Play-Well Engineering Camps

Pre-Engineering

Let your imagination run wild with over 100,000 pieces of LEGO®!  Build engineer-designed projects such as boats, bridges, mazes, and motorized cars, and use special pieces to create your own unique designs.  Explore the endless creative possibilities of the LEGO® building system with the guidance of an experienced Play-Well instructor.  This is an ideal way to prepare young builders for the challenge of Engineering FUNdamentals.  (ages 5–6)

Engineering FUNdamentals

Power up your engineering skills with Play-Well TEKnologies and over 100,000 pieces of LEGO®!  Apply real-world concepts in physics, engineering, and architecture through engineer-designed projects such as arch bridges, skyscrapers, motorized cars, and the Battletrack!  Design and build as never before, and explore your craziest ideas in a supportive environment.  An experienced instructor will challenge new and returning students to engineer at the next level.  (ages 7–10)

Bash ‘Em Bots

Our Play Well Engineering instructors guide students in this advanced Play Well engineering camp, as they re-engineer standard vehicles into mechanized machines that can traverse challenging obstacles, battle against fellow bots, and take on Play-Well instructors’ colossal creations. (ages 7–10)

Engineering Challenge

You will work cooperatively with your teammates to complete the mission. Achieving mission goals will necessitate construction of trucks, bridges, elevators, cranes, bulldozers, conveyor belts, and other motorized and alternatively powered contraptions. Instruction will be provided by staff. Familiarity with the LEGO® Technic building system is desirable and can be obtained by attending Engineering FUNdamentals camp.

Green Engineering

Design and build machines powered by alternative energy sources. Race solar cars, build a wind-powered electrical generation facility, enter the human powered vehicle competition, and invent a machine powered by stored elastic strain energy. Instruction will be provided by staff, but familiarity with LEGO® Technic is desirable.  (ages 7–10)

Jedi Engineering

Young Jedi will explore worlds far, far away and engineering principles right in front of them. Defeat the Empire by designing and refining X-Wings, R2-units, and settlements on far-flung edges of the galaxy. Imagination and engineering combine to create motorized and architectural projects such as energy catapults, shield generators and defense turrets. A new offering of original designs for young Jedi from Play-Well TEKnologies.  (ages 5–6)

Jedi Masters

The Force is strong in this class. Build complex machines and structures based on the best designs from a galaxy far, far away. Projects include X-Wings, AT-AT walkers, Pod Racers, Star Destroyers, Cloud Cities, settlements, and fortresses. Play-Well’s Jedi instructors reinforce key engineering concepts such as geartrains, worm drives, pneumatics, eccentric motion and more as students tap into the powerful forces of imagination and engineering. (ages 7–10)

Junkyard Challenge

Because engineering is always a team effort, this camp teaches students how to work collaboratively to design and build the fastest, strongest, most maneuverable, coolest machines and structures possible to solve real world engineering challenges. In this advanced camp, success comes from creative thinking and resourceful use of “The Junkyard” – home to more than 100,000 LEGO® pieces! Students will build elevators, bulldozers, conveyor belts, and other motorized and alternatively powered contraptions to complete this challenging course. (ages 7–10)

Lego Robotics

Learn about building and programming robots using the LEGO Mindstorms system and over 100,000 pieces of LEGO®!  Explore the many uses of touch, light, sound, and ultrasonic sensors with a robotic project of your own unique design.  Program your robot to avoid obstacles, manipulate objects, and much more.  Projects are structured so that students solve problems and have fun in an open-ended, investigative environment.  (ages 8–12)

Sportsbots

We will design and build motorized remote controlled sports bots to compete in rousing games of soccer, hockey, basketball, football, quidditch, and bocce, among others. You may also invent your own sport. nstruction will be provided by staff, but familiarity with the LEGO® Technic building system is desirable.  (ages 7–10)

Non-LEGO Curriculum

Flight Club

Become a future aerospace engineer!  Build and experiment with paper airplanes, helicopters, parachutes, rockets, and a wide variety of aerospace designs.  Learn about propulsion, air foils, terminal velocity, gyroscopic forces, and other aeronautic concepts.  An experienced Flight Club instructor helps you acquire aerospace engineering skills that last a lifetime.  Take home your creations from this interactive and educational class about having fun with flight. (ages 7–10)

RC Motion

Join the fun and get in motion with Remote Controlled Cars, Slot Cars, Snap Circuit Cars, and Rock Crawlers! Explore on the ground and in the air. Race your cars on different racetracks each day. Add challenging terrain and jumps! Create rock crawling and slalom courses to test your vehicle’s precision and control. Test your flying skills on the Flight Simulator and then master the RC Helicopter! All materials provided. (ages 7–10)

Robot Mechanic: Robotic Arm

This class focuses on teaching robot, electronic, and servo technology.  Each child will build and keep their own working robotic arm, which will be able to perform a wide array of commands and tasks. Take your completed robot arm and test your hand eye coordination in robotic competition. Additionally we will explore other electronic concepts using Snap Circuits and Electronic Project Labs. (ages 8–12)

Robot Mechanic: All Terrain Robot

This class focuses on teaching robot, electronic, and servo technology.  Each child will build and keep their own working all terrain robot, which will be able to perform a wide array of commands and tasks. Additionally we will explore other electronic concepts using Snap Circuits and Electronic Project Labs. (ages 8–12)