The Fleet Science Center offers a diverse range of hands-on STEM camps that encourage inquiry and innovation, allowing campers to engage with science in creative and interactive ways within a museum setting.
Fleet Science Center Summer STEM Camps offer diverse and enriching experiences for young, curious minds, encouraging inquiry and innovation through fascinating science concepts. Campers engage in hands-on experiments, intriguing investigations, and creative activities across various STEM fields. Activities include launching rockets, engineering egg drops, conducting acid-base experiments, building and programming robots, crafting, and growing crystals. The camps aim to pique curiosity, build confidence, and foster a lifelong interest in science topics, allowing children to see themselves as future astronauts, engineers, or scientists. The curriculum is designed to be hands-on, engaging, and accessible, covering topics from biology and chemistry to engineering and robotics.
A typical full day runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and includes hands-on experiments, investigations, and creative activities, with a supervised lunch and recess hour, often incorporating outdoor adventures in Balboa Park.
This camp is best for curious children in grades K-8 who enjoy hands-on activities, creative problem-solving, and exploring a wide range of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts.
1875 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101
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