Featured Summer Camp: Make-it-Or-Break-It Science Camp

At the Science Museum’s ‘Make-It-Or-Break- It’ Summer Camp, your child will dive deep into the world of engineering and product design. They will get the opportunity to discover the hidden workings of electronic items by taking them apart and putting them back together again. Make-It-Or- Break-It gives your child the chance to do what you got in trouble doing growing up, and gain the experience that has been lost over the years as they have! Tinkering and curiosity are encouraged in this Summer Camp as we find out how things work from the inside out.

Make-It-Or-Break-It is a Summer Camp Program for children with inquisitive minds who enjoy using their curiosity to find answers to engineering mysteries. How do machines actually work? What components control different functions? And how do all of those pieces fit together beneath the machine’s outer casing? Instead of them sitting on the couch, watching videos of other people tinkering with electronics, we will provide your child with all the tools to find the answers to all these questions themselves!

It all begins with learning the basics. With guidance from museum instructors and guest speakers, your child will learn tool proficiency and learn how take apart machines, such as radios and microwaves, before putting them back together again. By the end of the camp, they will be able to confidently identify each component that make up different machines and distinguish what functions they perform. We have a strong emphasis on teamwork and helping each other to find the answers to challenges.

Campers will use this new-found knowledge and the Engineering Design Process to come up with a challenge and design a machine that will offer a solution to that challenge. After creating a prototype, campers have a chance to test their creations and modify their designs before presenting their final product to parents at the end of the week!

Go to www.smwv.org to register your child for our Make-It-Or-Break-It Summer Camp, and to explore our other Summer Camp programs. For more information, call 540.342.5710 or email frontdesk@smwv.org.