STEM Stars Curriculum

Our CORE curriculum targets to our younger campers, grades 1-2. We begin their STEM learning with principles of planning, teamwork and collaboration. Below are example lessons in our CORE program.

Mechanical engineers often need to understand how devices work to fix or improve them. Campers will work for a toy company that wants to create fabulous new wind-up toys. Their assignment will be to figure out how their company’s current wind-up toys work.

Campers will create a lunch box that can open and close and that protect a banana from bruising. They will design, build and roll-out their projects with competitive team presentations.

Students will sing about habitats, find hidden animals in National Geographic photos and then create a habitat and a creature that is camouflaged from view. 

This is discovery science at its finest! Campers will float a carrot on a water solution and then present their findings to the class.

Campers will build a mini robot using principles of engineering and circuits.

Industry uses lasers are concentrated beams of light that can cut through glass, metal, and plastics.   

Campers will see how mirrors reflect light and can redirect light at different angles. Campers will bounce a laser light off three mirrors, strategically changing their angles to target architectural drawings.

 Each day we will do edible experiments and look at the science behind how it all works. At camp we will examine chemical, biochemical, biological, microbiological, and physics principles of recipes. Food topics include guacamole and salsa, cookies - death by chocolate, pancakes, molecular gastronomy, pasta and meatballs and ice cream.

Christine Marsden combines her B.S. in Biochemistry, her Le Grand Diplome from the French Culinary Institute, and her M. Ed. in Education to teach the fundamentals of science and French cooking.