Aurora Summer Camps
TechKnowHow: LEGO & Engineering Camps
Session One: Week of June 17 – 21, 2023 (FULL)
LEGO® Minions in Motion
June 17 – 21, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 5 – 8
Develop LEGO skills as you build unique, motor-powered vehicles, just perfect for Minion mischief! Use gears, battery packs and motors to make a rocket car, running dinosaur, super cycle, water cruiser, and more! You will also learn how to make LEGO devices with sensors that you can attach to a computer to control on-screen action. You’ll make steering wheels, levers, and joysticks and learn how you can use LEGO robotics elements to create interactive experiences! Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Minecraft and LEGO® Big Builders
June 17 – 21, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 6 – 9
Perfect for campers who love LEGOs and Minecraft! Every day starts with a motorized LEGO build ranging from friendly Wolf pets to flying Phantoms and troublesome Spiders and Endermen. In the afternoon, students use Minecraft’s block-based building and Redstone engineering to make amazing creations like a solar-powered home, lava farm, TNT cannon, a giant bee house and more! Perfect for Minecraft newcomers but will challenge experienced players with new ideas and designs. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Girls Tech Camp: LEGO® and Coding
June 17 – 21, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 7 – 11
Led by female instructors, this camp develops your coding and LEGO engineering skills through exciting projects and game-making. Create motorized projects including LEGO animals, vehicles, fantasy creatures and more, each one new for this summer. Then, make games by coding with Scratch, the world’s most popular intro programming software. Scratch uses code blocks to easily control all the elements of your games – from character movement to score-keeping. You’ll design 3 games while learning the fundamentals of coding logic and use of loops and if-then events. Take home your games to play on a computer. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
LEGO® Robot Olympics & Game Design
June 17 – 21, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 8 – 12
Get ready for fast-paced robot action! You’ll build and program LEGO EV3 robots to perform tasks such as arena contests, ball launching, maze races and hungry-hippos style games! You’ll learn to program motors and sensors to play and complete the missions. Design attachments to level up your bots! Plus, learn coding skills with Scratch, as we spend afternoons designing a variety of robot and drone-themed games, using code blocks to maneuver craft, fight off waves of alien bots, and more! Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Session Two: Week of June 24 – 28, 2024 (FULL)
LEGO® Minions in Motion
June 24 – 28, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 5 – 8
Develop LEGO skills as you build unique, motor-powered vehicles, just perfect for Minion mischief! Use gears, battery packs and motors to make a rocket car, running dinosaur, super cycle, water cruiser, and more! You will also learn how to make LEGO devices with sensors that you can attach to a computer to control on-screen action. You’ll make steering wheels, levers, and joysticks and learn how you can use LEGO robotics elements to create interactive experiences! Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Intermediate Minecraft
June 24 – 28, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 7 – 11
Learn building and programming skills with an immersive Minecraft-themed experience as we delve deep into Minecraft’s coding and engineering systems. Using command blocks or redstone, you’ll design piston-powered obstacle courses, explosive arrows, enderpearl-triggered magic, and more! We will also use Scratch to create Minecraft-inspired games to play, while learning block coding fundamentals and the basics of computer science. Prerequisite: Must be familiar with Minecraft and comfortable with typing a few lines of code each day. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
LEGO® Max: Mechanical Marvels & Coding
June 24 – 28, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 6 – 9
A fun and exciting way for LEGO fans to discover unique engineering skills with gears, pistons, and light bricks to make spectacular motor-powered creations. Build a chomping shark car, train with a spinning headlamp, a remote-controlled vehicle, an airplane with a working propeller, and more! Then, embark on a coding adventure as you use programming blocks to complete computer games with Scratch, the #1 beginner-level coding software for kids. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Roblox Game Design & Minecraft Modding
June 24 – 28, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 9 – 13
Learn Roblox game-making and Minecraft modeling! In Roblox, create immersive 3D-worlds and games such as obbies, a 3d racing game, and a Zombie survival game. Learn to create your own terrain, modify light and particles, create NPCs with dialogue, and make code snippets using Lua! In the afternoon, we’ll use Blockbench with 3D modeling and coding techniques to modify and design custom Minecraft blocks, mobs, gear, and items for Minecraft Bedrock Edition! Create friendly dragons, dangerous ghosts, powerful magic masks, and legendary weapons! Prerequisite: Must be familiar with Minecraft. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Camp Details
Dates
ALL SESSIONS FULL
Session 1: June 17 – 21, 2024
Session 2: June 24 – 28, 2024
Session 3: July 8 – 12, 2024
Session 4: July 15 – 19, 2024
Session 5: July 22 – 26, 2024
Session 6: July 29 – August 2, 2024
Times
9:00am – 3:30pm
Fees
$535 per session
Extended Care Options
- Before Care from 8:00 am – 9:00 am is included in cost
After Care until 5:00 pm is $150 per week (pre-registration required)
Session Three: Week of July 8 – 12, 2024 (FULL)
LEGO® Max: Mechanical Marvels & Coding
July 8 – 12, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 6 – 9
