Game Development Camps and StemQuest - Summer Camps - McDonogh School

Game Development Camps and StemQuest

STEM: Avengers LEGO (Ages 5-8)

Ages: Boys and Girls 5 to 8
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dates and Tuition: June 17 to June 21 (Juneteenth holiday) - $465
*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee: $35 per camper

Explore all the caped crusaders and discover their superpowers in this action-packed LEGO® camp. Create a fantasy world and protect it against all the evil archenemies with custom contraptions made with LEGO® bricks. Campers will build the SHIELD Jet, custom secret lairs, and speedy flying contraptions. Avengers fans will love this camp as they work in teams to defeat Loki!

LEGO Jedi Engineering (Ages 5-8)

Ages: Boys and Girls 5 to 8
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dates and Tuition: June 24 to June 28 - $580
*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee: $35 per camper

Prepare for a full-day LEGO camp packed with hands-on and minds-on STEM fun! Build projects inspired by cool machines close to home such as cities, garbage trucks, and catamarans. Then build X-Wings, energy catapults, and defense turrets from a galaxy far, far away! Learn about BOTH kinds of The Force in this full-day themed engineering camp for LEGO fanatics!

Medieval Robot Battles (Ages 8-12)

Ages: Boys and Girls 8 to 12
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dates and Tuition: June 24 to June 28 - $580
*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee: $35 per camper

The Medieval Robot Battles camp incorporates the ingenuities of modern technologies but inserts campers in a historic Renaissance setting. Throughout the week, campers will compete in some of the most exciting tournaments of the Medieval period.

This StemQuest program uses a variety of app-enabled robots that can be free-driven, programmed, and fabricated through team-oriented puzzles and challenges. While the program aims to build proficiency with gaming technology, the curriculum presents exercises that stress all the verticals of STEAM. Campers will create their unique Renaissance masks, equip their robots with shields and battle artillery, and design their festival fairgrounds.

Join the Drobots’ instructors for a time-traveling adventure and learn together how modern technology may enhance the competitions of the Medieval Age!

Jurassic-Bot Adventures (Ages 5-8)

Ages: Boys and Girls 5 to 8
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.|
Dates and Tuition: July 1 to July 5 (Week of July 4) - $465
*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee: $35 per camper

Campers, prepare to escape reality during this time-traveling Robotics and LEGO® summer program! Design and guide your Robotic Dino-Cart throughout the Jurassic Map to find shelter. You better hurry, because the King-Rex is ready to track your group down and turn your hard-earned Lizard Tokens into lunch!

During this high-energy and adventurous program, participants will learn to code their robots to recreate the migration patterns of dinosaurs. Groups of campers (junior Paleontologists) work together in small teams, and will build motorized pulley systems, bridges, and specialized tools to successfully navigate the prehistoric landscape!

So, get ready to transport from the comforts of your own engineering room to the misty murky land of the Terrible Lizards who once ruled the Planet.

This camp is the perfect blend of creativity, fun, and STEM...all in one!

Gru’s Robotic Minion Mania (Ages 5-8)

Ages: Boys and Girls 5 to 8
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dates and Tuition: July 8 to July 12 - $580
*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee: $35 per camper

Once Upon a Time...Gru Was a Kid Just Like You! This summer will be perfect for campers to use the latest STEM-approved robots and LEGOS to help Gru in his quest to become the greatest supervillain of all time!

Participants will work with (and against) the Minions to build, drive, and crash their way through robotic obstacle escape challenges and Despicable Ramps! Campers will learn and use Drobots’ engineering and design process to create their very own Super Villain avatar and test it against the ongoing threat of other villains attempting to pilfer their THUNDER. Children, separated into small teams, will gain exposure to introductory coding concepts via the latest line-following bots and block coding platforms.

This program offers an abundance of fun and experimental model building, LEGO-Machining events, and Supercoder Challenges! Remember, just because Minions look cute and cuddly, they can be VERY, VERY Destructive with a Shrink Ray Blaster! Good Luck, and don’t forget to strap on your thinking cap!

K’Nex Ninja Turtles! (Ages 8-12)

Ages: Boys and Girls 8 to 12
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dates and Tuition: July 8 to July 12 - $580
*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee: $35 per camper

Channel your inner Ninja Turtle at K’NEX Ninja Turtles! Ditch the screens for a week of real-life ninja adventures.

Campers will use their engineering know-how and learn through trial and error as they design and build the fastest sewer tunnel obstacle course, create agile ninja vehicles, and develop rugged land rovers fit for a ninja mission. These vehicles will be put to the test as campers take on missions inspired by the Turtle brothers' journey to win the hearts of New Yorkers and take on a mysterious adversary. Build sewer tunnel obstacle courses, design ninja vehicles, and tackle inspiring missions.

Join us now for an unforgettable summer of fun and excitement!

Dr. Seuss’ KNEX Great Robotics Adventure (Ages 5-8)

Ages: Boys and Girls 5 to 8
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dates and Tuition: July 15 to July 19 - $580
*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee: $35 per camper

The Cat in the Hat is at it again, but this time with a group of young campers who call themselves: The Seuss Crew!

Junior Engineers will work together in small groups as both campers and their instructors attempt to track down the Cat in the Hat. This frisky feline has been seen hiding around camp, so we will need the assistance of Detective “INDI” (Drobots’ latest dazzling robot). In this action-packed program, campers use spinning robots, LEGOs, and K’NEX to navigate the maps left behind to find the Cat in the Hat. Also, campers will use K’NEX to build traps, vehicles, and wacky games to help the Lorax find his mustache.

Campers will love our age-appropriate and durable robots that can be raced, wrecked, and raced again.

Build it and Wreck it (Ages 5-8)

Ages: Boys and Girls 5 to 8
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dates and Tuition: July 22 to July 26 - $580
*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee: $35 per camper

Don’t miss out on the most exciting camp program of the summer! Is there anything more fun than building structures out of LEGOs and K’NEX, only to watch them all crumble down before your eyes? Have you ever wanted to build a tower and then use a robot to pull it down? Well, now is your chance!

All week-long campers and our professional instructors will build incredible castles and then test how much weight they can hold before crumbling down. Using LEGO and K’NEX, campers will work together in small teams to build bridges, roads, swings, and even snowmobiles! Each day participants will be presented with new and exciting build challenges and missions to overcome and tear down.

So, join us for a great week of camp as we all put on our hard hats and thinking caps!

 

StemQuest: Robot X Games (Ages 8-12)

Ages: Boys and Girls 8 to 12
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dates and Tuition: July 22 to July 26 - $580
*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee: $35 per camper

Robot X Games is a weeklong competition filled with some of the most exhilarating games and races ever experienced in a summer camp setting, including BMX Big Air, Stadium Super Trucks, Street Luge, SnowMobile Freestyle, and Moto X Quarter Pipe! All week, campers build, test, and race X Game-themed robots to compete in some of X Games most popular events. Moreover, campers will invent new events, building and shaping their own race tracks, obstacle courses, and barricades.

Prepare for endless exposure to new technology and come ready to earn your team’s right to the podium during friendly competition in a creative problem-solving environment.

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