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Plushies | 2021
Ever wanted to design and sew your plushie? Our plushie makers camps explore the cute, cuddly, and sometimes creepy world of plushies. This camp will

Sewing for Beginners | 2021
From repairing ripped clothing or broken toys to creating entirely new costumes or designs, sewing is an incredibly versatile skill! This camp is intended for

RPG Novels | 2021
Campers will be using RPG maker to develop and create Visual Novels, learning storytelling techniques, integrating video game design skills, and basic programing concepts. Campers

Microcontrollers | 2021
Let’s explore coding for electronics! During the week, campers will learn to code micro-controllers (a tiny computer) and complete fun interactive projects. Micro-controllers can be

Stop Motion | 2021
Have you been dreaming up short stories? Ever wanted to those ideas into your own animated short film? This introductory camp will teach all the

Art in RPG | 2021
Been through 1.0 but the default art style got you down? Ever wanted to add things to your game but can’t find the right art?

Exploring Engineering: Fab Flight | 2021
Budding engineers will explore the forces involved in making flight possible and look at some different methods of controlling or overcoming these forces to ensure

Board Game Design | 2021
Have you ever wanted to build your own version of Clue or Guess Who? Do you think you could improve Sorry! Or Life? Join us

RPG Maker 2.0 | 2021
Been through 1.0 and looking for more? Come join us in 2.0 for some more in-depth game creation. We’ll be learning some techniques for quicker

Cardboard Creations | 2021
Calling all 3D builders! Do you like designing and building with everyday materials? Then this camp is for you. Campers will spend the week working

Creatures and Caverns | 2021
Use our tools to customize your tabletop roleplaying experience! Campers will design game aids and other assets to enhance their gaming experience. Participants can also

Digital Illustration | 2021
Masterpieces in pixels. Campers develop digital drawing skills with professional tools like drawing tablets and the open-source program FireAlpaca. By the end of the week
3D Printing Inventions
Participants in this camp will learn to use powerful 3D modeling software to try to solve engineering challenges alone and as a team. Participants will design and test their models and will learn about the process of rapid prototyping while being exposed to principles and tools used in professional design. This included the basics of freehand sketching, parametric and freeform modeling, and the mechanics of 3D printing. Additionally, participants gain exposure to design thinking, spatial logic, problem solving, and coordination.
Take Home Creations: At least two 3D printed creations
Prerequisites: None
June 18-22 | Mornings
Ages 13+ | $120
Animated Storytelling
Do you have a story you want to tell? Bring your drawings and stories to life through the magic of animation. Campers will create original videos using graphics tablets and will learn how to tell stories using video and audio editing software. Campers learn both about conveying plot and tone as well as technical skills in the creation of videos.
Take Home Creations: A really cool video
Prerequisites: An interest in drawing and digital art!
June 4-8 | Mornings
Ages 11+ | $120
Art with Arduino
Learn how to create interactive artwork using an Arduino microcontroller and sensors, LEDs, motors, speakers, and more! Arduinos are beginner-friendly computers that can fit in your pocket. Campers learn basic programming to make their artwork come to life.
Take Home Creations: A unique piece of interactive artwork
Prerequisites: Any prior experience coding
June 25-29 | Afternoons
Ages 11+ | $120
Camp Fab Lab
Never been to a Fab Lab camp? Start here! In this camp we introduce campers to our most popular tools and work together to make vinyl stickers, cut with a laser, and print in 3D. Campers get exposed to different methods of digital design and learn problem solving skills.
Take Home Creations: A variety of things campers have created and personalized over the week.
Prerequisites: None
June 4-8 | Ages 8-10 | Mornings
June 4-8 | Ages 11+ | Afternoons
June 11-15 | Ages 8-10 | Mornings
June 11-15 | Ages 11+ | Afternoons
$120
Cosplay Camp
Calling all aspiring costume makers. Have you ever wanted to make a cool costume, but don’t know where to start? Join us for Cosplay Creations and learn the basics of sewing, plus skills in drafting your own patterns. Learn to modify an existing pattern to fit your custom needs. Campers who bring in an idea for a costume to make will have a head start towards costume awesomeness.
Take Home Creations: A cool costume
Prerequisites: None
June 25-29 | Afternoons
Ages 10+ | $120
Creature Makers: Tabletop Gaming Components
Use our tools to customize your tabletop roleplaying experience! Campers will design game aids like dice towers, 3D printed and painted miniatures, custom maps, and will make other assets to enhance their gaming experience. Participants will share tips on gaming resources like apps for adding atmospheric effects and keeping track of game stats.
Take Home Creations: Miniatures and RPG play-aids
Prerequisites: Patience and creativity
August 6-10 | Mornings
Ages 10+ | $125
Digital Art and Illustration
Develop your skills and portfolio in a week of instruction in the art of digital painting and drawing. Campers will learn to use professional tools like tablets and Adobe Photoshop to create their own masterpieces.
Take Home Creations: Digital illustrations and a poster print
Prerequisites: A love of drawing
July 23-27 | Afternoons
July 30-August 3 | Afternoons
Ages 10+ | $120
Digital Jewelry Making
Want to make your favorite quote into a necklace or create earrings inspired by a show? You can use our tools to make professional looking custom creations. Campers will learn to use our laser engravers and 3D printers, as well as traditional jewelry-making techniques.
Take Home Creations: Many jewelry creations
Prerequisites: None
July 23-27 | Afternoons
Ages 11+ | $120
DIY Biology
DIY biology is an exciting new movement in the makerspace community. In this camp, you will participate in activities that combine art and science to produce biological artwork. Potential projects include: mycelium sculpture, bio-luminescent light shows, slime mold painting, bacteria-stained fabric, origami microscopes, and decellularized leaf silhouettes.
Take Home Creations: Paper microscope and models
Prerequisites: None
July 16-20 | Afternoons
Ages 12+ | $130
Escape Room Maker
Be the gamemaster in this camp for codebreakers, storytellers, and puzzle-solvers. Campers will spend one week working together to create an immersive escape room experience. They will learn about creating a backstory, making codes, word puzzles, and ciphers, and will create objects to help or confuse any unwitting person who happens to wander into Escape Room Maker. One question remains: will you get out?
Take Home Creations: Custom code-cracking devices
Prerequisites: None
July 23-27 | Mornings
Ages 10+ | $120
//hack Minecraft
Up your Minecraft game and learn how to create a custom server, find, install, and create custom plugins and mods, and make your own adventures. Some creations may be developed later into Fab Lab curriculum (kids help us with R&D!). Previous participants have gone on to become Fab Lab interns and have developed some of our most popular camps. Plase note that this is an advanced Minecraft option for older campers who have done Minecraft camps with us before and are interested in using Minecraft as a powerful design and coding tool.
Take Home Creations: Dependent upon participant interests
Prerequisites: Participation in a previous Minecraft camp and familiarity with any kind of code
July 9-13 | Afternoons
Ages 11+ | $120
Laser This!
The laser is one of our lab’s most popular and impressive tools and in this week you have a chance to learn about some of the many things it can do. You can laser wood, glass, paper and much more! Campers have time to explore making boxes, jewelry, engraved drinking glasses, and cylinders.
Take Home Creations: Laser cut and engraved objects–what they are is up to you!
Prerequisites: Camp Fab Lab
June 11-15 and 18-22 | Mornings
Ages 10+ | $130
Learn to Sew
From repairing ripped clothing or broken toys to creating entirely new costumes or designs, sewing is an incredibly versatile skill! This camp is intended for those new to sewing. We will cover essentials such as hand sewing, threading a machine, understanding different fabrics and their applications, and the appropriate stitches. Come learn the basics of sewing with us!
Take Home Creations: Sewn projects chosen at the discretion of the instructor
Prerequisites: None
June 18-22 | Afternoons
July 9-13 | Afternoons
Ages 9+ | $120
Minecraft 3D Printing
Learn to use this incredibly popular game as a design tool to bring your 3D creations to life! Campers learn how to scan, render, and print using Minecraft, and learn about cool plug-ins to make building and protecting creations easier. Campers create and take home their own 3D print, and work collectively on a more detailed 3D design. They can also take any copies of worlds they make while at the lab and will have access to our creative mode server. Don’t worry if you don’t have a Minecraft account already–we have loaners available.
