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SUMMER CAMP 2024

Make it a summer of fun & invention

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Be a KID with us as we invent, explore, and make our way through the summer! KID Museum’s camps are designed and led by our professional maker educators and develop real-world skills through fun, hands-on projects. Join us and make it a summer to remember.

Summer Camps are available at both our Davis Library and Bethesda Metro Center locations.

Week-Long Camps
Dates: June 24 – August 23, 2024*
Monday – Friday | 9 AM – 4 PM**
Grades: 2nd – 4th, 5th – 7th & 7th – 9th

*Camps will not be available during select weeks at either KID Museum location.
**Aftercare available Monday-Thursday until 6 PM for an additional fee.

Standard Price Per Week
Members: $450
Non-Members: $500

Our Summer Camps are available for free or at a reduced cost for those who need assistance. To learn more, fill out this form.

Please select camps based on your child’s Fall 2024 grade level. See our Policies and FAQs for more information about camps at KID Museum.

Please select a KID Museum location prior to selecting a camp.

Located at 3 Bethesda Metro Center, Bethesda, MD 20814 in Suite 140.

June 24 - 28

2nd – 4th Grade | KID Arcade

Come on down to the KID Arcade. Design and build maker-ized versions of arcade games like pinball, skee-ball, and create prizes to win by achieving a high score. Get hands-on with cardboard construction, circuits, textiles, and design engineering while collaborating with fellow campers to turn KID Museum into the coolest arcade ever!

5th – 7th Grade | Toymakers 2.0

Become the next great toymaker! Whether making a brand new toy or giving used toys a new lease on life, it’s time to engineer new, one-of-a-kind creations. Develop skills in electronics, soldering, design, sewing, and more to bring creative ideas from concept to production.

7th – 9th Grade | Community Makers

Activate creativity to make the world a better place by joining a community of makers to discover the power of expression, symbolism, and collaboration. Hone new maker skills in woodworking, electronics, textiles, and the arts to create meaningful projects in collaboration with others.

Portions of this camp may take place off-site at partner organizations. Campers will have the opportunity to receive SSL hours (up to 5) for project work throughout the week. More details to be announced in May 2024.

July 8 - 12

2nd – 4th Grade | Wizard KIDs

AbraKIDabra, alakazam, welcome to KID’s wizarding camp! Get hands-on with real-world magic to design a custom wand, experiment with potions, and more. Each Wizard KID will develop magical skills in sewing, circuitry, chemistry, and design.

5th – 7th Grade | Illuminating Innovators

Ready to light up the summer? Stretch the imagination to the limit and explore unique projects that glow, light up, and transform in the dark. Use UV light to send secret messages, create monsters that glow in the dark, and most of all, let that creativity shine.

7th – 9th Grade | Music Makers

It’s time to turn that dial to 11 and enter the world of music production. Transform the coding platform Scratch into a dynamic music sampler, craft a DIY theremin, and explore digital music production with loops, synthesizers, and drum machines. Unleash musical creativity by filming and editing a music video too!

July 15 - 19

2nd – 4th Grade | Makerized Mash-Up

What if clothes were made out of cardboard? Or furniture was made out of feathers and tape? What if bugs were made of circuits? Or quilts made out of wood? It’s time to find out! Get creative using wacky materials, unconventional designs, and new fabrication techniques to tackle unique maker challenges.

5th – 7th Grade | Printmaking 101

Hot off the (printing) presses! It’s time to explore all forms of printmaking and stretch the imagination. Design a custom t-shirt, transform vegetables into stamps, and discover how light can be used to make a print! In just a week, become a printmaker extraordinaire.

July 29 - August 2

2nd – 4th Grade | Code Crushers

Start to think like a coder with this introduction into the world of coding and robotics. Practice block-coding in Scratch, design a coded robot to solve challenges, and even become a cryptographer by using code to write secret messages. What can’t a robot do?

Many projects in this camp will use KID Museum technology and will have fewer take-home projects at the end of the week.

5th – 7th Grade | Putting the Art in STEM

It’s full STE(A)M ahead! Explore how science, technology, engineering, and math can be combined to create unique pieces of art. Use flowers as pigments to dye clothes, design kinetic sculptures that move, and even use math to create intricate designs and patterns. Discover how beautiful and creative STEM skills can become.

7th – 9th Grade | Tech-Styles

Take your textiles skills to the next level in this studio deep dive. Designed for experienced makers, this camp will explore the role and cultural significance that textiles take in technologies both present and future. Learn to read patterns, transform fabric, and intertwine coding, sewing, and stitching into unique projects.

August 5 - 9

2nd – 4th Grade | Space KIDs

Countdown: mission on. 3… Explore the science behind NASA and discover the technology that scientists, astronauts, and aeronautical engineers use to uncover the secrets of the solar system. 2… Practice 3D computer modeling, coding with sensors, and so much more. 1… The stars await! 0… We have lift off!

5th – 7th Grade | Movie Makers

Camera? Check. Sound? Check. Lights? Check. It’s time to become the writer, director, designer, and producer of a movie! Storyboard ideas, build sets, sew costumes, and practice different filming methods to bring a story to life. Action!

August 12 - 16

2nd – 4th Grade | Tinkering with Transportation

Grab a hard hat, start the engines, buckle up, and make way! Discover the ins and outs of all things transportation from the vehicles people ride in to the infrastructure they travel on. How fast or high can a plane fly? How are bridges earthquake-resistant? There’s so much to discover and the creative construction crew at KID is ready to take on any engineering challenge.

