Summer STEAM Camp at Far Brook
Space is limited! Register by May 1, 2020.
- 4 weeks. Sign up for any or all.
- Session 1: June 8-12
- Session 2: June 15-19
- Session 3: June 22-26
- Session 4: August 24-28
- Open to students who will be entering Grades 3-9 in the fall
- Limited space available. Registration is open to the public
- Monday-Friday: 8:30 am – 3:00 pm
- $500 per session
- Family and friends are welcome to attend “STEAM Camp Presents” every Friday at 2:15 pm
- Please print, complete, and submit these required forms:
- Cancellation and refund requests must be received by email and confirmed by the Program Coordinator no less than 14 days before the class start date in order to receive a refund or class credit. Cancellation made within 14 days of the class start date are not eligible for refunds or class credit.
- Pay by credit card, check, or through TADS (for Far Brook families only)
- Questions? Email summer@farbrook.org or call (973) 379-3442 for Chris Murphy, STEAM Camp Coordinator
A short description of each class follows. Scroll down to fill out a separate form for each child you are registering.
- Session 1 - Grades 3-5 - Rube Goldberg Machines (Chris Murphy)
- Session 1 - Grades 6-9 - Life Hacks (Mike Chodroff)
- Session 2 - Grades 3-5 - Biomimicry and Design (Mike Chodroff)
- Session 2 - Grades 6-9 - DIY Rocket Science - Aerospace Engineering (Chris Murphy)
- Session 3 - Grades 3-5 - Rocket Science - Aerospace Engineering (Chris Murphy)
- Session 3 - Grades 6-9 - Virtual Reality Programming (Deborah Costa)
- Session 4 - Grades 3-9 - Follow Your Passion (Project)! (Chris Murphy)
Calling all future engineers! Over the course of the week, we will work on exploring actions and reactions in order to build a chain reaction. Campers will use easily accessible materials that could be found in any home to make fun and dynamic cascades. The week will conclude with a showcase where all of our creations will be on display and families are encouraged to try the machines.
Through the lens of design thinking, students will have the opportunity to create innovative solutions to some everyday inconveniences while considering environmental problems that we face in the 21st century. Life Hacks will provide structured and unstructured time for understanding challenges, brainstorming solutions, designing and building prototypes, and testing products.
Nature inspired, nature approved! Students will get an introduction to the tools and principles of biomimicry, a new discipline that emulates nature’s best ideas and blueprints in order to solve human design challenges. Over the course of the week campers will get outside to explore nature and learn a key biomimicry design concept that will be used to develop a novel biomimetic design.
3… 2… 1… Blast off! Students will be introduced to the physics of how rockets fly. Using both physical and digital tools, they will design and build rockets, launch them, and observe how different geometries affect their performance.
3… 2… 1… Blast off! Students will be introduced to the physics of how rockets fly. Using both physical and digital tools, they will design and build rockets, launch them, and observe how different geometries affect their performance.
Explore the pioneering field of Virtual and Augmented Reality. In this course, campers will code and develop their own 3D virtual environments. Using a variety of platforms, such as CoSpaces, campers will have the opportunity to immerse themselves and interact with people, places, and creatures they never thought possible.
Makers, this one’s for you! Do you idea for a project you can’t stop thinking about? Bring the idea for your passion project to the woodshop and see it come to life.
Summer 2020
STEAM Camp Faculty
Chris Murphy
Far Brook Woodshop Teacher
STEAM Camp Coordinator
Mike Chodroff
Far Brook Associate Director of Upper School, Director of Sustainability
Deborah Costa
Far Brook Educational Technology Specialist