Registration opens January 6, 2025
- To help you and your child choose the best science or math camps for them, please read all of the descriptions for their grade level.
- Most camps are open to children ENTERING grades 4-8.
- Jr. Paleontology and Totally Cool Math & Science Combo is open to 3rd graders.
- Zombies and Biomedical Engineering is open to 9th graders.
- Camps with off-campus field trips are marked with a *. No trips will take place on Mondays. Field trip explanations will go home with campers on Monday of each week.
| Camps for 8-9 Graders | Camps for 6-8 Graders |
| Camps for 4-5 Graders |
Camps for 3-4 Graders |
Camps for Third-Fourth Graders
Camps with off-campus field trips are marked with *.
*Jr. Paleontology
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/16, 7/7
Can you excavate a complete dinosaur fossil and put it back together?! Make amber slime with a fossilized (plastic) cockroach! Explore Morrill Hall at UNL and visit the creatures that roamed Nebraska before us. Investigate dinosaur scat and create a new dinosaur!
*Totally Cool Math and Science Combo
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/2, 6/9, 6/23, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28
Experience electricity with Play-Doh! Begin to explore the exciting worlds of Science and Math through sound, light and color! M&M Math, sound, mirrors and color top the list of activities. Make tessellation t-shirts! Solve puzzles and compete in the Metric Olympics. Play Egyptian Baseball and visit The Kiewit Luminarium! Make oobleck and get MESSY!
Camps for Fourth–Fifth Graders
Camps with off-campus field trips are marked with *.
*Architecture & 3D Printing
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/2, 6/16, 7/7, 7/21
Using science and technology, campers will become city planners and design the playground of their dreams! Campers will use 3D printers to bring their ideas to life, by printing playground equipment. Tour different playgrounds around the Metro area and hear from local architects about how to pursue an architecture degree. Compete in engineering/building challenges throughout the week! Campers will use other materials to create their playground.
*Art in Science
- Cost: $265
- Offered week of 7/21
Scientists become great artists in Art in Science! Create and mount your own creations based on the works of several artists. Campers use science and math to create color wheels and sand mandalas. Discover the science of shapes and structure in nature. Campers will visit Hot Shops and see the many different artists that use science in their work!
Astronomical Adventures
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/9, 7/7
Build and launch a rocket! Learn about planets, stars and moons in the NEWLY REMODELED Mallory Kountze Planetarium at UNO. Design and make a glow-in-the-dark galaxy t-shirt. Study solar activity with large telescopes and build your own spectroscope to split light waves up. Build a pasta rover and see how far it can travel.
*Earth Science - What Rocks Our Earth
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/16, 7/14
If you like to dig for rocks and fossils, this is for you! You will visit Schramm Park for a fossil dig. Discover what geologists do and make a stratigraphic model. Learn how to identify minerals, create artesian wells and study river systems using the university’s stream table. Earth Science will really rock you!
*Eco-Excitement - Biology
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/9, 7/7
Jump into Eco Excitement! Study plants, animals and their relationship with the environment. Learn about the predator/prey cycle, and why it is important to us. Study tiny water creatures at Heron Haven to learn about wetlands in our city! Build the perfect home for a grasshopper. Study living organisms in Eco Excitement Biology Camp!
Get Your Game On! Strategies of the Mind
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 7/14, 7/28
Learn or extend your skills in Chess, Checkers, Stratego and other games as you strengthen your problem-solving skills. Play games all day and learn strategies to outwit worthy opponents. Learn how to THINK TO WIN!
Grossology
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/2, 7/28
If the disgusting oozy, icky, and slimy doesn’t gross you out, this camps for you! Explore the grosser parts of the human body. Make booger launchers and snot slime! Make a model eyeball to squish between your fingers and build a digestive system from beginning to end. This camp is for all those kids who like the gross parts of human body science!
Mythical Creatures
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/23, 7/21
Set out on an adventure with our brand-new Mythical Creatures camp! Explore creatures like unicorns, the Loch Ness monster, and dragons. Catch Bigfoot, build a house fit for a fairy! Discover the science of cryptozoology with art techniques, story writing and scientific evidence! By the end of the week, you’ll have your very own compendium of all creatures magical, mystical, and magnificent!