5th – 7th Grade | Engineering Big: Mini Golf Madness

Collaborate and put engineering skills to the test to create a one-of-a-kind custom minigolf course! Learn the basics of cardboard construction, circuit, and hummingbird:bit coding to design and engineer a challenging maker course. Campers will attempt to make par as the green takes over KID.

August 19 - 23

2nd – 4th Grade | Built to Move

It’s time to get moving. Design and build unique creations that explore different forms of movement. Climbing, spinning, cycling, crawling… it’s all possible! Make automatons, rockets, model amusement park rides, and so much more. Ready to roll?

Located at 6400 Democracy Blvd. Bethesda, MD 20817 in the lower-level of the Davis Library.

June 24 - 28

2nd – 4th Grade | Built to Move

It’s time to get moving. Design and build unique creations that explore different forms of movement. Climbing, spinning, cycling, crawling… it’s all possible! Make automatons, rockets, model amusement park rides, and so much more. Ready to roll?

5th – 7th Grade | Engineering Big: Mini Golf Madness

Collaborate and put engineering skills to the test to create a one-of-a-kind custom minigolf course! Learn the basics of cardboard construction, circuit, and hummingbird:bit coding to design and engineer a challenging maker course. Campers will attempt to make par as the green takes over KID.

July 8 - 12

2nd – 4th Grade | Code Crushers

Start to think like a coder with this introduction into the world of coding and robotics. Practice block-coding in Scratch, design a coded robot to solve challenges, and even become a cryptographer by using code to write secret messages. What can’t a robot do?

Many projects in this camp will use KID Museum technology and will have fewer take-home projects at the end of the week.

5th – 7th Grade | Putting the Art in STEM

It’s full STE(A)M ahead! Explore how science, technology, engineering, and math can be combined to create unique pieces of art. Use flowers as pigments to dye clothes, design kinetic sculptures that move, and even use math to create intricate designs and patterns. Discover how beautiful and creative STEM skills can become.

July 15 - 19

2nd – 4th Grade | Space KIDs

Countdown: mission on. 3… Explore the science behind NASA and discover the technology that scientists, astronauts, and aeronautical engineers use to uncover the secrets of the solar system. 2… Practice 3D computer modeling, coding with sensors, and so much more. 1… The stars await! 0… We have lift off!

5th – 7th Grade | Movie Makers

Camera? Check. Sound? Check. Lights? Check. It’s time to become the writer, director, designer, and producer of a movie! Storyboard ideas, build sets, sew costumes, and practice different filming methods to bring a story to life. Action!

July 22 - 26

2nd – 4th Grade | Time Tinkerers

Step backward and forward in time while exploring science and technology throughout history and a future yet to be. From simple machines of the third century to today’s modern 3D printers to what the future might hold… discover just how the world has transformed across millennia.

5th – 7th Grade | Uncommon Robots

Robots come in all shapes and sizes… and the possibilities of what they can do are endless! Think outside the box and create new ways for robots to move, look, and function. Using microcontrollers, coding, sensors, circuits, and hands-on fabrication techniques, design and build robots out of unconventional material to do unexpected tasks.

July 29 - August 2

2nd – 4th Grade | Tinkering with Transportation

Grab a hard hat, start the engines, buckle up, and make way! Discover the ins and outs of all things transportation from the vehicles people ride in to the infrastructure they travel on. How fast or high can a plane fly? How are bridges earthquake resistant? There’s so much to discover and the creative construction crew at KID is ready to take on any engineering challenge.

5th – 7th Grade | Illuminating Innovators

Ready to light up the summer? Stretch the imagination to the limit and explore unique projects that glow, light up, and transform in the dark. Use UV light to send secret messages, create monsters that glow in the dark, and most of all, let that creativity shine.

August 5 - 9

2nd – 4th Grade | Makerized Mash-Up

What if clothes were made out of cardboard? Or furniture was made out of feathers and tape? What if bugs were made of circuits? Or quilts made out of wood? It’s time to find out! Get creative using wacky materials, unconventional designs, and new fabrication techniques to tackle unique maker challenges.

5th – 7th Grade | Printmaking 101

Hot off the (printing) presses! It’s time to explore all forms of printmaking and stretch the imagination. Design a custom t-shirt, transform vegetables into stamps, and discover how light can be used to make a print! In just a week, become a printmaker extraordinaire.

August 12 - 16

2nd – 4th Grade | Wizard KIDs

AbraKIDabra, alakazam, welcome to KID’s wizarding camp! Get hands-on with real-world magic to design a custom wand, experiment with potions, and more. Each Wizard KID will develop magical skills in sewing, circuitry, chemistry, and design.

5th – 7th Grade | Toymakers 2.0

Become the next great toymaker! Whether making a brand new toy or giving used toys a new lease on life, it’s time to engineer new, one-of-a-kind creations. Develop skills in electronics, soldering, design, sewing, and more to bring creative ideas from concept to production.

August 19 - 23

2nd – 4th Grade | KID Arcade

Come on down to the KID Arcade. Design and build maker-ized versions of arcade games like pinball, skee-ball, and create prizes to win by achieving a high score. Get hands-on with cardboard construction, circuits, textiles, and design engineering while collaborating with fellow campers to turn KID Museum into the coolest arcade ever!

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