City of Portsmouth issued the following announcement on June 15.
STARBASE Victory announces they will be holding camps this summer and are ready to engage campers in exciting hands-on STEM fun! Thanks to incredible donors and staff, STARBASE Summer Camps give Portsmouth students the opportunity to learn while having fun and to develop the many skills and experiences they have learned during the school year.
STARBASE requires a $5.95 nonrefundable registration fee for all campers. Parents, guardians and other caregivers will need to provide transportation to and from the summer camps. Funded fully by STARBASE, each camp runs multiple days, includes an exciting field trip, and serves as an extension of their STEM education.
Students are signed up on a first come, first serve basis and placed into camps that target their preparation for the next grade level.
The camps will be offered in four sessions:
Session A: June 28 – July 1
Session B: July 12 – July 15
Session C: July 19 – July 22
Session D: July 26 – July 29
CAMP DESCRIPTIONS
LEGO WeDo Robotics Camp (rising 4th graders)
WeDo Campers travel to the VA Zoo to study animal behavior and habitat. They then program robotic animals and create digital dioramas of the animal habitats. (Available sessions A, B, or C)
CODE TREKKERS (rising 5th graders)
A secret agent is on the move! Somewhere in Old Towne Portsmouth an agent of national security has intelligence information that must be kept secret. Clues are hidden in and around the city but can only be decoded by the Code Trekkers! How will the Code
Trekkers find the clues? Campers will employ skills in decoding cyphers to track the secret agent and to learn his/her secrets. (Available sessions A, B, or C)
Eco-Cadets (rising 6th graders)
Eco-Cadets see green in all that they do! Campers explore the local ecosystem and develop expertise as environmental stewards as they kayak, create gyotaku fish printing, test and document water quality, and practice aspects of environmental stewardship. (Available sessions A, B, or C)
Drone Squad (rising 7th graders)
Drone Squad campers are tasked with facilitating the colonization of Mars. They will build and launch model rockets, pilot drones, and code sphero rovers. Engineering design and computer science is the focus of this camp as students are introduced to drone and sphero rover technologies, and research the growing world of careers in the
STEM discipline. (Available sessions A, B, or C)
PPScoders (rising 5th-7th graders)
PPS Coders use Code.org, Spheros, and littleBits to learn the basics of coding, developstudent-made computer programs, and career opportunities in computer
science. (Camp 1 – Sessions A & B, Camp 2 – Sessions C & D)
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