Take Home Creations: A Minecraft 3D print and digital files, if they are requested
Prerequisites: Familiarity with WASD controls on a computer
June 25-29 | Mornings
July 16-20 | Mornings
July 30-August 3 | Mornings
Ages 9+ | $120
Papercrafts Hax
Become a paper and sticker engineer! Learn how to create 2D and 3D paper crafts using traditional methods like origami and new methods like laser cutting and engraving. Campers learn about digital design and problem solving and learn how to make something new everyday.
Take Home Creations: Many stickers and paper crafts
Prerequisites: None
June 4-8 | Afternoons
Ages 10+ | $120
Plushie Makers
Our plushie makers camps explore the cute, cuddly, and sometimes creepy world of plushies. We offer two strands of plushie makers–one focused on developing sewing and construction skills and one focused on creating plushies enhanced with electronics like sewable LEDs. Whichever you choose, you are sure to walk away with a unique creation and increased sewing skills!
Take Home Creations: Plushies!
Prerequisites: None
July 23-27 | Mornings | Ages 9+ (regular plushies)
August 6-10 | Mornings | Ages 11+ (digital plushies)
$120
Podcasting
Do you love podcasts and radio and feel like you have a story to tell? Learn how to write, record, and edit your podcast in this camp about engaging listeners and finding your own voice. Campers will learn about the technical side of audio creation and editing as well as how to create a compelling narrative.
Take Home Creations: Your awesome podcast
Prerequisites: None
June 11-15 | Afternoons
Ages 10+ | $120
Printmaking
Get some ink on your hands with this printmaking camp. Campers will learn about many different methods of making prints, from the traditional block prints to new methods that utilize digital technology. If you love art and want to take your design skills to the next level, join us!
Take Home Creations: Stamps and custom prints on fabric and paper
Prerequisites: None
July 16-20 | Mornings
Ages 9+ | $130
Robotics
Aspiring mad scientists, do you have old and broken electronic toys? Bring them in in and learn to hack them and enhance them using Arduino and ATTiny85 microcontrollers and sensors. Learn to code and solder to create your very own robot.
Take Home Creations: Your robot
Prerequisites: Familiarity with any kind of code, preferably Arduino
July 30-August 3 | Afternoons
Ages 11+ | $130
RPG Maker
Do you have an idea for a videogame? Bring your concept to an RPG (role playing game) Maker camp and leave at the end of the week with a video game to show and play with your friends and family. Campers learn about character design, map making, game mechanics, and puzzles. They also get exposed to basic programming using Javascript and HTML5. Have you gone to an RPG Maker camp already? This summer, we are offering RPG Maker 2.0 and an art-focused RPG Maker camp to take your games to the next level. RPG Maker 2.0 will dive deep into game customization and mechanics. Art in RPG Maker will show campers how to tablets to create custom art for characters and scenes.
Take Home Creations: A digital copy of your amazing game
Prerequisites: None for the entry-level RPG Maker, any previous RPG Maker camp for Art and/or 2.0
RPG Maker (Beginners) | Ages 11+ | June 18-22 | Afternoons
RPG Maker (Beginners) | Ages 11+ | July 30-August 3 | Mornings
Art in RPG Maker | Ages 11+ | July 9-13 | Mornings
RPG Maker 2.0 | Ages 11+ | July 16-20 | Afternoons
$120
Soft Circuits
Explore the exciting ways fabric and technology merge in this e-textile camp. Campers learn about basic circuitry and conductivity and get to use cool materials like conductive thread and sewable LEDs to make their wearables. Campers will also be using microcontrollers and Arduino software to learn how beginning programming can enhance their creations.
Take Home Creations: E-textiles wearables
Prerequisites: Basic sewing experience
August 6-10 | Afternoons
Ages 10+ | $120
Wee Makers Cardboard Camp
Can’t wait to go to a Fab Lab camp? This camp is for our littlest makers and involves hands-on creation using materials like paper and cardboard. Campers learn teamwork, spatial reasoning, and problem solving by working together to make big things.
Take Home Creations: Handmade-crafts
Prerequisites: None
August 6-10 | Afternoons
Ages 5-7 | $120
The Fab Lab specializes in introducing learners to a variety of forms of rapid prototyping and iterative design. A combination of many of our most popular activities, Camp Fab Lab is several days and includes different components depending on the age and experience of participants. All workshops include:
- Instruction with Inkscape, Silhouette Studio, 3D design programs and other software
- A variety of concepts related to drafting and design, imagination, remixing, graphic design and problem-solving
- Each participant will get to take home a variety of items they’ve created over the week, such as stickers, soldered LED badges, laser creations, 3D printed monsters, small electronics gizmos, plushy characters, embroidered patches and 3D scans of themselves!
Summer 2017
This is a 4 or 5 day introduction to the Fab Lab:
- General tour, orientation and demonstrations
- Use electronic cutters and sticky vinyl to make Stickers!
- Apply methods in art and engineering with Basic Laser
- Familiarization with 3D Printing and Scanning
- An introduction to small board electronics (like Arduino) and/or computer-driven textile arts with Digital Embroidery
- Take home several personalized objects like name tags, stickers, a fabrics project and 3D prints
The last (5th) day is open lab time for participants to apply the skills they’ve learned and interests they’ve cultivated to pursue projects in a less structured open-lab format – it is optional
Looking for a one-day workshop similar to this? Ask for the “Tour de Fab Lab”
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: Varies, see dates below
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Times: multiple possible sessions
Ages 8 – 10 | June 5 – 9 | 1pm – 4pm |
Ages 11+ | June 5 – 9 | 1pm – 4pm |
Ages 8 – 10 | June 19 – 23 | 9am – 12pm |
Ages 11+ | June 19 – 23 | 1pm – 4pm |
Ages 8 – 10 | July 5 – 7 (Wed-Fri) | 9am – 12pm |
Ages 11+ | July 5 – 7 (Wed-Fri) | 9am – 12pm |
Cost: $120
One of our most popular camps returns for another year. In this monster mash-up camp, you will use a variety of Fab Lab tools to design and make cute and scary monsters. Early in the week we will learn how to make small monsters using the silhouette cutters, tablets, and fabric and sewing machines. We will spend time each day working on a bigger project, screaming monster plushie.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Daily warm up monster sketching, small daily projects, ongoing larger monster project
Take-Home Creations
Multi-layer vinyl stickers, paper creatures, sewn plushie monsters, and more
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 9+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 12
Dates / Times: July 10-14 | 1pm-4pm
Cost: $115
From repairing ripped clothing or broken toys to creating entirely new costumes or designs, sewing is an incredibly versatile skill! This camp is intended for those new to sewing. We will cover essentials such as hand sewing, threading a machine, understanding different fabrics and their applications, and the appropriate stiches. These skills will then be applied in the creation of a cool, interactive fabric folio book to showcase your newfound skills! Come learn the basics of sewing with us!
Learning Process and Outcomes
Basic and advanced sewing skills, both machine and hand sewing.
Take-Home Creations
All campers will take home their interactive fabric folio book
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 9+>
Required # of Participants: 4 – 12
Dates / Times:
June 12 – 16 | 1pm – 4pm |
Cost: $120
Can’t wait to go to a Fab Lab Camp? This three-day mini camp welcomes younger kids itching to make things but not old enough yet for our other camps. Together we will build an awesome town out of cardboard over three days and learn about some of tools at the Fab Lab. In addition to making giant cardboard structures, kids will make mini houses, stickers, and learn to use our sewing machines to sew their own name patches.
Learning Process and Outcomes
- Cooperation
- Spatial reasoning
- Problem Solving
- Communication skills
Take-Home Creations
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 5 – 8
Required # of Participants: 8 – 12
Dates / Time: July 5-7 | 9am-12pm (3 day camp)
Cost: $75 (3 day)
This camp is intended for anyone who wants to learn and develop digital modeling skills through hands-on experience. The camp covers broad topics including engineering drawing and sketching, digital modeling, 3D printing and design thinking. The 3D-CAD software that will be used in this camp is Fusion 360. This design software encompasses parametric, direct and freeform modeling capabilities and provides unlimited opportunity for creative expression. UP 3D printers will be used build digital designs of students’ creation.
