2021
Brainwave STEAM and Art Summer Camps
Nashua, NH
June 21 to August 20
Hosted by The Enrichment Center @ 2nd Nature Academy
June 21 to August 20
Hosted by The Enrichment Center @ 2nd Nature Academy
About our specialty camps: Each year, we work hard to incorporate science, technology, engineering, art, and math into every camp.. We also strive to offer a problem-based learning approach, which we hope will support and enhance the skills that your campers are learning at school. As such, these camps require intensive preparation and materials to make them a unique summer experience. We hope your camper enjoys their summer and decides to spend some of it with us!
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Canvas Painting & Drawing En Plein Air
Calling to all young Monets and Cassatts! This camp is perfect for artists passionate about drawing and painting. Our day is divded between life drawing and expressive painting. Projects will strengthen skills and challenge our creative hearts. Campers are allowed to bring in images they'd like to learn how to paint. We will explore painting surfaces, sizes and materials. Our life drawing will be spent outdoors observing nature and learning how to draw landscapes and farm animals. For inspiration we will take short walks(5-10 minutes, so bring your bug spray and sunscreen) to the campus barn to visit with our furry friends, and the pond to visit both flora and fauna. $355
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Art Exploration: From Crayons to Pixels
We will be inspired by artists and how they used tools and media to create their masterpiece. Campers will discover how different media and tools contribute to artistic expression. We experiment by mixing paints, making crayons, and using digital media (among others) to create vibrant compositions and learn basic art principles! Each class will see us make a new project geared to engage our young artists so they can learn and grow both their talent and self-confidence.. $355
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Minecraft Art Heist: Widgets, Traps, and Redstone
Minecrafters turn into art collectors as they research and learn about artworks from around the world. Then, they will re-create and assemble their favorite pieces in their own Minecraft museum with a state-of-the art security system. Advanced campers willl also learn how to use redstone engineering to create their security traps and contraptions that will thwart their fellow 'Crafters who will be invited to test the security system. $380
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Duct Tape and Wire Sculpture Arts
Using duct tape as our medium, campers will design their own fashion accessories, artwork, mobiles, and more. To take creations to the next level, we will combine this medium with other materials such as fabric and wire to to your pieces! We will learn techniques in felting and design patterns for duct tape and fabric. Instruction will be mixed between guided skill demonstrations and independent creative execution. $380
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Animate It!
One part creation, one part production, all parts fun! Using any materials on hand (e.g., LEGO or clay), campers will combine their power of storytelling with image-capture technology. They will create videos in which their creations interact with each other through the power of stop-motion animation. Instructors will help campers develop short storyboards, set up the video camera, and use the animation software. At the end of class, we will email campers their videos. Develop all your STEAM skills as you produce a visual masterpiece. $355
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Illustrate It!
Let's make our stories come to life through illustrations! All forms of illustration techniques will be covered during our week of camp. We will spend time writing and illustrating our own bedtime story. For inspiration, we will visit the barnyard to learn how to draw our resident farm animals and take short nature walks to the pond to help us observe from nature and create beautiful landscape paintings. Cartooning and drawing techniques will also be covered. $355
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Start-Up! Birth of a Brand
Over these two weeks, campers will make a natural health or beauty product (e.g., lip balm or bug spray) as they learn and implement basic principles and tools of product development, brand-building and graphic design. We will experiment with different formulations and conduct market research to create their final product. Then, campers will think about what makes the product special and translate it into a brand positioning, tagline, and brand marks (e.g. logo, colors, imagery, fonts). Taking all of these elements together, campers will implement their product design and create a print ad. We will also cover basic financial considerations like product price, cost of goods, and other expenses to introduce business principles. $725
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Lego Urban Planning
This camp is perfect for kids who love to create unique worlds and ecosystems. We will collaborate as a group to come up with our own culture and civilization, and then imagine what a city or neighborhood might look like in that world. Each camper will take an aspect of our city and build it out. At the end of the week, we will put our masterpieces together, and enjoy all our work. Throughout the week, we will document our ideas and plans and then compare it to our final builds. $380
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Minecraft Adventurecraft: Lost in the City
Have you ever embarked on an adventure in Minecraft, fraught with puzzles and danger? In Adventurecraft, Lost in the City edition, we will help campers to create their own urban labyrinths for their friends to explore and teach some tips and tricks to make skyscrapers that might contain the answers that will help you get back home.. $380
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Cardboard Quest JR
Cardboard Quest & Engineering
Step into another world as your wits are put to the test! This is our most comprehensive STEAM adventure, where campers will build their 21st Century skills!
Campers will collaborate in groups to develop their team's identity and motto. Together, each group will create flags and crests which represents the team's persona. We will design and build structures, armor, and/or attire from the finest cardboard in the land. Campers will embark on cooperative adventures that will challenge their scientific, engineering, creative, and physical abilities. They may need to design and create a toy game or build a boat out entirely out of cardboard, and to up the ante, they'll also have to test it themselves! One day they might learn about trebuchets, and launch water balloons out of our very own (made entirely out of cardboard!), or they might be asked to create a Rube Goldberg kinetic sculpture. Several of the design challenges will be team-focused as well, promoting and inspiring collaboration and cooperation. JUNIOR quest is a one-week camp for 6-8 yr olds. Otherwise, this is a two-week camp for ages 8-10 and 11-14. |
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Lost Civilizations: From Culture-Building to Multi-Media Museum Exhibit
Our newest two-week camp takes STEAM to another level! Campers will work in groups to create their own civilization with its own culture, language and beliefs, and build artifacts that represent their world. Each group will bury these artifacts and take on roles of archaeologists as they dig another group's relics. They will learn how to survey excavation sites, to document their findings, and to develop their hypotheses on the story behind these discoveries in order to piece together the lost civilization. All their work will culminate in the creation of a multi-media museum exhibit and research symposium that showcases their findings. $725
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Lego Mind Palace
No following instructions here! While our time will be mostly student-directed, we will focus the builds on specific design themes each day. Each theme is meant to provide context for students to make some design considerations given a few constraints, while keeping to their creative vision. One day, we might ask students to create animals and their habitat if they lived on Mars. Another day, we might introduce an artist like M.C. Escher and ask students to create a Lego build inspired by his illusionist art work. Every session is sure to be a creative blast! $380
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Minecraft Around the Universe in 5 Days: Creative World Building & Architecture
Campers will imagine themselves in a spacecraft and travel to different "lands" (or time) where they will learn about and research different types of architecture or aspects of space. Inspired by what they've learned, campers will "craft" their world iin Minecraft. Projects will be student-driven and guided by our instructor and counselors who will also provide instruction. At the end of the week, each camper will act as a guide as we all cram into the tour bus. $380
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