2025 Summer Camps at Little Beakers - Sandy

Camp Descriptions and Schedule

To enroll in a 2025 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 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 request to have your name added to the waitlist (include camp name and date).

And the Eyes Have It! - All Glowing, 3-D & Optical Camp (4-day camp) offered June 30th - July 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 14th - 18th 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! - Bots & STEM Camp offered July 21st - 25th at 1:30 PM

  • Solar power bots - take home

  • Electrochemistry to power clocks and lights

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

Did Someone Call For a Doctor? - Junior Doctors Camp **AGES 9+ offered June 23rd - 27th at 9 AM

  • 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 **AGES 9+ offered July 28th - Aug 1st at 1:30 PM

  • 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 offered June 23rd - 27th 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 16th - 20th at 1:30 PM

  • Animal x-ray and anatomy analysis

  • Cow eye and frog dissections

  • Owl pellet investigation and analysis

If They Build it, They’ll Have Fun! Simple Machines and Chain Reactions Camp **AGES 9+ offered June 2nd - 6th at 1:30 PM

  • Introduce and test 5 basic simple machines

  • Conduct experiments using Newton’s Laws of Motion

  • Design, build and test a Rube Goldberg machine

It IS Safe to go Back in the Water… - Marine Biology Camp #2 offered August 4th - 8th at 1:30 PM

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

  • Mini boat engineering and testing - take home

  • Water treatment and oil spill clean-up

It’s Easy Being Green - Weather and Environmental Science Camp (4-day camp) offered June 30th - July 3rd at 9 AM

  • Mini solar cars - Engineer, test and take home

  • Making clouds in a bottle

  • Growing plant mazes and planters - take home

Just Take Two Aspirin… - Mini-Doctors Camp offered June 9th - 13th at 9 AM

  • 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 9th - 13th at 1:30 PM OR July 14th - 18th 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 28th - Aug 1st at 9 AM

  • Apply engineering process to design, build and test bridges and structures - take home

  • Hydraulic machines, catapults, and roller coasters

  • Crash car designing, engineering and testing

Shake, Rattle and Roll! Geology and Earth Science Camp offered July 7th - 11th at 9 AM

  • 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 offered June 2nd - 6th 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 16th - 20th at 9 AM OR Aug 11th - 15th 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 21st - 25th at 9 AM

  • The science of making ice-cream

  • Study the influence of temperature and air movement on crystal formation

  • Use electrochemistry to power lights and clocks

To Boldly Go Where No Kid Has Gone Before… - Astronomy and Aeronautics Camp offered July 7th - 11th at 1:30 PM OR Aug 4th - 8th at 9 AM

  • Build solar system model - take home

  • Build eclipse models - take home

  • Water and air rockets design and testing