Disruptive Design
- July 16 – July 20
- Aug 13 – Aug 17
Design and build a circuit board using conductive paint, copper tape and/or wiring. Experiment with pressure switches, LEDs, and buzzers! At the end of the week, link all the creations to form an interactive mural.
- Build interactive art and inventions that function individually and contribute to a larger installation.
- Incorporate elements to trigger the five senses.
Interacting with the Invisible
Interacting with the Invisible
How do we “see” the invisible and explain that it is real, that it exists, and learn more about it with our interactions? It’s propulsion week.
- Use air as an energy resource to make things move.
- Design and build an air-powered car, or a walking creature-bot!
- End the week with a team stomp rocket challenge.
Natural Art, Natural Energy
- July 2 – July 6
- Aug 6 – Aug 10
Come build art installations that blur the lines between the natural and human-made worlds. In an all-group culminating project, follow in the footsteps of great makers like Andy Goldsworthy and Christo & Jeanne Claude to build structures and create inventions that test the impact of human-made design on nature. Design and make your own device to harness the natural energy that surrounds us.
- Redefine the entire concept of indoors vs. outdoors by bringing nature inside to make your own installations.
- Make your own apparatus to harness solar, wind or hydro energy.
Playscapes
Did you know that playing improves the way your brain functions, stimulates new neuron growth, boosts creativity, improves your relationships with your friends and relieves stress? That’s why we’re building our famous Hawaiian-themed Luau Carnival that is 100% designed and run by you!
- Design, build, and run your own Luau carnival including all of the booths, games, and prizes.
- Investigate the meaning and importance of play and find opportunities to incorporate systems of play into everything you do.
- Explore why logic and rules are needed to create structured play (sports and games) versus non-structured play.
Home Away from Home
- June 25 – June 29
- July 30 – Aug 3
Shelter is one of our basic needs, right along with food and water. In this theme, you will be challenged to deconstruct your assumptions of what “shelter” means. By investigating shelters of all sorts, from tipis to igloos to geodesic domes, you will engineer and prototype your own shelters to withstand a whole host of reimagined living environments from Mars to the North Pole.
- Strap on that tool belt as you invent and construct amazing new shelters of your design.
- Test key structural principles underlying various shelters to adapt to different environments.
Deals
THE PROJECT EMBER SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Project Ember is committed to increasing access to our summer day and overnight camps through full and partial scholarships. Our scholarship fund is comprised of internally allocated resources as well as community donated gifts. We believe that project-based education promotes curiosity, creativity, collaboration as well as self-reliance, and empathy - skills that pave the way for a life of pride and fulfillment, no matter one's personal definition of success. We are striving to build a robust and safe program within reach for all interested kids, while maintaining our commitment to competitively compensate a staff of talented professionals.
For more information please contact us.