Looking for the discontinued camp listings? See the Archive (2015).
After registering, you will receive an automated confirmation email. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please contact us to make sure we know you’re coming.
Most of our camps and workshops are for youth ages 9 and up. If you’d like to make sure your child is ready for Fab Lab camps please feel free to take a look at our participant experience guidelines.
Camp Fab Lab
An introduction to creation with several areas and topics.
Multiple dates | 9am – 12pm or 1pm – 4pm
Ages 9 – 14 | $120
Camp Fab Lab II: Design Workshop
Advanced iterative-design-driven activities for returning Camp Fab Lab participants!
July 18 – 22 | 9am – 12pm
Ages 9 – 18 | $130
Learn to Sew
Want to learn how to sew? In this camp, beginners will learn the basics of sewing, using various patterns, materials and techniques.
June 13 – 17 | 1pm – 4pm
July 25 – 29 | 1pm – 4pm
Ages 9+ | $120
Cosplay Creations
Learn how to make props and costume parts with a variety of tools and techniques.
June 20 – 24 | 9am – 12pm
Ages 11+ | $125
Animated Storytelling
Use graphic drawing tablets to create an animated video!
June 13 – 17 | 9am – 12pm
11+ | $105
RPG Videogame Design
Join us as we write our own adventure and interactive game together using RPG Maker.
June 20 – 24 | 1pm – 4pm
August 1 – 5 | 9am – 12pm
Ages 11+ | $110
Minecraft 3D Printing
Learn to use Minecraft for creative and collaborative purposes to do 3D design.
Multiple dates | 9am – 12pm or 1pm – 4pm
Ages 9 – 14 | $105
Science Simulation in Minecraft
Work with modded Minecraft platforms to explore and simulate environments and interactions.
June 27 – July 1 | 1pm – 4pm
Ages 10+ | FREE
//Hack Minecraft
For advanced Minecraft learners – redstone, digital storytelling with adventure mode, command blocks, server setup and plugins, mod coding and whatever else we come up with.
July 25 – 29 | 1pm – 4pm
Ages 12+ | $105
Minecraft Team Survival Challenge
Work as a team on a custom survival server with advanced monsters and challenges.
July 11 – 15 | 9am – 12pm [FULL]
August 1 – 5 | 1pm – 4pm Ages 9 – 14 | $115
Monster Maker
Use a variety of Fab Lab tools to design and make cute and scary monsters.
June 13 – 17 | 9am – 12pm
Ages 9+ | $115
You Can Fab That: Backpack
Participants will design and build a fun backpack by incorporating Adafruit FLORAS, a sewable, Arduino-compatible microcontroller, to control sewable LEDs
July 11 – 15 | 1pm – 4pm
Ages 9+ | $140
Creatures and Caverns
Enter the immersive world of tabletop gaming! This camp will introduce attendees to a role-playing game system – character creation, mechanics and storytelling.
July 25 – 29 | 1pm – 4pm
Ages 10 – 14 | $100
Picture Circuits
Using alternative conductive material, such as special paint or copper tape, students will learn to make circuits in a whole new and creative way!
July 25 – 29 | 9am – 12pm
Ages 10+ | $120
Screen Printing
Hands-on screen-printing with a variety of tools and techniques.
July 11 – 15 | 9am – 12pm
Ages 9+ | $120
Art with Arduino
Make creative objects that interact with the outside world through things like touch sensors, leds, motors, speakers and much more.
August 1 – 5 | 1pm – 4pm
Ages 11+ | $130
Laser This! Laser That!
Spend a week working with the laser engraver as a serious design tool.
Multiple dates | 9am – 12pm or 1pm – 4pm
Ages 10+ | $125
Papercrafts Extraordinaire
Spend a week working with the laser engraver as a serious design tool.
August 1 – 5 | 9am – 12pm
Ages 9+ | $115
Bioinspiration: Insect Robots
Insect locomotion has had millions of years of fine tuning to move across different terrains, let’s learn from them and apply our observations to improve robot mobility.
July 5 – 8 | 1pm – 4pm
Ages 10+ | $140 (includes robot)
Plushy Robots (Girls-Only)
In this girls-only workshop learners will create a series of small interactive creatures with electronics.
July 11 – 15 | 1pm – 4pm
Ages 10 – 14 | $130
Solar-Powered Inventions
Work in teams to explore old electronics and create solar panel cell phone charger inventions.
July 18 – 22 | 1pm – 4pm
Ages 11+ | $135
Open Design Lab
Open Design Lab is an opportunity for campers to return to work on a project of their choice. Sign up by the day.
August 8 – 12 | 9am – 12pm (morning) and 1pm – 4pm (afternoon)
Ages 9+ | $25 per session (morning or afternoon) per day | $105 for all 5 days