Saint Louis University’s Gardens to Tables Culinary Camp is a week-long program engaging campers in gardening, cooking and nutrition activities. Campers prepare a variety of meals and work with professional chefs, registered dietitians, and master gardeners to learn principles of good nutrition, gardening and a healthy lifestyle. The camps are designed for children entering 2nd grade through 6th grade with a special Teen’s Only Week and an exciting Junior-Chef Week for children entering Kindergarden through 3rd grade. Campers journey to local farms, encountering first-hand sustainable local agriculture. Each camp includes meal preparation for Campus Kitchen and a Disability Awareness Day, helping campers learn what is involved when someone has a disability – how they adapt to cook and garden independently.

Little medical school brings medicine, science, and the importance of health to children in an entertaining, exciting, and fun way. Students will explore how the body works and the brain thinks. They will partake in the delight of hearing a real heartbeat, and best of all, will practice tying knots like a surgeon! In addition, each child will receive their own stethoscope, lab coat, and will be given the opportunity to make a model of the brain. Most importantly, our programs aim to inspire children to aspire for careers in healthcare upon completion of the course.

Little medical school brings medicine, science, and the importance of health to children in an entertaining, exciting, and fun way. Students will explore how the body works and the brain thinks. They will partake in the delight of hearing a real heartbeat, and best of all, will practice tying knots like a surgeon! In addition, each child will receive their own stethoscope, lab coat, and will be given the opportunity to make a model of the brain. Most importantly, our programs aim to inspire children to aspire for careers in healthcare upon completion of the course.

Saint Louis University offers a Summer Civil Engineering Experience for rising high school juniors and seniors from the St. Louis region. Students work with civil engineering faculty and student mentors to learn about an array of civil engineering sub-disciplines through modules and hands-on activities. Attendees gain new insights to structural, environmental, water resource engineering and more. They also acquire skills that will help them succeed in a collegiate engineering program. In addition, students get to spend time as a SLU student, enjoy the campus and meet other students with an interest in civil engineering.

The AIMS Medical and Surgical Procedures Workshop provides an overview of anatomy and introduction to careers in the health care field. Physicians and professionals from various medical specialties provide programs in their area of expertise using auditorium presentations, hands-on laboratory experiences, and group interactions. Students also view several surgical demonstrations on-site by expert faculty and surgeons from SLU and other local hospitals and universities. This workshop is available for all students in the age group of high school freshmen to incoming college freshmen (ages 15-19) interested in science and medicine.

Miss Manners might not approve but your child definitely will! Gross out camp is a week of learning about our gross bodily functions. Learn about burping, boogers, excrement, gas, saliva, germs and investigate brains, cells, hearts, organs and blood. Kids will make exploding "toothpaste", edible excrement and handmade ice cream, and will take home their own slimy "boogers" and kid's lab coat.

Creative Contraption Warning! This is a camp designed by you—the Inventor! Each day you’ll be given a series of challenges which must be overcome using basic materials, simple machines, tips from world famous inventors and the most important thing of all – your mind. With a little bit of ingenuity, you’ll construct catapults and forts and then lay siege, fabricate a winning Egg Drop design, construct a dancing robot and assemble a working light saber to take home. While Thomas Edison said invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration, this camp is 100% fun!

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!

Take a journey to the farthest reaches of the imagination while learning about the ocean, the rainforest, Mars and a futuristic city, and more! Use the design thinking process to solve real-world problems in these different environments.
Experiment with Crayola® products and many art techniques like sculpting, storyboarding, collage, and mixed media. Discover design careers like graphic design, universal design, urban design, and product design.
All this, plus games, creative free play, and more!

Learn all about Vikings! - the mythology, the culture, their way of life!

Let's explore the colonial days of America in this fast-paced, hands-on camp!

Explore the ocean depths and the far reaches of space!

6 Weeks of Overnight Summer camp

Come Invent with Us! A confidence-boosting STEM summer camp where kids build creative inventions and lasting friendships. Led by certified local educators, our camps offer new and exciting hands-on activities every year.

Two Day, One Night Camp for Youth with Autism and their Same Aged Peers