In the first half of the class, instructional materials covering the basics of freehand sketching, 3D design, parametric and freeform modeling, 3D printing, as well as design thinking will be introduced. From the second half of the camp, participants will be assigned into a team to work on a design challenge aimed at enhancing problem solving ability and collaboration. The camp will conclude with a presentation of the design outcomes of the teams and each participant will keep 3D models of their creation built throughout the camp.
Learning Process and Outcomes
- Demonstrate basic sketching skills
- Understand and generate basic technical drawings
- Demonstrate 3D modeling skills
- Understand and demonstrate effective design process
- Use Fusion 360 3D-CAD software
- Understand working principles and the operation of 3D printer
- Solve design problem using design thinking principles
Take-Home Creations
At least two 3D printed creations – a starter keychain and a more complicated invention of the camper’s own design
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 9+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Time:
July 5-7 | 1pm – 4pm (3 day camp)
July 31-Aug 4 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $75 (3 day) $120 (5 day)
Patterns are everywhere from the argyle on your socks to the ikat on your curtains and every printed pattern that you see was made by someone. Spend a week learning how patterns are made, both by hand and digitally and learn how you can use some of the FabLab tools to create your own unique fabrics and prints. Campers will spend the week creating and refining their own designs to create a unique collection of fabric to take home. The will learn about principles of design, stamp carving, the laser cutter, and how to use image editing software.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Campers will begin the week learning about how to manually create patterns and will move toward creating designs digitally. They will learn about general principles in design (color, layering), and methods specific to pattern, like types of repeating methods (block, half-drop, brick). They will learn how to physically and digitally create a seamless repeat.
Take-Home Creations
Campers will take home paper prints they have made using their stamps each day. The week will culminate with campers taking home fat quarters of fabric designed to be a cohesive collection.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Moderatte
Required Ages: 9+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Time: June 19 – 23 | 9am – 12pm
Cost: $120
“Mission Control- this is Spy Camp. Do you copy?” This camp, should you choose to accept it, will hone your trap making, puzzle solving, and hacking abilities in order to become the most awesome agent that’s ever lived. Field agents will learn from experienced spies about advanced Arduino and Makey Makey electronics, coding, improvising with tools at hand, and spy etiquette for creating gadgets to add to their arsenal. Various gadgets will be tested against fellow agents to ensure they can withstand the most evil of enemies. Agents will then be put through a mock mission on the final day in order to received their Certified Field Agent license.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Team based learning
Advanced arduino electronics and coding
Design and Useablility
Rapid prototyping
Puzzle logic
Maybe history of spies and spy movies?
Simple mechanics- gears, lever, etc
Take-Home Creations
Teams will choose which electronics project to complete. Possibilities include: Laser trip wire with alarm, DIY Makey Makey controller, decoder- arduino caesar cipher, motion sensor or photo sensor tied to light, countdown timer w/LCD
All campers will take home: CFA (certified field agent) card after completing rescue mission, bow tie, RPG Maker spy base game file
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 11+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Times:
June 19 – 23 | 1pm – 4pm | THIS SESSION IS FULL
July 24 – 28 | 1pm – 4pm | THIS SESSION IS FULL
Cost: $130
Learn how to use DIY biohacking tools to explore the living world around you. Projects will include building your own origami microscope to learn about microscopy and histology techniques and an exploration of cell cultures. After building their microscopes, participants in this camp will go on scavenger hunts and map their finds.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Paper craft, microscopy, group learning, and mapping
Take-Home Creations
Foldable microscope, team-created map, infographic posters of discoveries
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Time: July 5 – 7 | 1pm – 4pm (this is a 3 day camp)
Cost: $75
In this camp, students will learn how to combine basic circuits with fabric, producing their own light up wearables and wall hangings. Throughout the week, they will learn how to put simple Arduino code onto a miniature Arduino (Attiny45) and integrate the code and components into a fabric embroidery hoop. Take home projects involve an LED badge, a personalized blinky hoop, and a night light hoop!
Learning Process and Outcomes
Attiny, arduino, circuitry, code, sewing
Take-Home Creations
LED badge, a personalized blinky hoop, and a night light hoop
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 12
Dates / Time:
June 12 – 16 | 9am – 12pm
Cost: $120
Are your parents or siblings always coming into your room with out permission? In this camp, you will learn how to build an Arduino Monster than tells people to stay away (or welcomes them in) to your bedroom. You will learn to program an Arduino to combine an ultrasonic sensor and LCD screen to display custom messages when people approach your room. Campers will then incorporate those screens and sensors into a monster display of their own design.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Basic Arduino coding, sensors, combining code, design for laser cutter
Take-Home Creations
Arduino Monster with display screen
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Time: July 5 – 7 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $75
Ever wanted to make a cool superhero costume but have no idea where to start? Come join us for Cosplay Creations: Fabric Fighters. For this camp we will be teaching how to draft patterns and learn about how to make clothes off of modified patterns. Campers who come to camp with an idea of what costume they want to make will be able to complete more of their costume during the week of camp.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Design and draft patterns as well as combine previously made patterns to achieve a completely different product.
Take-Home Creations
Parts of their costume.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Time: July 10 – 14 |9am-12pm
Cost: $130
Enter into the land of costume creation through helmet making! This camp is a foray into foam fabrication. Campers will learn from experienced helmet forgers about the tips and tricks for creating your own foam, battle ready helmet. From templating and fitting to finishing, campers will be given the essentials for their future foam and prop creations tool kit. Helmets will be decked out with foam accents and horns to make them stand out in a crowd! Small tools such as xacto knives, sandpaper, and spray paints will be used in conjunction with associated safety training. Campers will also be in the presence of power tools, such as a spindle sander, and in a mess prone environment and are expected to get dirty so dress accordingly!
Learning Process and Outcomes
Template Making
Creativity explored
Painting and Finishing techniques
Tool, paint, and glue safety
Iterative design
Take-Home Creations
A really rocking helmet with horns, accents, and maybe electronics- fully painted
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you in the morning. We will provide snacks but not lunch – participants should bring their own lunch and water bottle. Please note this camp will take place in a dusty and dirty environment, participants should be dressed appropriately.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 11+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 15
Dates / Times:
July 17-12 | 1pm-4pm THIS CAMP US FULL
Cost: $130
One of our most popular camps of last summer, perhaps the best way to learn how to program – make a story game! Participants use a professional game design program, Maker MV, to investigate character design, map creation, game mechanics, and puzzles. Students will be exposed to basic computer programming with Javascript and HTML5. This year we’ve added even more assets and resources and worked out our flow to help campers make games happen even faster.
For returning campers we have RPG Game Design 2.0. In this camp, we will build upon the basics, previously learned, and explore RPG Maker MV even further to create a more detailed, amazing game than before. This camp will focus on the number crunching and game mechanics used by larger game developers to take their games from ordinary to extraordinary. Learn how to make armor, weapons, and skills for taking down a mighty beast and make formidable foes, harrowing quests, and curious cutscenes. Learn what makes a game in-depth, balanced, and appealing and take your RPG Maker skills to the next level!
Learning Process and Outcomes
Game design: what goes into a game, what makes a game a specific type, intermediate programming concepts, storytelling elements as well as basic and complex logic.
Take-Home Creations
The beginning of a collaborative RPG that they can take home and play, as well as the files needed to keep working on or modifying the game afterwards.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you in the morning. We will provide snacks but not lunch – participants should bring their own lunch and water bottle.
Prerequisites: Experience with programming (Scratch, for instance) preferred
For RPG Game Design 2.0 you must have done a previous RPG Maker camp
Difficulty: Moderate to Hard
Required Ages: 11+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 15
Dates / Times:
June 12 – 16 | 1pm – 4pm | *This section is full* | Join our Waitlist
June 19 – 23 | 1pm – 4pm
July 24 – 28 | 1pm – 4pm | *This section is full* | Join our Waitlist
July 31 – August 4 | 9am – 12pm (RPG Game Design 2.0)
Cost: $120
- Spend several sessions how use Minecraft to do 3D fabrication – scanning, rendering and printing!
