Grade level stated in the program descriptions are for the upcoming school year, 2025-2026. Each child can enroll in up to 2 weeks of camp.
All cancellations, registration for more than 2 camps per child, or incorrect grade level registrations incur a $45.00 processing fee per camp.
During registration, please check our online registration system, Active Network, for the most up-to-date camp availability. Web page will be updated daily.
“Ology” Camp
- Dates: Week 1: June 23-27, Week 2: July 7-11, Week 3: July 14-18
- Rising Grade Levels: 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Status: Registration open in January
- Fee: $360.00 ($330.00 for Friends of the Museum)
Discover the wonderful world of “ologies”! Explore zoology (animals), entomology (insects), ichthyology (fish), and grossology (things that make you go eww). Each day we will explore a new ology with real specimens, models, live animals, and behind-the-scenes tours. Did you attend “Ology” Camp last summer? No worries, we have new topics and adventures planned! Questions:… Read More >
After Camp Care
- Dates: Week 1: June 23-27, Week 2: July 7-11, Week 3: July 14-18, Week 4: July 21-25, Week 5: July 28-August 1, Week 6: August 4-8
- Rising Grade Levels: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
- Times: 4:00pm-5:00pm
- Status: Registration open in January
- Fee: $75.00
Camp hours are from 9:00am to 4:00pm. After camp care will be offered from 4:00pm-5:00pm Monday – Friday, with limited spots available. Prior registration is required. Campers will play games, make crafts and will need to bring a 2nd snack. For more information, please visit our Frequently Asked Question webpage.
Girls in Science Ed-venture Residential Summer Camp
- Dates: July 14-19
- Rising Grade Levels: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
- Times: See camp description for times
- Status: Registration opening in February
- Fee: $750.00
Explore the natural world through hikes and hands-on science activities in this science-intensive residential summer camp, open to girls from across North Carolina! We’ll explore science and the world around us, get our feet wet in the lake and our hands dirty in the forest and meet the wildlife hiding under our noses. We’ll go… Read More >
Ink The Museum
- Dates: Week 1: June 23-27
- Rising Grade Levels: 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
- Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Status: Registration open in January
- Fee: $430.00 ($400.00 for Friends of the Museum)
Come take a look behind the scenes of our Museum while you learn to draw. Local artist and educator Courtney Cappa will show you how to use ink to create drawings of the Museum’s exhibits, live animals, and architecture. Find unique locations to inspire your drawings as you learn new drawing techniques. A professional ink pen… Read More >
The Great Signs of Life
- Dates: Week 1: June 23-27, Week 2: July 7-11, Week 3: July 14-18
- Rising Grade Levels: Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Status: Registration open in January
- Fee: $360.00 ($330.00 for Friends of the Museum)
The world around us is filled with a variety of wonderful things! Come explore with us as we investigate what is living verses non-living. Learn how animals and plants breathe and why they need shelter and food to survive. Come build a biome and watch the water cycle feed your plants. Investigate how everything is… Read More >
Things That Fly
- Dates: Week 4: July 21-25, Week 5: July 28-August 1, Week 6: August 4-8
- Rising Grade Levels: Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Status: Registration open in January
- Fee: $360.00 ($330.00 for Friends of the Museum)
Investigate what flutters, flaps, hovers and glides! Discover how flying predators hunt, how honeybees swarm and how plants can take flight. Make your own flying machine while using scientific tools, games, and live animals to explore the world of wings. Questions: Please visit the Summer Camp Frequently Asked Questions page for more information or contact… Read More >
What is a Paleontologist?
- Dates: Week 1: June 23-27, Week 2: July 7-11
- Rising Grade Levels: Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Status: Registration open in January
- Fee: $360.00 ($330.00 for Friends of the Museum)
Are you ready to become a paleontologist? Join us as we learn what it takes—meet a real paleontologist, learn how they study the past by looking at animals today, and explore our Museum’s fossil collections. We will look at teeth from different dinosaurs to determine what they ate. See how fossil skin and feathers are… Read More >
Code Your Own Adventure
- Dates: Week 2: July 7-11
- Rising Grade Levels: 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
- Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Status: Registration open in January
- Fee: $430.00 ($400.00 for Friends of the Museum)
Start your journey learning computer science the fun way by building a fantasy adventure game completely from scratch using Processing, a powerful, cross-platform Java-based language. During this course, you will learn the fundamentals of coding, be introduced to 3D modeling and 3D printing and create a custom video game limited only by your own creativity!… Read More >
The Art of Doing Science
- Dates: Week 3: July 14-18
- Rising Grade Levels: 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
- Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Status: Registration open in January
- Fee: $430.00 ($400.00 for Friends of the Museum)
Do you love science? How about art? Join us as we find out how to bring them together! We will look at different scientific concepts to see how scientists use art (and artists use science) to express their passions. Learn how to make plastics out of natural materials or how 3D printing is helping researchers… Read More >
Earth to Space and…Beyond!
- Dates: Week 4: July 21-25, Week 5: July 28-August 1, Week 6: August 4-8
- Rising Grade Levels: 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Status: Registration open in January
- Fee: $360.00 ($330.00 for Friends of the Museum)
Come fuel your curiosity with hands-on activities from Earth….and BEYOND! Design and build a Mars rover to navigate the Martian terrain! Defy gravity as you work to break the sun’s pull on Earth to launch your very own space shuttle. Each day you will explore a new theme and investigate topics in space exploration, engineering,… Read More >
Oceanology Project
- Dates: Week 4: July 21-25, Week 5: July 28-August 1, Week 6: August 4-8
- Rising Grade Levels: 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
- Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Status: Registration open in January
- Fee: $360.00 ($330.00 for Friends of the Museum)
Our oceans are a critical part of Earth’s ecosystem! Join us as we investigate its depths starting right off our coast. Become fully immerse as you explore videos from underwater robots and SONAR technology to see how life survives in the deep sea. Conduct hands-on experiments in the ocean’s water column, analyze core samples from… Read More >
The Science Behind What You Eat
- Dates: Week 1: June 23-27, Week 2: July 7-11, Week 3: July 14-18
- Rising Grade Levels: 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
- Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Status: Registration opening in January
- Fee: $360.00 ($330.00 for Friends of the Museum)
Have your science and eat it too! We will be using different experiments to see if you really are what you eat. Are you brave enough to eat slime, use a pickle to power a clock, or cook your own snack? If you are, then WE NEED YOU! Spurred on by a little friendly competition,… Read More >