines, catapults and roller coasters

• Crash car designing, engineering and testing

Gneiss, Tuff and a Little Bit Wacke! - Geology and Earth Science Camp

• Study and identify rock types and the rock cycle

• Erosion, weathering and deposition with volcanoes, glaciers and earthquakes

• Build a core to crust Earth model - take home

So, What’s Bugging You? - Entomology and Annelids Camp

• 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 

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

• Explode volcanoes using various chemical reactions

• Conduct chemical reactions using real laboratory equipment

Tasty Chemistry - Food in Chemistry and Chemistry in Food

• The science of making ice-cream

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

• Use electrochemistry to power lights and clocks

If They Build It, They’ll Have Fun! Simple Machines and Chain Reactions Camp *for Ages 9+*

• Introduce and test 5 basic simple machines

• Conduct experiments using Newton’s Laws of Motion

• Design, build and test a Rube Goldberg machine

To Boldly Go Where No Kid Has Gone Before… - Astronomy and Aeronautics Camp

• Build solar system model - take home

• Build an eclipse model - take home

• Water and air rocket design and testing