- Participate in collaborative design on a custom server in Minecraft – learn how to paint your own imaginary worlds and then modify them on a detailed level
- Print and “live” render large-scale MC build projects in 3D
- Use cool plug-ins like WorldEdit and WorldGuard
- Import yourself into Minecraft to make a statue!
- Use a suite of open source and free development tool kits for 3D (Netfabb, MS Kinect) and Minecraft (Worldpainter, MCEdit, Mineways, WorldEdit, WorldGuard)
We will have loaner accounts for participants who don’t have their own Minecraft account.
Learning Process and Outcomes
- Gain an understanding of 3D scanning, modeling and printing
- Master Minecraft Creative Mode and many other MC tools
- Team work and collaboration
- Problem-solving and programmer-like deduction processes (computational thinking)
Take-Home Creations
Participants will all get to take home at least one 3D print of a Minecraft build. If they are diligent and continue working on the same world they may be able to take home additional 3D prints. The class will participate in a larger 3D print which will be put on display at the lab for future campers to see. In addition campers will be able to join the creative mode server from home at any time and take home copies of any worlds or schematics they make at the lab. Campers who demonstrate a high level of responsibility and respect for other participants may be granted moderator status on the server.
The last (5th) day is open lab time for participants to apply the skills they’ve learned and interests they’ve cultivated to pursue projects in a less structured open-lab format – it is optional
Prerequisites: General Fab Lab workshop perquisites
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 9 – 14
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Times:
June 12 – 16 | 1pm – 4pm *this camp is full* | Join our Waitlist |
July 17 – 21 | 1pm – 4pm *this camp is full* | Join our Waitlist |
July 31 – Aug 4 | 9am – 12pm |
Cost: $120
If you’re looking for another Minecraft camp option besides 3D printing, see our Minecraft Team Survival Challenge
Up your Minecraft game. Hang with MC addicts Jeff, Aidan, Emi and Alex and other special guests to rock out advanced tools and code. Participants get to help us build the curriculum, but here are some of the options:
- Redstone-ify everything – unleash too many slime blocks
- Advanced MCedit – custom filters, scaled-import builds, adventure world curation
- Learn to make a custom server – hardware and software
- Plugins and mods – finding, installing, modifying, creating
- Command blocks – choose your own adventure
No we will still not be doing deathmatch or PVP. Or any of the various custom servers where you just kill people. BUT if participants want to make a special map for parkour or a new “find the wool” game or something we’d be down.
Prerequisites: Minecraft 3D Printing and some experience with code OR ‘camper’ status on the server
Difficulty: Hard
Required Ages: 12+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 12
Dates / Times: July 24-28 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $120
- Building basic logic gates in Minecraft
- Learning about binary and Boolean Algebra
- Combining logic gates together in simple circuits to add and count numbers
- Learn about two’s compliment as a way of representing negative numbers
- Combine adders, input mechanisms, and displays together to create a basic computer that can add and subtract numbers
Learning Process and Outcomes
- Master Minecraft Creative Mode and Redstone
- Gain an understanding of basic logic gates, binary, and computer circuits
- Problem-solving skills and computational thinking
Take-Home Creations
Participants will all get to take home a Minecraft world file with their redstone creations.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: Any Minecraft camp
Difficulty: Hard
Required Ages: 12+
Required # of Participants: 4 – 12
Dates / Times:
June 26 – 29 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $120
Learning Process and Outcomes
Several youth volunteers and Fab Lab staff will be on-hand to act and mentors and provide crowd-control for activities. We will do our best to bring in subject area experts depending on camper interests, but may not be able to meet all needs.
Take-Home Creations
The major goals for this camp are to help participants make new friends and organically learn to work together in teams. We will not be specifically covering any advanced tools or fabrication techniques. As a result, participant learning outcomes will depend entirely upon what they decide to invest into their camp experience.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 9+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 15
Dates / Times:
July 10 – 14 | 9am – 4pm | THIS SESSION IS FULL
July 31 – August 4 | 1pm – 4pm | THIS SESSION IS FULL
Cost: $120
1) Learn how to disassemble ipads, laptops, phones, video cards, hard drives, SDD’s and other modern hardware in order to explore and (attempt to) repair devices
2) Build your own desktop computer based on donated spare parts to make your very own server – determine its purpose and work in teams with others who have similar objectives; could include
- installing and learning Linux
- hacking Mac OSX to run on PC hardware
- making a Minecraft or other game server
- hosting your very own website out of your house for free and more
3) A day in the life of a technician
- How do we deal with viruses? What are the ways users are exploited (socially and technically)
- Benchmarking, diagnosing and trouble-shooting hardware failures
- Methods for cloning and data recovery
4) Straight up LAN party – we’ll finish out the week by playing old games together on the computers we build
Learning Process and Outcomes
Our process will be intentionally explorative and disorganized, just like real life. Participants will learn to become more confident peering into the black box, gain information-seeking skills and learn to pay attention to a variety of parameters in an adapted form of the scientific method (order of elimination). In some sense they’ll be better prepared to become computer technicians later in life, but we’re also very interested in helping them to understand the social conditions in which computing happens, emphasizing that people are a very crucial consideration at every step of the process. Most importantly, campers will get as much out of this camp as they put into it!
Take-Home Creations
Youth will go home with a desktop computer (server) built out of used and donated parts.
Prerequisites: Computer experience guidelines are a MUST
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 11+
Required # of Participants: 4 – 8
Dates / Time: July 10 – 14 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $160 minimum (pay more to get a better computer)
Art can be so much more than paintings or sculptures now-a-days. In this workshop you will make creative electronic art objects. These objects have the possibility to interact with the viewer through things like touch sensors, LED’s, motors, speakers and much more. We’ll be using beginner-friendly pocket-size computers called Arduinos to learn the very basics of software and hardware programming to create new and fun works of art!
Learning Process and Outcomes
Students will learn basic programming skills and be creatively challenged to use those skills. We will talk about the use of electronics in contemporary art so the students get an understanding of the relevancy of their new found skills. Students will be encourage to expand their understanding of what art and electronics are and how they can be combined into something so much more.
Take-Home Creations
A unique work of art or two which will look cool and be fun to interact with!
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None, but please do consult our participant experience guidelines
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 11+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 12
Dates / Times: July 17-21 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $130
Learning Process and Outcomes
Last year it included the following:
- Day 1: artistic expression with color-matching, multiple exposure and organic form
- Day 2: exploring new mediums with paper, cylindrical objects, metals, fabrics, food and quark
- Day 3-4: engineering applications via prototyping with press-fit enclosures
Take-Home Creations
This depends entirely on what participants decide to work on.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: Camp Fab Lab
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 12
Dates / Times:July 10 – 14 | 9am – 12pm
Cost: $130
This camp centers on learning how to artistically engineer with paper, vinyl and other thin and flexible mediums using traditional techniques, like folding and hand tools, as well as cutting-edge methods with lasers engravers, electronic cutters and advanced design software. Explore something new each day, including the following possibilities:
- Kinetic Origami
- Foldable paper microscopes
- 2D and 3D design
- Laser engraving paper mediums
- Advanced/giant origami
- Depth-of-field back-lit tube scenes
- Layered paper art
- Paper Automata
- Multi-layer stickers
Learning Process and Outcomes
- Artistic critique and problem-solving
- Communication skills, facilities for working together
- Familiarity with rapid prototyping and fabrication techniques
- Practice with graphic design, creating and manipulating artwork
- Information literacy, math and geometry, methods in engineering, artistic forms and expression
Take-Home Creations
Participants will be able to take home several items, depending on what they choose to do and how quickly they work. Typically this includes several multi-layer stickers, origami and a more complicated project like paper automata, tube scenes or layered paper art.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 15
Dates / Times: July 31 – August 4 | 1pm – 4pm THIS CAMP IS FULL
Cost: $120
Learning Process and Outcomes
Group problem solving, team planning, Arduino, electronic sensors, laser fabrication, wood working
Take-Home Creations
Because of the team nature of this camp, there may not be individual take home projects
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Hard
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Time: July 24 – 28 | 9am – 12pm
Cost: $130
Learning Process and Outcomes
Hand and machine sewing basics, soft circuits, coding, silhouette cutter, digital embroidery.
