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Richmond Hill Winter Camps
- Richmond Hill – Richvale Community Centre Ages: 4-6
- Richmond Hill- Richvale Community Centre Ages: 7-12
Vaughan Winter Camps
Richmond Hill
Ages: 4-6
Let’s Make Toys Camp
It is fun for a kid to play with a toy. Imagine how amazing it can be to play with a self-made toy. In this full-week camp, the youngest engineers will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of energy, materials, and movement. campers will explore and make different mechanical toys. They will also build and program robotics toys including RACING CAR, and MARS ROVER.
- Date: Dec.23-27, 2024 (Except Dec.25& Dec.26)
- Time:
- Monday & Friday: 9 AM – 4 PM
- Tuesday: 9 AM – 3:30 PM
- Location: Richvale Community Centre, Richmond Hill
Ages: 7-12
Scraping The Sky With Minecraft
Design, create, and make your very own city come alive using Minecraft! This week kids will explore the theme of architecture, engineering, & design by taking a closer look at the various skyscrapers of today and innovative ideas for the future. Kids will apply their new learning to design and create their very own city skyscrapers in Minecraft using the Engineering for Kids design process. On the last day, students will learn how to pitch their ideas and launch their designs to a larger audience to participate in an EFK Global Design Competition.
- Date: Dec.30- Jan3 (except: Jan.1, 2025)
- Time:
- Monday, Thursday & Friday: 9 AM – 4 PM
- Tuesday: 9 AM – 3:30 PM
- Location: Richvale Community Centre, Richmond Hill
Vaughan
Ages: 4-7
Let’s Make Toys Camp
It is fun for a kid to play with a toy. Imagine how amazing it can be to play with a self-made toy. In this full-week camp, the youngest engineers will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of energy, materials, and movement. campers will explore and make different mechanical toys. They will also build and program robotics toys including RACING CAR, and MARS ROVER.
- Date: Dec.30- Jan3 (except: Jan.1, 2025)
- Location: Rosemount Community Centre
- Time:
- Monday, Thursday & Friday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
- Tuesday: 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Ages: 7-12
Robogame Carnival & Master Machines
Prepare for a thrilling week of mechanical engineering! Fun meets fierce robot competitions and exciting quests at Robogame Carnival. You’ll learn about the mechanical forces of motion and apply EFK’s engineering design process to construct interactive projects that spin, cascade, launch, pivot, dig and race. No previous experience required.
- Date: Dec.30- Jan3 (except: Jan.1, 2025)
- Location: Rosemount Community Centre
- Time:
- Monday, Thursday & Friday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
- Tuesday: 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Richmond Hill Summer Camps
Richmond Hill Summer Camps 2024
Vaughan Summer Camps 2024
Newmarket Summer Camps 2024
Aurora Summer Camps 2024
East Gwillimbury Summer Camps 2024
Age Group: 7-12 (Less than 13)
Richmond Hill Week 1: July 2-5
Engineering For Kids: Robogame Carnival & Master Machines
Robogame Carnival is a place where robots can have fun, compete, and go on an exciting adventure. Gear up for an exciting week of mechanical engineering! In this camp, students will explore several of the mechanical forces that create movement in various machines. Campers will work as mechanical engineers using EFK’s Engineering Design Process to create exciting, hands-on projects that spin, cascade, launch, pivot, dig, and race.
- Activities: Robotics Competitions, Mechanical Engineering
- Ages: 7-12 (Less than 13)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
Richmond Hill Week 2: July 8-12
Engineering For Kids : Minecraft Urban Innovation
Design, create, and make your very own city come alive using Minecraft! In this camp, kids will explore a variety of themes centered around scientific, sustainable, innovative, and futuristic city planning and design. Kids will immerse themselves in Minecraft while applying the Engineering for Kids design process to create a model of their very own, futuristic, sustainable city.
- Activities: Minecraft, Civil & Electrical Engineering
- Ages: 7-12 (Less than 13)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
Richmond Hill Week 3: July 15-19
Engineering For Kids: Minecraft Mission To Mars & Mars Rovers
Students will learn about the engineering, technology, and innovation that is required for future human habitation of Mars. Within Minecraft, students will complete a variety of missions that are necessary for survival and the advancement of science on the Red Planet. Students will apply their creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving skills while completing missions within EFK’s unique, customized, collaborative Mission to Mars Minecraft Map. This is a one-of-a-kind, out-of-this-world experience you will not find anywhere else.
