Academic summer camps involve more than studying and reading books.
Academic summer camps are not just about reading and studying in classrooms. Portland, Oregon day camps and overnight camps for young people, ages 5 to 18, include indoor and outdoor programming that focuses on animals, marine life, chemistry, robotics, geology, computers, animation, movie-making, architecture and many other subjects. Academic camps involve hands-on learning and activities, guided by teachers, university students and professionals in their fields.
Campers are exposed to new ideas and knowledge as they participate in experiences that encourage exploration, discovery, creativity and meeting kids, teens and adults who share similar interests.
Education Soaring
Education Soaring is a coed academic day camp for children from kindergarten through eighth grade. Campers take classes in subjects such as history, technology, chemistry, robotics, math, architecture, digital movie-making, nature studies, the arts, entrepreneurship, cooking and website design. The full-day program begins at 8:00 a.m. and ends at 4:00 p.m. and extended care is available. Campers may sign up for full or half-days, depending on how many classes they choose.
Certified public and private school teachers, local professionals and expert volunteers from science, math and engineering institutions and businesses teach children who learn through hands-on exploration and creativity inside and outside the classrooms.
The camp's technology center's offerings include
one computer for every one to two students,
video and digital cameras, HD equipment and green screen.
Education Soaring's southwest Portland location is easily accessible by car and public transit, and students take frequent field trips to nearby colleges and universities, museums, local businesses, government offices and nature areas.
Education Soaring
3607 SW Corbett Ave.
Suite A
Portland, OR 97239
503-253-3486
educationsoaring.com
OMSI Summer Science
The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) offers overnight science camps for second through twelfth-graders all summer. Campers depart from the museum in Portland and head off on science-based adventures all over the Pacific Northwest. The camps last from two days to 2 weeks, after which campers return for pick-up at the OMSI building. According to the Regional Resource Catalog of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Initiatives, OMSI "offers the most affordable comprehensive science camp experience on the West Coast."
OMSI also offers weeklong, full-day science classes for grades 2 through 8 and half-day science classes for kindergarten through first grade. This academic day camp is described as a place where "kids investigate, invent, experiment, interpret, strategize, discover and share what they learn with others."
Throughout the summer, the museum offers hundreds of classes in subjects including computers, marine science, dinosaurs, space, rocketry, engineering, animation and sports science.
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
1945 SE Water Ave.
Portland, OR 97214
503-797-4661
omsi.edu
ASE Saturday Academy
Portland's Saturday Academy offers a variety of academic summer camps for fourth through twelfth grade students. Camps are held at venues throughout Portland, and most camps are one week long and run from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 or 4:00 p.m. Camps include Animal Camp, Dragonfly Science Camp for Girls, Oceanography, Mechanical Engineering, Super Science Investigations, Robotics Academy, Medical Camp, Game Design Academy and Architectural Photography. Overnight camping is part of a few of Fossils camp, Lewis and Clark Discovery camp, Marine Campout and Volcanic campout.
Instructors are professionals in their fields and experts in the subjects they teach, as well as being people who enjoy and have experience working with children.
ASE Saturday Academy
830 SW Tenth Ave.
Suite 200
Portland, OR 97205
503-200-5861
saturdayacademy.org
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