Take-Home Creations
A really cool plushie which can be termed a furry robot as well.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Time: July 17 – 21 | 9am – 12pm
Cost: $130
Learning Process and Outcomes
Storytelling within a medium. How can you convey plot and character with simple drawings? How can you simplify your story to make it finishable? What tone of narration works with your video. What makes videos capture your attention? Also gain videoediting skills.
Take-Home Creations
A pretty cool video (we hope!)
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: Some experience drawing and participant computer skills guidelines
Difficulty: Hard
Required Ages: 11+
Required # of Participants: 4 – 12
Dates / Times:
July 24 – 28 | 9am – 12pm
July 31 – August 4 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $120
This camp is developed to promote CAD literacy among youth. The primary goal of this camp is to teach the main principles of engineering drawings and digital modeling skills. The camp participants will learn how to read basic technical drawings and construct building components and models using SkechUp 3D-CAD software. The ability to understand and practice effective design procedure will help develop spatial comprehension, creative and critical thinking.
In the first half of the camp, participants will be introduced to and gain a competence in the basics of 2D and 3D design and design thinking, as well as operations of 3D printing. The camp attendants will be assigned a design challenge, in which they will be formed into a where they will creatively solve a design problem using the concepts introduced. The purpose of the design challenge is to allow students engage in a hands-on and 3D printing activity to solidify the knowledge and design skills covered in the class.
The last session will be devoted to student presentation where they will show the design solutions of their team to the class.
Learning Process and Outcomes
The camp attendants will be able to:
- Demonstrate basic sketching skills
- Understand and generate technical drawings
- Exhibit 3D building modeling skills
- Understand and demonstrate effective design process
- Use SketchUp 3D-CAD software
- Understand the working principles and the operation of 3D printer.
- 3D Scanning
Solve design problem using design thinking principles
Take-Home Creations
Building 3D models
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Time: July 17 – 21 | 9am – 12pm
Cost: $120
Using alternative conductive material, such as special paint or copper tape, students will learn to make circuits in a whole new and creative way! They will learn how to visualize and invent interactive electric circuits. This will include learning how circuits work and how to program microcontollers. Students will utilize various areas and equipment in the Fab Lab in order to achieve their desired design.
Learning Process and Outcomes
A visual understanding of circuits. A creative way to imagine interactivity using original and unique designs. So creative problem solving, innovation, and fun!
Take-Home Creations
Blinky card and Interactive picture/object (including electronics).
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: Camp Fab Lab or similar introduction to Arduino
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 15
Dates / Times: July 31 – August 4 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $120
Can’t get enough of the Fab Lab? Come back for an entire week of open hours! Participants are invited to come in to pursue projects of virtually any kind as individuals or in groups. Staff will be available to guide them in the process, teach relevant software and otherwise experiment with them to make their ideas come true. Registration cost does not include materials, so participants will need to work out a budget for their planned activities on the first day and bring additional funds or materials. Please note that participants will NOT be able to play PVP Minecraft (deathmatch, hunger games, etc) during this camp, but we will open it up to continued work on Minecraft 3D printing.
Learning Process and Outcomes
We will encourage attendees to collaborate in groups based on mutual interests and machine availability.
Take-Home Creations
This depends entirely on what youth choose to invest their time in!
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: Any Fab Lab camp
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 9+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 24
Dates / Times: August 7 – 11
9am – 12pm (morning) and 1pm – 4pm (afternoon)
Cost: $25 per session (morning or afternoon) per day or $105 for all 5 days (morning or afternoon)
The Fab Lab specializes in introducing learners to a variety of forms of rapid prototyping and iterative design. A combination of many of our most popular activities, Camp Fab Lab is several days and includes different components depending on the age and experience of participants. All workshops include:
- Instruction with Inkscape, Silhouette Studio, 3D design programs and other software
- A variety of concepts related to drafting and design, imagination, remixing, graphic design and problem-solving
- Each participant will get to take home a variety of items they’ve created over the week, such as stickers, soldered LED badges, laser creations, 3D printed monsters, small electronics gizmos, plushy characters, embroidered patches and 3D scans of themselves!
Summer 2016
This is a 4 or 5 day introduction to the Fab Lab:
- General tour, orientation and demonstrations
- Use electronic cutters and sticky vinyl to make Stickers!
- Apply methods in art and engineering with Basic Laser
- Familiarization with 3D Printing and Scanning
- An introduction to small board electronics (like Arduino) and/or computer-driven textile arts with Digital Embroidery
- Take home several personalized objects like name tags, stickers, a fabrics project and 3D prints
The last (5th) day is open lab time for participants to apply the skills they’ve learned and interests they’ve cultivated to pursue projects in a less structured open-lab format – it is optional
Looking for a one-day workshop similar to this? Ask for the “Tour de Fab Lab”
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: Varies, see dates below
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Times: multiple possible sessions
Ages 8 – 10 | June 6 – 10 | 1pm – 4pm |
Ages 11+ | June 6 – 10 | 1pm – 4pm |
Ages 8 – 10 | June 20 – 24 | 1pm – 4pm |
Ages 11+ | June 20 – 24 | 9am – 12pm |
Ages 8 – 10 | July 5 – 8 (Tue – Thu) | 9am – 12pm |
Ages 11+ | July 5 – 8 (Tue – Thu) | 9am – 12pm |
Cost: $120
Camp Fab Lab II is a team-based camp organized around design challenges. Each day will begin with a review of a Fab Lab tool or software and then participants will work in teams to build prototypes of designs that solve a problem or meet a challenge (example challenges: design a device that helps you get out of bed in the morning, design a playground for a human-sized hamster). The final day of camp will end with a showcase of participant designs. Participants in this camp should have attended Camp Fab Lab before enrolling in Camp Fab Lab II and should expect to both work in teams and invent their own projects.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Design thinking, group problem solving, rapid prototyping, iterative design
Take-Home Creations
Because of the team nature of this camp, there may not be individual take home projects but each team will have plenty of pictures to show off and the best inventions will be left on display at the lab!
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: Camp Fab Lab
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Time: July 18 – 22 | 9am – 12pm
Cost: $130
Want to learn how to sew? In this camp, beginners will learn the basics of sewing, using various materials and fasteners. Projects include drawstring pouches, a simple wallet, and a grand finale of an insulated lunchbox! Participants will also learn how to personalize their sewing projects using digital embroidery machines. Materials we will be working with include snaps, Velcro, stabilizer, and zippers. No previous sewing experience required.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Basic operation of sewing and embroidery machines, using 2d patterns for 3d objects
Take-Home Creations
Pouches, pillows, wallets, lunchbox
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 9+>
Required # of Participants: 4 – 12
Dates / Times:
June 13 – 17 | 1pm – 4pm (Full -> Waitlist)
July 25 – 29 | 1pm – 4pm (NEW!)
Cost: $120
Ever wanted to make your own costume? Then this is the camp for you! In this camp, attendees will learn about different types of foam and thermoplastics, how to work with them, and will test them in fun ways to learn more about their properties and uses. Campers will be introduced to a different material each day and the types of tools that can be used to work with the material. We will then use the new material to produce a piece of a set of armor using templates, small hand tools (such as box cutters), and smaller power tools (palm sander, dremel). Additionally, we will cover basic machine and tool safety. Campers are expected to get dirty so dress accordingly!
Learning Process and Outcomes
Basic tool safety, materials and properties, Creative thinking, rapid prototyping, design principles: integrity and function
Take-Home Creations
One or more costume-armor parts
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you in the morning. We will provide snacks but not lunch – participants should bring their own lunch and water bottle. Please note this camp will take place in a dusty and dirty environment, participants should be dressed appropriately.
Participants will learn tool safety as part of this workshop. Participants will not operate any large power tools but may use hot glue guns, scissors, Xacto knives or box cutters. Staff assisting youth with the workshop may make use of a dremel, palm sander, heat gun, scroll saw, or hot wire foam cutter..
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 11+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 15
Dates / Times:
June 20 – 24 | 9am – 12pm
Cost: $125
Working in groups or on their own, campers will write a story, either original, or a retwisting of a known story and make a video of it simply through drawing. Campers will learn how to draw with a graphics tablet, take screen recordings, audio recordings, and use video editing software to turn their drawings into a dynamic video.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Storytelling within a medium. How can you convey plot and character with simple drawings? How can you simplify your story to make it finishable? What tone of narration works with your video. What makes videos capture your attention? Also gain videoediting skills.
