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Summer Programs for 2025

Week of June 9, 2025

(Ages 6-12) Colorful Campus: Albers & Beyond

Fritz Horstman, Education Director at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation and recent author of Interacting with Color will join us to start a week of color. Learn color relativity, gradients, and illusions of transparency to help us build <...

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Week of June 16, 2025

The Art & Science of Fire

Please Note: This is a 4 day camp week, there will be no camp on Thursday, June 19.

Explore fire in its many forms and its many uses throughout history. From its creative uses in glasswork and ceramics to its more practical use...

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Week of June 16, 2025

Sew Kind of You!

Please Note: This is a 4 day camp week, there will be no camp on Thursday, June 19.

Join professional freelance theatrical costumer C. Delari Johnston on a creative journey to share Kindness and Joy through handmade...

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Week of June 16, 2025

Classic Model Building

Please Note: This is a 4 day camp week, there will be no camp on Thursday, June 19.

Plastic Scale models began to appear in the 1940s. While easier to construct than the balsa models that preceded them, plastic models still req...

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Week of June 23, 2025

Materials Studies

A summer favorite returns with new projects and a return to some of our favorites. This week we are building a Design Engineer’s toolbox. How do you know which material to use? Delve into the intricacies of 5 types of materials:

  • Metal
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    Week of June 30, 2025

    Aerial Explorations

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    Week of June 30, 2025

    Hiking & Journaling

    Please Note: This is a 4 day camp week, there is no camp on Friday, July 4.

    East Rock Park was established 140 years ago to preserve and share the woodlands and wildlife that surround the river that powered Whitney’s machines....

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    Week of July 7, 2025

    Old Walled City of Shibam

    Rising from the wadi Hadramount—a riverbed in eastern Yemen that is dry most of the year and flows during the rainy season—is the ancient city of Shibam. Located in a sparsely populated region of Yemen, Shibam is regarded as “The oldest skyscrape...

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    Week of July 7, 2025

    Analog Gamebuilder

    Technology surrounds us and is so woven into our everyday lives. Even entertainment, like video games, has grown so much in popularity and accessibility becoming a driving force in our culture. Despite this, it is nice to take a step back and see whic...

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    Week of July 14, 2025

    The Roman Arch

    Rome has left a legacy that has captured the minds and imaginations of many. Most enduring may be the amazing feats of architecture and engineering that Rome spread throughout its empire. Many can still be seen today. At the center of these engineering...

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    Week of July 14, 2025

    Costume Design

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    Week of July 14, 2025

    A Broken Umbrella Theatre

    Play with A Broken Umbrella Theatre and learn the building blocks of ensemble theater-making.

    A Broken Umbrella Theater is proud to team up with the Eli Whitney Museum & Workshop and C. Delari Johnston’s Costuming Camp again this summer. T...

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    Week of July 21, 2025

    Chess

    This camp is for all skill levels.

    In 1849 Nathaniel Cooke registered his design for a standardized Chess set. This set became known as the Staunton Chess Set after the English chess master Howard Staunton. The Staunton set is what you ...

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    Week of July 28, 2025

    Messing About in Boats: The Pond Yacht

    Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing–absolutely nothing–half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
    - Water Rat, Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Gramme 1908

    Throughout history, it was customary for a shipb...

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    Week of July 28, 2025

    Blue Camp

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    Week of July 28, 2025

    Skate & Create

    This camp is all about skateboarding. Learn how skateboards are made–starting with the trees we harvest to craft them. Design your very own skateboard shape and graphics. Learn how to use basic tools and image making techniques to convert your design...

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    Week of August 4, 2025

    Marble Madness

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    Week of August 4, 2025

    Analog Gamebuilder

    Technology surrounds us and is so woven into our everyday lives. Even entertainment, like video games, has grown so much in popularity and accessibility becoming a driving force in our culture. Despite this, it is nice to take a step back and see whic...

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    Week of August 11, 2025

    Intergalactic Battles

    A long time ago in a galaxy far far away… With those simple words, an entire universe was born. On May 25, 1977, a revolution began.

    Join us as we draw from this fantastical universe and imagine the tools needed to travel and explore ...

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