- Activities: Minecraft, Robotics, Coding, Hands- On Aerospace
- Ages: 7-12 (Less than 13)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
Richmond Hill Week 6: Aug 6-9
Engineering For Kids: How Amusing Week
Ah, the thrill of an amusement park…zipping around on race cars, zooming through the loops of a rollercoaster, trying your luck at a floating boat game, hokey playing with Robots and more…Can’t get better than that!
During this camp, campers will divide into theme park teams. They will be challenged in specific engineering-related contests with the goal of creating the most fantastic and thrilling theme park experience.
- Activities: Robotics, Coding Video Games, Mechanical Engineering
- Ages: 7-12 (Less than 13)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
Richmond Hill Week 7: Aug 12-16
Engineering For Kids: Minecraft Theme Park
This camp will have students build their very own Minecraft amusement parks! Students will have to navigate several engineering and teamwork challenges to do so. Students will draft blueprints and plans for their parks on paper before beginning to create it in Minecraft to make it as much like the process of designing a real amusement park as possible.
- Activities: Minecraft Design, Hands- on Mechanical Engineering
- Ages: 7-12 (Less than 13)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
Richmond Hill Week 8: Aug 19 – 23
NEW! World Games Engineering
The competition is heating up with the Engineering For Kids World Games!
In this camp, campers will work in teams to compete for the gold as they take on exciting engineering challenges related to the greatest athletic competitions. A place where engineers work to design the best experience for athletes, and robots compete in athletic challenges such as Hockey, Running, and Basketball and more. This is a gold-medal-worthy program filled with all the fun and excitement of the Olympic games!
Get ready to step up to the podium as we declare victory in inspiring the next generation of engineers!
- Activities: Robotics, Coding, Hands-on Engineering
- Ages: 7-12 (Less than 13)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
Age Group: 4-6 (Less than 7)
Richmond Hill Week 2: July 8-12
Engineering For Kids: Let’s Make Toys Camp
It is fun for a kid to play with a toy. Imagine how amazing it can be to play with a self-made toy. In this full-week camp, the youngest engineers will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of energy, materials, and movement. campers will explore and make different mechanical toys. They will also build and program robotics toys including, RACING CAR, and MARS ROVER.
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, plus hands-on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- Ages: 4-6 (Less than 7)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
Richmond Hill Week 3: July 15-19
Engineering For Kids: Playful Playground Camp
In this camp, students will become mechanical engineers that have been hired to design the ultimate playground in their community. Playgrounds are packed full of simple machines such as levers, wheels and axles, inclined planes, and pulleys. In these lessons, students will learn about the simple machines they encounter every day at the playground while advancing their literacy skills through a variety of read aloud. They will tackle fun and engaging challenges while using the EFK Engineering Design Process. We can’t wait to play!
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, plus hands-on Mechanical
- Ages: 4-6 (Less than 7)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
Richmond Hill Week 4: July 22-26
Engineering For Kids: Junior Mission To Mars Camp
Our Junior Engineers will be inspired by Mars-themed children’s literature featured in this week of camp. The stories will deepen their knowledge and spark their imaginations as they engage in hands-on engineering challenges using EFK’s Engineering Design Process. In the stories and challenges, students will explore various topics in science, as well as Mars Rovers, aerospace, geologic, and environmental engineering.
This camp is sure to spark children’s imagination and ignite their curiosity about the future of Mars exploration.
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, plus hands-on Aerospace
- Ages: 4-6 (Less than 7)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
Richmond Hill Week 5: July 29 – Aug 2
Engineering For Kids: Junior Travel Camp
150 years ago, airplanes had not even made their first flight. Yet, today, we can fly to the other side of the world in 12 hours! It is thanks to advances in technology that we can explore so much of the world. In this camp, teams will have to work together to see who is able to travel the farthest around the world. This trek will require students to design their very own boat, plane, robots and even a rocket!
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, Hands- on Marine & Civil Engineering
- Ages: 4-6 (Less than 7)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
Richmond Hill Week 6: Aug 6-9
Engineering For Kids: Junior Inventors Camp
We have opened the workshop for a week full of fun, creativity, and of course — engineering! Campers will invent new machines and explore creative design solutions using the Engineering Design Process.