Take-Home Creations
A pretty cool video (we hope!)
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: Some experience drawing and participant computer skills guidelines
Difficulty: Hard
Required Ages: 11+
Required # of Participants: 4 – 12
Dates / Times: June 13 – 17 | 9am – 12pm
Cost: $105
We will be using the program RPG Maker MV to investigate character design, map creation, game mechanics, and puzzles. Students will be exposed to basic computer programming with Javascript and HTML 5.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Game design: what goes into a game, what makes a game a specific type, intermediate programming concepts, storytelling elements as well as basic and complex logic.
Take-Home Creations
The beginning of a collaborative RPG that they can take home and play, as well as the files needed to keep working on or modifying the game afterwards.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you in the morning. We will provide snacks but not lunch – participants should bring their own lunch and water bottle.
Prerequisites: None, but experience with programming (Scratch, for instance) preferred
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 15
Dates / Times:
June 20 – 24 | 1pm – 4pm (Full -> Waitlist)
August 1 – 5 | 9am – 12pm (NEW!)
Cost: $110
Minecraft is one of the most popular games in the world! We’ve come up with a class series to teach youth how to use it as design tool.
- Spend several sessions how use Minecraft to do 3D fabrication – scanning, rendering and printing!
- Participate in collaborative design on a custom server in Minecraft – learn how to paint your own imaginary worlds and then modify them on a detailed level
- Print and “live” render large-scale MC build projects in 3D
- Use cool plug-ins like WorldEdit and WorldGuard
- Import yourself into Minecraft to make a statue!
- Use a suite of open source and free development tool kits for 3D (Netfabb, MS Kinect) and Minecraft (Worldpainter, MCEdit, Mineways, WorldEdit, WorldGuard)
We will have loaner accounts for participants who don’t have their own Minecraft account.
Learning Process and Outcomes
- Gain an understanding of 3D scanning, modeling and printing
- Master Minecraft Creative Mode and many other MC tools
- Team work and collaboration
- Problem-solving and programmer-like deduction processes (computational thinking)
Take-Home Creations
Participants will all get to take home at least one 3D print of a Minecraft build. If they are diligent and continue working on the same world they may be able to take home additional 3D prints. The class will participate in a larger 3D print which will be put on display at the lab for future campers to see. In addition campers will be able to join the creative mode server from home at any time and take home copies of any worlds or schematics they make at the lab. Campers who demonstrate a high level of responsibility and respect for other participants may be granted moderator status on the server.
The last (5th) day is open lab time for participants to apply the skills they’ve learned and interests they’ve cultivated to pursue projects in a less structured open-lab format – it is optional
Prerequisites: General Fab Lab workshop perquisites
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 9 – 14
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Times:
June 13 – 17 – FULL – waitlist | 1pm – 4pm |
July 5 – 8 (Tue-Fri) – FULL – waitlist | 1pm – 4pm |
July 18 – 22 @ Business Makerlab – FULL – waitlist | 9am – 12pm |
July 25 – 29 – FULL – waitlist | 9am – 12pm |
Cost: $105 ($85 for July 5 – 8)
Note that this is a computer-based Creative Mode Minecraft workshop for building and teamwork. Make sure child participants know we will not permit PvP (player vs player / death match). Participants will need basic mouse and keyboard skills and the ability to copy, paste and rename files.
Work with a specialized Minecraft server platform to explore and simulate environments and interactions in order to learn more about programming and science. Participants will learn how to leverage per-existing and program new modifications to the game Minecraft simulating different conditions. For instance, creators could help to create a Minecraft world that’s like walking on Mars, or where they could be shrunk down very small flying through the inside of the human body. The camp is sponsored by the department of Education here at UIUC so it’s free, and it will take place in the IDEALL location in the Education building. Research data will be collected about instruction and on log files, but not on participants.
We aren’t totally sure at this time, but it is highly likely we will use a combination of Minecraft Forge (client-side) and Spigot with various plugins (server-side). We’ll start by just assembling and deploying existing resources but move on to remixing and potentially writing our own, depending on participant interests and abilities. Our all-star instructor cast will include Jeff Ginger, Hong-An Wu, Alex Swanson-Linville and Professor Chad Lane.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Attendees will have a chance to explore a couple of topics within scientific fields. They will also learn how to install, leverage, modify and even write mods.
Take-Home Creations
Participants will be able to join the server from home at any time and take home copies of any worlds or schematics they make at the lab. Campers who demonstrate a high level of responsibility and inclination to scientific experimentation may be granted moderator status on the server. We will also do a photoshoot day with shaders that will make for some pretty awesome desktop wallpaper images!
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: Minecraft 3D Printing or consent of instructor
Difficulty: Hard
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 10 [FULL]
Dates / Times: June 27 – July 1 | 1-4p
Cost: FREE
This is an advanced Minecraft camp for youth participants who are interested in using Minecraft as a powerful design tool. It is intended for graduates of our Minecraft 3D printing camp and we intend to use it as a way to develop curriculum for future camps. Participants (not parents!) are required to fill out an application form to join.
If you’re looking for another Minecraft camp option besides 3D printing, see our Minecraft Team Survival Challenge
Up your Minecraft game. Hang with MC addicts Jeff, Ann and Alex and other special guests to rock out advanced tools and code. Participants get to help us build the curriculum, but here are some of the options:
- Redstone-ify everything – unleash too many slime blocks
- Advanced MCedit – custom filters, scaled-import builds, adventure world curation
- Learn to make a custom server – hardware and software
- Plugins and mods – finding, installing, modifying, creating
- Command blocks – choose your own adventure
No we will still not be doing deathmatch or PVP. Or any of the various custom servers where you just kill people. BUT if participants want to make a special map for parkour or a new “find the wool” game or something we’d be down.
Prerequisites: Minecraft 3D Printing and some experience with code OR ‘camper’ status on the server
Difficulty: Hard
Required Ages: 12+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 12
Dates / Times: July 25 – 29 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $105
This camp series is a chance for youth to work together on Minecraft-related projects and games. Rather than follow a series of structured activities participants will be encouraged to work together on collaborative survival servers. We will have custom server setup with special monster challenges, but participants will be welcome to work on their own collaborative servers. PVP and death-match (Mineplex, Hunger Games, etc) will not be permitted, please make sure your child participant understands this.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Several youth volunteers and Fab Lab staff will be on-hand to act and mentors and provide crowd-control for activities. We will do our best to bring in subject area experts depending on camper interests, but may not be able to meet all needs. Particularly advanced and focused campers should investigate our //hack Minecraft camp.
Take-Home Creations
The major goals for this camp are to help participants make new friends and organically learn to work together in teams. We will not be specifically covering any advanced tools or fabrication techniques. As a result, participant learning outcomes will depend entirely upon what they decide to invest into their camp experience.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 9+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 15
Dates / Times:
July 11 – 15 | 9am – 12pm [FULL] – join the waitlist
August 1 – 5 | 1pm – 4pm [FULL] – join the waitlist
Cost: $115
In this monster mash-up camp, you will use a variety of Fab Lab tools to design and make cute and scary monsters. Early in the week we will learn how to make small monsters using the silhouette cutters, tablets, and fabric and sewing machines. We will spend time each day working on a bigger project, individual big head paper mache monster masks.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Daily warm up monster sketching, small daily projects, ongoing larger monster project
Take-Home Creations
Multi-layer vinyl stickers, sewn plushie monsters, paper machie monster mask
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 9+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 12
Dates / Times: June 13 – 17 | 9am – 12pm
Cost: $115
Creative kids wanted! Participants will design and build a fun backpack. We will be incorporating Adafruit FLORAS, a sewable, Arduino-compatible microcontroller to control sewable LEDs. There will be hand sewing with conductive thread and fabrics, machine sewing, and digital embroidery!
Learning Process and Outcomes
hand & machine sewing, digital embroidery, using 2d patterns for 3d objects, Adafruit FLORA & arduino code, schematic design
Take-Home Creations
A personalized fab-equipment-enhanced custom backpack (the coolest backpack ever!)
