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Your child invents an original board or card game from scratch — cardboard, tokens, hand-written rules, the works — with zero screen time, all week long. Every idea starts as a sketch in the Designer Notebook before a single piece gets cut. They playtest with classmates, rewrite rules that don’t work, and on the final day, you sit down and actually play the game they designed. What looks like a week of play is actually deep problem-solving in disguise.

Your child builds chain-reaction machines from ramps, levers, dominoes, and pulleys — no screens, no kits, just real physics and their own two hands. They plan each stage in the Designer Notebook, test relentlessly, and learn named concepts like “Height Is Stored Speed” by making them work for real. The week ends with every team connecting their machines into one giant chain reaction performed live for parents.

Imagine your child walking in and picking up a creature they designed the day before: now solid, real, sitting in their hand. In this camp, children sketch ideas in a Designer Notebook, build them in TinkerCAD (the same Autodesk software used by professional designers), and print them on real Bambu Lab 3D printers. Art-minded kids sculpt freehand with 3D pens; engineering-minded kids design functional objects on screen — both paths are taken seriously. Every printed object goes home!

Picture your child crouching on the floor, watching a robot they just programmed dodge an obstacle — then jumping up to fix the code when it clips a corner. Over five days, children program real Codey Rocky and other robots using mBlock (block-based coding built on MIT Scratch), working through sensors, loops, and conditionals — not on worksheets, but by making a physical robot do something and seeing what actually happens. Every session starts with a sketch in the Designer Notebook before anyone touches code. By Friday, they’re writing programs that navigate a maze on their own.