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, plus hands-on Mechanical & Civil Engineering
- Ages: 4-6 (Less than 7)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
Richmond Hill Week 7: Aug 12-16
Engineering For Kids: Jungle Explorers Camp
Are you ready to go on an exciting jungle adventure with robots? In this program, students will tackle a variety of engineering challenges and use robotics kit to develop innovative solutions. They will learn about jungle ecology, as well as valuable coding concepts, such as sequences, loops, conditional statements. Campers will learn how to build, code, test, and use the Engineering Design Process to improve their designs. This program is sure to be a roaring good time!
- Activities: Robotics & Coding , plus Hands-on Mechanical & Environment Engineering
- Ages: 4-6 (Less than 7)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
Richmond Hill Week 8: Aug 19-23
Engineering For Kids: Let’s Make Toys Camp
It is fun for a kid to play with a toy. Imagine how amazing it can be to play with a self-made toy. In this full-week camp, the youngest engineers will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of energy, materials, and movement. campers will explore and make different mechanical toys. They will also build and program robotics toys including, RACING CAR, and MARS ROVER.
- Activities: Robotics & Coding , plus Hands-on Mechanical & Environment Engineering
- Ages: 4-6 (Less than 7)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
Vaughan Summer Camps
Vaughan: Ages 7-12
Vaughan Minecraft Urban Innovations
(Ages 7-12: up to 13 years old)
Design, create, and make your very own city come alive using Minecraft! In this camp, kids will explore a variety of themes centered around scientific, sustainable, innovative, and futuristic city planning and design. Kids will immerse themselves in Minecraft while applying the Engineering for Kids design process to create a model of their very own, futuristic, sustainable city.
- Activities: Minecraft, Civil & Electrical Engineering
- Week1: July 2-5
- Location: Rosemount Community Centre
Vaughan Mission To Mars with Minecraft and Mars Rovers
(Ages 7-12: up to 13 years old)
This week of camp is so much more than video gameplay! Students will learn about the engineering, technology, and innovation that is required for future human habitation of Mars. Within Minecraft, students will complete a variety of missions that are necessary for survival and the advancement of science on the Red Planet. Students will also apply their Robotics skills and knowledge to design and work with a Mars Rover. This is a one-of-a-kind, out-of-this-world experience you will not find anywhere else.
- Activities: Minecraft, Robotics/ Coding, Hands on Mechanical Engineering
- Week 4: July 22- 26
- Location: Rosemount Community Centre
Vaughan: Ages 4-6
Vaughan Junior Playful Playground Camp
In this camp, students will become mechanical engineers that have been hired to design the ultimate playground in their community. Playgrounds are packed full of simple machines such as levers, wheels and axles, inclined planes, and pulleys. In these lessons, students will learn about the simple machines they encounter every day at the playground while advancing their literacy skills through a variety of read aloud. They will tackle fun and engaging challenges while using the EFK Engineering Design Process. We can’t wait to play!
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, plus hands-on Mechanical
- Week 5: July 29 – Aug 2
- Location: Rosemount Community Centre
Vaughan Engineering of Travel Camp
(Ages 4-6: up to 7 years Old)
Everyone has to travel, and engineers are involved in all the steps of designing different modes of transportation as well as inventing and designing tools that aid in travel. During this camp, campers will get their passports and travel to a new country every day by different means! They will engineer their mode of transportation or tool to aid in transportation daily to get to their destination country. At the end of the week, they will have built several different means to travel by and have a passport full of all their memories from the places they visited.
- Activities: Marine, Civil & Robotics Engineering
- Week8: Aug 19 – 23
- Location: Rosemount Community Centre
Newmarket Summer Camps 2024
Newmarket Ages: 4-6
July 8-12, 2024
Newmarket: Playful Playground Camp
(Ages: 4-6 , up to 7 years old)
In this camp, students will become mechanical engineers that have been hired to design the ultimate playground in their community. Playgrounds are packed full of simple machines such as levers, wheels and axles, inclined planes, and pulleys. In these lessons, students will learn about the simple machines they encounter every day at the playground while advancing their literacy skills through a variety of read aloud. They will tackle fun and engaging challenges while using the EFK Engineering Design Process. We can’t wait to play!