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: Learn to Sew, Camp Fab Lab or consent of instructor
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 9+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 15
Dates / Times: July 11 – 15 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $140
Enter the immersive world of tabletop gaming! This camp will introduce attendees to an offline, non-computer role-playing game system, and will help to promote collaboration, creativity and an imaginative sense of adventure! Campers will learn the ins and outs of the system, how to create their own character(s) and explore a fantasy environment. No prior knowledge or special equipment is required and shenanigans are anticipated. Come one, come all young adventurers!
Learning Process and Outcomes
- Teamwork
- Collaborative storytelling
- Game design
- Holistic character creation
- Exploration and imagination
Take-Home Creations
One or more developed characters, participation in an on-going shared the story, skills to help create their own universes and role-playing experiences with friends – ideating and enacting NPC’s, encounters as well as drafting maps and stories.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 10 – 14
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Times: July 25 – 29 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $105
Using alternative conductive material, such as special paint or copper tape, students will learn to make circuits in a whole new and creative way! They will learn how to visualize and invent interactive electric circuits. This will include learning how circuits work and how to program microcontollers. Students will utilize various areas and equipment in the Fab Lab in order to achieve their desired design.
Learning Process and Outcomes
A visual understanding of circuits. A creative way to imagine interactivity using original and unique designs. So creative problem solving, innovation, and fun!
Take-Home Creations
Blinky card and Interactive picture/object (including electronics).
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: Camp Fab Lab or similar introduction to Arduino
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 15
Dates / Times: July 25 – 29 | 9am – 12pm
Cost: $120
Learn multiple methods for screen printing on paper and fabric. In this camp, you will create your own designs and learn the basics of screen printing as you apply those designs to posters and canvas. On the last day of camp, we will make a group design and work together to print it on t-shirts. This is a messy camp. Wear clothes that can get permanent paint on them.
This is a messy camp. Wear clothes that can get permanent paint on them.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Individual and assembly line techniques, printing on a variety of materials, group design of a camp shirt
Take-Home Creations
Screen printed poster, canvas bag, t-shirt
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you. We will provide snacks but not lunch – participants should bring their own lunch and water bottle.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 11+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 15
Dates / Times: July 11 – 15 | 9am – 12pm
Cost: $120
Art can be so much more than paintings or sculptures now-a-days. In this workshop you will make creative electronic art objects. These objects have the possibility to interact with the viewer through things like touch sensors, LED’s, motors, speakers and much more. We’ll be using beginner-friendly pocket-size computers called Arduinos to learn the very basics of software and hardware programming to create new and fun works of art!
Learning Process and Outcomes
Students will learn basic programming skills and be creatively challenged to use those skills. We will talk about the use of electronics in contemporary art so the students get an understanding of the relevancy of their new found skills. Students will be encourage to expand their understanding of what art and electronics are and how they can be combined into something so much more.
Take-Home Creations
A unique work of art or two which will look cool and be fun to interact with!
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None, but please do consult our participant experience guidelines
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 11+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 12
Dates / Times: August 1 – 5 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $130
This camp centers on learning how to artistically engineer with paper, vinyl and other thin and flexible mediums using traditional techniques, like folding and hand tools, as well as cutting-edge methods with lasers engravers, electronic cutters and advanced design software. Explore something new each day, including the following possibilities:
- 2D and 3D design
- Laser engraving paper mediums
- Advanced/giant origami
- Depth-of-field back-lit tube scenes
- Layered paper art
- Paper Automata
- Multi-layer stickers
Learning Process and Outcomes
- Artistic critique and problem-solving
- Communication skills, facilities for working together
- Familiarity with rapid prototyping and fabrication techniques
- Practice with graphic design, creating and manipulating artwork
- Information literacy, math and geometry, methods in engineering, artistic forms and expression
Take-Home Creations
Participants will be able to take home several items, depending on what they choose to do and how quickly they work. Typically this includes several multi-layer stickers, origami and a more complicated project like paper automata, tube scenes or layered paper art.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 9+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 15
Dates / Times: August 1 – 5 | 9am – 12pm FULL – waitlist
Cost: $115
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.
Part one is learning about bioinspiration and observation day, look at the insects and see what helps them move across different terrain. They’ll also get to see the robots that they are working with and try them out on different terrains.
In part two they will be given their prompt, “create boots for the Spider HexBug so that it can move across various terrains” and revisit tinkercad, learning extra skills not taught in CampFabLab.
Part three is taking our observations and applying them into designs for our robots (Hexbugs specifically). Testing designs, ideally they can get a test run and then time to revise their designs at least once
Part four is Robo-Races, whose designs can make it across different terrains?
Learning Process and Outcomes
Iterative problem solving in scientific contexts, group communication, rapid ideation, and experimentation/observation skills.
Take-Home Creations
Camp participants will take home a HexBug robot modified with several accessories.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: Camp Fab Lab
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 15
Dates / Times: July 5 – 8 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $140 (includes Hexbug robot)
Learners will create a series of small interactive creatures with electronics. This workshop is reserved for girls only to create a collaborative and supportive environment as well as to encourage girls to consider STEM fields for their education and careers.
This camp has been updated for 2016! We will have returning instructors who will have new activities for participants who have done Plushy Robots before.
Learning Process and Outcomes
- Learn engineering, robot building and programming basics
- Work on creative character design and techniques with textile mediums such as conductive thread, felt, pompoms and more
- Leverage the Arduino (like the Flora or Gemma) platform with sensors, batteries, conductive snaps and thread
- Use lights, sound and movement to help their robot come alive!
Take-Home Creations
Best of all camp participants will take home their own Arduino and several robots comprised of sensors or extensions.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 10 – 14
Required # of Participants: 4 – 15
Dates / Times: July 11 – 15 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $130
Put your invention skills to the test in this team-based camp organized around a single design prompt: solar-powered USB chargers. Participants will form groups and then come up with a unique point-of-view concept to drive their solar-powered invention. Each day will also include a review of relevant tools, software and electronics concepts. The final day of camp will end with a showcase of participant creations.
Learning Process and Outcomes
We will make use of all kinds of materials for our inventions – including fabric with conductive thread, suction cups and hinges, laser-cut or 3D-printed mounting and more. Groups will be able to request additional materials to be purchased or brought in over the course of the week.
Take-Home Creations
Some kind of solar-panel based USB charger invention – it will include a recycled 18650 Li-Ion battery bank and one or more solar panels which can be used to safely recharge modern smartphones.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 11+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 15
Dates / Times: July 18 – 22 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $135
Can’t get enough of the Fab Lab? Come back for an entire week of open hours! Participants are invited to come in to pursue projects of virtually any kind as individuals or in groups. Staff will be available to guide them in the process, teach relevant software and otherwise experiment with them to make their ideas come true. Registration cost does not include materials, so participants will need to work out a budget for their planned activities on the first day and bring additional funds or materials. Please note that participants will NOT be able to play PVP Minecraft (deathmatch, hunger games, etc) during this camp, but we will open it up to continued work on Minecraft 3D printing.
Learning Process and Outcomes
We will encourage attendees to collaborate in groups based on mutual interests and machine availability.
Take-Home Creations
This depends entirely on what youth choose to invest their time in!
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: Any Fab Lab camp
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 9+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 24
Dates / Times: August 8 – 12 | 9am – 12pm (morning) and 1pm – 4pm (afternoon)
Cost: $25 per session (morning or afternoon) per day or $105 for all 5 days (morning or afternoon)


Creative Approaches to Storytelling through Game Design
Tell YOUR stories!
This workshop series will use two amazing and simple game creation tools (Stencyl and Twine) to empower participants in developing stories through game building and interactive interfaces.
Learning Objectives
- Storytelling: discuss how and ‘why’ certain stories are told, or not told. And how it matters. We’ll discuss context for why we want to empower people to tell their own stories (real or fictional).
- Art and Design: We will learn to edit and/or create our own art for both Stencyl and Twine games.
- Programming: some programming concepts will be addressed, in a way that’s comfortable for complete novices. We’ll also be using drag and drop and writing text to make video games.
- Play and Creation: We will all have time to create our own interactive games in one week, how cool is that?!
