9-11

Fantasy Game Night

For millennia humans have found ways to harness the power of wind. Consider this your challenge. How can you use the wind with purpose? Can you power a home? Can you move a stone?

For this vacation day join us to build a house and a wind turbine that powers an LED. Learn how wind turbines work, generate electricity, and send it to our homes. Experiment to see how much weight you can move with the power of the wind. 

Together, let's help the natural world thrive and grow!

Join forces with your fellow campers to build shelters for wildlife in East Rock Park. 
We will build Nest Boxes for Wood Ducks and Owls that dwell in the forest surrounding our site. In addition, each camper will build and paint their own Wood Duck to take home and float in the waters around.

Weather permitting, we will hike with binoculars on the trails along the Mill River to spot the first signs of spring wildlife emerging from the forest networks and traveling through. 

 

Circuit. The word has multiple meanings. For starters, the base definition of circuit is: “a roughly circular line, route, or movement that starts and finishes at the same place.” If you are referring to an electrical circuit, it is the same concept: “a complete and closed path around which a circulating electric current can flow.” In this project, we will create a circuit with multiple outcomes to solve a riddle: what connections need to be made to connect here and there? Join us as we build a fun circuit puzzle that will help strengthen our understanding of these complex pathways. 

For Engineers Week 2026, we are taking a closer look at the movements of the face! We take these movements and muscle memory for granted. Let’s pause, reflect, and discover just how intricate and involved our naturally adaptive faces are. Just like everything is connected in the human body, so are the mechanics of movement in manmade inventions. Create a mechanical face with impressive automation that will raise an eyebrow.

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

MLK Day is a time for us to celebrate our continual commitment to community and connections. Join us this year to honor the Assemblage Art of Betye Saar. Participants will build a reliquary to help tell their own story. By collecting found objects from the museum's vast collection, campers will curate their personalized collages.

Each camper will contribute to a Little Free Library that will live on the Museum campus for all to share.

We hope you will all visit this Community Project and hopefully bring a book and take one!

“I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology.”

- Betye Saar

This is a vacation program for children ages 9-11.

This is a vacation program for children ages 9-11.

A week of the wonderful world of Leonardo da Vinci!

This is a vacation program for children ages 9-11.