*Physics with Toys
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/23, 7/28
Learn all about spinning, pulling and pushing! Investigate a park and your toy box. Use Knex to build simple machines. Play with toys and games to learn how they work. Science is everywhere! Test different bouncy balls and make one of your own! Explore flight and make a kite!
*STEM in Sports
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/9, 7/7
Campers who love sports and engineering will love this camp! STEM in sports combines science, technology, engineering, and math with sports fundamentals. Learn about the physics behind basketball and then engineer a goal launcher! Tour UNO’s sports facility and visit Chalco Hills for geocaching and a gaga ball championship.
*Understanding Energy
- Cost: $265
- Offered week of 6/9, 7/21
Harness wind, water and solar power using windmills, solar panels and turbines. Find out about giant wind turbines and geothermal energy. Design and create a model city with electricity. Visit an Omaha Public Power District facility! (Conditions permitting)
*VEX Robotics I
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/16, 6/23, 7/14
This camp is part engineering lab and part competition! Campers work together to code robots to compete in several robotic events throughout the week. Brainstorming creative solutions to engineering situations using rotation, light, ultrasonic and touch sensors, students practice collaboration and problem-solving skills.
*VEX Robotics II
- Cost: $265
- Offered week of 7/28
Campers must have taken VEX Robotics I before enrolling in this camp. This camp is part engineering lab and part competition! Campers work together to code robots to compete in the Robot Olympics. Brainstorming creative solutions to engineering situations using rotation, light, ultrasonic and touch sensors, students practice collaboration and problem-solving skills. This camp builds on skills previously learned in the Vex I robotics camp.
Video Game Designer
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/2, 7/21
Calling all gamers! Do you hold the high score for all your favorite video games? Try your hand at designing your very own video game! Construct a world of your own with moving characters, game development, and learn the coding skills behind making video games. Using visual block coding,this camp really dives into computer programming and building the base to online gaming.
*Weather — Forces of Nature
- Cost: $265
- Offered week of 7/21
Forces of Nature can make kids mini meteorologists! Study meteorology and explore hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, rain, snow and on and on! Make your own tornado tube and see if you can engineer a way to stay o top of snow. Meet weather forecasters at the National Weather Service office in Valley. An Omaha meteorologist visits camp and gives campers information about pursuing a meteorology career! This camp is for you, whatever the weather!
*Zoology
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/2, 7/28
In Zoology, we study extreme animals! What makes animals different and unique? Learn about adaptations, visit the Henry Doorly Zoo to observe animal adaptations at work, create a habitat shadow box. Learn how zookeepers keep animals enriched and healthy. Have fun with others who love animals!
*Architecture & 3D Printing
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/9, 6/23, 7/14, 7/28
Using science and technology, campers will become structural engineers and design a tree house of their dreams by printing furniture and a pet! They will use 3D printers to bring their ideas to life, take a field trip to the Arbor Day Farm and Treetop Village, and hear from local architects about how to pursue an architecture degree. Compete in engineering/building challenges throughout the week! Campers will use other building materials to create their treehouse.
*Art in Science
- Cost: $265
- Offered the week of 6/2
Scientists become great artists in Art in Science! Create and mount your own creations based on the works of several artists. Campers use science and math to create color wheels and sand mandalas. Discover the science of shapes and structure in nature. Campers will visit Hot Shops and see the many different artists that use science in their work!
Adventures in the Chem Lab
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/9, 7/7
Helium, hydrogen, oxygen…. Things blow up! Things freeze! Watch chemical changes and make a polymer. Campers experiment with kitchen chemistry, the chemistry of everyday things, and ice cream in an instant are mysteries to be solved with chemistry. This hands-on camp will introduce campers to the wonderful world of chemistry!
*Allergy Information: This camp spends a day working with food items*
Astrobiology
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/2, 7/7
Join the quest for extraterrestrial life and learn about the effects of outer space on living organisms. Look for life under a microscope. Study UFOs! Discuss what life is. Search for life in space! Create your own new world by making papier-mâché planets. Campers will visit the NEWLY REMODELED Mallory Kountze Planetarium at UNO!
Astronomy
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/9, 7/14
Explore electromagnetic energy in the NEWLY REMODELED Mallory Kountze Planetarium at UNO! Learn how gravity binds solar systems together or tears them apart. Spend a morning viewing the Sun through our solar telescopes! Build and launch your own rocket.