Whether it’s a simple text adventure game or a massive visual novel complete with graphics and background music, Twine can be a great tool for sharing meaningful stories and life experiences. It’s also free and can run in a web browser. Stencyl is a free visual game creation tool where you can describe your game environment by snapping logic blocks together like legos or refrigerator poetry. We’d like to give a huge thanks to the wonderful people at pixelles.ca for inspiring this workshop!
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 13+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 12
Dates / Times:
July 13 – 17 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $80
- Making memorable characters
- Building engaging fictional worlds
- Creating and combining hand drawn and digital art
- Using software to manipulate and design comics art
At the end of the camp, participants will take home their own short comic, and plenty of ideas on how to make more.
Prerequisites: Participants should like to draw
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 10 – 14
Required # of Participants: 6 – 12
Dates / Times: June 15 – 19 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $100
Learning Objectives
- Circuit Concepts
- What is electricity
- Direction and Polarity
- Basic Components
- Relationship between circuit diagram and physical circuit
- Fabric Work
- Hand Stitching Fabric
- Creating a plush doll/object
- Common stitch types (running, ladder, blanket)
- Notebook Hacking techniques
- Using conductive tape
- LED’s
- Demonstrating types of circuits in a notebook
Prerequisites: None; a basic knowledge of hand sewing will help you move more quickly through your project, but it not required.
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 11+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 12
Dates / Times: June 25 – 26 | 9am – 12pm
Note that this is a 2-day camp.
Cost: $55
Participants will learn to make a stop motion video with stuffed animals in a style similar to Pixar short animations: communicating essential story concepts with camera techniques, visual cues, plot twists and more. Read more about it at http://www.communityinformaticsprojects.org/stopmotion or see examples below:
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 8 – 12
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Times: July 20 – July 24 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $100
- Spend a week learning how use games to do 3D design – scanning, rendering and printing!
- Learn basic geometric and organic modeling techniques with open-source and free programs to make components for board games and computer games in an iterative fashion
- Follow this up with post-production operations, such as polishing and painting models as well as considering characteristics for effective game piece design
- Participants gain real hands-on time operating and trouble-shooting 3D printer hardware and software control, and can make use of experimental filament types to design for interesting contexts or interactivity
Learning Objectives and Goals:
- Gain an understanding of 3D scanning, modeling and printing, including hardware and software
- Engage in iterative design to make board game components
- Reverse engineer and export from existing games to create models
- Work in small groups and individually
- Follow problem-solving and programmer-like deduction processes
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 10 – 14
Required # of Participants: 8 – 12
Dates / Times: July 13 – 17 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $100
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 11+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 10
Dates / Times: June 29 – July 2 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $100 (participants keep Gemma microcontroller)
Day 2) Learn how to operate an embroidery machine. First we will practice using the computerized stitches already loaded on machine. (layout, loading PES files, thread, embroidery material). Then we will embroider our designs onto material for bag.
Day 3) Learn how to operate a sewing machine. Practice on scrap fabric (how to make a bobbin, loading thread, stitch types & applications). Pockets & handles will be incorporated depending on design. We will learn how to sew a variety of fasteners; buttons, Velcro, zippers, & snaps.
Day 4) Practice new sewing skills and complete bags! Discuss other applications for learned skills; embroidered aprons, placemats, curtains, clothing, etc. Plan future projects for free day!
Objectives
- Learn how to design an embroidery (PES) file
- Learn how to operate a sewing & embroidery machine
- Learn basic pattern piecing & application of sewing notions
This workshop will not include soft circuits, LEDs, or electronics, it is all about how to sew and embroider.
Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with sewing (or previous participation in Camp Fab Lab)
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 9 – 12
Required # of Participants: 6 – 8
Dates / Times: July 27 – 31 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $100
Robot Builders Club
- Good for participants who have built simple robots before and want to take it to the next level, working with kids and adults with a comprehensive range of skills and experience
- Requires at least some experience with engineering and fabrication techniques; participants will work substantially with code
- This session we will be using the Arduino platform to make mid-size competition-grade robots
- Fee covers cost of materials, use of tools and expert instruction from Ctrl-Z
Process and Outcomes
- Work as a team to envision a series of capabilities and staged design goals
- Learn how to program controls and determine ideal methods of locomotion
- Pursue task-oriented objectives by adding each feature
- Leverage Fab Lab tools and materials like laser-cut acrylic, small board electronics controllers and 3D printers for parts
Prerequisites: Experience with any kind of programming (Arduino suggested)
Difficulty: Hard
Required Ages: 11 – 16
Required # of Participants: 5 – 12
Dates / Times: Friday evenings, June 19, 26, July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7, 14 | 6 – 9pm
Cost: $150
Make a magnificent mask made to fit just you! We’ll learn how to:
- Utilize different fabrication technologies and materials to explore mask making of several types, including paper, molded acylic, 3D-printed plastic and milled material
- Digitize your face as a 3D model to make a mask!
- Design the outside of the mask in creative ways
The last (5th) day is open lab time for participants to apply the skills they’ve learned and interests they’ve cultivated to pursue projects in a less structured open-lab format – it is optional
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy to Moderate
Required Ages: 11+
Required # of Participants: 6 – 12
Dates / Times: July 20 – 24 | 9am – 12pm
Cost: $100
Analog Noise and Music Making
Students will be introduced to the individual components that make up most electronics. By building a simple, interactive noise making device, everyone will learn the function of resistors, capacitors, transistors, and integrated circuits (microchips). Students will then get to design their own circuit boards, drawing organic shapes that will be used as touch sensors for their noise/music maker. We will mill the circuit boards at the FabLab and assemble the device – everyone will bring home their own instrument.
The last (5th) day is open lab time for participants to apply the skills they’ve learned and interests they’ve cultivated to pursue projects in a less structured open-lab format – it is optional
Prerequisites: Officially none, familiarity with Arduino or programming is helpful!
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 10 – 14
Required # of Participants: 4 – 8
Dates / Times: July 20 – July 24 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $120
There has been a great deal of excitement about the “Internet of Things” (IOT), networked objects that can collect and present data online and have the potential to be controlled remotely. A lot of the discussion is focused on consumer-oriented products, like thermastats you might control from work, but IOT also has the potential to collect data about spaces and communities. For this camp we introduce youth to some of the inventions and concepts (as well as challenges) with IOT and then work with them to build a simple pair of sensors that present space-use data graphically online.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Since this is a new camp participants will end up doing some of the investigation and research independently and collaboratively – this will be our first time going through the process and expect it to be challenging. They will engage in research design, data visualization, iterative prototyping and work with code as well as small electronics and other helpful tools like the laser engraver.
Take-Home Creations
Each participant will take home two wireless Arduinos with environmental sensors, housed in some sort of container suited to where it will collect data.
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Arduino/code
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 11+
Required # of Participants: 4 – 8
Dates / Time: July 17 – July 21 | 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $140
Learning Process and Outcomes
Design thinking, group problem solving, rapid prototyping, iterative design
Take-Home Creations
Because of the team nature of this camp, there may not be individual take home projects but each team will have plenty of pictures to show off and the best inventions will be left on display at the lab!
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: Camp Fab Lab
Difficulty: Moderate
Required Ages: 10+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Time: July 31 – August 4 | 9am – 12pm
Cost: $130
If your personality were a room that you could walk into what would it look like? In this introspective camp, campers will use art and technology to explore their own personalities. Using the various technologies available in the lab, you will design, build and decorate dioramas that reflect your personality. Technologies that will be utilized include laser cutting, 3D printing, digital embroidery, and silhouette cutting. Campers will spend the week creating their dioramas and will have a final product to bring home at the end of the week.
Learning Process and Outcomes
Daily creativity, self-reflection, and design-thinking prompts, introductions to laser cutting, 3D printing, silhouette, and digital embroidery, self-directed work on a final project. Camp will culminate with students sharing their dioramas with each other and parents.
Take-Home Creations
Campers will take home their completed dioramas
Please fill out and bring signed forms with you on the first day of camp OR just email us the forms in advance. We will provide participants with a snack each day and a water bottle for the week.
Prerequisites: None
Difficulty: Easy
Required Ages: 9+
Required # of Participants: 8 – 15
Dates / Time: June 12 – 16 | 9am – 12pm
Cost: $120