Inspire your child to write! Young Writers' Academy is offering Creative Writing Camps this summer. These fun and engaging camps are dedicated to helping students increase their love for and skill in writing. Come join us and create a bound short story, staged play, an unsolvable, plot-twisting mystery, and more! Register today for half or full day camps! Early bird special for summer camp through May 31.

Professional game designer Michael Adams has over 20 games on the market with publishers including Cranium, Mattel, Hasbro, and Gamewright. Students will learn to think like an inventor while exploring and playing many genres of games including, dice, deck building, targeting, social, and strategy. Assisted by Michael's guidance and expertise, each child will invent, prototype, play-test, and refine at least one game during the week. Parents will be invited Friday afternoon to a game party to show off all the inventions.

Zeno, a non-profit organization, is offering its math camp adventures this summer that are super fun and help to combat that dreaded summer learning loss. Campers will use architecture to design and build their own city; build geometric Pirate Hats and learning to read treasure maps; play Blink while Measuring Monkeys with their Supermind; and learn money systems to barter like the Romans, Grecians, and Mayans. Learn more about our camp sessions and locations at our website.

Designed around a fictional crime scenario at the Seattle Science Foundation, this STEM-focused camp bridges the summer gap for middle school students. Experienced instructors use video, activities and hands-on labs to teach the techniques associated with Crime Scene Investigation, forensic anthropology, fingerprint analysis, hair analysis, serology and DNA fingerprinting. Scientific data, coupled with critical thinking skills (and a few suspect interrogations) are used to solve the crime.

Design Thinking Camp at Lake Washington Girls Middle School uses academic and artistic concepts side by side, to create a stimulating, project-based curriculum. Spend a week learning about concepts such as symmetry, balance, and form that are found naturally in both art and math. Use different art materials and mediums to reinforce these concepts with building and sculpture! At LWGMS we use "design thinking" strategies, such as prototyping, data analysis, and creative problem-solving to create artistic and engineering masterpieces. STEAM Camp is an exciting and hands-on learning opportunity for young people with a special emphasis on the STEAM curriculum areas (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics). As educators, we must provide educational opportunities that endeavor to integrate the arts, sciences, and technology for this to happen. LWGMS already embraces this educational model, and is currently in the process of developing curriculum for our students that is cutting edge, and that integrates the arts into the STEM model: STEAM. STEAM design classes incorporate problem-solving, creativity, collaboration, presentation, prototyping, and response to critique (resilience). Here at LWGMS, in summer camps and the school classroom, we are celebrating the STEM to STEAM initiative. Sign up today!

From racecars to Battletracks, this is a hands-on and minds-on camp suitable for LEGO® novices to "maniacs." Designed by engineers, the curriculum challenges both new and returning students to reach the next level of engineering comprehension all while having fun. Search SPARC for course # 97385. Camp Directors: Play-Well TEKnologies Staff.

With access to over 100,000 pieces of LEGO®, your child will have the opportunity to build what they have only dreamed of with the support of an experienced Play-Well Engineering instructor to guide them. Search SPARC course #97387. Camp Directors: Play-Well TEKnologies Staff.