Join us for the Gardening @ Stuckmeyer's session of the 2024 Monroe County YMCA Summer Camp.

A week full of activities which inspire fun, build skills, keep campers moving, and empower imagination.

A week full of activities which inspire fun, build skills, keep campers moving, and empower imagination.

A week full of activities which inspire fun, build skills, keep campers moving, and empower imagination.

A week full of activities which inspire fun, build skills, keep campers moving, and empower imagination.

Roll up your sleeves, put on your makers cap, and get ready to create! This is our most hands-on camp! Together, campers will build a geodesic dome large enough to sit in. Who can build the strongest bridge? Can your bridge withstand the shake rattle and roll challenge? Explore the world of birds and beasts with bird feeder building and our super bug investigation. Speaking of birds, what did Hooty the owl have for dinner? A mouse? A Squirrel? A Frog? Kids will dissect owl pellets and reconstruct Hooty’s dinner. Enter the Mad Science chemistry lab and mix, mash, and brew concoctions to create cool sidewalk chalk and bath fizzers! Assemble and control pulleys, levers, catapults, simple machines, and megapinchers! Campers will discover the wonders of photography and make their own chromatography-dyed T-shirt. It’s a week packed with non-stop science fun!

Become a paw-some veterinarian! Camp participants will roleplay the key responsibilities in a vet office and learn how to care for their plush canine patients. These future veterinarians will learn how to remove ticks, perform a nose-to-tail exam, understand proper animal nutrition and hydration, decode dog body language, and more!

Digital/data agility – the ability to source, clean, categorize, analyze, visualize, and publish data – is among the most in-demand skillsets in the university environment and of course for professionals entering the modern workforce. Accomplishing all those needs requires tools, and R/R Studio is at the center of the analytics and information explosion. This hands-on course is designed for high school student who wants to power up their critical thinking and data skills. It is not a programming camp in the classic sense. Students do not write programs to do things (e.g. write a program for an accountant to use). Rather, the camp attendee will develop digital and data literacy using R as the tool through which they enable and enhance their ability to derive insights and inform business decisions through skillful data consolidation and analytics. Microsoft Excel will also be emphasized, using graphs, charts, analytic add-ins and statistical functions. During their experience, camp attendees will be introduced to and use basic statistical concepts. Upon completing this camp the student should • Have gained the ability to use R for immediate application in classroom projects, papers, research and analyses • Develop basic familiarity with statistical concepts, methodologies and random sampling • Accumulate experience with resources that enable the student to further their development individually even after the camp completes • Learn that statistics – yes statistics – and making data dance is fun! No prior programming experience required – basic keyboarding ability, and nothing more. Camp attendees must bring their own computer; Windows or Apple / Mac work equally well. iPads/tablets will not work.

Join us as we play, drip, splash and visit waterparks! We will explore things that float, sail things in tubes...the possibilities are endless. We will visit a waterpark (or maybe two!), jump at GO JUMP in Chesterfield or Sky Zone, or maybe visit the Aquarium—and that’s just the beginning. It’s sure to be tons of fun!

Students entering 2nd - 6th grades can join educators at the Saint Louis Zoo for a fun-filled three-day session to learn about biodiversity hotspots, culminating in a Thursday evening program to end the week.

Students entering 2nd - 6th grades can join educators at the Saint Louis Zoo for a fun-filled four-day session to learn about biodiversity hotspots, culminating in a Thursday evening program to end the week.

Students entering 7th -9th grades can join educators at the Saint Louis Zoo for a fun-filled four-day session to learn about biodiversity hotspots, culminating in a Thursday overnight program to end the week.

Students entering 3rd - 4th grades can join educators at the Saint Louis Zoo for an adventure to discover the importance of predators in this amazing four-day session.

Students entering 7th - 9th grades can join educators at the Saint Louis Zoo to dive deeper into the world of marine biology in this fun-filled four-day session.

Children age 5 - entering 1st grade can join educators at the Saint Louis Zoo to jump into the mysteries of animals and use their detective skills in this fun-filled five-day session.