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, plus hands-on Mechanical
- Location: Armitage Village Public School
July 15 – 19, 2024
Newmarket: Junior Inventor’s Camp
(Ages: 4-6 , up to 7 years old)
We have opened the workshop for a week full of fun, creativity, and of course — engineering! Campers will invent new machines and explore creative design solutions using the Engineering Design Process.
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, plus hands-on Mechanical & Civil Engineering
- Date: July 15 – 19, 2024
- Location: Armitage Village Public School
July 22 – 26, 2024
Newmarket: Junior Travel Camp
(Ages: 4-6 , up to 7 years old)
150 years ago, airplanes did not even make their first flight. Yet, today, we can fly to the other side of the world in 12 hours! It is thanks to advances in technology that we can explore so much of the world. In this camp, teams will have to work together to see who is able to travel the farthest around the world. This trek will require students to design their very own boat, plane, robots and even a rocket!
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, plus hands-on Marine
- Date: July 22 – 26
- Location: Armitage Village Public School
July 29 – Aug 2
Newmarket: Let’s Make Toys
It is fun for a kid to play with a toy. Imagine how amazing it can be to play with a self-made toy. In this full-week camp, the youngest engineers will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of energy, materials, and movement. campers will explore and make different mechanical toys. They will also build and program robotics toys including, RACING CAR, and MARS ROVER.
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, Plus Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- Date: July 29 – Aug 2, 2024
- Location: Armitage Village Public School
August 12 – 16, 2024
Newmarket: Junior Mission To Mars Camp
(Ages: 4-6 , up to 7 years old)
Our Junior Engineers will be inspired by Mars-themed children’s literature featured in this week of camp. The stories will deepen their knowledge and spark their imaginations as they engage in hands-on engineering challenges using EFK’s Engineering Design Process. In the stories and challenges, students will explore various topics in science, as well as Mars Rovers, aerospace, geologic, and environmental engineering.
This camp is sure to spark children’s imagination and ignite their curiosity about the future of Mars exploration.
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, plus Hands – on Aerospace
- Date: August 12-16, 2024
- Location: Armitage Village Public School
Newmarket Ages 7-12
July 8-12, 2024
Newmarket: Robogame Carnival & Master Machines
Gear up for an exciting week of mechanical engineering! In this camp, students will explore several of the mechanical forces that create movement in various machines. Students will work as mechanical engineers using EFK’s Engineering Design Process to create exciting, hands-on projects that spin, cascade, launch, pivot, dig, and race. RoboGames Carnival is a place where robots can have fun, compete, and go on an exciting adventure.
- Activities: Robotics Competitions, Mechanical Engineering
- Date: July 8-12
- Location: Armitage Village Public School
July 15 – 19, 2024
Newmarket: Hydrocraft Racing Video Game & Marine Eng. Camp
Prepare for some fast-splashing fun as we use the Engineering Design Process to design and create our very own racing game to race our personally designed hydrocrafts! In this camp, campers design, create, test, and refine several types of marine-based devices and vehicles & Robots!
- Activities: Hands-on Marine Engineering, Robotics & Video Game Design
- Date: July 15-19, 2024
- Location: Armitage Village Public School
July 22 – 26, 2024
Newmarket: Minecraft Mission To Mars & Mars Rovers
Students will learn about the engineering, technology, and innovation that is required for future human habitation of Mars. Within Minecraft, students will complete a variety of missions that are necessary for survival and the advancement of science on the Red Planet. Students will apply their creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving skills while completing missions within EFK’s unique, customized, collaborative Mission to Mars Minecraft Map. This is a one-of-a-kind, out-of-this-world experience you will not find anywhere else.
- Activities: Minecraft, Robotics, Coding, Hands- On Aerospace
- Date: July 22-26, 2024
- Location: Armitage Village Public School
July 29 – August 2, 2024
Newmarket: Minecraft Urban Innovation
Design, create, and make your very own city come alive using Minecraft! In this camp, kids will explore a variety of themes centered around scientific, sustainable, innovative, and futuristic city planning and design. Kids will immerse themselves in Minecraft while applying the Engineering for Kids design process to create a model of their very own, futuristic, sustainable city.
- Activities: Minecraft, Civil & Electrical Engineering
- Date: August 19-23, 2024
- Location: Armitage Village Public School
August 12-16, 2024
Newmarket: How Amusing Week
Ah, the thrill of an amusement park…zipping around on race cars, zooming through the loops of a rollercoaster, trying your luck at a floating boat game, hokey playing with Robots and more…Can’t get better than that!
