ACT Bootcamp for rising high school seniors!

A career exploration camp for youth ages 14-15!

Science, engineering, and art join forces to create colorful and sometimes messy projects. This year features our favorite STEAM activities. Make color changing potions and build volcanoes with baking soda and vinegar. Rescue animals from ice and design new habitats for them. Create mazes and engineer marble runs. Explore roller coasters and test slime recipes

It’s like Wiffleball... only with a Gruszka “curve.” Learn how to play various types of Wiffleball along with the skills needed to play each position. Hands-on coaching and skill practice will happen each day along with a daily game! Students of all skill levels are welcome to join in for an at bat and no one ever strikes out when having fun with friends at this great backyard game.

Science, engineering, and art join forces to create colorful and sometimes messy projects. This year features our favorite STEAM activities. Make color changing potions and build volcanoes with baking soda and vinegar. Rescue animals from ice and design new habitats for them. Create mazes and engineer marble runs. Explore roller coasters and test slime recipes.

Let’s grow some fun this summer! We have plenty of dirt, insects, and plants... we just need to know how they all work together to make something beautiful and often tasty! Come garden with Mr. Gruszka as you learn how to work, compost, care for, and use a garden, big or small. Handson experience and projects will allow you to take your “budding” skills beyond the garden home with you.

Let’s grow some fun this summer! We have plenty of dirt, insects, and plants... we just need to know how they all work together to make something beautiful and often tasty! Come garden with Mr. Gruszka as you learn how to work, compost, care for, and use a garden, big or small. Handson experience and projects will allow you to take your “budding” skills beyond the garden home with you.

Our classic game design camp reimagined to include even more of what you love! Make your first video game in this one-of-a-kind class that gives you the keys to designing your first 2D platformer game. Conceptualization, level design, graphics, sounds, and simple coding are just some of the concepts that we’ll explore. No prior experience is necessary, just a desire to have fun! Student projects will be available on a password-protected Black Rocket website to share with friends and family. Students will work in pairs or teams for most of the program.

Create the next popular animated Minecraft video on YouTube! Practice the same skills professionals at Pixar and Disney Animation Studios use. Discover the process of keyframing and tweening, how to use it to bring your own animated stories to life, and how to publish your content on YouTube. Student projects will be available on a password-protected Black Rocket website to share with friends and family. Returning students can create more advanced projects that build on previous years. Students will work in pairs or teams for most of the program.

Bring your favorite Minecraft adventures to life with our enthusiastic Play-Well instructors. In a Minecraft world powered by LEGO® resources, we will build shelters to keep out Creepers, craft mystical items that only true masters can wield, and perfect our crossbow skills to stop the Wither from taking over! If you can imagine it, we can build it.

Design your custom LEGO® bot to take on any challenge. Mix and match chassis designs using wheels, treads, or walking legs. Combine these with tools like drills, hammers, and battering rams as you refine your masterpiece by sparring with friends and overcoming obstacles. Apply real-world engineering and physics concepts to help you bash and crash your way to victory!

Watch as holograms come to life in the first-ever augmented reality for kids! Students will work in cutting-edge software to create holographic scenes that are viewable with a smartphone and a magic futuristic cube. Get hands-on with your own digital creations in this one-of-a-kind experience! Student-created projects will be available on a password-protected Black Rocket website to share with friends and family. Students will work in pairs or teams for most of the program.

Learn how to think like an engineer through a variety of hands-on projects that solve real-world problems with your own innovative solutions.

Missouri high school students interested in careers in medicine can preview what medical school is like during Mini-Medical School.

Grainger Engineering Summer Camps are designed to provide STEM-interested students the opportunity to experience authentic and challenging projects and activities, world-class instructors, and a collegiate experience from one of the best engineering schools in the world.