A fun and exciting way for LEGO fans to discover unique engineering skills with gears, pistons, and light bricks to make spectacular motor-powered creations. Build a chomping shark car, train with a spinning headlamp, a remote-controlled vehicle, an airplane with a working propeller, and more! Then, embark on a coding adventure as you use programming blocks to complete computer games with Scratch, the #1 beginner-level coding software for kids. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Minecraft and LEGO® Big Builders
July 8 – 12, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 6 – 9
Perfect for campers who love LEGOs and Minecraft! Every day starts with a motorized LEGO build ranging from friendly Wolf pets to flying Phantoms and troublesome Spiders and Endermen. In the afternoon, students use Minecraft’s block-based building and Redstone engineering to make amazing creations like a solar-powered home, lava farm, TNT cannon, a giant bee house and more! Perfect for Minecraft newcomers but will challenge experienced players with new ideas and designs. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
LEGO® Robot Olympics & Game Design
July 8 – 12, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 8 – 12
Get ready for fast-paced robot action! You’ll build and program LEGO EV3 robots to perform tasks such as arena contests, ball launching, maze races and hungry-hippos style games! You’ll learn to program motors and sensors to play and complete the missions. Design attachments to level up your bots! Plus, learn coding skills with Scratch, as we spend afternoons designing a variety of robot and drone-themed games, using code blocks to maneuver craft, fight off waves of alien bots, and more! Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Girls Tech Camp: LEGO® and Coding
July 8 – 12, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 7 – 11
Led by female instructors, this camp develops your coding and LEGO engineering skills through exciting projects and game-making. Create motorized projects including LEGO animals, vehicles, fantasy creatures and more, each one new for this summer. Then, make games by coding with Scratch, the world’s most popular intro programming software. Scratch uses code blocks to easily control all the elements of your games – from character movement to score-keeping. You’ll design 3 games while learning the fundamentals of coding logic and use of loops and if-then events. Take home your games to play on a computer. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Session Four: Week of July 15 – 19, 2024 (FULL)
LEGO® Minions in Motion
July 15 – 19, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 5 – 8
Develop LEGO skills as you build unique, motor-powered vehicles, just perfect for Minion mischief! Use gears, battery packs and motors to make a rocket car, running dinosaur, super cycle, water cruiser, and more! You will also learn how to make LEGO devices with sensors that you can attach to a computer to control on-screen action. You’ll make steering wheels, levers, and joysticks and learn how you can use LEGO robotics elements to create interactive experiences! Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Intermediate Minecraft
July 15 – 19,, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 7 – 11
Learn building and programming skills with an immersive Minecraft-themed experience as we delve deep into Minecraft’s coding and engineering systems. Using command blocks or redstone, you’ll design piston-powered obstacle courses, explosive arrows, enderpearl-triggered magic, and more! We will also use Scratch to create Minecraft-inspired games to play, while learning block coding fundamentals and the basics of computer science. Prerequisite: Must be familiar with Minecraft and comfortable with typing a few lines of code each day. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
LEGO® Max: Mechanical Marvels & Coding
July 15 – 19, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 6 – 9
A fun and exciting way for LEGO fans to discover unique engineering skills with gears, pistons, and light bricks to make spectacular motor-powered creations. Build a chomping shark car, train with a spinning headlamp, a remote-controlled vehicle, an airplane with a working propeller, and more! Then, embark on a coding adventure as you use programming blocks to complete computer games with Scratch, the #1 beginner-level coding software for kids. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Roblox Game Design & Minecraft Modding
July 15 – 19, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 9 – 13
Learn Roblox game-making and Minecraft modeling! In Roblox, create immersive 3D-worlds and games such as obbies, a 3d racing game, and a Zombie survival game. Learn to create your own terrain, modify light and particles, create NPCs with dialogue, and make code snippets using Lua! In the afternoon, we’ll use Blockbench with 3D modeling and coding techniques to modify and design custom Minecraft blocks, mobs, gear, and items for Minecraft Bedrock Edition! Create friendly dragons, dangerous ghosts, powerful magic masks, and legendary weapons! Prerequisite: Must be familiar with Minecraft. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Session Five: Week of July 22 – 26, 2024 (FULL)
LEGO® Minions in Motion
July 22 – 26, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 5 – 8
Develop LEGO skills as you build unique, motor-powered vehicles, just perfect for Minion mischief! Use gears, battery packs and motors to make a rocket car, running dinosaur, super cycle, water cruiser, and more! You will also learn how to make LEGO devices with sensors that you can attach to a computer to control on-screen action. You’ll make steering wheels, levers, and joysticks and learn how you can use LEGO robotics elements to create interactive experiences! Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Minecraft and LEGO® Big Builders
July 22 – 26, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 6 – 9
Perfect for campers who love LEGOs and Minecraft! Every day starts with a motorized LEGO build ranging from friendly Wolf pets to flying Phantoms and troublesome Spiders and Endermen. In the afternoon, students use Minecraft’s block-based building and Redstone engineering to make amazing creations like a solar-powered home, lava farm, TNT cannon, a giant bee house and more! Perfect for Minecraft newcomers but will challenge experienced players with new ideas and designs. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