*Dynamic Earth
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/16
Investigate the Earth and our interactions with it. Use maps and computers to learn about unique landscapes. Explore geography with activities such as an afternoon of Geocaching on UNO’s campus, visiting Morrill Hall on UNL’s campus and creating your own island with contour lines. Test your geography knowledge with a geography bee throughout the week.
*Eco Experts-The Cornhusker State's Unique Ecology-Biology
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/2, 7/14
Can you build a swoon-worthy worm mansion?! Learn about animals and plants that are native to our area at Fontenelle Forest. Meet raptor ambassadors while at Fontenelle! Learn about our state turtle with a visit from Nebraska Wildlife Rehab turtle ambassador. Dissect flowers and seeds, observe birds, protect your prairie dog colony in a fun game.
Forensic Science
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/16, 7/21
Forensic Science is all about criminal investigation! Use your observational skills and logical thinking to study codes and code breaking, osteology and entomology-observe a decomposing raw chicken throughout the week. Learn all about hair samples, blood spatters and fingerprints. Use software to create composite facial sketches. Omaha Police Department’s forensic team visits camp to tell us about how to get into that career.
Get Your Game On! Strategies of the Mind
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/9, 6/23
Learn or extend your skills in Chess, Checkers, Stratego and other games as you strengthen your problem-solving skills. Play games all day and learn strategies to outwit worthy opponents. Learn how to THINK TO WIN!
*Math In Arts
- Cost: $265
- Offered week of 7/7
This camp is for kids who LOVE math and participating in different types of arts. Campers will use math in a performance arts activity, learn how math relates to music, express mathematical concepts in visual arts, and discover how math influences the arts community with a visit to Hotshops.
*Understanding Energy
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/2, 7/7
This camp has the same information as the 4th-5th grade camp but taught at a higher level. Harness wind, water and solar power using windmills, solar panels and turbines. Find out about giant wind turbines and geothermal energy. Visit an Omaha Public Power District facility! (Conditions permitting)
*VEX Robotics I
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/2, 7/7
This camp has the same information as the 4th-5th grade camp but taught at a higher level. This camp is part engineering lab and part competition! Campers work together to code robots to compete in several robotic events throughout the week. Brainstorming creative solutions to engineering situations using rotation, light, ultrasonic and touch sensors, students practice collaboration and problem-solving skills.
*VEX Robotics II
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/9, 7/21
This camp has the same information as the 4th-5th grade camp but taught at a higher level. Campers must have taken VEX Engineering I before enrolling in this camp. This camp is part engineering lab and part competition! Campers work together to code robots to compete in the Robot Olympics. Brainstorming creative solutions to engineering situations using rotation, light, ultrasonic and touch sensors, students practice collaboration and problem-solving skills. This camp builds on skills previously learned in the Vex I robotics camp.
Video Game Designer
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/16, 7/14
This camp has the same information at the 4th-5th grade camp but is taught at a higher level. Calling all gamers! Do you hold the high score for all your favorite video games? Try your hand at designing your very own video game! Construct a world of your own with moving characters, game development, and learn the coding skills behind making video games. Using visual block coding,this camp really dives into computer programming and building the base to online gaming.
*Zoology
- Cost: $265
- Offered weeks of 6/16, 7/21
This camp has a different curriculum than the Grade 4-5 camp. In Zoology, we study extreme animals! What makes animals different and unique? Learn about adaptations, visit Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and the Lee G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park to observe animal adaptations at work, create a habitat shadow box, and more. Have fun with others who love animals!
Camps for Eighth–Ninth Graders
Camps with off-campus field trips are marked with *.
*Biomedical Engineering
- Cost: $265
- Offered week of 7/28
Campers explore the numerous fields of Biomedical Engineering, including imaging and medical devices. Investigate the amazing devices engineers create. Campers practice engineering problem solving along with communication and collaboration skills that are vital in the field.
Zombies
- Cost: $265
- Offered week of 6/23
Braaaains…is what it takes to survive this camp! Could a zombie apocalypse really happen? Learn about virology and the human body. Dissect a sheep brain to explore the parts of the human brain. Find out what makes something alive or not, see if you can find patient zero and track a disease’s progression, discover how a disease affects all body systems. Reverse engineer a cure and see if you can save humanity in time!