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April 3 - April 7, 2023 - CANCELLED
9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Ages: 6-12
Fees: $299/Resident, $$304/Non-Resident
Learn about archaeology and the techniques scientists use to excavate long lost cities. Discover ancient civilizations and the tools and artifacts they used in everyday life. Study bone fragments, pottery shards, amber deposits, and fossils; understand what they can tell us about history. Make and take-home projects each day, like a fossil reproduction, an amber time capsule, coins from around the world!
July 31 - August 4, 2023
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Ages: 6-12
Fee: $175/Resident, $180/Non-Resident
Learn how birds and beasts catch their prey! Flow through the food chain and discover how animals and insects adapt to life on our planet. Explore how a change in the wind, water, and temperature affects all of Earth’s inhabitants. Build wooden birdhouses, dissect owl pellets and learn how animals navigate the world using scent trails. Campers will also build a bug house to observe critters and identify animals by making plaster animal tracks.
August 7 - August 11, 2023
9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Ages: 6-12
Fee: $175/Resident, $180/Non-Resident
Bring your imagination & let it SOAR as you create a squadron of paper airplanes the Wright brothers would be proud of! Explore technological advances in flight: hot air balloons, flying machines, stomp rockets, & spacecraft. Become inspired by Verne and Asimov! All campers will build and take home their own sci-fi inspired light sabers!
Mad Science
of West New Jersey
800-281-9709
LOCATION:
Parks & Recreation Office
660 Lansdale Avenue