Game Development Camps - Summer Camps - McDonogh School

Game Development Camps

LEGO and K’Nex Theme Park (Ages 5-8)

Ages: Boys and Girls 5 to 8
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dates and Tuition: June 20 to June 23 (week of Juneteenth)- $425

*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee - $25 per camper

Join us as we build our very own theme parks using LEGO® , K’Nex, and other awesome materials! Theme Park Design allows campers to learn and test the science behind roller coasters, giant slides, and other theme park activities. Build a giant loop and race against other teams in friendly competitions, use LEGOs to make a zip line glider, and then make a video from the riders perspective as you crash through your concession stand sending LEGOs everywhere!

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: June 26 to June 30 - $530

*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee - $25 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.

LEGO STEM Avengers (Ages 5-8)

Ages: Boys and Girls 5 to 8
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dates and Tuition: June 26 to June 30 - $530

*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee - $25 per camper

Explore all the caped crusaders and discover their super powers 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!

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 3 to July 7 (Week of July 4) - $425

*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee - $25 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!

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: July 10 to July 14 - $530

*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee - $25 per camper

In this popular camp students will design and code an awesome Advanced Obby and Tycoon game in Roblox, and then learn how to monetize them to make Robux at the Roblox marketplace! Students will learn both the basics of 3D game development and fundamental programming concepts using the Lua programming language.

This camp is designed for beginner to intermediate students who are interested in programming, game design, and entrepreneurship.

K’Nex Super Mario Brothers (Ages 5-8)

Ages: Boys and Girls 5 to 8
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dates and Tuition: July 10 to July 14 - $530 SOLD OUT

*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee - $25 per camper

The Super Mario Brothers are back at it again! Young Drobots engineers will join Mario, Luigi, Toadstool, and Yoshi “to build'' new levels during each camp day. Campers will use LEGO and K’Nex motors to create moving obstacles for our (pesky) characters to avoid. Create and take tunnels to secret levels that only YOU know about and then challenge your friends to try to beat your Bowser maze.

Parents, it’s time for your little ones to enjoy all of the fun from the hit game you knew of growing up, but all brought to life in a STEM setting with: LEGOs, K’Nex, and of course…creativity! Did we mention robots?

Oh yeah…Watch out for them - it is 2023!

Super Pets Creator (Ages 5-8)

Ages: Boys and Girls 5 to 8
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dates and Tuition: July 17 to July 21 - $530

*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee - $25 per camper

Let’s see what Krypto, Streak, Comet, Streaky, and the whole pack are up to this summer! As always, they are fighting crime and solving mysteries with the help of their superhero owners. So, campers, let’s unite and lend them a paw! Together we will use LEGO, K’nex, and robots to help the Super Pets find lost pups, rescue turtles from the flood, and transport kittens over a damaged rope bridge. Keep your eyes open as we watch out for Lu-Lu, the dreaded hairless guinea pig who wants to foil your plans at every turn!

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: July 24 to July 28 - $530

*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee - $25 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!

StemQuest: K’Nex Theme Park (Ages 8-13)

Ages: Boys and Girls 8 to 13
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dates and Tuition: July 24 to July 28 - $530

*Optional Weekly Transportation Fee - $25 per camper

Step right up! Discover how we use wheels, gears, and pulleys to make things move and explore the forces that drive your favorite rides from trains to merry-go-rounds to Ferris wheels.

Using their imaginations, campers will build loop-the-loops and carousels to turn an engineering space into an amusement park. It is certain to be a wild ride as groups of young engineers drive, pilot, and wreck amazing robots through creative courses built with the always-popular K’Nex sets. Code robots to navigate an amusement park as we buildand also wreck roller coasters, giant swings, and other exhilarating rides.

Join us for a week of fun and learning as we take traditional theme park games/challenges and redesign them with the wonders of the K’Nex engineering platform. This camp provides the best combination of fine motor skill activities and programmable bot learning.

No height restrictions for these wacky rides!

2023 McDonogh Summer Camps