LEGO® Robot Olympics & Game Design
July 22 – 26, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 8 – 12
Get ready for fast-paced robot action! You’ll build and program LEGO EV3 robots to perform tasks such as arena contests, ball launching, maze races and hungry-hippos style games! You’ll learn to program motors and sensors to play and complete the missions. Design attachments to level up your bots! Plus, learn coding skills with Scratch, as we spend afternoons designing a variety of robot and drone-themed games, using code blocks to maneuver craft, fight off waves of alien bots, and more! Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Intermediate Minecraft
July 22 – 26, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 7 – 11
Learn building and programming skills with an immersive Minecraft-themed experience as we delve deep into Minecraft’s coding and engineering systems. Using command blocks or redstone, you’ll design piston-powered obstacle courses, explosive arrows, enderpearl-triggered magic, and more! We will also use Scratch to create Minecraft-inspired games to play, while learning block coding fundamentals and the basics of computer science. Prerequisite: Must be familiar with Minecraft and comfortable with typing a few lines of code each day. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Session Six: Week of July 29 – August 2, 2024 (FULL)
LEGO® Minions in Motion
July 29 – August 2, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 5 – 8
Develop LEGO skills as you build unique, motor-powered vehicles, just perfect for Minion mischief! Use gears, battery packs and motors to make a rocket car, running dinosaur, super cycle, water cruiser, and more! You will also learn how to make LEGO devices with sensors that you can attach to a computer to control on-screen action. You’ll make steering wheels, levers, and joysticks and learn how you can use LEGO robotics elements to create interactive experiences! Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Minecraft and LEGO® Big Builders
July 29 – August 2, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 6 – 9
Perfect for campers who love LEGOs and Minecraft! Every day starts with a motorized LEGO build ranging from friendly Wolf pets to flying Phantoms and troublesome Spiders and Endermen. In the afternoon, students use Minecraft’s block-based building and Redstone engineering to make amazing creations like a solar-powered home, lava farm, TNT cannon, a giant bee house and more! Perfect for Minecraft newcomers but will challenge experienced players with new ideas and designs. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
LEGO® Max: Mechanical Marvels & Coding
July 29 – August 2, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 6 – 9
A fun and exciting way for LEGO fans to discover unique engineering skills with gears, pistons, and light bricks to make spectacular motor-powered creations. Build a chomping shark car, train with a spinning headlamp, a remote-controlled vehicle, an airplane with a working propeller, and more! Then, embark on a coding adventure as you use programming blocks to complete computer games with Scratch, the #1 beginner-level coding software for kids. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
Roblox Game Design & Minecraft Modding
July 29 – August 2, 2024 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | $535 | ages 9 – 13
Learn Roblox game-making and Minecraft modeling! In Roblox, create immersive 3D-worlds and games such as obbies, a 3d racing game, and a Zombie survival game. Learn to create your own terrain, modify light and particles, create NPCs with dialogue, and make code snippets using Lua! In the afternoon, we’ll use Blockbench with 3D modeling and coding techniques to modify and design custom Minecraft blocks, mobs, gear, and items for Minecraft Bedrock Edition! Create friendly dragons, dangerous ghosts, powerful magic masks, and legendary weapons! Prerequisite: Must be familiar with Minecraft. Bring your own lunch, snacks and beverage.
The Fine Print
Extended Care
Extended care is offered beginning at 8:00 am each day and again from the end of camp until 6:00 pm. Morning care is included with the cost of camp. Afternoon care runs from 3:00 to 6:00 pm. The cost is $20 per day. We offer a 30 minute grace period after camp ends at no charge. You must pre-register for afternoon care. All children need to be signed in and out of camp or extended care by an authorized adult. Please enter through the playground gate. A check in table will be set up inside the playground.
Payment Options
You may choose to pay for your camp tuition either in full at the time of registration or with a monthly payment plan. Payment in full may be made via an electronic check withdrawal (e-check / ACH) or credit / debit card. If you choose a credit card (debit cards are exempt) for payment, a 2% fee will be added to your payment to cover some of the credit card fees. The monthly payment plan requires an automatic withdrawal from a bank account or debit / credit card to be set up at registration. We will divide your payments into equal amounts for each month, charged on the 15th of each month, ending on May 15th. While your monthly payment amounts will be consistent, they will vary depending on when you register and the number of months left until May. Full details are on the registration site. Please feel free to email any questions to the camp director, Josh Johnson or call him at (510) 428-2606 x 208.
Refunds
Your camp tuition is refundable minus the non-refundable deposit of $100 up until May 1, 2024. After May 1st your tuition becomes non-refundable.
Financial Assistance
Partial financial aid is available for some summer camps at Aurora School. If you are interested in applying for financial aid, please email the camp director, Josh Johnson or contact him by phone at (510) 428-2606 ext 208, before completing your online camp registration. A separate online Financial Aid Application must be submitted. April 1 is the deadline to apply for financial aid.