During this camp, campers will divide into theme park teams. They will be challenged in specific engineering-related contests with the goal of creating the most fantastic and thrilling theme park experience.
- Activities: Robotics, Hands-on Mechanical & Civil Engineering
- Date: August 12 -16
- Location: Armitage Village Public School
Town of Aurora – Summer Camps 2024
Aurora Ages: 4-6
Week 1: July 8-12, 2024
Aurora: Junior Inventors Camp
Ages: 4-6 (Up to 7)
We have opened the workshop for a week full of fun, creativity, and of course — engineering! Campers will invent new machines and explore creative design solutions using the Engineering Design Process.
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, plus hands-on Mechanical & Civil Engineering
- Date: July 8-12, 2024
- Location: TBD
Week 2: July 15-19, 2024
Aurora: Junior Travel Camp
Ages: 4-6 (Up to 7)
150 years ago, airplanes did not even make their first flight. Yet, today, we can fly to the other side of the world in 12 hours! It is thanks to advances in technology that we can explore so much of the world. In this camp, teams will have to work together to see who is able to travel the farthest around the world. This trek will require students to design their very own boat, plane, robots and even a rocket!
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, Hands- on Marine & Civil Engineering
- Date: July 15 – 19, 2024
- Location: TBD
Week 4: July 22-25, 2024
Aurora: Let’s Make Toys Camp
Ages: 4-6 (Up to 7)
It is fun for a kid to play with a toy. Imagine how amazing it can be to play with a self-made toy. In this full-week camp, the youngest engineers will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of energy, materials, and movement. campers will explore and make different mechanical toys. They will also build and program robotics toys including, RACING CAR, and MARS ROVER.
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, plus hands-on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- Date: July 22-25, 2024
- Location: TBD
Aurora Ages: 7-12
Week 6: August 6-9
Aurora: Minecraft Mission To Mars & Mars Rovers
Ages: 7-12 (Up to 13)
Students will learn about the engineering, technology, and innovation that is required for future human habitation of Mars. Within Minecraft, students will complete a variety of missions that are necessary for survival and the advancement of science on the Red Planet. Students will apply their creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving skills while completing missions within EFK’s unique, customized, collaborative Mission to Mars Minecraft Map. This is a one-of-a-kind, out-of-this-world experience you will not find anywhere else.
- Activities: Minecraft, Robotics, Coding, Hands- On Aerospace
- Date: August 6-9, 2024
- Location: TBD
East Gwillimbury Summer Camps 2024
Ages: 7-12
Week 5: July 29- Aug2, 2024
East Gwillimbury: Robogame Carnival & Master Machines
Robogame Carnival is a place where robots can have fun, compete, and go on an exciting adventure. Gear up for an exciting week of mechanical engineering! In this camp, students will explore several of the mechanical forces that create movement in various machines. Campers will work as mechanical engineers using EFK’s Engineering Design Process to create exciting, hands-on projects that spin, cascade, launch, pivot, dig, and race.
- Activities: Robotics/ Coding, Hands- On Mechanical Engineering
- Ages: 7-12 (Less than 13)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
- Location: Harvest Hills Activity Centre
Ages 4-6
Week 6: August 6-9, 2024
East Gwillimbury: Let’s Make Toys Camp
It is fun for a kid to play with a toy. Imagine how amazing it can be to play with a self-made toy. In this camp, the youngest engineers will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of energy, materials, and movement. campers will explore and make different mechanical toys. They will also build and program robotics toys including, RACING CAR, and MARS ROVER.
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, plus hands-on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- Ages: 4-6 (Less than 7)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
- Location: Harvest Hills Activity Centre
Week 7: August 12-16
East Gwillimbury: Playful Playground Camp
In this camp, students will become mechanical engineers that have been hired to design the ultimate playground in their community. Playgrounds are packed full of simple machines such as levers, wheels and axles, inclined planes, and pulleys. In these lessons, students will learn about the simple machines they encounter every day at the playground while advancing their literacy skills through a variety of read aloud. They will tackle fun and engaging challenges while using the EFK Engineering Design Process. We can’t wait to play!
- Activities: Robotics & Coding, plus hands-on Mechanical & Civil Engineering
- Ages: 4-6 (Less than 7)
- Time: 9 AM – 4 PM
- Location: Harvest Hills Activity Centre
